Of course, stuff like that only annoys me because everything else here has great potential. Legitimately good character stories can’t be Anime in this particular way, or at least, moments of this diminish the show they could potentially be (like Oregairu’s miserable Sensei jokes, for example). Later on, a side character walks across Taichi-in-Iori’s-body groping himself and reacts by saying “it’s more effective when someone else fondles them for you.” All of this stuff is fairly routine by anime standards, but it’s also very bad, completely inhuman dialogue. Inaba falls back on canned lines like “I don’t recall asking you to elaborate on that topic,” and Iori’s big introduction involves her advertising panty flashes to Taichi. Kokoro Connect’s biggest issue so far is that it’s simultaneously trying to be a character story and a capital-a Anime. The only problem is, well, that some of the dialogue just doesn’t sound like human beings. Conversations are allowed to serve no purpose beyond articulating the tenor of various relationships, which is a very valuable thing in a character-focused show. There’s actual banter here – characters take the lines of others and run with them, twisting conversations in silly directions based on their own personalities. The first third of this episode is dedicated largely to banter between Taichi, Iori, and Inaba, where we learn that Taichi’s a low-key version of the usual snarky protagonist, Iori is very upbeat but also far from innocent, and Inaba is basically the straight man, sometimes playing along with Iori but also sometimes getting exasperated with her acquaintances’ behavior.Īll of that is well and good, and Kokoro Connect is actually better about establishing grounded personal characteristics than most shows. None of these five have all that much in common, but they’re brought together into a single club by virtue of all being slight weirdoes who weren’t happy anywhere else. The show stars five high school freshmen: Taichi, Iori, Aoki, Yui, and Inaba. Kokoro Connect is clearly a show about coming to understand other people, a theme almost implicit in its body-switching premise. The real issue here is based in the uneasy relationship between the show’s clear goals and its fundamental nature. As far as fundamental composition goes, this premiere is a very solid affair. The character designs are distinctive and expressive, and nothing really drags. That doesn’t really come down to the production, or even the storytelling – the show has nice painted backgrounds that give everything something of a faded, nostalgic look, and the story moves quickly and gracefully into a compelling premise (suddenly we’re swapping bodies for no apparent reason!). Kokoro Connect starts off with a somewhat uneven first episode.
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