Anime Discussion Thread - Page 5639

I mean, the whole show rotated around a girl feeling guilty about her sister's accident and also being jealous of a competitor to the point of trying to shut her out completely; causing depression and anxiety. Let's not forget the other poor guy who's constantly chasing the sister and constantly getting hurt because of her forgetfulness. Over half the cast can be considered broken psychologically lol.

I think you got me wrong there. What I was saying is that her reaction, that scene you posted the video for, can mean only one thing: That she is completely broken. She is mentally ill beyond the point where a normal person could help her by talking, let alone a teenage boy. She needs professional help, a therapy. However, that's not what happens. After they have no contact for several days and she is alone the whole time, which is insane with her conditions because chances are high she would have commited suicide if the show was in any way realistic, she calls him and is like "oh, so you didn't forgot about me, that is nice". lol really now? And that makes that whole scene in the video so terrible because it suggests _major_ psychological struggle when in fact it's just used to create some drama, aka melodrama, which makes it complete and utterly pointless. And I don't see the point why I, the viewer, should suffer through such disturbing yet touching scene when it's not relevant for anything later on.

TL;DR: The scene on itself was very good but the follow up made it terrible. And that's pretty much the theme for the whole show: Very interesting premises and extremely weak follow ups, supported by stupid characters and cheesy writing.

As an adaptation, I guess the anime was decent? I think it's quite telling that I can't remember any scenes from the show aside from the phone booth bit though. IIRC, that scene is even anime original.

Overall, the story is serviceable, but I'd hesitate to call it good. Miyako's arc was pretty much the only part of the story I really enjoyed, and I think most of that is because I like her as a character. I thought it was kinda interesting that she was genki not due to a naturally sunny disposition, but rather because she just doesn't give a shit about most things. Genkiness as a front isn't that rare in anime, but offhand, I can't think of any other work that uses genkiness as apathy. She's also pretty needy, to the point that the VN basically requires you to act like a dick at one point for her sake (lest you trigger the bad end). I thought that was pretty neat, considering that MCs in VNs tend to solely consist of super nice individuals. Removed from the context of the VN though, it is a much more mundane development.

At the very least, ef wasn't as rage inducing as Kimi ga Nozomu Eien.

That phone booth scene even looked anime original, it was pretty shaft-esque. I thought it was pretty annoying.

As for the rest, I can't speak of the VN. I haven't played it and probably won't ever play it. That being said, I didn't think everything about this show was bad. The music was pretty damn good. Visuals were alright I guess. I also enjoyed some of the themes/topics but the writing was very weak so in the end I can't call it a decent show. It's bad overall but not terrible.

MC's still dumb but for the sake of the plot he is right. 5-10 seconds of random engine driver fan service (way too small either way). Long hair dude is creepy. Meh. The fight outside was alright. The only thing I'm intrigued by is the blue thing with the Kabane they have on the train.

I feel like they are going to drag out the fight too much. The fight against Guren was quite cool but happens next? 2-3 episodes of fight againt Hakumen? Pls no.