I managed to finish this series over the past few days. Did you get that? I *finished* a series. That’s the /entry right there. I should just stop right here.
I have mixed reactions for this one but since I did watch it all, it had to be a solid watch, right? I’m still mulling over it which is why I didn’t throw up an entry as soon as I finished watching. I’m sure I’ll ramble on as I make this entry. I wanted to break my thoughts up so I actually spent a little time laying out how I wanted to do this entry. Amazing, ain’t it?
For starters, here’s some random screenies and my overall thoughts.
Yeah, the screenies are light but there’s a bunch more throughout this entry. I told you, I actually sorted my thoughts a lil. Sorta…
I’m still not sure what to make of this series. Initially, it was bland. As I noted in the previous entry, there wasn’t much “oomph” to this series in any form. Yet, I kept watching. My thoughts are the same as in that entry except for the characters. I can’t honestly say they improved but they grew on me. I ended up liking a few of them whereas initially (after around 6-8 episodes), I had no comment on any of them.
Was it the fact that they were all female? Past entries are an obvious indication that I am overly critical with male characters. Since there were none in this anime, could that be why I’m being more lenient? I always felt I could be unbiased if I needed to but this ruined any thoughts of that. But really, even if I was being lenient, none of the characters were overly annoying as I have no gender bias to annoyance.
The stories were decent. As I watched, I got confused since they felt disjointed but once I started watching it like a soap opera, it actually turned out well, heh. Since there’s two main stories…
Nagisa’s story was fine. The development between her and Shizuma was paced well, it hit up some decent drama, and overall, it didn’t feel fake. All the characters around her were enjoyable to watch. Even until the end, I wasn’t positive who she’d end up with. Conversely, by waiting until the very last minute, the ending was slightly rushed even though it kept me guessing.
Hikari’s story was meh. Her character was boring and to hook her up with Ayame, another boring character, just equaled boring story. The rest of the characters around them, especially Yaya, were cool. I liked Yaya and it sucks she got shafted. Plus, what was it with this story and the fake drama? It didn’t flow. They’d settle something in an episode then later, come up with some random shit to instill more drama. And that shit at the end with Ayame falling off the horse? That was so retarded and predictable. This whole story was too predictable.
So in a nutshell, if Hikari’s story was dropped from this anime, I would have enjoyed the series much more. I don’t mind any of the characters, it’s just her story that was boring.
Overall series score: 8.1 out of 10
Without Hikari’s story, this would have been pretty damn close to a 9.0.
I’m throwing a cut here since the rest of the entry breaks down characters and relationships. I wanted to go into a few of them without overloading the main page with a huge entry… as if I don’t already do that.
