What's everybody's thoughts on Love Through a Prism?

> while it is sad it wasn’t released weekly.

Why? You could just wait a week in between episodes if you wanted.

I loved it. Great characters and a charming romance that features adults and actual life impacting struggles? Sign me up every time. It hits that sweet spot between historical period piece with some modern-facing whimsy and commentary. It’s a very mature story in terms of themes and I appreciate this in binge format. I wanted to see what happened next.

I've seen three episodes and I'm restraining myself from binging it (half because I've so many seasonals and half because I want to let each episode sink in individually) which is another way of saying I love it. In my top three of the season so already. Its not a shoujo or josei as it is an anime original, but you can tell it is from the "female gaze" nonetheless. Really charismatic pair of leads, and I look forward to them continuing their "rivals to lovers" romance. Or it might not actually be that, since as of the third episode, its mostly a one sided rivalry, heh... But compelling to watch, whatever it is.

I’m not done yet so avoiding reading much in this thread but I’m just a few from the end and totally love it. Great art, compelling characters, engaging setting. One thing I especially like is, though the name and presentation makes you expect a simple romance, and romance is certainly there, it’s got a lot going on with more of a tight knit friend group, which is something I’ve always liked. Overall I really like this series in every way.

I enjoyed the first 12 or so episodes a lot. The next 7, I thought, did not add anything and I would rather have done without them.

It was to good that I watched all eps at once till 5am… second half half was emotional and frustrating, but in a good way. I liked how everything was wrapped in the end, but at the same time I would watch second season to be even more frustrated and devastated by our favorite characters struggling with next big historical moment

It greatly benefits by not being constrained by strict 21 minute episodes and being allowed to breathe. The best episodes were the longer ones.

I absolutely loved it. I'm not going to ruin it for anybody. It made me rethink the choices that I've made and that I need to go back to my essence. It's a beautiful story great artwork. I highly recommend. Although it was frustrating sometimes LOL I think that's the point. I give it 10 Stars on 10

Ich habe alle Folgen geschaut und muss gestehen, dass ich gar keine Chemie zwischen Lili und Kit spüren kann. Von seiner Seite vielleicht etwas. Von ihrer Seite gar nicht. Sie macht den Eindruck als würde sie sich für ihn nur als Künstler interessieren. Aber als Mann? Nicht wirklich. Es finden auch kaum Gespräche statt, wo er sich ihr gegenüber öffnet. Eigentlich wissen sie die ganze Zeit über so gut wie gar nichts übereinander. Und wenn er zwischendurch mal ne Woche weg war, war das für sie...ja..egal? Es machte eher den Eindruck als wäre sie erleichtert, weil ihre Chancen für den Sieg so höher waren. Und Rivals to Lovers passt auch nicht wirklich. Er hat sie nie als Rivalin gesehen. Er war die Ruhe selbst. Sie war die, die ständig wegen Kleinigkeiten am Keifen war. Mit der Zeit wurde es damit etwas besser. Und die Sache mit Shin zum Schluss kam für mich eher wie eine Notlösung rüber.  Ein Lückenfüller. Mehr nicht. Mir hat insgesamt die Tiefe gefehlt. Ich habe gar nicht verstanden, was sie aneinander attraktiv oder anziehend fanden. Weder Lili mit Kit. Noch Lili mit Shin.

Agreed. Part of me felt that it could’ve been a feature film but I understand why they serialised it. I’m glad that in the end the greatest love was art.

I’m so in love with this anime , it’s makes me realize that I stopped painting à while ago and lost my passion and it made me return to art with more confidence and appreciation, i remembed the part that i forgot about myself thank to this anime 

oh im badly in love with this, the LONDON ANIME STYLE IS SO FINE, LIKE I CAN IMAGINE MYSELF THERE, ITS BEAUTIFULLLL!!

I loved it so freaking much!!! Binged it in 2 days lol. I don’t think I could bear waiting another week for new eps for some of those cliffhangers

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I’m so overwhelmed by this damned series. Specifically the ending. I can’t emotionally digest their inability to communicate their goddam emotions. Chasing after boats, crying in churches. Kit holding Lili’s f@*%{ boat ticket as he’s leaving, I’m just SOBBING still!!!! And the ending is so unsatisfying, a peck and then a kiss that pans up to the sky. CONFESS CRY EMBRACE HOLY$@@$&#*^#{ 😡🤬😤😭😭😩 just give me something that feels like an appropriate climax to their reunion after 20 episodes of build!!!
I CANT I CANT I CANT.
In retrospect I should’ve paced watching the episodes rather than binging them all at once and not processing my own emotions after each one. But after the episode where he leaves her behind (AGAIN) In Japan I don’t know if I would have ever continued it from my heart just shattering.
The show being centered around art really inspired me to paint again, so I felt so attached to it. It being in itself animated art, having this unsatisfying reuniting, I feel so drained and depressed.
I am working up the courage to read the manga in hopes to heal my heartbreak rather than straight up denial and imagining my own rewrite where they’re together MUCH sooner.

I really appreciate so much about this show, In all honesty even the parts that are sh**%^tty sh**%^tty stupid dumb heartbreak. I love the concepts with Dorothy choosing her fiancé over her love for Joffrey, shin and his love for lili and their mutual respect and relying on each other. Peter deciding to separate from his art and choose what he’s going to do for work.

I love the independence lili finds and explores by herself, and kits similar growth and traveling the world. And Then finding each other.

I both Hate and love the series. The hate will hopefully die down as I feel unable to go about my day with this heaviness 😭😂.

Overall 9/10….9.2

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It was beautiful. The themes of the show really show through even in details of the writing. The show was poetry itself. It gets a 10/10 from me

Literally just started watching it and looked it up to see how people were feeling. I’m watching it in English, i feel like this is the first and possibly only anime I will choose English for (I’m personally sub over dub), but considering it takes place in England it feels weird to watch in Japanese? I really appreciate the voice actors are actually English, as well. That’s a nice touch.

I started watching it around 10 in the morning, as something to watch while having breakfast, and ended up watching it entirely until 12 am. 3 episodes before Kit appears, I put it at 1.25, because I was feeling it to be too stretched out. Centred around art, career, and passion, I loved every bit of it. I loved how friendship is celebrated, how they all reunite after 5 years. I had so many doubts while watching: are they building up kit's character as a boy who lost his mother early and was deprived of love and care, and he seeks that through lily. Thankfully, that wasn't the case! *Yokatta!*

I got super mad when both of them struggled to express what they felt. I whisper shouted many times, "*Admit, alreadyy"* while watching a few scenes. I was upset when Lily let Catherine bully her. It was so innocent, and naive of lily.

I was taken aback when kit said congratulations upon learning about shin and lily's wedding. My heart broke all over agaiinnn. But, the subtle way of showing tickets in his hand, while returning back on the ship was a hint that he chose to get away from there asap, in fact, he couldn't stay there for dinner after learning about their wedding. I just couldn't fully enjoy the ending. I was muttering, "Hug alreaddy" even when they reunited at the pinky promise beach. Probably couldn't enjoy the ending because of binging and so much of emotional pile-up i guess. After completing the series, I told myself: "I'm gonna go to bed happily tonight😭"

Absolutely amazing series. Genuinely one of the best romances we’ve had in a while with real emotional impact. I wish we saw a bit more of the secondary characters stories but it was enough. Also everyone MAKE SURE to watch the end credits for that extra bit of closure

Omggg I feel the same! Why don’t they both know how to communicate their feelings and just talk! I’m also sad Kit and Lili did not have that much interaction or screen time to see their love develop and get closer in the later episodes.

Some spoilers in here.

If you thought someone was dead and they came back to your life and you had unsaid feelings and words, I would never let them go again! It’s so frustrating! Like love each other already! Like why aren’t they fighting to be with each other and just letting things just flow on their own!? Like go get the love of your life!!! I just wish they had more episodes of finally being together or talking about their feelings. Even with the ending credits scene. I feel like the last episode was rushed. At least they are finally happy and together after all these years.

But overall, loved this series and it was beautiful. I had so many different emotions while watching it.

Just finished it.

tears.. tears....

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I don't know. So much drama and lack of attention to second characters .. like they didn't even show Joffery in the end and i hate how Dorothy actually loved him but still chose a safer option..kinda sad..

I hate how she kept on running after him.. and everyone was like...tell her your feelings...but like why he doesn't do it too.

Also..I didn't like they focused more on Drama then the actual art

Like if you have watches blue period. They really focus on the art there...

Shin was obviously a good guy!

I don't know. I feel it needed to be 35 episodes..not wrapped in a rush..

It's 5am and I am so glad I watched this. The amount of emotions this series made me feel, its insane. Fully recommend it to everyone if they haven't watched it yet.

The beach scene in the last episode, I don't know for sure, but it looked like real footage of waves crashing onto the shore that was meshed with the animation style. I don't know if that was the only time something like that was done or if it was just the only time I noticed it, but I thought it was such an interesting combination for the overall look of the scene.

IT WAS SO BEAUTIFULLLL, its like i'm honestly missing the mc's nd the whole anime \*\*SPOILER\*\* the last few min from the last ep was so beautiful that i was literally sobbing...tho there were some moments where i was frustrated nd sad for eg in the church lilly was jst yelling at him out of sadness and all i mean he could jst hug her and she should've told him her true feelings no??😭😭 the same with the boat scene and when finally they met after 5 years...like jst imagine after 5 years of departure u're getting an invitation for wedding from ur love itself😭 its not like i'm blaming any of them its jst those scenes were heart wrenching
tbh i wanted more screen time for the mc's but still overall it was beautiful

I have wayyy too many thoughts about this show, especially as an artist. What I really loved about this show is how well intertwined Lili and Kit's love story is with the themes of what it means to make art, to live truly outside of societal/familial expectations, and what it all means for them. Both of them inherited expectations from their family: Kit to fulfill his duty as a noble and marry Catherine Astor; And Lili to inherit the Ichijoin's kimono boutique and even marry (ngl I found this part really relatable).

Both of them carry this stubbornness to rebel against these expectations set on them in their own way even if they do experience a moment of burden from it that leads to them temporarily quitting art(with Kit fulfilling his duties after his father's death and the start of WWII; and Lili when she returned home to Japan and work in the family business), yet ultimately they find a way back to art again...which is through each other. What I love about the conclusion is that even if they're pursuing art again they still find a way to embrace their roles in a way that is ultimately theirs. Kit embraced his role as a noble by diplomacy yet he continues to paint, while Lili sets up the Ichijoin boutique in England while getting back to painting (also when I found out that Catherine's true passion was dressmaking, the first thing that came to mind was "Oh my gosh...Lili's family owns a kimono boutique. They can work together!!!" and I was so right with my prediction!!)

For most of my life I was a stranger to the romance genre so this is like my 3rd or 4th one and I never thought I could love this genre so much. Like I don't have to wait in bated breath if my ship ends up together, the whole show is about their relationship, and it's so refreshing. And this anime really really made me respect romance. I realized I like it so much when an interpersonal relationship is used as a storytelling tool to capture a strong theme. To yearn for something you cannot have, which also reflects what the setting of the story has (ex. Kit and Lili come from two different worlds and socio-economic backgrounds). I like it when it's not purely their relationship and it's connected with something else, which in this case is art. I like it that the show valued the two main leads' friendships with the other characters (I really love Catherine and Lili's friendship. Catherine is the GOAT), and that the love rivals at the end of it are respectful and even supportive of their relationship. (Also that they were not villainized)

I was really stressed during the part WWII happened, when Lili was too tongue-tied to properly confess her feelings to Kit yet still have enough gall to insult him, and when the everything was grey. I even considered quitting because I was so stressed about whether or not those two will end up together that I skipped straight to the ending to see if they did, and yet it still didn't quell my tense mood that I went back to where I last left and finished everything. They are really good with the environmental storytelling and it was a really nice touch how lilies were used as a motif given that it represents purity and rebirth. I never knew that the thought of Kit being dead would cause me so much stress. I never felt this much stress over a character that I felt like my heart started beating normally again when he turned out to be truly alive. I like how the first splash of color in a sea of grey was first his hair, then his eyes. But then it completely went to color when she painted again. It's also how I feel about their relationship. It works so well because even if the story is about their love, it is a story about their love which is art.

Absolutely beautiful

About a quarter through the series and it's been a pleasant surprise.

Is this good in japnese or english dub i mean I saw so much edit with English dub so could you anyone please tell me which is good

I liked it, especially the scenes where the main focus was art. When it wasn't it was....Okay? I feel like the characters could have more characterization, and it was kind of tropey, which isn't inherently bad but I feel like the tropes weren't utilized the best, not the worst but not the best. For the characterization aspect, I just felt like we didn't know the characters enough. And because of that, it was hard for me to believe when the two mcs first realized they were in love with one another. I was like "??? but you just met and barely know each other." And their interactions were pretty stiff at that point imo, which isn't bad and can be built upon, but it wasn't really and for that reason I felt more attached to Shin (who we also didn't know much about but it's because he and Lili instantly connect) than Kit which really sucked bc Kit is the male lead so... Honestly, I felt more connection with Catherine and Lili than anyone else and I wished they handled the other characters like they handled Catherine. Dorothy and Lili had a sweet friendship too though.

I think the problem comes in with the timeskips? Like in the beginning suddenly 6 months pass, which would've probably had a lot of interactions that we missed between the leads. Oh and the fact that suddenly Peter disappears and comes back feeling better but we never really get to see that struggle minus the hint and the beginning and the snapping, he doesn't talk to anyone about it and they barely bring up the fact Joffrey probably talked to him. Which btw, talking about Peter reminds me of how despite him also struggling, the friends only focused on Kit 😭 Ik he's the male lead but jeez...Made me feel bad for him esp bc I related to his struggle lol.

Oh and, because this is the 1910s I would've loved some more references to social issues that they dealt with at that time period (minus the war) because, despite it being based on our reality, it's very peaceful in this series. There was only slight stereotyping and a few references to sexism in the beginning, but it becomes pretty distant later on. It feels very modern despite the clothes and the technology. Not asking it to be very dark and awful, but some more references to struggles they all would've dealt with would've been a nice touch to give the characters and the world more depth that I felt were lacking. But this is just a nitpick, it's not necessary lol, not really a plot issue.

The animation was beautiful, really liked the art style. The black and white part with the subtle film texture was cool too. And as I said, I really did love the scenes when they talked about art, as an artist it really hit hard and the overall ending message of follow your true dreams, even if they do change, was nice. It gave me a sense of peace with my own art. I fear it went too quickly for me because I would've loved to see all the characters' artwork more 😭

I started to dislike it starting at episode 16. Their inability to communicate was annoying and childish, but maybe I'm expecting too much from the less blunt high context cultures. lilies anger problems especially when communicating also annoyed me. the ending just completely fell off for me.

so good, just finished it. penultimate episode was SO GOOD

all i can say shin is best boi 🫶🏼

I liked the art of the show, 90% great. Only thing I didn't was most of the time Kit was just standing doing nothing but he has innate value cause he's extremely rich, the most handsome, and the most talented. "I never once thought I was good" didn't make it all relatable, guy just has everything. 

I just finished it. I was watching the black and white episodes and suddenly Kit comes back and there’s a speck of color - his hair and his eyes. Oh I just started tearing up 🥺.

I just finished it. My EMOTIONS! OMG.

If anyone’s interested, I made a discord server support group specifically for this anime 😂 I mean really it’s to talk anything anime in general but also to discuss this specific show, the link is here: https://discord.gg/aam7mbXqf. Ummm my thoughts- this anime is easily in my top ten anime of all time. I love that we all collectively binged this anime because I also binged it in the middle of a work night, which I never do. Not to get into spoilers too much, but I really love how all these little details stack up to big meanings. I love the pacing of the show, I felt it was well written. I love the way nothing is black and white, and everyone gets a chance to be redeemable. I love how it was both a romance but also a story about personal strength and independence. I personally am not very good at art so I don’t usually connect with it well, like I’m not one to visit museums etc, but this show honestly made me rethink the way I view art. I also feel like it hit some serious topics very well. Overall a phenomenal watch that I would (and have) recommend(ed) to anyone I come across. If anyone’s interested in a more deep dive with me, I could literally talk for hours about this show 😂 it’s completely consumed my entire life

I just finished it last night, and the last few episodes had me bawling 😭 I did not see the twist of the war coming, and I loved the episodes in black and white. I'm not an artist, but I loved the way they incorporated the flashes of color in those last episodes, and the black specks making it look like an old movie. But as a romance, I was so frustrated that Lili and Kit never just told each other how they felt, and how Kit would isolate himself from his friends and disappear. I feel like they were going for the "no man is an island", and I think it was brilliantly executed. I didn't know what to expect from this show, but I was very pleasantly surprised.

That girl is annoying!!! She has a runaway mouth!

i enjoyed it. although lili did piss me off a couple of times. like, girl, spit those words out??? 😭✋

Oxford study in anime

SPOILERS !!!!I finished the anime in three days. Wasn't really sure about it when Netflix displayed it on my suggestions. No regrets at all, after the first two episodes I really started liking it and decided to continue it. The adaptation to the 1900s was perfect imo, because nowadays a love like they described in the anime is sadly not really common if not inexistent at all. The animation is perfect, the choice of the music sounds as well. The characters have their own backgrounds yet they have so many similarities, a perfect friend group. Lili is portrayed very well imo, clever, brave and bold, yet insecure and shy. Kit is silent, prefers listening than talking but also doesn't expect that others care about him, yet he is surrounded by loving people, his parents raised him very well, which we can see in his memories when he walks the garden with his brother. Both Lili and Kit express their love to each other through actions, rather than words. Kit sees in Lili something that is lacking in him, and Lili sees in Kit what is lacking in her, making them perfect for each other. Also Kit suffers in silence ( e.g. the scene when he lets go of the ticket to London for Lili)

It was heartbreaking to see how a war can cause sudden changes, and it forces people to give up their dreams. This led to the final episodes where Lili suffers, but tries to do her best and Shin, the gentleman that he is, takes care of her, as he promised to Kit. It is refreshing to see how Shin respects the feelings Lili has for Kit, even though we can see scenes where he feels moments of heartbreak.

In the end both Lili and Kit knew they have loved each other the whole time, they were too young at the moment of the Academy to understand the bittersweet part of the life that can cause sudden changes, but at the end, they are where they always wanted to be, at the cave painting lilacs together.

I've only watched two episodes so far and plan to finish it but I really hate the sound of Lily's voice.

Everything else is good.

It's a beautiful show. I found it frustrating at times because the MCs were both terrible communicators, and the series leaned highly on that trope. However, I felt like it was believable in context based on the time period, cultural differences/expectations, and each of them creating false narratives about what the other wanted. As a writer, I appreciated the nuance and attempt to create something (relatively) realistic. It's the kind of show that leaves you with a bit of an ache and withdrawal afterward, because you're forced to endure the pain and frustration alongside the characters, then it's over too soon once they get together. Probably the most gorgeous anime I've ever seen though. Stunning visuals. 

While it as released all at once, I can't binge watch. I took my time to watch. It's been a while since I've watched a romance anime and it was amazing. It reminded me why I love it in the first place : not only the stories but also the drawing.

Maybe because I don't watch a lot of Netflix shows but are subs made with AI ?