Kimagure Orange Road

For once, is interesting reading this manga because the characters, mostyl teenagers, use their free times to dance, drink alcohol and smoke. Nowadays, every manga with teenagers only show them going to karaoke to have some fun.

I wonder what happened to japanese culture that ended up being so sanitized over there.

They're the same. You won't like the anime if you didn't like the manga. Anime cuts out some side characters and the stories are heavily remixed (but "essentially" the same). For example, Kyosuke cousin is only in the manga and OVA but not in the anime. It's a little difficult for me to decide if I like the anime/movie/manga ending more.

>use their free times to dance, drink alcohol and smoke

That only happens in the earliest episodes of the anime. Then it drops that completely and it becomes tamer than most other romcoms would be later.

KOR was not the normal manga, even for its time. The main girl is literally described as a delinquent and the others get into drinking and smoking because she is doing it. And it doesn't exactly lead to a good thing (even worse in the anime).

And there's examples of this in the 90s and 2000s as well.

Best anime ever made

anime is extremely artful and well directed

Don't let the haters get to you. You're absolutely right about KOR.

And as annoying and as much of a third wheel as she was, I will still argue that the finest female VA performance EVER recorded in an anime was Eriko Hara (Hikaru) in the movie. There's simply no way that woman didn't channel the emotions of either a bad break up or an unrequited love. No VA is that good to have lived a life where she married her first love and they lived the rest of their life fulfilled and then sobbing asks "Why am I not good enough". No way.

Oh, and pic-related hangs in my bedroom (not a cheap lamination, but actual licensed import).

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Adults prefer Maison Ikkoku. No esp and shonenshit.

Is that sanitization or just the effect of Japan becoming a first-world country. All classic manga had the characters living in poverty and being blown away by the city. Modern kids don't smoke. Or at least, I don't know where they do outside of third-world shitholes. I haven't been a kid for a long time but even back then there was maybe only a half dozen kids in the entire school that smoked and they were all the children of parents who probably beat them. Also, manga are very different from anime, anime censors all sorts of stuff like that but manga depict teens doing things they'd never actually do in real life and I don't think that has ever stopped. I think what modern manga depict is far more realistic than Kimagure. It was cartoony stupid that they were drinking, smoking and hoping to have sex because unlike say a Roku Blues, Video Girl or BØY where the kids are highschoolers. Kimagure is supposed to be middle school.

How interesting. Both of these are garbage because of their shitty characters and badly written love triangle.

you would know, you've been in many love triangles