BLCD Review: The Titan’s Bride
Title: Kyojinzoku no Hanayome (巨人族の花嫁)
Cast: Ono Yuuki x Itou Kento
Synopsis: “It’s like a small fruit…” The Titan’s large hands grasped my thing easily with one hand… With the difference in our size, if we go all the way, I’m definitely gonna die…!?
I initially thought that this would just be an extra which wasn’t in the manga, but they actually adapted the first two chapters of it. My god, I swear I just blinked after making my March Releases and when I opened my eyes, I find out that this was getting an anime! And look at what it was categorized as in MAL before:
WITH A SYNOPSIS LIKE THAT?! HAHAHAHHAHA
I was curious if there’d be any differences on the volume of voices Cauis and Kouichi would speak in considering the height difference. You know how bigger the person, the bigger the voice should be, right? However, they turned out to be using the same volume. Ono Yuuki did alter his voice to sound deeper and more booming, which suited his role perfectly, but I heard him slip into a higher pitch here and there at times. You can’t fool me, boy. We go way back. 😂 Itou Kento’s Kouichi was a little dramatic than I thought he should be, but he managed to make that his own, so I don’t have any qualms about that. The sound direction could be better especially in the sfx departments, but I think that it was okay for the limited amount of content they had to go on.
I would be super interested in listening to a full BLCD adaptation instead of an anime one, though. I heard that the anime was a complete disaster so far because they took so many major plot points out of it, which is a shame because it's actually quite well-written for what it is: porn. But well, at least the anime retained the original cast unlike that anime adaptation I refuse to acknowledge the very existence of that rhymes with Given. If they were just going to take some random work and adapt it into an anime without even conveying a single thing that the manga was or is trying to tell, then I hope the anime production companies would just leave the BL world alone. I still have my fingers crossed for Clouds Gather, though.
The CD is only around thirty minutes long, so there really isn’t much to go on with. It’s pretty accurate to the manga, though, so you can definitely read it along with the CD. Is it worth the spend? If you’re willing, then break a leg. But I think waiting for a whole BLCD adaptation would be better. I haven’t seen the anime, but I don’t think I would and would ever plan to. 😂
