Anime Discussion Thread - Page 6332

Ayano told the story of a deeply traumatized child and how left untreated it can develop into a mental disorder. The invisible pain a person suffering from a disorder carry and how good we are at hiding it. Her having a separate story was clear from the first few episodes with how she obviously was trying to hide behind her naive and childish mannerism. "Her show" was elegantly, subtly and almost delicately written and handled.

Nagisa on the other hand told a fairly generic sports anime story and the standard "value of hardwork", importance of teamwork and reflection.

You could easily make two separate anime with each as the sole MC. Nagisa would be a standard sports anime while Ayano would be a psychological drama. In their parallel stories their respective themes are just a subplot for each other in their story. It's partly why I love the show so much, it's an elegant way to tell multiple stories at once. They were both written so realistic in their individual theme and then bruteforced mesh just throws the primary MCs story all away for the sake of a happy and generic ending. Come on, it was listed as a seinen would it have hurt to have a more neutral end?

Having Nagisa beat Ayano in the final episode was so stupid. Ayano was falling deeper and deeper into her disorder and ultimately had a complete mental breakdown during the match. Being in such state of mind is both mentally and physically taxing. This makes Nagisa's victory pointless, Ayano might as well have been playing with a broken leg. Nagisa being so happy about it was a nice touch as it once again showed how easy it is for surroundings to not notice how badly hurt a person can be on the inside, but this again takes away from Nagisa's almost shounen-like sports anime MC.

The last two episodes was awful. Japan basically now has 2 world class chamions who utterly crush other world class champions, who both happened to play in the same school and seemingly only played against each other once, when one of them wasn't even trying. Everybody is a jerk to each other, including a mother who abondoned her child for no reason, with no real explanation but everybody forgives each other for everything anyways. Oh well, at least we got some very well done badminton animation out of it, with great sound and movement, that blows other sports anime out of the water. Also: curving shuttlecock shots. Haha wtf.

I dont think Nagisa is world class, nothing in the anime really seemed to suggest she was anything other than a solid high-school level player. She barely could beat Ayano in episode 1 despite Ayano didn't touch a racket for 6 months, I dont care how much of a slump you're in if you're a massive talent you should and would destroy anyone that out of form. Personally, as I mentioned in my last post, I'm convinced the result of their final match is entirely due to Ayano being in a horrible state which makes Nagisa's victory bittersweet at best since she managed to just barely defeat her very sick nemesis, "yay". At least that's the only reason the result would make sense in my eyes, so I consider it canon.

The characters acting as jerks to eachother is one of the things I really like. Ayano is trying to protect her broken heart/mind from what she fears the most, being hurt and abandoned by others if she have already pushed them away they cannot leave or hurt her. It's a fairly common behavior, she pushes away what she actually want; she enjoyed playing and liked Serigaya, she wants to be closer to her sister, she wants a good relationship with her teammates etc etc. The lack of understanding from everyone is all due to misunderstanding or rather a lack of understanding about her situation. Another gem was Connie's "threat" in one of the earlier episodes, without the dramatic music it is so obvious it wasn't hostile but more of a friendly almost familiar teasing she meant.

But yeah, the lack of any real closure for everyone was just so... meh.

Oh and her mother can just go and fuck herself.

I don't agree that Hanebado only sucked in the last two episodes. It failed long before that.

So much time was wasted on irrelevant developments. Where on earth did this mens' subplot come from? Why were we supposed to care about that match beyond his association with meat girl? Stuff like that felt an awful lot like padding.

There really isn't much to say about the ending. This match was never supposed to offer closure, but they forced it in there because they only had 1 cour. The whole effort over talent bullshit was also dumb because they're both obviously talented and both put in the work.

I suppose I can take consolation in the fact that a continuation is basically impossible now.

But yay for shitty musicals

First when the driver interrupted the answer to his question with "I knew that". The voice in the english dub was hilarious. And then when the villain boxed the groom. Glorious xD

Given the shows dual MC setup each with their own parallel and independant story I think the somewhat fillerish mens episode was used as a narrative device to keep Ayano's story from completely overshadowing Nagisa's without having to bruteforce some Nagisa into the show just for the sake of it.

Nah dawg. Next season is going to be Uchika eating rødgrød, Ayano talking to a therapist and Nagisa resting her knee and in the climax of the season start doing light training! It's gonna be liiiiiit.