anime version
seems quite good to me because
plot and characters
are really good, flavoured with a good portion of humour, and stereotypical but likeable patterns of behaviour were pretty tolerable
if one is able to close his eyes to the strange and unimaginable in real life happenings, such as mangaka girl carrying a huge pack of magazines and using them in a fight...
then one may enjoy 'Asu no Yoichi'
seiyuus
Okamoto voicing AJS, Okamoto voicing... oh, something tells me I have said this phrase a lot of times in another posts?
the sad truth is that they do not have to use Okamoto for this, do they? there are plenty of other seiyuus able to voice a decent Average Japanese Schoolboy. oh, Yoichi is not that average? probably. well yeah, he was wearing samurai clothes and speaking in an old-fashioned way. that does not change the fact that he belongs to the AJS type - and Okamoto did not really make a distinguished job voicing him
were there other seiyuus I would especially praise? nope. is that a surprise? nope...
graphics
though there was no miracle happening before my eyes, most part of the pictures were good
music
well music is not a strong side of 'Asu no Yoichi' but obviously we did not come here for the sake of music, huh?
conclusion
if only not for ecchi, it would be absolutely for children. though the ecchi side here is pretty weak *sigh of relief* thankfully, there are only 13 episodes, which means one would not be bored and enables 'Asu no Yoichi' for use as a short entertainment
manga version
totally dropped on vol. 7
art
tolerable. maybe even nice - for boys? while anime ecchi was almost harmless, manga version strives to bring twice as much ecchi as an average ecchi would
plot and characters
turned out to be a bit different from the anime. guess what? I like the distorted anime version better. it wisely combined comic points with serious ideas, though they looked like in a book for small children, and even though the events order and their eventual outcome were different, they were rather interesting. manga seems less funny where it was in the anime, and fails to be convincing where it is obviously supposed to be so. at first I was glad to see the unexpected and different turns of events, but soon I understood several important things
1. even if I personally like Ibuki, it does not mean there would be a happy ending for her - because I am not the author
2. even if the author likes another girl, it does not mean there would be a happy ending for her - because 'tis harem
3. even if I cast aside my preferences and read this manga not for the sake of romance but for the sake of reading manga, there is not much to enjoy
and developments in vol. 7 prove that
conclusion
no I could not read further the manga where the protagonist says to the little girl 'you must return to your home and become the head of your martial arts school, because this is your way of fighting your destiny' - and she agrees. after a struggle lasting for almost 7 volumes, why did her desire vanish that easily? from the point of view of formal logic, there is no mistake in these words. to fight one's destiny means to struggle in order to overcome some obstacle. however, does that struggle consist in going another way than the destined one because the destined one is not wanted? or in following it despite not wanting to follow?
the sad point here is that no matter what answer I get, and is it different from the author's or not, I can clearly see that the rest of the manga will keep offering me the same dish - moralistic pathos of Yoichi mixed with half-exposed pictures of girls around him
no, donwanna
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