While High School graduation is a romanticized event, for me it was an anticlimax. My triangle of friends weren't in the same class year as me, many of whom didn't go to the same school either. It became especially more empty when my high school sweetheart had moved away by our junior year. By my senior year I had already begun attending college through Post-Secondary Option (scored high enough on the SAT for early enrollment in college), so I was off campus for nearly the entire school year and the few times I did go there, it felt like I was the odd man out. Even on graduation day, it was just a formal event I attended alone and went home afterwards.The idealized dream of being surrounded by close friends and peers didn't happen. Despite being over two decades ago, I was okay with this.
Funny that you posted this one week before my own high school graduation... but man, I got teary-eyed from the clips of Azumanga Daioh's graduation episode, in my opinion, the most well-known and real graduation episode of all of anime. But I hope more people will be exposed to this OVA. Keep up the good work!
As someone who is graduating high school soon, that ending hit pretty hard for me. While a few of my friends and I will be attending the same college, there's definitely some who'll get left behind in the dust and vanish off the face of the earth for me. No matter how close we stick, there's no guarantee we'll be friends until the end. However, the memories we made, the crazy shit we got up to, I'll make sure to hold those memories close, to never forget the experience of high school and the friends I made along the way. Oh and uh the OVA looks pretty banger, that's the other important part.
I'm 28 and I cannot stress this enough. Wait a year after graduating high school to go to college. Get a normal job first, job hop some even. Live life a little bit before deciding what you want to do. College life is fun but we change a lot after graduating High School, and you don't want to become trapped in a field you end up not liking.
Also don't ever compare yourself or your progress to other people, there is no time limit on anything. Don't chase the dollar, but make enough to be happy and healthy. Above all else *NEVER* give up on your hobbies, they keep you young.
I feel like this does exist in America. I don’t know, maybe I’m biased because I had a lot of fun in high school, and now, well, I’m watching anime. College sucks man.
Every generation seems to get some flavor of high school sex comedy. The YA book market seems to get the coming of age stories. Both seem kinda divorced from reality.
Huh, you said these never got released stateside, but I absolutely bought a copy of Graduation 2 out of the back of MixxZine in 1999...Bootleg, perhaps. It was in (bad) English, so it's possible. Wish I still had it to compare to a legit copy of the game... As for graduating, I'm about 30 years out from mine. My KIDS though, two have already graduated, and let me tell you, all those feelings come right back.
I don't remember my graduation all too well. It was way back in 2011. I remember being happy that I was done with High School. I was one of those bitter shut in nerds who felt like I was better than most people and was destined for better things. Still I had a friend group that I liked all of whom I lost contact with by the time I went to College. I met with one of my high school friends who's an uber driver now. As for me, I dropped out of College due to financial reasons my family moved around and when I came back I barely managed to get a part-time job as a dishwasher at a superstore. I like to think it's karma on how I was in High School. But those tribulations were humbling and I'm getting towards being a decent person. I guess my regret was I never had that feeling of "oh no I'm going to lose my friends forever." like the cast of this OVA because I wasn't even that close to my high school friends. I was just ready to move on.
I always loved the little spin off “Marriage” (you mentioned that game here). The OVA did get an English dub released on VHS, but seems to be hard to find the dub online. It was cute, but I assume a completely different cast of generic young girls than in this OVA. 😅
Heh. You deliberately chose the ending music because of this video's subject matter. Clever, clever... I'll have to check this out--might make me remember how I felt in the months leading up to my college graduation. (Sidebar, at some point in the future, I definitely would like to see you tackle the Fire Emblem anime Studio Fantasia worked on with Studio KSS.)
I see plenty of folks sharing their thoughts on graduation and the general high school experience and y'know what? I'm gonna be more than a silent watcher and join the conversation. Point blank, people who mythologized the high school experience are full of shit. It was probably the most miserable four years of my life that I barely have any good memories of. And what good memories I do have are outweighed by the bad. Barely had any friends because I was shy, all my classes had jackasses who'd harass me because I was the autistic kid (Asperger's to be specific) and my social life was non-existent because of the aforementioned social anxiety and living in the middle of no where with nothing to do and no way to get around. Hell, I ended up splitting with the one friend I had because he turned out to be a doucher behind my back. When graduation day came, that was the happiest moment for me during my entire High School era. When I got up on stage to get my certificate, I remember looking out to my peers and thinking 'Thank God I'll Never See You Cunts Ever Again After Today'. Honestly, I have more unironic nostalgia for my time at community college. I was treated like a decent human being despite my disability, I made real friends for life who I still see on the regular and I was just able to be me without fear of being shat on. Is it cringey and kind of sad to admit to that? Perhaps. But it still did me more better than high school did. And obviously, I'm projecting just a *smidge* here, but I know not everyone had the same time as I did. If High School was the best for you, then rock on. Don't let one random comment on the internet invalidate your beloved experience.
2005 was graduation time for me. I’m glad I was able to get through it. But I won’t lie, I was never able to keep up with my friends or acquaintances. We all just moved on, drifted away to do other things. I’ve forgotten this names over the years and I don’t really have their Phone numbers anymore. But that’s just life. And even now, I’m going through my second Graduation from College. It 2023, 22 years after High school! It’s good to look back every now and then, but I’m a much better person now than I ever was when I first got into a High School.
I graduated high school 10 years ago and college 5 years ago. While I haven't seen anyone from college for a few years, I still keep in contact with my 2 good friends from grade school. I'd be lost without them.
Damn, this hit my soul in the balls. Gonna miss my younger years a lot. Had my graduation 2 years ago, but it still feels like last month. I hated how much I wanted to move on, but also didn't want to let go. Makes me wonder how I'll handle it with my college degree ending not too long from now. Either way this was a neat introspective video. I'll be checking out the OVA. Also, please tell me that the sex shop thing in the video game gets resolved 💀
I won't deny it, this one hit me a little. Like you (and, looking at the comments, several others), I found myself thinking back to my own last days of high school, over twenty years ago, now. I didn't have a super-big or super-close friend group - I lived in a different town from everyone else, and had to carpool in and back, so outside of class, I never really had the opportunity to hang out with anyone aside from some extracurricular stuff - but it was a tiny school, by most standards, and everyone there knew each other pretty well, so I made some good friends, regardless. The day after graduation, I went around trying to get some e-mails - the hope was, we could at least stay in contact. No one was really interested; they were too busy planning for summer and what came afterwards. So I left, and went away to college - and most of them, I've never seen again. Oh, there have been the occasional 'oh, hey, I remember you' moments, since I still live in the same area, but they've been few and far between, and usually pretty awkward - my very best friend at school was a guy named Scott; we ran into each other while grocery shopping a few months back, and had literally nothing to say to each other; we just kind of mumbled a few words and parted ways. Looking back on those times, they were good times, but I find myself wishing I'd done more, formed closer bonds that might have lasted, maybe spent that extra year there (due to poor grades, I had a choice of either repeating a year, or taking a test and getting my G.E.D. I chose the latter, but I've subsequently realized I probably should have taken the former) - because subconsciously, I don't think I ever really realized back then how abrupt the transition between childhood and adulthood was really going to be. Once that first part of your life is over, it's over - and there is, alas, no going back to it.
Just like you said, I have seen the title here and there but did not pursue it because how is something called Graduation going to be relevant for me. But if its this heartfelt meditation of the passage of time and our changing roles in life - well doesn't part 6 of Gunbuster fit that description? Maybe thats a really bad comparison but I am now interested in seeing this OVA. I just find it weird that there are like 5 other titles in this animated franchise, I guess they made OVAs for all the games.
Actually, Graduation DID get a US release. The Windows PC port of the second game was released in the US by Tokyopop (which was known as MixxZine back then)
And here I was, sure I had seen those characters before, without having ever seen Graduation... Thank you for clearing out I saw them in the Sailor Victory teaser of my Elf Princess Rane VHS tape
Thank you for the video, and in particular thank you for making it clear that, in the video game, the teacher marrying one of the students is a game fail state. Not every raising sim is quite so courteous towards common decency.
Hey so, I graduated college and uhh. You made me cry and I'm not even 3 minutes in. So thank you. and also @#$% you. But thank you. (Also, anyone else in my position. Keep in touch, seriously, that's the one advice I can give. Growing up is hard enough without doing it alone)
7:29 I did not expect to hear nobunaga's ambition mentioned here... but makes sense, honestly the most fun games in that (and its sister series: Romance of the three kingdoms) are the ones where you control one specific officer and focus on increasing their stats and make them rise up in rank and stuff.
This is such a criminally-underrated channel. I'm so glad I found you again! It's true what they say about the algorithm; you stopped showing up in my feed (even though I'm subscribed) so I was shocked and happy to see that you are still making content! I'll make sure that I "hit that bell," if that makes a difference. Keep up the amazing work! :)
I watched this last year, first learned about it because AniDB classifies it as the first VN based Anime, I suspected it's source doesn't qualify as a VN and this video confirmed my suspicion. But having Tadano do the Character Designs is the main reason I watched it, you tell it's her from how the Legs are drawn, no one draws Legs like her, I really want to see her collaborate with Naoko Yamada.
It's been round about a decade since I graduated; whilst my graduation was a good event and I got to visit one of my teacher's houses/see her dog I'd always heard about, I unfortunately lost my friend group and never kept in contact with them (I never really hung out with others at the time and mostly was a shut-in; and in general a shy, introverted person who easily can get cold feet), nor do I remember the last time I spent with them, I never went to places like arcades with them, never went to school dances because I don't like dancing, etc. I also had no plans on what to do, but, well, similarly to Mami, I went to a transitional program (thankfully I wasn't coddled like her) that autumn, which got me a job where I've worked for nearly 9 years at. I found a new friend group (it wasn't until I was an adult until I had a friend group), and while I'm coming out a social shell, I couldn't afford college and I unfortunately have no plans to go there, I'm just still living in the moment, and while I have some hobbies/ideas on what to do (writing books), they're just hobbies and I still have no idea for a career otherwise. As for the OVA itself, I think it's very underrated/overlooked; the first episode with the stationmaster's story even feels like it would have worked as a Ghibli film, and I could relate to Reiko not knowing what career to pursue, I do still wish there were more episodes than just the two OVA episodes here and that it would have worked better as a 26 or 39 episode anime, would have worked better as an introduction for people who didn't have the other merch, and some of the characters could have been more developed (Mika, the Plain Jane, was the least interesting in both here and Sailor Victory). For the record also, they got legendary seiyuu Aya Hisakawa (Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury, Devil Hunter Yohko, Kero, Skuld) voice Shizuka, Yumi Tōma (Urd, Tokimiki and Yui Hongo) voice Reiko, and the late legendary Hiromi Tsuru (Madoka Ayukawa, Bulma, Lufy) voice Kiyomi. Mika was voiced by Junko Shimakata, who among her various roles, is probably best known for Daqiao and and Xiaoqiao in the Dynasty Warriors series, and Mami by Hinako Kanamaru, known for voicing Pīpō in Transformers: Victory, and Ray the Flying Squirrel in the Sonic arcade game, but Hinako hasn't really had too much of any standout roles.
Ah, one of those “prominent periphery” things for me at the time, where I knew a reasonable amount about it and saw it around, but never watched. Owned a few OSTs tho. One has not truly lived until they have listened to the Mami-chan rap.
I kind of wish my high school experience was more like this. I only had to go to school for about half a the day my senior year and already had about half my college done through concurrent credit, so my graduation didn’t feel like a very significant event, because I had kind of been out of school for a while, and knew what I was doing afterwards. It was kind of melancholic though, I had a real sense of regret at not really having an exciting or productive High School experience. I always told myself I’d be more social and try to make friends but it never really worked out. I remember at graduation I caught myself thinking about how I should try to get to know this one person better and then realizing that probably wasn’t going to happen. My time was up.
I'm actually surprised that NO mention was made whatsoever of the attempted and ultimately cancelled attempt at localizing and releasing the original Graduation PC game in the west (or at least provided that you even knew about that.) Becuase it has a rather interesting history all it's own. Long story short, that is tied to the equally interesting story of the early western attempt at Shoujou manga collection called Mixx Magazine, which was one of the first to try translating and releasing chapters of Sailor Moon and Magic Knight Rayearth in the US, and how they had several notable controversies about the management of their company which caused their downfall, and cancellation. This same downfall that ended their attempt at branching out into PC game releases, which was going to materialize a western release of Graduation. In the end, the decline and sudden end of Mixx Magazine also ended that even though there does appear to have been work done on it and at least one print ad made for the planned release OF the English version of Graduation that was promised but ultimately never finished or never released.
While High School graduation is a romanticized event, for me it was an anticlimax. My triangle of friends weren't in the same class year as me, many of whom didn't go to the same school either. It became especially more empty when my high school sweetheart had moved away by our junior year. By my senior year I had already begun attending college through Post-Secondary Option (scored high enough on the SAT for early enrollment in college), so I was off campus for nearly the entire school year and the few times I did go there, it felt like I was the odd man out. Even on graduation day, it was just a formal event I attended alone and went home afterwards.The idealized dream of being surrounded by close friends and peers didn't happen. Despite being over two decades ago, I was okay with this.
Wait, Sailor Victory is a spin off?! Of this?!
My mind is also blown.
I also had no idea
Bruh moment
Funny that you posted this one week before my own high school graduation... but man, I got teary-eyed from the clips of Azumanga Daioh's graduation episode, in my opinion, the most well-known and real graduation episode of all of anime. But I hope more people will be exposed to this OVA. Keep up the good work!
As someone who is graduating high school soon, that ending hit pretty hard for me. While a few of my friends and I will be attending the same college, there's definitely some who'll get left behind in the dust and vanish off the face of the earth for me. No matter how close we stick, there's no guarantee we'll be friends until the end. However, the memories we made, the crazy shit we got up to, I'll make sure to hold those memories close, to never forget the experience of high school and the friends I made along the way.
Oh and uh the OVA looks pretty banger, that's the other important part.
I'm 28 and I cannot stress this enough. Wait a year after graduating high school to go to college. Get a normal job first, job hop some even. Live life a little bit before deciding what you want to do. College life is fun but we change a lot after graduating High School, and you don't want to become trapped in a field you end up not liking.
Also don't ever compare yourself or your progress to other people, there is no time limit on anything.
Don't chase the dollar, but make enough to be happy and healthy.
Above all else *NEVER* give up on your hobbies, they keep you young.
I feel like this does exist in America. I don’t know, maybe I’m biased because I had a lot of fun in high school, and now, well, I’m watching anime. College sucks man.
Every generation seems to get some flavor of high school sex comedy. The YA book market seems to get the coming of age stories.
Both seem kinda divorced from reality.
Huh, you said these never got released stateside, but I absolutely bought a copy of Graduation 2 out of the back of MixxZine in 1999...Bootleg, perhaps. It was in (bad) English, so it's possible. Wish I still had it to compare to a legit copy of the game...
As for graduating, I'm about 30 years out from mine. My KIDS though, two have already graduated, and let me tell you, all those feelings come right back.
>Marrying a girl is a failstate
>There is also marriafe spinoff.
\_(o.O)_/
I don't remember my graduation all too well. It was way back in 2011. I remember being happy that I was done with High School. I was one of those bitter shut in nerds who felt like I was better than most people and was destined for better things. Still I had a friend group that I liked all of whom I lost contact with by the time I went to College. I met with one of my high school friends who's an uber driver now. As for me, I dropped out of College due to financial reasons my family moved around and when I came back I barely managed to get a part-time job as a dishwasher at a superstore. I like to think it's karma on how I was in High School. But those tribulations were humbling and I'm getting towards being a decent person. I guess my regret was I never had that feeling of "oh no I'm going to lose my friends forever." like the cast of this OVA because I wasn't even that close to my high school friends. I was just ready to move on.
I always loved the little spin off “Marriage” (you mentioned that game here). The OVA did get an English dub released on VHS, but seems to be hard to find the dub online. It was cute, but I assume a completely different cast of generic young girls than in this OVA. 😅
Heh. You deliberately chose the ending music because of this video's subject matter. Clever, clever...
I'll have to check this out--might make me remember how I felt in the months leading up to my college graduation.
(Sidebar, at some point in the future, I definitely would like to see you tackle the Fire Emblem anime Studio Fantasia worked on with Studio KSS.)
I see plenty of folks sharing their thoughts on graduation and the general high school experience and y'know what? I'm gonna be more than a silent watcher and join the conversation.
Point blank, people who mythologized the high school experience are full of shit. It was probably the most miserable four years of my life that I barely have any good memories of. And what good memories I do have are outweighed by the bad. Barely had any friends because I was shy, all my classes had jackasses who'd harass me because I was the autistic kid (Asperger's to be specific) and my social life was non-existent because of the aforementioned social anxiety and living in the middle of no where with nothing to do and no way to get around. Hell, I ended up splitting with the one friend I had because he turned out to be a doucher behind my back.
When graduation day came, that was the happiest moment for me during my entire High School era. When I got up on stage to get my certificate, I remember looking out to my peers and thinking 'Thank God I'll Never See You Cunts Ever Again After Today'.
Honestly, I have more unironic nostalgia for my time at community college. I was treated like a decent human being despite my disability, I made real friends for life who I still see on the regular and I was just able to be me without fear of being shat on. Is it cringey and kind of sad to admit to that? Perhaps. But it still did me more better than high school did.
And obviously, I'm projecting just a *smidge* here, but I know not everyone had the same time as I did. If High School was the best for you, then rock on. Don't let one random comment on the internet invalidate your beloved experience.
My highschool graduation is in a couple of weeks and idk what the hell I'm doing afterwards pray for me 😅
2005 was graduation time for me. I’m glad I was able to get through it.
But I won’t lie, I was never able to keep up with my friends or acquaintances. We all just moved on, drifted away to do other things. I’ve forgotten this names over the years and I don’t really have their Phone numbers anymore.
But that’s just life. And even now, I’m going through my second Graduation from College. It 2023, 22 years after High school!
It’s good to look back every now and then, but I’m a much better person now than I ever was when I first got into a High School.
Was not expecting such a thoughtful anime. It was a nice surprise tbh.
I stayed back. I kept in touch with my original and actual class. No reunions tho.😂😂😂😂😂😂
I graduated high school 10 years ago and college 5 years ago. While I haven't seen anyone from college for a few years, I still keep in contact with my 2 good friends from grade school. I'd be lost without them.
Damn, this hit my soul in the balls. Gonna miss my younger years a lot. Had my graduation 2 years ago, but it still feels like last month. I hated how much I wanted to move on, but also didn't want to let go. Makes me wonder how I'll handle it with my college degree ending not too long from now. Either way this was a neat introspective video. I'll be checking out the OVA.
Also, please tell me that the sex shop thing in the video game gets resolved 💀
I won't deny it, this one hit me a little. Like you (and, looking at the comments, several others), I found myself thinking back to my own last days of high school, over twenty years ago, now. I didn't have a super-big or super-close friend group - I lived in a different town from everyone else, and had to carpool in and back, so outside of class, I never really had the opportunity to hang out with anyone aside from some extracurricular stuff - but it was a tiny school, by most standards, and everyone there knew each other pretty well, so I made some good friends, regardless.
The day after graduation, I went around trying to get some e-mails - the hope was, we could at least stay in contact. No one was really interested; they were too busy planning for summer and what came afterwards. So I left, and went away to college - and most of them, I've never seen again. Oh, there have been the occasional 'oh, hey, I remember you' moments, since I still live in the same area, but they've been few and far between, and usually pretty awkward - my very best friend at school was a guy named Scott; we ran into each other while grocery shopping a few months back, and had literally nothing to say to each other; we just kind of mumbled a few words and parted ways. Looking back on those times, they were good times, but I find myself wishing I'd done more, formed closer bonds that might have lasted, maybe spent that extra year there (due to poor grades, I had a choice of either repeating a year, or taking a test and getting my G.E.D. I chose the latter, but I've subsequently realized I probably should have taken the former) - because subconsciously, I don't think I ever really realized back then how abrupt the transition between childhood and adulthood was really going to be. Once that first part of your life is over, it's over - and there is, alas, no going back to it.
Great episode like always! I end to watch each of your episode 2-3 upon release 😂
Ever thought of making an episode on the Sakura Diaries anime?
Just like you said, I have seen the title here and there but did not pursue it because how is something called Graduation going to be relevant for me. But if its this heartfelt meditation of the passage of time and our changing roles in life - well doesn't part 6 of Gunbuster fit that description? Maybe thats a really bad comparison but I am now interested in seeing this OVA. I just find it weird that there are like 5 other titles in this animated franchise, I guess they made OVAs for all the games.
I love melancholic pieces of media, and I love this video 🙏
the song choice at the credits tho! took me a bit but don't think I didn't notice!
The graduation song at the end. 😎
I own the DVD of sailor victory. It’s an average ova. Then again, I like owning and finding forgotten animes.
lol that ending theme. sigh.
Actually, Graduation DID get a US release. The Windows PC port of the second game was released in the US by Tokyopop (which was known as MixxZine back then)
I released that. The main voice was Alex Borstein. Exe Producer now and Lois on Family Guy
I came to comment this too haha. I remember MixxZine promoting it heavily! Didn’t seem to do very well though.
I was introduced to Graduation through the fun and goofy Sailor Victory parody, ending theme was so catchy.
And here I was, sure I had seen those characters before, without having ever seen Graduation...
Thank you for clearing out I saw them in the Sailor Victory teaser of my Elf Princess Rane VHS tape
Good timing. I'm about to graduate this week and have this melancholic feeling lingering over me
Thank you for the video, and in particular thank you for making it clear that, in the video game, the teacher marrying one of the students is a game fail state. Not every raising sim is quite so courteous towards common decency.
Hey so, I graduated college and uhh. You made me cry and I'm not even 3 minutes in.
So thank you. and also @#$% you. But thank you.
(Also, anyone else in my position. Keep in touch, seriously, that's the one advice I can give. Growing up is hard enough without doing it alone)
7:29 I did not expect to hear nobunaga's ambition mentioned here...
but makes sense, honestly the most fun games in that (and its sister series: Romance of the three kingdoms) are the ones where you control one specific officer and focus on increasing their stats and make them rise up in rank and stuff.
This is such a criminally-underrated channel. I'm so glad I found you again! It's true what they say about the algorithm; you stopped showing up in my feed (even though I'm subscribed) so I was shocked and happy to see that you are still making content! I'll make sure that I "hit that bell," if that makes a difference. Keep up the amazing work! :)
I watched this last year, first learned about it because AniDB classifies it as the first VN based Anime, I suspected it's source doesn't qualify as a VN and this video confirmed my suspicion. But having Tadano do the Character Designs is the main reason I watched it, you tell it's her from how the Legs are drawn, no one draws Legs like her, I really want to see her collaborate with Naoko Yamada.
It's been round about a decade since I graduated; whilst my graduation was a good event and I got to visit one of my teacher's houses/see her dog I'd always heard about, I unfortunately lost my friend group and never kept in contact with them (I never really hung out with others at the time and mostly was a shut-in; and in general a shy, introverted person who easily can get cold feet), nor do I remember the last time I spent with them, I never went to places like arcades with them, never went to school dances because I don't like dancing, etc. I also had no plans on what to do, but, well, similarly to Mami, I went to a transitional program (thankfully I wasn't coddled like her) that autumn, which got me a job where I've worked for nearly 9 years at. I found a new friend group (it wasn't until I was an adult until I had a friend group), and while I'm coming out a social shell, I couldn't afford college and I unfortunately have no plans to go there, I'm just still living in the moment, and while I have some hobbies/ideas on what to do (writing books), they're just hobbies and I still have no idea for a career otherwise.
As for the OVA itself, I think it's very underrated/overlooked; the first episode with the stationmaster's story even feels like it would have worked as a Ghibli film, and I could relate to Reiko not knowing what career to pursue, I do still wish there were more episodes than just the two OVA episodes here and that it would have worked better as a 26 or 39 episode anime, would have worked better as an introduction for people who didn't have the other merch, and some of the characters could have been more developed (Mika, the Plain Jane, was the least interesting in both here and Sailor Victory). For the record also, they got legendary seiyuu Aya Hisakawa (Ami Mizuno/Sailor Mercury, Devil Hunter Yohko, Kero, Skuld) voice Shizuka, Yumi Tōma (Urd, Tokimiki and Yui Hongo) voice Reiko, and the late legendary Hiromi Tsuru (Madoka Ayukawa, Bulma, Lufy) voice Kiyomi. Mika was voiced by Junko Shimakata, who among her various roles, is probably best known for Daqiao and and Xiaoqiao in the Dynasty Warriors series, and Mami by Hinako Kanamaru, known for voicing Pīpō in Transformers: Victory, and Ray the Flying Squirrel in the Sonic arcade game, but Hinako hasn't really had too much of any standout roles.
I'll never understand the appeal of the cute girls doing cute things junk. I want "cool women doing important sh1t" lol
Ah, one of those “prominent periphery” things for me at the time, where I knew a reasonable amount about it and saw it around, but never watched.
Owned a few OSTs tho. One has not truly lived until they have listened to the Mami-chan rap.
But this is reminding me that Hiromi Tsuru is a biker chick who looks kinda like Ayukawa, so…. I shall consume and pretend it’s KOR fanfic 😝
I kind of wish my high school experience was more like this. I only had to go to school for about half a the day my senior year and already had about half my college done through concurrent credit, so my graduation didn’t feel like a very significant event, because I had kind of been out of school for a while, and knew what I was doing afterwards. It was kind of melancholic though, I had a real sense of regret at not really having an exciting or productive High School experience. I always told myself I’d be more social and try to make friends but it never really worked out. I remember at graduation I caught myself thinking about how I should try to get to know this one person better and then realizing that probably wasn’t going to happen. My time was up.
Not really an anime that I would seek out, but fascinating nonetheless.
Nice video, but was not expecting a mecha spin-off mention with this cast at the end there. Tonal whiplash, but good thing that’s for the future.
I still own the Graduation PC game.
Wait... what? it WAS released in the USA...
Probably a better mecha spinoff than IDOLM@STER: Xenoglossia
I wanna watch this but can't find it.
Another banger video! Wish i could have saw this anime when i graduated back in 2018:)
i think bennett the sage did the weird mecha spin off of this years back.
Nice
😥😌
Because of *course* there's a giant robot parody.
Giant robot parody is one heck of a carrot to dangle sir.
The next video should be paranoia agent
Can somebody please tell me the name of the song played in the intro after the girl says "Kyoto Video"?
Roman - I miss you
@@thomasffrench3639 Might as well put it in the credits list from now on. This is going to get asked several more times.
I'm actually surprised that NO mention was made whatsoever of the attempted and ultimately cancelled attempt at localizing and releasing the original Graduation PC game in the west (or at least provided that you even knew about that.)
Becuase it has a rather interesting history all it's own. Long story short, that is tied to the equally interesting story of the early western attempt at Shoujou manga collection called Mixx Magazine, which was one of the first to try translating and releasing chapters of Sailor Moon and Magic Knight Rayearth in the US, and how they had several notable controversies about the management of their company which caused their downfall, and cancellation. This same downfall that ended their attempt at branching out into PC game releases, which was going to materialize a western release of Graduation.
In the end, the decline and sudden end of Mixx Magazine also ended that even though there does appear to have been work done on it and at least one print ad made for the planned release OF the English version of Graduation that was promised but ultimately never finished or never released.
Oh, this sounds like a neat lost media story. Maybe someday more on this will be found?
I always wondered if it ever got released. I remember their heavy marketing in MixxZine issues.