“«Tada Never Falls in Love» Vol. 1: Photography with a pinch of romance
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With «Tada Never Falls in Love», KSM Anime enriches the German market with another RomCom series. But could the now published first volume convince us? Of course you can find out in this review!

• Label: KSM Anime
• Publication: 17.03.2022
• FSK: Approved for ages 12 and up
• Running time: 95 minutes
• Image format: 16:9
• Resolution: 1920 x 1080 p
• Genre: RomCom
• Languages: German, Japanese (DTS-HD MA 2.0)
• Subtitle: Deutsch
• Number of discs: 1
• Packaging: Volume in collection slipcase
• Extras: Clean Opening & Ending

Story (7/10)

Love hasn’t really been an issue for quiet high school student Mitsuyoshi Tada. Photography is his passion. When Tada wants to capture the blossoming cherry trees in the city park on his camera, he meets Teresa, an exchange student from the small European country of Larsenburg. After a brief misunderstanding and a photo, the two separate again… to run into each other two more times. Finally, when two new students are introduced to Tada’s class, it’s Teresa and her unexpectedly battle-hardened friend, Alex. But there seems to be more…

Personaly thinking (Warning, spoilers!)

Like many other series in this genre, «Tada Never Falls in Love» got off to a slow start. Of course, the first few episodes were mainly spent establishing the protagonists and their starting positions. It becomes apparent early on that the anime uses some typical clichés. So it’s certainly not the first time that a protagonist has to mourn the early death of his parents. It also quickly becomes clear that the relationship between the two main characters Mitsuyoshi and Teresa, which is still quite slowly developing at the beginning, won’t remain the only one. The anime makes no secret of the fact that, with several subplots — quite typical of the genre — it takes a multi-pronged approach on the relationship level.

But the comedy element hasn’t been neglected either. I was particularly entertained by the scenes in which Hajime really cranks up his enthusiasm about female proportions. The fact that Kaoru teases Alexandra every time, only to immediately regret it, turns into a real running gag. Thus, the funny scenes form the necessary balance to the more serious moments of the series.

Unfortunately, while watching the episodes, I also noticed some cheesy depictions. For example, two childhood scenes between Teresa and Alexandra as well as Hajime and Hinako were overdramatized, which tends to make the effect ridiculous. Fortunately, these moments are limited, which softens this point a bit.

Animations (7/10)

The studio drew for the animation of the series Doga Kobo responsible. For me personally, “Tada Never Falls in Love” was a kind of premiere, since I had actually never seen any anime from this studio before. Overall, I have to say that I found the end result to be quite qualitative, but also a bit boring. For example, the character designs are consistent and the animated movement sequences are completely sufficient for the genre. However, I had mixed feelings about the backgrounds — due to the rather simple art style, they come across as quite unspectacular. Another quirk was observed in scenes where the characters acted further away from the camera. Of course, it is not uncommon for many details to be left out. However, in the present case, the characters’ faces were often left blank, which looked very strange.

Music (7/10)

As an opening we get to hear the song «Otomodachi Film» by Masayoshi Ōishi. I personally place the song in the upper middle field. Its strengths are the appealing harmonies and the catchy melody, but the theme doesn’t stand out enough from the mass of anime openings either. Unfortunately, the ending “Love Song” didn’t really convince me in comparison. This was sung by Teresa’s Japanese voice actress and was therefore specially composed for the anime. Unfortunately, the result is a song that is sufficient for an ending, but doesn’t meet my taste in music.

German localization (8/10)

The German version of the series was created at GlobaLoc GmbH in Berlin under the dialogue direction of Philip Suess. The dialogue book was penned by Tom Sielemann, who was already involved in dubbing “My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU”. I noticed this immediately because the book was again written in a very “juvenile” way. In the soundtrack, for example, you can hear phrases like “Elvis ordered on Wish” or “Insta-Filter”. I really liked this type of dialogue with the other RomCom mentioned, which is why I’m glad that this tradition has been continued here. This makes the language used by the students even more authentic and at the same time adds another element to the funny scenes.

The cast and acting of the speakers can almost without exception convince. Only in a few places did Teresa’s speaker Julia Bautz slip into a voice that was a little too high for my taste, which also affected the expression a bit. However, these short moments are more than bearable.

However, an explicit warning must be addressed to OmU viewers: The “Dubtitles”, which have often been criticized in the past, also seem to be finding their way into “Tada Never Falls in Love”. Here the German dialogue book was adopted almost 1:1 as the subtitle track. Only some of the freer dubbing gags have been removed, but only partially. As I have already explained above, I think the dialogue book is very well done, but it also has to take some liberties because of the lip synchronicity. OmU viewers, who often care about being close to the original, should therefore exercise caution with this release.

Packaging & Extras (5/10)

Since we unfortunately don’t have the commercial version of the volume this time, the usual assessment of the physical packaging and its processing is omitted at this point. Instead, we can only take a look at the digital extras, which are very modest. Only clean versions of the opening and ending are on the disc, which has been established as the minimum standard in anime for some time. Even a simple extra in the form of art cards is only available in the KSM Anime partner shop — too bad.

Conclusion

With «Tada Never Falls in Love», KSM Anime presents a thoroughly entertaining RomCom that, true to its genre, combines both romantic and funny scenes. In the first volume, however, the anime only slowly gets going for the purpose of introducing the characters. Synchro fans can access the localization without hesitation. However, there is room for improvement in view of the subtitles, which are probably not based directly on the raw translation, and the meager extras.

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Thank you to KSM Anime for providing the review copy!

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