I''s Pure

This was a truly touching series. It drew you in from the first episode, and kept you in lows and highs through to the very end. There's no magic or martial arts. The art was quite good. Overall, it leaves this romantic satisfied. If you're into the "Ross and Rachel" type stories then this is a good one for you.

I''s Pure is the purest example I have ever seen of Anime fail. Simply put, these 6 episodes became, in my mind, the foremost and easiest to distinguish example of the corny, cliched love story. It fell into every single trap I could think of: a rediculous, laugh-out-loud sappy ending, convenient interruptions to confessions, the "childhood friend" who happens to walk in on the main character in her underwear just at the most inconvenient time, the title that really has nothing to do with the story AT ALL, the honorable break-up so the girl can "follow her dream" as an actress, the the coma dueto a weak fight that brings the two fateful lovers together at the last moment. I was laughing for a few minutes straight, because this show was that bad. If you want a good laugh, spend a few hours watching this. You might learn something: like how not to make a short OVA "romance" series. But if you want a true romance story, go watch something good like Nodame Cantabile or Kimikiss Pure Rouge.

I scored a little strange, didn't I? I can explain :) Ok, I just wanted to write, so that everybody note: Don't watch this anime unless you have read the manga first!!! If you have read the manga, and liked it, then it is an enjoyable recap to the books, can bring up nice scenes, and it is nice to watch the characters animated. However, I was upset while watching, because people who haven't read the manga, and watching this, will only see a spoiler collection of the manga, with only the main part of the story, without the numerous small, funny scenes, that makes the manga so great. Iscored it down because - as i stated above - I really don't recommend you to watch this unless you have read the manga first, but if you have already read the manga, you are going to watch it anyways, and will spend a nice 3 hours watching it. ;-)

Did it manage to put the awesomeness of the manga within 6 episodes? Read this review and find out! I opened the first episode, it seemed kind of cool. After a bit of watching you soon notice that they have skipped so many that should have been there. Much of the ecchi scenes totally vanished and were nowhere to be seen. Much of the comedy was dropped as well, same goes for a lot of other scenes. But I wasn't sad at all. [Ecchi: Nakedness you might say. It however is not pornographical, it will in most cases not show any inappropriate body-parts]. The Anime maybe didn't had theecchi, it maybe didn't have some of the unimportant scenes the manga did had. But it had something else; great animation and a fantastic story line. To me it wasn't just a sum up, it was better than what I expected. The Anime isn't totally like the Manga, but who cares. I bet most of the people who have seen the Anime completely didn't know there was a Manga at all. But they still liked it..? Yes they did, if they didn't, they either hate it's genre or they have no taste at all. The Anime shows love how it's supposed to be. Love is doubt, a lot of doubt. Not only does it do this fantastically, it also does it in a way that excites you. In this a lot of Anime fails and are labeled as 'yet another one of those'. This one however, excites you, and that by all means is what a Anime should be. Next to a to me fantastic experience of story and development, it also had fun bonusses which perfectly resembles the Ecchi scenes that were so non-consistant in the Anime. Aren't the creators considerable. This Anime is one which will take a small amount of time, it's only 6 episodes. But if you really don't like an Anime in which they might get a little bit dramatic at times, just to tense/spice things up a little, than this Anime isn't for you. I still suggest you to watch it however, 6 times 20 minutes should be doable for any Anime-watcher out there. Not to mention that some scenes are really worthwhile and animated fluidly.