12-sai (Episode 1)It felt like a show lifted out of an American sex ed manual except that, well&
12-sai (Episode 1)It felt like a show lifted out of an American sex ed manual except that, well…it’s about Japanese middle school life and all those shoujo tropes. But I tell you, it wasn’t terrible as I expected. It’s surprising how the anicrowd actually liked the show, with all its fluff, warmth and innocence.12-sai is middle school as it happens - the sexes struggle to hate and love each other, body parts grow and strange feelings start to appear. While it’s unashamedly Japanese in presentation, the experience is universal and would make us dig into our own happy memories. It may be over the top at times though, and there’s hesitance to present realities of puberty in a frank manner (like that menstruation scene).Seems like they’ll have a different character in focus in each episode - I’ll love it if the boys get their own perspectives too. It would be satisfying to see the kids grow more mature throughout the show rather than being stuck in the doki-doki phase. -- source link
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