{"id":136422,"date":"2025-10-07T08:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=136422"},"modified":"2025-10-08T23:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:41:53","slug":"chitose-is-in-the-ramune-bottle-episode-1-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/07\/chitose-is-in-the-ramune-bottle-episode-1-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle Episode 1 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Storyboards: Yuji Tokuno<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Episode direction: <\/span>T<\/span>aichi Yoshizawa<\/strong> and <\/span>Shinichi Tatsuta<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Without any dialogue, <\/span>Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle<\/span><\/i>\u2019s premiere would be an anime episode I unequivocally love. Its camera is adept at capturing the enhanced flavor of idealized youth, even in moments where the technical execution of the colors and post-processing feels a little lacking. Its extreme wide shots and creative perspectives \u2014 like peeking at a person through the wellhole of a staircase or gazing up at the top of a transmission tower while being situated within its base \u2014 engender curiosity and interest in its world. It\u2019s an episode that frequently had me thinking about the ways we can observe and capture our environment and its inhabitants.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a shame that for all that visual skill, for all the efforts of the storyboarding and layouts and episode direction, the Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle <\/span><\/i>premiere kept pushing back against my attempts to immerse myself in its setting due to the awkwardness of its writing. For lack of a better description, it feels very light novel-like (it’s based on a light novel series), at odds with the more filmic direction. I thought that having a protagonist who is at the top of the social caste would provide a breath of fresh air at least, but instead I was treated to tired banter about groping and showing panties, and character depictions that felt familiarly forced and performative. The internal narrations also failed to impress, often attempting to be meaningful and philosophical but mostly managing to be distracting. As unceasing as they were, I struggle to recall most of them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n