Anime Discussion Thread - Page 402

I really liked this week's episode. Froaude purging the nobles was expected. That another guy from Garstark would appear, and actually beat Froaude was not. Klom's appearance was also awesome and unexpected, and now there's some interesting stuff between him and Froaude which I hope will be further developed in future episodes.

Holy crap, Miu is one heck of a twisted person. The story was pretty good, if confusing at first. And traumatic experience or not, I couldn't help but feel that Konoha was being really, really stupid through for most of the movie. Having watched the first OVA, I was watching Touko when it was revealed that Konoha is Inoue Miu, but I didn't really notice anything special.


I couldn't tell if this was supposed to have any significance or if it was just a random lead in to his confession to Hatori/Miu.


Ugh, I feel so bad for her. She does so much and just gets completely rejected in the end.


What the fuuuuuck. Way to ruin my perfect ending. So if I have this right, Touko turned him down because as the bungaku shoujo, she didn't want to keep his stories all to herself? Goddamn it.


Unexpected development. He had practically no screen time in this movie.

Oh, and what the heck's going on in that post credits scene? I understand that Konoha's writing another book, but that's about it. I assume that the woman at the door supposed to be the editor/Touko or something, but it's really vague.

You have no idea how twisted Miu is, the novel version of this was way more twisted than the movie because it has the backstory to involve both Takeda and Akutagawa properly in the story.

In the first screenshot, that was just something that we hear fairly often in the first 4 vols. Mostly it was a reference to how Miu complains about Konoha and how he'd want to be a tree, but it also serves as a segue for Konoha to confess to Miu. It was fairly significant in the original line being the indicator of the pure feelings the past Konoha had for Miu.

I feel so sorry for Nanase. She never gets anything from the novels either in spite of getting screwed by the author in like 5 vols. Well, she gets something, but Touko tends to steal all the best spots. Even as a Touko fan I feel really sorry for Nanase

They mixed in the separation of the two as the proper conclusion to the series. In a way I feel like the movie was trying to rush through the entire series. The anime's reasons for her turning him down was kind of vague, so I won't really comment on that other than how it feels weak to me. They definitely could've left it open ended, but I guess they wanted to fit everything up to the scene in the credits. + Show Spoiler [light spoilers for novels] +

Akutagawa and Takeda were both huge in the original vol 5, the former because he had a vol about him that led to the first hints that Miu was actually still alive, the latter because of vol 1. None of Takeda's problems from vol 1 have been fixed, as we know, and the author just keeps on reminding us of that fact throughout the series. It showed the most in vol 5, 7~8 and the short stories though. Anyway, both were actually quite involved in Miu's plot, the former in inadvertently leaking Konoha's information to Miu (and from point to point, almost cooperated with her), and the latter in actively helping Miu and setting up the entire plan to fuck with Konoha. You may guess the reason why.

Also it took Miu forever to hit that point where she could work with children. Forever.

The ending was basically that Touko coming back in the form she wanted it to be. I'll skip past all the little stuff about how she was kind of in love with Konoha from the time she read Inoue Miu's stuff, but basically she wanted Konoha to be able to take up the writing profession again. In the novels, Konoha is always sheltered by Touko in the series until the final vols, it was all essentially a giant subplot about Konoha's growth as a person and him slowly moving on from the trauma that haunted him for so long. Also, wtf Konoha so lucky, having his sister taking care of him like that.

We totally needed more writings about his sister. Totally.