Anime Discussion Thread - Page 2039

7th, i felt it lost its dark feel; the horror present in the beginning

action and fast-pace like in the 10th arc, but the horror was still missing

Deus more, who I felt was an interesting character (or plot device or whatever) in the show, and then Muru Muru. The episode with Akise Aru had that scary kind of horror feeling back to it, with all the friends dying and what happened to Akise Aru. The music really helped make that episode/scene much more dramatic, especially with the ending view of akise and yuki with the debris in front of akise crumbling, though i wonder if that was cut off because of censorship or it was intentional for suspense. At the finale with, I guess you could say, Yuno's arc, it had that horror feeling as well, with me expecting Yuno to go after Yuki at any second, especially since it felt wrong knowing that Yuno was hiding something but was acting all lovey dovey to yuki. But then it started going into the time traveling thing, which was a bit interesting I guess. But the rest of it, again, felt different than the rest of the show. I know the pacing in the anime was a bit off compared to the manga, stuffing a lot of 10th's chapters into a short time in the anime while making the time traveling part longer, so maybe that was part of it. I liked the action (though it had several random LOL WTF is this fanmade clips) though. The ending was weird and I thought it would have been better if they just animated the entire manga ending -- I really don't think having a glass shattering sound and the reflection of light on yuki's cellphone gives a good enough idea to non-manga-readers of what exactly happened. Maybe they will animate something with that in their "Next Project!" ?

Yuki continued to grow closer to Yuno, I guess it was harder to keep that "horror" feeling since Yuki was no longer afraid of Yuno. Yuki became more of a monster himself though -- I think it would have been possible to make the show more disturbing (like Yuno was at the beginning episodes) by making Yuki more monstrous. He was whiny and hated, but didn't even his evil acts like killing 8th's orphans happened in daylight, giving it a very... not-dark feel to it. I think this would have been more effective in showing Yuki's development into an evil killer like Yuno than simply having him be whiny and get the viewers to grow impatient of his reluctance to man up. Like I said earlier, the episode with Akise was pretty good. As I watched it, I hated Yuki a lot, but not cus he was whiny, but because he was changing, betraying his friends and becoming a monster, and the episode had a strong horror feeling to it, with each friend dying one by one in a fashion that you could predict but hoped would not happen. However this really was only one episode.

Overall I enjoyed the series, though the events began to get crazier/stupider with so many things that didn't make sense (or at least weren't thoroughly explained -- had to go read discussion threads to find out why something made sense or was realistic or what was missing from the manga. However I felt it was a bunch of wasted potential. The ending of the manga (anime?) is happy but it's a bit weak. It's like the manga author got tired of his story so just gave a simple, happy, deus ex machina ending to the readers to avoid being criticized trying to make some genius ending. The animation was quite bad, but passable... usually. The bad parts were funny to laugh at in slow motion, at least. The music was pretty good. But my lasting, and strongest, impression of the series is that it was a bunch of wasted potential

In the beginning the bird and the grandfather gave pretty big clues as Reiko being the dead person. Does it also hold true for the light novel that Reiko is also the dead person?