White Album 2 01- While My Gitah Gently Weeps

Actually it's a show about performing in front of tadpoles.

Actually it’s a show about performing in front of tadpoles.

I watched WA1 (starring Hirano Aya as one of the LIs prior to her sexy scandal) when it came out in 2009, and it was a piece of shit. The main character possibly took some sort of inspiration from John Lennon; he formed the antithesis to most male harem leads, making it his life goal to sleep with as many females as possible, morals be damned. The show was so bad that I dropped it after he inexplicably seduced the fourth woman, and I didn’t think anything of the matter.

Then 2013 rolled around, and it was announced that WA2 would be getting an anime adaptation. No big deal, you say. Well, WA2 is actually one of the highest rated visual novels in the history of ever (on the VN version of imdb, anyway). Of course, the Japanese never made a decent video game that didn’t involve trapping animals in tiny balls, but the fact that this game managed to get an adaptation did pique my interest a teeny tiny bit. So, here we are.

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