The News Team's "Grenzer" has a new review up on the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:
"Love. One of the most fundamental of all human emotions, and one that can be expressed in so many ways. Love for an idea, love for another person, love for an artform. What happens when you get a series that attempts to address all of these types of love? In the case of Netflix’s anime original Love Through a Prism, you get an intriguing canvas, but one frustratingly missing in the finer details that mark a true work of genius.
Now, let us travel back in time to the early 1990’s, when a young manga artist by the name of Yoko Kamio launched a little series named Hana Yori Dango, or Boys Over Flowers as it is translated for English-speaking audiences. Kamio’s story about a respectable middle-class girl who enters an elite high school and finds herself attracting the attention of a clique of the richest (and most handsome) boys in the student body became an overnight sensation. While Boys Over Flowers did receive a release in the American market, it is hard to explain to Westerners just how huge this series was in East Asia for most the 1990’s. It was a seminal work in Japan, still holding the title of best-selling shoujo manga ever to this day, and inspiring countless copycats who recycled its tropes until they became standard cliches of the shoujo genre. It found massive success in South Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines. In all of these countries it received a localized live action TV series adaptation that dominated the ratings and influenced popular culture."
Read the full review here.
"Review: “Love Through A Prism”: Is This Prism Worth A Look?"
"Love. One of the most fundamental of all human emotions, and one that can be expressed in so many ways. Love for an idea, love for another person, love for an artform. What happens when you get a series that attempts to address all of these types of love? In the case of Netflix’s anime original Love Through a Prism, you get an intriguing canvas, but one frustratingly missing in the finer details that mark a true work of genius.
Now, let us travel back in time to the early 1990’s, when a young manga artist by the name of Yoko Kamio launched a little series named Hana Yori Dango, or Boys Over Flowers as it is translated for English-speaking audiences. Kamio’s story about a respectable middle-class girl who enters an elite high school and finds herself attracting the attention of a clique of the richest (and most handsome) boys in the student body became an overnight sensation. While Boys Over Flowers did receive a release in the American market, it is hard to explain to Westerners just how huge this series was in East Asia for most the 1990’s. It was a seminal work in Japan, still holding the title of best-selling shoujo manga ever to this day, and inspiring countless copycats who recycled its tropes until they became standard cliches of the shoujo genre. It found massive success in South Korea, Mainland China, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines. In all of these countries it received a localized live action TV series adaptation that dominated the ratings and influenced popular culture."
Read the full review here.
