Golden Time (TV) Reviews
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Title(s): |
Golden Time
ゴールデンタイム (Japanese) |
Creator: |
J.C. Staff
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Genres: |
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Supernatural
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Age Group: |
Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity) |
Vintage: |
October 3, 2013 |
Status: |
Still Airing |
Summary: |
Banri finds himself completely lost after the opening ceremony, trying to find his way to the freshman orientation. At that moment, he runs into another lost freshman from the same school, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, and they hit it off at once. Somehow arriving at their intended goal just on time, there appears in front of them a beautiful girl holding a bouquet of roses, who hits Mitsuo across the face with them and hands the flowers over to him. This stylish, well dressed, and perfect woman is his childhood friend Kōko Kaga. As children, they had promised to marry each other one day, fulfilling their dreams. In order to escape from her, Mitsuo had gone out secretly and taken the examination for this well-known private college, but she also took the law school entrance examination, catching up with him there.
Banri Tada is a newly admitted student at a private law school in Tokyo. Due to the after-effects of an accidental fall from a bridge shortly after high school graduation, he lost all his memories from before then. At the time of the accident, Banri's soul had escaped from his body, and the "Spirit of Banri Tada" came into being, carrying his memories from before graduation. |
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Don't miss this one.
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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Pull this anime out of a top ten list. Going in, all I knew was that it was a romantic comedy set in a law school. Thankfully, there is little to no attempt to talk about law or any of that angle. That would have killed it for me right there. Nope, this anime is all about the characters and their interactions away from class. After the first episode, I knew it was going to be good. So good in fact, I marathoned it and watched all 24 episodes in a week. On all aspects, I give it top marks, story, dialogue, animation and entertainment.
The story ( read more)
Pull this anime out of a top ten list. Going in, all I knew was that it was a romantic comedy set in a law school. Thankfully, there is little to no attempt to talk about law or any of that angle. That would have killed it for me right there. Nope, this anime is all about the characters and their interactions away from class. After the first episode, I knew it was going to be good. So good in fact, I marathoned it and watched all 24 episodes in a week. On all aspects, I give it top marks, story, dialogue, animation and entertainment.
The story flows along at a great pace, never losing speed, each episode moving the story forward nicely. Many times it feels like it is someones actual life being portrayed, it is believable. Except for the supernatural elements which are really just going on inside the head of Banri.
The central figure, Kōko Kaga is initially shown as overbearing, jealous, needy and half crazy. But despite those qualities, she still manages to win your sympathy. Despite all her craziness, she is a lovable character. (possible spoiler start) I believed in their romance as the true one and not the potential one with Linda. After all, Linda stated quite clearly she did not want Bandi in that way very early in the story. (possible spoiler end). The dialogue was excellent and believable between most characters. Also, there were very few characters that didn't seem tacked on or meaningless. The dynamics between each were well done. Each characters personality developed nicely as the story went on and you seemed to care about them. Not too many caricatures for comedy sake, like the tea club girls. Although I did have a good laugh at their few scenes.
The animation was well done. The aspect of Japanese festivals as a backdrop gets used a lot but it's still interesting. That crazy dance in costumes with 'yes' and 'no' signs... what's up with that?
There was a refreshing lack of fan service, which in it's absence, adds to a series like this one IMO. Boob jokes and what not work in a pure comedy but when things get serious as they do in this anime, it would just prevent the drama from building up. Instead it would just fall back on the same old jokes and none of the characters would develop to any serious degree. To me, the comedy aspects of this anime are light... good, but light. It's more drama than comedy.
On the whole I found this anime very compelling and entertaining. It pulls you and your feelings along through think and thin. The writing was such that I started feeling dread for certain characters. I started thinking this is going to go bad for someone. At a certain point in this anime, your feelings will hit a low and it's going to hurt. I'll leave it there. You will have to watch the whole thing to know how it all turns out. ( show less)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Simple review of an amazing series
Written by mu5icfy on August 16, 2014 at 2:01 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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Golden time, well truthfully the title didn't really interest me. After looking at the reviews, I decided to give it a shot, not knowing what I was in for. BAM. This is the exact type of romance/drama animes I've been searching for, something more down to earth, more mature as the situation is more logical and best of all, the plot is great! Although I agree with most that the romance between the main characters are nothing more than love for convenience, it's still kinda acceptable as not all love stories are the typical Romeo and Juliet. I'm not ( read more)
Golden time, well truthfully the title didn't really interest me. After looking at the reviews, I decided to give it a shot, not knowing what I was in for. BAM. This is the exact type of romance/drama animes I've been searching for, something more down to earth, more mature as the situation is more logical and best of all, the plot is great! Although I agree with most that the romance between the main characters are nothing more than love for convenience, it's still kinda acceptable as not all love stories are the typical Romeo and Juliet. I'm not too sure about the ending though, not gonna spoil it but I was hoping for ova's and alternative routes... Still, love the series and after doing some research, I finally realized why the feels were quite similar. The author apparently is the same as Toradora. Nothing more to say, highly recommend this anime to those who plans on boarding train of feels ( show less)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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Really Awesome Anime Series'
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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From start to end this anime make us feel awesome. Starting kind a funny but at Last last episode it makes us sad but ending is great. I recommended all anime fans to watch especially who loves romance / comedy
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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The Items
Written by daez888 on April 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 4
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
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I see that there are some scenes in this anime is not helpful. Like the condom scene. I don't think that it will help the story flow.
I like the aniimation. The animation was good at all, the story is cliche but they manage to make it more emotional.
I love the mood swings of the main character here, kaga koko?
I hate some fanservice scenes. thats all, anyway JC staff did their best again.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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have to watch
Written by yoaks on April 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
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this anime isn't bad nor is it perfect, but you cant help but watch one after the other thanks to its very gripping cliff hangers :), however its not for hardcore anime fans, its purely here for entertainment, but I'm a sucker for story line and this anime doesn't disappoint an that :)
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0 out of 0 people found this review helpful.
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MISU34 thanks for the review
Written by stevodevo on April 12, 2014 at 9:29 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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I plan to watch this thanks to your heartfelt review. IF you want recommendations though you need to post some way of giving you recommendations other than via the 'review' system.
In any case, this is your lucky day - here are my recommendations if you liked this kind of anime; kimikiss, amagami, itazura na kiss, kimi ni todoke are very good romance anime and not the childish, silly kind. Other good anime that have solid romance are nodame cantabile and skip beat. Even more examples of great anime with romantic elements include From Up on ( read more)
I plan to watch this thanks to your heartfelt review. IF you want recommendations though you need to post some way of giving you recommendations other than via the 'review' system.
In any case, this is your lucky day - here are my recommendations if you liked this kind of anime; kimikiss, amagami, itazura na kiss, kimi ni todoke are very good romance anime and not the childish, silly kind. Other good anime that have solid romance are nodame cantabile and skip beat. Even more examples of great anime with romantic elements include From Up on Poppy Hill (ghibli movie), Chobits, Ano Natsu de Matteru, Spice and Wolf, Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Suki na Yo and Tora Dora...
I think that should be enough to keep your romantic side going for a while. ;) ( show less)
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Anything similar?
Written by MISU34 on April 12, 2014 at 3:32 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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I really enjoyed i think this is my top 3 and i have watched alot romance. Can anyone recommend something similar please that crappy love like high school dxd or date a live i'm talking about proper romance makes u wana cry stuff
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.
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Lovely!
Written by Reznor410 on February 19, 2014 at 9:00 AM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
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I really enjoy that this is more mature than your typical high-school-crush slice of life. It is meaty and confronts more young-adult issues like relationships and responsibility. Plus the Nana reference really gets me right in the heartstrings. :D
I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of the slice-of-life drama but enjoys something with more substance and intrigue. Personally I think it is a masterpiece and can't wait to watch more.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.
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Story
Written by Roidzx on January 30, 2014 at 2:58 PM
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 4
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
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this is the best anime romance i ever had in whole my life....Good Job :D
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.
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OH YEah
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Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 5
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 5
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Ok so I really liked this anime. The past couple of episodes I was saying yes yes yes yes yes to his memories. Now I am pissed. I want Linda and no one else. Then again a girl needs to know when to push for what she truly wants. Damn this anime is driving me to drink. GULP GULP GULP. "Oh what did is just say" ;0
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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