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Oh yeah, Makeine goes really hard and executed a fresh concept very well. The ED1 is a banger and is one of the best of 2024.
I’m actually rooting for Nukumizu and Yanami to end up together because they appear to be the type where they’re happily married and be like “it doesn’t mean I like you! >_<”. Reminds me of this video: Is She Into You?
Top comment from that video:
The thing I really noted is that if you take Makeine apart and analyze it, it’s mostly standard school rom-com tropes - childhood friends and “homewreckers” and a club and a couple of oddball teachers and a beach episode and a series of festival episodes and an amusement park fake date and so on - but every one of them has just enough of a spin to it to make it new and interesting and specifically relevant. And the characters are the same way - they’re each almost stereotypes, but not quite, because they have individual quirks that lift them above the stereotypes.
It’s just very well done all the way through, and with especially impressive attention to the characters.
And yeah - I’m looking forward to the new season, and cheering for Nukumizu and Yanami. They just have such comfy chemistry.