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Mysterious Girlfriend X (7)

1 Name: Sejin !PKt//nzxc2 : 2013-07-20 21:48 ID:OgXx3fSg (Image: 950x1075 jpg, 213 kb) [Del]

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This story is about the relationship between Mikoto Urabe (the titular mysterious girlfriend) and Akira Tsubaki. To give a basic, introductory plot summary (and trying not to spoil anything too important), Urabe is a new transfer student in Tsubaki's class. At first, because of her anti-social nature, Urabe is pretty much left alone by everyone in the class. But, one day, Tsubaki finds her sleeping in the classroom after school. He wakes her up and she leaves, but she drooled on the desk in her sleep. For whatever reason, he decides to taste it. As it turns out, he becomes addicted to it. Thus starts their relationship.

Now, I know the idea of being addicted to saliva may turn some people off, but I really like how the anime handles it, using it as a medium to convey emotions. In real life, it's impossible to genuinely experience someone else's feelings. You can get close, but you can never quite reach the point where it's the exact same thing the other person is experiencing. Also, sometimes it's difficult to express one's own feelings clearly using words.

The voice acting is very well done in English (I can't speak for the Japanese cast, seeing as I haven't watched it with the Japanese dub). In particular, I really liked Urabe's voice actress. The characters aren't the typical stereotypes that you find in a lot of high school rom-com anime. They feel like characters.

I'm really having to hold back in writing this, as I don't want to spoil anything if I can help it. That's kind of hard to do, though, seeing as that wouldn't allow me to say much at all and could leave this anime sounding really gross to people. I only said what I did about the saliva in the hopes that reading that would help people get over knee-jerk reactions to the idea and maybe be more likely to give Mysterious Girlfriend X a chance. Honestly, I think you should watch at least the first few episodes before deciding whether or not to keep watching.

My own personal thoughts about this anime (again, trying not to spoil anything) are that I really liked it (obviously!), I found it very intriguing how they used the saliva as a means to further the expression, interpretation, and understanding of emotion, and I thought it handled high school romance--"young love"--really well. It's really a very sweet anime (pun fully intended!) that left me with a big smile on my face after I was done watching it (I marathoned all 13 episodes today, finishing it probably about an hour ago).

2 Name: Solace !o0GOqY0U0w : 2013-07-20 22:11 ID:oeOttTq6 [Del]

I saw my friend watching this and it looks like the weirdest fucking show in the world.

3 Name: Sejin !PKt//nzxc2 : 2013-07-20 23:59 ID:OgXx3fSg [Del]

>>2 I didn't think it was weird. I've seen far weirder in anime. Like I said in the initial post, I think it's really a very sweet show. The drool made me a little uncomfortable in the first episode, but after that it didn't bother me. If I were to re-watch it, it probably wouldn't bother me even in the first episode.

4 Name: Solace !o0GOqY0U0w : 2013-07-21 00:28 ID:P6mRwl34 [Del]

>>3 You can see how 3 minutes over somebodies shoulder would look, though.

Okaaayy, that guy is begging for her saliva. Oh wow, a close up shot of saliva glistening on her finger. Doesn't leave the best impression.

5 Name: Sejin !PKt//nzxc2 : 2013-07-21 14:41 ID:OgXx3fSg [Del]

>>4 Hahaha yes, that's very true, especially depending on which three minutes you saw. That's why, in my initial post, I said that I think people who are willing to give this anime a shot in the first place should watch at least the first few episodes before they decide whether or not to keep watching.

6 Name: Neige !h45CN3bvL2 : 2015-01-28 21:06 ID:sZe3QRtv [Del]

Shameful bump.

It's an anime about saliva, but for some reason I'm enjoying it. You know, aside from being horribly grossed out about 80% of the time.

Please, tell me somebody else liked it too.

...anyone?

7 Name: DarkFlameMaster : 2015-04-27 20:54 ID:ixFPKXbb [Del]

I just finished today. Sweet ending, but couldn't stand ep 10 and 11. Besides that, this is basically my deep dark fetish...