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GERBER
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Jan 9 2011 03:45 PM It does, as I went to look for it but I guess I used the wrong place and it just sent me back to season 1 (=_=") I do apologize for the mistake and confusion though Okay, still am waiting for this group to finish the last and start on the second season then ( ") |
Kit-Tsukasa
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| QUOTE (GERBER @ Jan 08 2011, 08:29 AM) | I thought they would make another some episode title series, but I see that episodes 40-50 are the ones for professional. Have yet to see it since New Years slowed everything down, only 11 more episodes to go, hope fully the group I am waiting on will do a batch release. Then I will write out my 2 cents on this series in total.
After it is all over I guess I will rewatch it just to have a good look through the whole series, just delicious IMO |
Your post is confusing. 40-50 are part of the main series. SP Professional has its own set of 13 episodes. |
GERBER
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Jan 8 2011 10:29 AM I thought they would make another some episode title series, but I see that episodes 40-50 are the ones for professional. Have yet to see it since New Years slowed everything down, only 11 more episodes to go, hope fully the group I am waiting on will do a batch release. Then I will write out my 2 cents on this series in total. After it is all over I guess I will rewatch it just to have a good look through the whole series, just delicious IMO |
Kit-Tsukasa
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Dec 26 2010 09:39 PM SP Professional is also over so here's my 2 cents on the sequel: Yumeiro Patissiere SP Professional takes place 2 years after the first series. Ichigo returns to Japan to find Team Ichigo essentially disbanding. Hanabusa and Andou have decided to leave St. Marie Academy to pursue their own dreams while Makoto has skipped a grade ahead of Ichigo.
While the show does focus more on the shoujo genre aspect of the show, the development of Makoto and Ichigo's relationship is extremely shallow. The plot for SP is overall straightforward. Henri wants to create St. Marie Gardens and shops around the world for people to enjoy. If you ask me, Henri still sounds like an antagonist overall (world domination of sweets in this case ). He puts a "new" Team Ichigo in charge of the St. Marie Garden in Japan consisting of Johnny McBeal (who is apparently Miya's cousin), Makoto, Ichigo, and Lemon. So far so good. Everything proceeds at the pace of the first season until 2 things happen. The first is the realization that the show is only 13 episodes long and the second is they decide to waste a third of the series on the spirits world for development between Chocolat and Kashi. While this gives quite the in depth development between the two, the overall relevance to the story is zero, and thus essentially filler. The remaining two thirds of the series involved Team Ichigo helping out the former members of St. Marie Academy, particularly Andou and Tennouji, both of which were having trouble with their respective shops.
If you ask me, Yumeiro's character development is still its strongest point. With the exception of Makoto's and Ichigo's relationship, we definitely got to see more of the old cast as well as a few of the new ones. However, the plot lacked focus and is really what hit the show hard in comparison to the first. It lacked the same "coming of age" type feel the prequel had and made the series intense and thus worthwhile watching. While SP is by no means terrible, the sequel is definitely a let down after the surprisingly successful prequel to the extent that it retreated back to square one. From what it seems, the show ran out of material to cover and thus SP was more of an epilogue to the prequel if anything at all.
Animation has not improved coming from Studio Pierrot and I had expected better considering they can definitely do a few solid animation pieces as seen in Bleach. Art wise, the character designs could have been better. The original Team Ichigo had essentially not changed in the 2 year skip. Their faces look as if they were still in middle school while everyone else, such as Tennouji and Natsume at least looked as if they grew up a little. While this was meant to be a implicit theme is another issue.
Music was probably the biggest step up that properly matched the change in themes of the show. The original series was definitely a show targeted more at kids as a "coming of age" show and thus the little moe OP and ED themes whereas the sequel tried to play on the shoujo theme more and thus a more shoujo-esque OP and ED video and theme. There were a number of things being hinted at in the OP video, but it seemed as if they were never expanded on.
Enjoyment? I can say for sure that I did not enjoy this as much as the first season. Every week I had hoped the show would get back on track, but it seemed that the more I hoped, the more derailed it became. While the final few episodes felt more like the original Yumeiro, the fact that Miya was the "final antagonist" was not as promising as Henri in the first series, and not to mention that Ichigo had a goal of surpassing her grandmother's strawberry tart. Here, there wasn't really a goal that Ichigo had, but more of an assignment.
Overall, while the show currently implies a third season, I hope they leave some room before its production. If anything, the show has either caught up to the manga or the entire second season was filler to begin with. I had definitely expected more from Yumeiro SP and I'm unfortunately disappointed. The final scene between Makoto and Ichigo, while nice, didn't feel like it was placed properly. It definitely felt and seemed as if it was shoved in there so that fans would be "happy" that there was some development in their relationship. Unfortunately, coming from someone who has seen many other shoujo shows, that stunt isn't going to work. Preliminary Score: 7/10
Final Score: 7/10 |
GERBER
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Dec 22 2010 01:17 AM A I have been watching this show since it started, it has been funny most of the time, I actually enjoy a series like this quite well. The deserts did make hungry though LOL Xd. I am still on episode 39 since the group i get my subs from is a bit slow =03 Episode 39 Too bad the recipe for the tart is not in there, I am guessing her grandmha did it on purpose. That what she remembers she will make the tart, as Ichigo has a tallented...uuummm... tongue LOL Xd. Look forward to finishing this season so I can watch the 2nd season X03 |
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Nov 7 2010 12:05 AM So finally finished the first season and got around to the second. The ending to the first season was marvelous. Although I was hoping for the first series to not have a preview in the last episode leading into the second one, it didn't really matter. The first season really came a long way, starting off as to what seemed like a poor coming of age type show to a full blown one with various shoujo aspects thrown in. Not to mention that the overall pacing and the plot twists were magnificent. To come this far is truly a series to behold and not something you see very often today. The show started with Ichigo remembering her grandmother's tart, and I really enjoyed how that continued to play as a theme throughout the series and eventually come full circle to the point where Ichigo exceeds her grandmother's skills. 8/10As for the second season, it definitely has a much more mature feel, with Ichigo still retaining some of her previous character. If anything, the OP video definitely shows a huge change in mood and seems like the show will now move towards a more traditional type romance/school-life series. From the current looks of things, it can very well pull off a strong drama shoujo show like Nana, if not better, but only time will tell. I just hope this whole issue regarding Henri's project will eat up the entire series since it just sounds dumb. While on that subject, the second season lacks much direction at the moment. Unlike the first season where Ichigo's goal was to make the strawberry tart she reminisced from her childhood, the second season doesn't have any big meaning except your typical love triangle show right now. Hopefully this show doesn't fall flat on its face like Ichigo did multiple times throughout the first episode. Also, the art, particularly for how much each character changed in 2 years time, as well as Makoto's face were rather annoying such that they looked out of proportion and not as if two year's had past but rather around 4 or 5 years. Preliminary Expectation: High Preliminary Score: 7/10 |
b.o.w
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It's good to see a second season is anounced, despite this being one of the most underrated shows of this year... I gues it must be making money in Japan (where it counts)
I hope I can see consitent releases for this show next season.... |
Kit-Tsukasa
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Aug 27 2010 08:58 PM So I'm still on episode 30 of this show, but it seems that this show will be getting a second season: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-...tart-in-octoberSurprisingly it will pick up immediately this fall. Looks like another show to add to the watchlist for the upcoming season. |
Nahrallah
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Jun 27 2010 09:29 AM I also started watching Yumeiro Pâtissière. I'm only up to episode 17 but I've enjoyed the sweet simplicity of the story. It's refreshing to watch an anime that is fairly light and fun. Even the saddest of stories has some kind of positive outcome and there's no inclination to put the viewer through an emotional wringer (unlike other anime/manga that turn out to be more bitter than sweet eg. Kitchen Princess). The characters are driven by an overwhelming desire to achieve their dreams and, although it's often clichéd, the journey is enjoyable to watch. It's a good anime to turn to when you simply want to relax and not think too deeply about life, the universe or anything. I suspect that the only problem you might encounter when watching Yumeiro Pâtissière is combatting the strong desire to savour all the enticing sweets that they make in the course of an episode. |
