"Golden Time" is an anime based on a light novel series. I am not here to tell you the whole story, you can find that much anywhere else. The main heroine, Kaga Kouko, is kind of a yandere type or something approaching that. She is really cute and sweet and all that... but to be honest, I am writing today because I want to talk about some topics:
The secondary characters. More accurately, I would refer Oka Chinami. This girl is weird and lost most of the time. She is so passionate about the camera and recording, and so weak and frail... and... well, is the kind of character I would like to know more about. To be honest, one of the strong points of the novels lies in the descriptions. There's no doubt that there's big worth in reading this series of novels.
I have to say that this appreciation could come from the fact that this has been the second time I watched this series, and since I more or less remembered the main plot, let's say I payed some more attention to the other characters' issues.
I would like as well to address the special personalities of the characters. Tada Banri with his amnesia, Kouko as an emotionally dependent stalker, Yana-san with his stupid personality (the guy is just kind of shallow or wtf), 2D-kun (is he really just a secondary character without any weight in the plot? I kind of feel a little sorry for him, even without forgetting his role as glue of the friends' group), Oka Chinami (my god, that girl has serious personality issues, only her story was not developed up to such point, but in some aspect she could be kind of similar to Kushieda Minori from Toradora! --sorry to the fans for that haha--), and Linda (who always plays an important role but, how to say, for me she seems to be the most normal character among them all... maybe because she has to take care of Banri or sth like that, or it's just her personality).
I feel a little weird about this Oka Chinami, her story is seriously sad. She seems to be too naive and weak in front of people like Kouko who has a much stronger personality, she started being so happy at the beginning of the anime, but if feels like she can't be passionate about love like Kouko, also there is the possibility that she is more kind of a 'normal' girl, who compared to Kouko because of the context just fades as a poor secondary character that canrn't achieve too much for herself.
Without any trace of doubt, peculiar characters like these always help to have a good story.
At this stage -if not earlier- you should have realized this is my blog and I don't give a fuck, just write whatever I feel like, because precisely of that.
Other thing I wanted to talk about is that feeling I got in this kind of romantic animes, but not in all of them. I would say I felt this specially with 'True Tears' and a certain moment in this anime. In chapter 9, near the end, when Linda screams inside her purse. You can tell there is no freedom, even before that when Banri tells her they will always be together, you can tell they are under social and ethical rules. Let's say that very fact makes the whole situation even more dramatic. Something like: I feel so bad, but I know I have to do this and that, and do this in this way and in that way.
I guess you could feel these things maybe also with EF - a tale of memories, yeah, most probably.
Overall about Golden Time I will say it is a good anime, make you feel things but I have also to say that a very important point is the comical situations, that appear so often. Interesting characters with a story developing according to their evolution. It keeps you hooked somehow, to be honest Oka Chinami is like a pain in the ass, I want this girl to have a decent end...
If I were to complain about anything, let's say it would have been good having some further development of the secondary characters, and... why not? a tragic ending with Kouko out of control in yandere version, or some Romeo-Juliet, or maybe if Kouko had jumped off the bridge in a demented wish to be with Banri... Ah boy, that one would be so good!!
It is good enough as it is, though, for things can't be perfect as far as I know.
