June 16, 2005: Futakoi Alternative

This is mostly just a cheat sheet to help me remember the names of the supporting characters of Futakoi Alternative:

Sakurazuki Zenji, age 72

Yamada Kankurou, age 23

Gen

Kinoshita Hinokichi, age 26

Koto Michiru, 36, manager of Sugisaku, a crouquet shop/carnicería.

Hariyama "Dirty Harry" Nishimori

Kimihiko (Mitsugi?)

Shimojima Kirishima. Kimihiko's employee. Elephant.

June 20, 2005: Futakoi Alternative

My Futakoi Alternative mugs 2.0

Well, I made myself a second set of Futakoi Alternative mugs. Yeah, it is a little obsessive.

July 08, 2005: Futakoi Alternative

Rentarou and Souju double-ride a bicycle.

My favorite episode of Futakoi Alternative is episode nine, and my favorite scene from that episode is Rentarou and Souju double-riding a bicycle. I'd watch an entire series based on that alone.

December 10, 2005: Futakoi Alternative

Futakoi Alternative was recently fansubbed to completion. It was nice to revisit this excellent series and watch the final episodes again.

Not your ordinary self-destruct.

Joining Dokkoida?! and 2x2 = Shinobuden, Futakoi Alternative makes it three-for-three for series I've enjoyed a great deal from ufotable.

Futakoi Alternative did not disappoint in the quality (if not the quantity) of its frenetic action promised by the first episode, and developed a love story I genuinely cared about for a change (although my view on it seems to depart from the norm a bit).

It also helped that I got consistent Gainax vibes from the show; they manifested themselves in tone and direction as well as in the overt Kare Kano references.

Rentarou, Souju, and Sara

I hasten to add that despite the Gainax vibes, the series did conclude with a wedding instead of a funeral, as it surely would have had Futakoi Alternative been a Gainax production.

Incidentally, revisiting the Controvery of the Sheets, specifically the 11:10 screenshot, I'd like to add that in the context of the episode the shot can easily be construed as a flashback and thus not contradictory to the inferences I drew from the sequence's implications. That said, I do concede that Nothing Happened.