Golden Time takes the typical High School rom-com and flips it into a college based story with actual mature characters who know what they want out of their school love lives. We're quickly reminded that we're for something different when the OP video ships the main characters for us right from the get go instead of gradually introducing the characters and letting us ship them ourselves. This isn't a one-sided relationship either (as we have become used to in other series) where one character is in love and the other is pushing them away. Instead, they are lovey-dovey right from the start. It'll be really interesting to see how their relationship develops throughout the series since we basically know what's coming next.
However, that's just the OP and we quickly see during the first couple episodes that these Tada Banri and Kaga Kouko aren't actually in a relationship..just yet. Instead they are both single and onto their first year of college. Tada Banri is new to Tokyo and Kouko is madly in love with our second male character Mitsuo (who is NOT in love with her by any means). This offers a really interesting dynamic as to how and when will Tada Banri get to find 'love' as he mentioned in the first episode. It will undoubtedly be Kaga Kouko who steals his heart but with 22 epsisodes to go for this series, we might see a couple twists and turns that might change our minds. Remember people, this is created by the same man that created Toradora, a favorite of mine as well, so we are bound to experience some dramatic moments as well as great character development between all of these characters.
This show sticks to me since I can totally relate to the situation the characters are set in. I too am going away to college and starting a 'new life' so this really adds to the fun when watching this show, at least for me. I'm really expecting big things coming from this show and I believe this will eventually be the next hit romance-comedy. By the looks of things, the season seems to be headed into a positive route and hopefully all these shows can maintain the awesome-ness.
Also, this a new thing I am doing and I don't know if it is going to last but I'm starting up my own blog in hopes of expanding my content and improving my writing for my own personal reasons. I will transfer anything I have on there onto AA. I also plan to make better and longer blogs but this is all I can muster at this moment with all the time constraints.
Random Thoughts:
>dat OP and ED tho
>no tsundere characters so far, whut?!
> I wish Kaga would chase me around like that..
My blog: theunseenhorizon.blogspot.com
