AOTS Alert. Repeat, we have an Early AOTS Alert. Those Snow White Notes is an absolute joy to experience from beginning to end. Its absolute banger of a first episode tells a story of inspiration, …
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First Impressions – Those Snow White Notes
“Sawamura Matsugorou is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Sawamura Setsu, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Setsu finds…
Spring 2021 First Impressions – Those Snow White Notes
Streaming: Crunchyroll Episodes: 12 Source: Manga Story Summary: When Setsu’s grandfather and shamisen teacher passes away, Setsu loses his will to play the instrument. His feeling of emptine…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 12 — THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES
Welcome to the last review of the season! I wondered if I could do something special for the season finale like my cooking escapade for Heaven’s Design Team…
First Look: Those Snow White Notes
Setsu Sawamura is the grandson of a master shamisen artist, and a talented player in his own right. After being rebuked by his grandfather on his deathbed, he…
First Impression: Those Snow White Notes
After the death of his grandfather, Setsu feels alone, listless, and without purpose—not only because the old man was so important to him, but because during the final…
Those Snow White Notes #01 — Suddenly, SWAT
What happened to the last five minutes of this episode? Impressions: Another profoundly bizarre show. Sure, most of it is pretty consistently goofily melodramatic, but the last…
Those Snow White Notes – Episode 1
Those Snow White Notes definitely captures those small sad quiet moments and I think that alone will make the series worth watching...but damn is this show overdramatic.
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 9 — SNOW FLURRIES
Hello and before I get into other things, happy Pride month!! I KNOW Yui knew their performance was gonna air in June so she had to dress the…
Those Snow White Notes – 05 – Chemical Reaction
The Tsugaru Shamisen Appreciation Club’s first meeting begins with Koyabu-sensei presenting everyone with rented instruments as well as a flyer for the “Matsugorou Cup” suspicious…
Those Snow White Notes and Emotional Manipulation
I like watching anime that center around a game, sport, or practice more common in Japan as a way of introducing myself to them. It just so happens…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 11 — MEMORIES
Hellooo peeps, hope your week is progressing well. I’m here with another review. I was a bit puzzled as to why the episodes were so damn emotional lately,…
Anime Series Like Those Snow White Notes
After watching his grandfather perform the shamisen at a young age, Setsu became entranced. However, after his grandfather’s death, he runs away from his small village and quits…
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THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 7 — WIND
Hey there readers, it’s me ya boy. Maybe because the weather has been gradually getting warmer and finally the season change is upon us, I feel extra lazy…
Those Snow White Notes Volume 1 Review
Marimo Ragawa's Those Snow White Notes starts out with a tremendous amount of heart, sadness, and stubbornness, a true whirlwind of emotions!
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 1 — DESOLATE
Greetings! Welcoming the spring season, I decided to review Mashiro no Oto, or Those Snow White Notes. This will be my third series that I’ve ever reviewed weekly…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 6 — HOMELAND
*in villain voice* So we meet again… Hope life’s treating you well and all of you are in good health. I feel like my mind is galloping all…
Those Snow White Notes – An Acquired Taste
I have not spent much time listening to shamisen music in my life but Those Snow White Notes changed that. And I'm happy about it.
Those Snow White Notes – 07 – All Together Now
When Setsu leaves his tenement house bound for the Matsugorou Cup in Asakusa, Sakura has a special lunch prepared for him, even though he says there’s no need.…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 5 — PLAYING TOGETHER
Hello, hope you’re all doing well! Apologies for posting late into the day. I say nothing happens in my mundane life but for some reason this week was…
Those Snow White Notes – 06 – Everyone’s an Apprentice
Yui lights a fire under the ass of the Shamisen Club when she learns her gamer friend from Aomori is also participating in the group division of the…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 8 — TUNING FORK
Hello! Nowadays I want to do nothing but read, it seems. While I can’t exactly call it a writing block, I didn’t feel like writing so I gave…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 4 — SPRING DAWN
Hello everyone! Before I get on with today’s review, yesterday WordPress notified me that it was my blog’s 6th anniversary. Time sure flies by! It’s not much of…
Those Snow White Notes – 10 – A Little Longer
Sakura has made a special bento for Setsu on the day he’s to perform in the individual competition. Of forty entrants, he’s to perform 36th, meaning he’s been…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 2 — APPLE BLOSSOMS
We meet again for another review of Those Snow White Notes! I’m still a bit high on my excitement for the show so excuse me if my tone…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 3 — SUDDEN DOWNPOUR
Greetings, and yay for an episode I didn’t enjoy as much! I was getting antsy over whether all I was going to do was to cheer for this…
Those Snow White Notes: Getting The Band Together
I said it about volleyball, I said it about rakugo, and now the new hobby I find myself burdened with an undue fascination for is the shamisen. There’s…
Twin Peaks season one and Those Snow White Notes
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Twin Peaks season one and Those Snow White Notes
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Those Snow White Notes – 12 (Fin) – An Abrupt Coda
Last week I railed against Notes for splitting Setsu’s climactic performance across two episodes, since it left us hanging in the middle with no cathartic payoff. Now I…
Those Snow White Notes – 09 – You Got Me All Excited
This week’s Captivating Shamisen Performance is the longest yet, clocking in at over seven minutes, but it also features the most shounen battle-style crosstalk by the most characters…
Those Snow White Notes – 03 – It’s Fine if It’s Different
This week Setsu becomes raveled in the web of the adorable Maeda Shuri and her childhood friends Kaito and Yui. Yui tries in vein to get Setsu to…
Those Snow White Notes – 11 – Get To the Good Part!
I don’t usually harp on structural issues, unless they’re detrimental to an episode on a level that can’t be overlooked. Unfortunately, this was one of those episodes. It justR…
Those Snow White Notes – 02 – Let Loose and Take Flight
Setsu remembers back when a girl in his class was mad he dropped out of a shamisen competition, calling him a coward who was running away with tears…
THOSE SNOW WHITE NOTES EPISODE 10 — WIND FROM THE MOUNTAINS
Helloooo everyone! I squeezed this review in between the Fujocon panels I attended. This has been a very fun, exciting, and sleep-deprived weekend and I’ll write about my…
Those Snow White Notes – 08 – Modern Maimai and Her Fantastic Friends
The Matsugorou Cup’s team division marches on, Team Umezono’s time on stage grows near, and Shuri is scared. Yui encourages her to focus on getting the first notes…
Those Snow White Notes – 04 – New Guide, New Goal, New Sound
It’s all thanks to Sakura’s onigiri. When she greets Setsu and he enters the boarding house without responding, she can tell he’s out of sorts, and the only…
Those Snow White Notes – 04 – New Guide, New Goal, New Sound
It’s all thanks to Sakura’s onigiri. When she greets Setsu and he enters the boarding house without responding, she can tell he’s out of sorts, and the only…
Reader’s Corner: Those Snow White Notes, Your Lie in April Revisited, and A Couple of Cuckoos
She’s My Knight, Vol. 1 The premise of this lovely little comic is simple: Ichinose has always been the popular kid, attracting attention from all the girls until…
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My impressions of Shachibato are…non-existent. Its world is okay-looking but the characters that populate it are so bland and their adventuring is almost offensively lightweight and low stakes.…
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