Anime Discussion Thread - Page 6477

I liked the idea to have the story spread over a longer time period with main characters being axed frequently. However, the execution of that idea was not ideal at all. Randomly interrupting the current story with 10 minute flashbacks to "really get to know" a new character and make them "more interesting" really plagued this series. You know you can develop a character by their current actions and make them interesting? If you feel the need for some backstory that actually matters for the current plot, you can splice it into the current story, make it feel like a part of the current timeline. Random background stories do not make me care about a character I didn't care about before. The best example of this were the last couple of episode that literally spent most of the time on a flashback to a character that was newly introduced at the end of ep 23. Then the story was over. What a waste.

Had to get that of my chest because I cannot stand this stuff anymore. It's so cheap, overused and makes it really annoying to watch, which is a shame because I actually enjoyed the rest of the show, especially a lot of the conversations.

I said this before but this show really surprised me. The internal dialogue of the characters, handling of emotions, interactions between characters...it was all so well done and really refreshing. However, in the second half the show spent way to much time focussing on Hina and the "love triangle". It neglected most of the things that made it stand out and instead applied the usual bait and switch formular I'm enormously tired of, including all the usual "missunderstandings" you could think of... By episode 24 I was actually caught off-guard when Taiki actually pushed through Hina's attempts to silence him trying to reject her. This honestly should have happened around episode 18 and the time wasted on this BS could have been spend on a) Hina's handling of the rejection and b) developing Chinatsu's character, which was criminally neglected for most of the second half of the show.
In the end, episode 25 was handled incredibly well. It left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth though because it now ended on a cliff-hanger (Taiki and Chinatsu going on their first date). I hope there will be a second season though (fingers crossed). Now that the biggest problem weighing the show down is out of the way, it should only be great going forward.

I hated the second cour. The most frustrating thing about Hina's confession is how the resolution was effectively delayed for no reason. It was very obviously doomed from the start, and made it feel like the only reason it happened at all was to give Chinatsu a reason to finally confront her own feelings. And even then, they barely did anything with Chinatsu, so what was the point of all that stuff in between?

You could have cut the entire play and lost nothing, and the meandering really soured me on a lot of characters. It basically got to the point where I'm purely cheering for side characters because I now dislike all the mains.

Ep 24 was good because things actually moved. It just came about 10 episodes too late.