2008.03.19
Suzuka
Peach Girl has done many horrid things to me. Like being so anxious to watch Peach Girl I for the first time started downloading subs. After watching so many subs I can't watch anything without them and I no longer download RAWs to keep up my Japanese comprehension skills. And then I decided to buy the American Peach Girl DVDs. Some of them would start out with Suzuka previews. Sure Peach Girl has also done some great things like oddly finding Rose of Versailles through watching it, but I didn't find another winner with Suzuka.
Judging by the previews it seemed to be the male version of Peach Girl. A car accident that I can't stop watching. I should be glad that I downloaded the series because I almost blindly bought all the DVDs.
So yeah like typical shonen fare Suzuka is about some loser teenage kid named Yamato. He moves to Tokyo for school. While walking out on a rainy day he sees a girl who he falls in love at first sight with - Suzuka. For anyone who has watched anime you pretty much know what's magically going to happen next. Blah blah blah he finds out Suzuka, the girl he magically fell in love with at first sight, is his next door neighbor. And usually when people fall in love with someone just by looks they turn out being complete bitches. Suzuka without a doubt has a horrible personality.
I don't know how many times this fucking frame was repeated throughout the series.
Fast forward through all the bullshit I don't feel like explaining, Honoka enters the scene. She's been in love with Yamato since she was a kid. Although shy she opens up to Yamato and talks to him which is rare. Yamato has no idea who the fuck she is. So then a love triangle occurs.
Honoka wants Yamato. Yamato wants Suzuka. Suzuka doesn't know what fuck she wants.
Yamato's friend Hattori. Even though he's a womanizer even he can clearly see how much of a better choice Honoka would be.
So Yamato has the choice to choose between two females, Honoka or Suzuka. The series being named "Suzuka" it's obvious who he's going to choose. But really, these are the qualities of the two women he can choose from:
Honoka: A nice shy girl that knows how to cook and doesn't hold back when she wants something. She's interested in Yamato and tries to find all these ways to get his attention. She even joins the track team for him.
Suzuka: A cold angry bitter bitch full of teenage angst. She treats Yamato like shit. Not only that she always insults and doubts him. No matter how hard Yamato tries Suzuka always shoots him down.
Any person with a brain would pick the cute shy girl who looks 8 million times better than Suzuka.
Yamato chooses Suzuka.
Now for less than a month Yamato does date Honoka as a silver medal. But of course the two break up because Honoka can tell he still has feelings for Suzuka. And Yamato wants to aim for the gold, not silver.
I didn't get up to that part though because watching Suzuka was killing me so much I didn't want to experience seeing Honoka getting her heart broken by some confused asshole who's supposedly a nice guy. *cue Transformers theme* FUCK NICE GUYS! ASSHOLES IN DISGUISE! Not to mention it was complete torture watching the series. Normally I'll stick through a series from beginning to end but I just couldn't do it. This was no Peach Girl.
As for Suzuka's "angst?" Ugh. *bangs head on desk* I don't even feel like explaining, well apparently her reasoning for treating Yamato like shit is because she liked this guy in middle school who was a lot like him. After he confessed his feelings to Suzuka he got hit by a car and died. If only Suzuka got hit by a car and died too. So anyway that's why Suzuka is all paranoid and shit and doesn't want to "fall in love." Like a bunch of stupid dumbass teenage kids know shit about "love."
Being curious how this ends I find throughout all the struggles that he faces putting up with Suzuka's shit - he knocks Suzuka up. This was after all her push and pulling "OMG NO WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?" "...Hey let's have sex!" She gets pregnant and the two decide to ditch the track team and university to have their kid.
I'm glad that I stopped when I did because seriously, what the fuck was the point of all this? Yamato goes through all this shit to prove to Suzuka, the best person on the track team, that he's the best. He knocks her up, they get married, she stops running, have a kid, and he becomes a coach for a track team? I'll only applaud this series if the only reason why it was created was as a subliminal message to nice guys that they're retared dick-headed pussies for going for girls that treat them like shit. You'll be shooting yourself in the foot in the future if you throw that nice girl who doesn't have screws looose to the curb.
But considering how happy Yamato and Suzuka are I know this was just meant to be another subliminal message to nice guys - "Don't give up! You can make your shitty push and pull relationship last a lifetime!" The sad thing is I'd say that Suzuka IS realistic. I'd put myself in the shoes of Honoka, I don't know how many fucking times I've been shot down and treated like shit just so some guy can go for their asshole woman or complain about their asshole woman to me. Shit, where are the real men at?
Why couldn't this have been like Touch? Why couldn't she have died in a car accident? WHY?
Damn straight love isn't a spectator sport. If you're going to make as many stupid decisions as Yamato and go for a girl who deserves to be thrown in blender, beat down, jesus christ just shut that mouth of hers or punch her, throw her to a wall, hope she gets hit by a bus, push her off a cliff, hope she plays in traffic, etc... Seriously, she's so bad that if I were a guy I'd hit her. No, not like "that" I mean drop kick her or punch her in the face. This series is just THAT BAD. Sae from Peach Girl shaped up at the end. Suzuka never does. But that didn't stop her from landing a husband.
Suzuka is a piece of flying shit and to preserve your sanity I suggest that none of you watch this. I'm still driven insane by Suzuka till this day in disbelief how something could be so fucking terrible. If you want to watch an anime with a short blue haired angry female watch Ranma 1/2. At least Akane makes sense and Ranma has a back bone.