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| Is Charles the Blue Seagull pilot? Cause he's the only one who could fit the description. I want to see Fana too. :| |
| Nice episode but unsatisfactory ending.. Kal's speech was impressive. That quiet lady.. I've always suspected her.. Family reunion was pretty nice. Loved Kal and Ari's dad's conversation. :) I wished for Ari to eventually fall in love with Ignacio.. Still, I feel bad for her because Kal probably doesn't/won't see her the same way.. Poor Chiharu.. Those Mitsuo feels.. Sharon and Benjamin makes their ways. "I want to be your right arm." -- How nice of Sharon. XD Nice to see Kal being a total badass! That Blue Seagull again. Made Kal look like an amateur though. XD Did Claire and Kal actually conversate through her Wind power? Still, nice going! I'd like to see a second season or at least an OVA to make up for the loose ending. Good show nonetheless. :) |
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| Fuck open endings. That is all. |
| dafuq kinda of ending was that? Dude seriously, so many romance anime adaptions and not a single one worthy of a good ending. Sheesh. 5/10 |
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| Since episode one I've considered this series my least favorite of the season, and it never once impressed me enough to change that opinion. About episode 7 or so, I began to have hopes that it might impress me as the ending grew nearer, but I was disappointed in how ridiculous they played things out. That being said, I went into this episode with no hope whatsoever for a good ending. But, as it turns out, my least favorite series of this season has provided the most satisfactory ending of the season. This ending was handled fantastically. The "plot" was wrapped up nicely, considering how stupid and ubelievable it was in the first place. Trying to pass it off as a religious or scientific discovery type thing doesn't save it from it's own idiocy. The plot made no sense, the characters who died died for nothing, and the romance was lopsided and backwards. The surviving characters did get a good wrap up for their own individual parts of the story, which was nice to see. Loved how they finally grew up, it literally took the entire run of the series to see any development in their growth, but what we were given was nice. I hated Ari for most of this series, but I became a true fan of her by the end of this episode, and actually considered the idea that it might be ok if Karl had turned around right after take off and went back to her. The ending may have been open, at least concerning his plan to retake Claire, but it did give the closure we needed for the stories that were started in episode 1. So, despite the fact that this show ranged from terrible to bad, I gave it a 5/10 because the ending made sense, explained things, and provided closure, all while actually making me enjoy something I considered dropping after each and every episode. |
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| Eh... for me this open ending is actually pretty good A part of me feel unsatisfied but thought this might be for the best I'm all in if there's a continuation though The last 10 minutes was great 7.5/10 |
| Ari's little monologue as Kal flies away was sweet as hell! It confirms what I'm sure we all suspected from the beginning: she is in tsundere love with her foster brother, but knows that it would be too creepy and, having grown to love Claire like a sister, she could never hurt her either. (My interpretation at least.) Still, a bitter sweet moment for one of the better characters in the show. As for the ending, I would hope for a continuation of the story in some form later on, but I don't know that we'll ever see it. It is patently obvious that Carl and Claire will be the founding couple of the next royal family, the show just leaves the i's undotted and the t's uncrossed. |
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| The geography of their world is interesting. So he's being open about their secret now. "I love Nina Viento" The crowd absolutely loved that statement, best part is that it's true :D The RA is a spy I wonder for who? The Sky Clan, their new allies, or someone else. Awe Ari is staying behind :( But she looks great with her hair long and in that dress ;) That punch :3 That moment with Chiharu made me tear up, Mitty RIP! I thought the ending was good and would love a second season although by the sound of it that won't be happening :/ |
| I think the open ending was good. Ari looks good with her long hair. If you enjoyed this anime, then I recommend watching The Princess and the Pilot movie which is even better than this. |
| Wasted potential is all I can say. The story was definitely interesting but the execution and emotional moments were butchered by poor direction and pacing (which could have been avoided had this been a 20+ episodes series). The disparity between the students' planes and the enemy's was too ridiculous it's not even funny. It made you think "oh of course they'll die" instead of "oh shit he got shot!". I'm not quite sure how to rate this show, it's either 5 or 6. The prospect of 2nd season is intriguing but all in all this anime is only good for a one-time viewing. Oh well.. 6/10 it is. |
MoeGodMar 31, 2014 11:43 PM
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| Best girl lost again, Ari ;_; |
| I really liked this show and I really wanted to like the ending... But forgetting about my feelings about the ending for a second, let's talk about the plot as a whole. This show had soooo much potential but definitely suffered from only being 1 cour. It needed to be at least 2 cours. It would then have been able to give us more detail from the books. If only I could read japanese :( I'm giving it 8/10 despite disliking the ending and the show not living up to its potential. |
| Liked both the ending and the start, though unfortunately bad middle episodes are bad. 6.5/10 from me, wouldn't mind watching more of this. |
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| Well for me Ari's storyline was fucked up,im tired of watching these one sided romances for the best girls. This really needs a movie too ,just to give a nice conclusion. |
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| What? Is that it? Why does this feel like some kind of build up to a second season? I blame this on poor writing. All of this could have been easily wrapped up in 1 season, but they just had to drag it out. *sigh* 6/10 which is sad, because at first, I was really feeling this show. Sent with Mal Updater |
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| Adult Ari is 2cute. |
| dont know, why the peps all bitching around. ending was great! its open, so - what a bad thing - you can use your imagination, what will happen next and you dont get the feeling, that its over. and i am glad, that this is not the usual happy end. and also its kinda a trademark of the now existing toaru hikushii he series, that in the end the lovers are seperated. another point is, a new series or movie, where all strings will be connected, is possible and i kinda like that idea. overall, the air animations were fantastic and story in the whole was interesting with that twist and and not a boring happy end. i think, 24 or 26 eps would have been better to tell some things in a more detailed way, but for some holes u can use your imagination. i give the show 0,85 for now so that would be still a 9. maybe when time passes i will downrate it a bit to 0,82 or so, dont know yet. i enjoyed the show very much. ^^ |
AlexGK said: Like their entire goal made no sense - they went to all this trouble and casualties just to whack the island into the rainbow wall? do you know, what exploration is? AlexGK said: The moment Claire got her powers back, instead of owning them, they just gifted her to the Sky clan. Sense where? This is bullshit, nothing else. what the? it was an act to gain peace and not to spread the war. thats why the accepted the offer, that Viento should go to the sky clan, like its said in the tales of the sky clan. AlexGK said: Also the characters - with those they could have done so much better! Instead they kill off half of them whats bad about that? at war people die. thats not a „care bears“ show! AlexGK said: and then make their sacrifice look like a joke with the already mentioned "plot". i did not see any jokes. all deaths were plausible to me. AlexGK said: Rly, might just be me, ignore me, but the show started great and then went to shit level really fast. shit? why? because people die at war? AlexGK said: Im happy someone liked it though. it wasnt a masterpiece, but i like adventurous stories and this one salted with a love story (without the usual happy end) was really entertaining. its not the usual school stuff or harem show or 1 vs. 1 martial arts battle show you see every season. it was something different and i appreciate shows which do something different. |
| Open endings aren't so bad. I do feel bad for Ari though. Seriously, Igna would have made a way better pairing for Ari, and the psudo love-triangle doesn't really help since it really came out of the blue in the last couple of episodes and just petered off. It's like someone saying "oh, we got divorced" after some family dinner, just an afterthought? Wasted potential. Again, I wish they'd have developed the story a bit more to include more about the history of the world. This is one of my major gripes. If we wanted character development, they should have made it 2 cour, and they shouldn't have killed off everyone from episode 5 onwards. This anime had so much potential to develop into something more, but it all seems a bit wasted now. In the end, the only things I want to know, is whether this story coincides with the third LN in this trilogy in some way, and will we actually get some sort of closure on what happens afterwards from that Novel instead? Would anyone who's actually read the LN care to enlighten me on this? Much appreciated thanks in advance. |
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| damn, this is just like Toaru Hikuushi e no Tsuinoku's ending...Pilot's have it hard... well, won't say i love it, it started great then it kinda lost touch at the middle...but this was still good... not hoping for a second season, but a movie or OVA would be nice... |
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| Like everyone has said a million times already, wasted potential is what this anime is. Could have been so much better, even near a 9/10 score I can imagine. Main problems: length (too short, tried to cram everything in, not enough character development, didn't put in too much thought in the romance), lack of direction (the fricking entire war and isla really made no sense most of the time), and thirdly, pacing. The ending was so good though. I don't know what you guys are talking about, but this is probably the strongest episode in the series, next to Mitty's death. The pacing was absolutely fantastic (didn't feel rushed, but wasn't too slow either) and so many ties were tied up. Really considering giving it a 7 but IDK yet. Would be happy for an OVA. Sequel though? Not so sure. |
| Show started with a lot of potential. Went downhill for me though. Turned out to be just another typical love story. overall 6.5/10 |
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| As mentioned many times before, the anime had great potential. Oh well, at least the ending was decent! Maybe season 2? Not likely but room for improving is possible in S2. |
summerwars said: AlexGK said: Like their entire goal made no sense - they went to all this trouble and casualties just to whack the island into the rainbow wall? do you know, what exploration is? AlexGK said: The moment Claire got her powers back, instead of owning them, they just gifted her to the Sky clan. Sense where? This is bullshit, nothing else. what the? it was an act to gain peace and not to spread the war. thats why the accepted the offer, that Viento should go to the sky clan, like its said in the tales of the sky clan. AlexGK said: Also the characters - with those they could have done so much better! Instead they kill off half of them whats bad about that? at war people die. thats not a „care bears“ show! AlexGK said: and then make their sacrifice look like a joke with the already mentioned "plot". i did not see any jokes. all deaths were plausible to me. AlexGK said: Rly, might just be me, ignore me, but the show started great and then went to shit level really fast. shit? why? because people die at war? AlexGK said: Im happy someone liked it though. it wasnt a masterpiece, but i like adventurous stories and this one salted with a love story (without the usual happy end) was really entertaining. its not the usual school stuff or harem show or 1 vs. 1 martial arts battle show you see every season. it was something different and i appreciate shows which do something different. What a load of crap! I know what exploration is, but I dont think you do. It surely doesnt mean discover new lands and cultures WITH THE GOAL of destroying your vessel, lol. No sane person would find such a cause justified - no less after taking into account how valuable that island was. Gain peace? What? It would be the same if Hitler had nuckes first, nucked New York and then the US came to him asking him to give them up. Imagine him saying something like "Here take them and be at peace". NOONE does this, get it? And more so after sustainig numerous casualties. What if the Sky clan just said "Wow ty lamerZ, now we will have no trouble blowing your dumb asses out of the sky". Plausable, much? Sense, where? If I was any of the characters who died TO PROTECT that island, then somehow saw how they whacked it into that wall - id feel fucking dumb for wasting my life, am I making sense now? Thats the joke I talk about, not the deaths themselves. I have no problems with people dieing if there was a good reason. But here they ONLY killed the characters to create drama. And it seems they got you, at least. You really cant understand how meaningless their sacrifice was made to look in the end? |
AlexGKApr 1, 2014 9:58 AM
| Not exactly what I wanted to see from the ending but it wasn’t so bad. 6/10 because we haven't been given a proper conclusion to the political side with the Sky Clan nor the romance between Kal-el & Claire(not to mention a MAJOR lack of Claire this ep). Can’t say I didn’t enjoy it to a degree but it had way more potential… |
| I see a lot of people getting angry with the ending, and i completely thought it was going to be really bad but I didn't mind it. The 2 or 3 episodes before that were not that good imo but the ending was a lot better then I thought it was going to be. It even opened the possibility of a second season (though I don't think it would do very well) 6/10 |
| Must be some kind of Japanese fetish. Breaking Best Girl's heart that is. I don't get it. Why did Ari need to have romantic feelings for Karl to begin with? That was absolutely plot irrelevant. Loved the show until they had to pull that shit again. |
kuuderes_shadow said: I enjoyed it :Sam I the only one who liked the ending? |
| "It's our job as normal humans to make sure the potential on those misunderstood one is realized" - No Game No Life, Sora |
| ALSO, I FORGOT TO MENTION Did anyone notice the fail height difference with the students? Karl was like two heads taller than Ari and then a frame later, he's like half a head taller. lol goulartknight said: kuuderes_shadow said: I enjoyed it :Sam I the only one who liked the ending? I loved it. It topped all the endings from the winter anime (that I've seen so far - I have not seen Space Dandy and Mikakunin's finale yet). |
| Even though I don't like that ending I think this anime wasn't bad ^^ |
| What was the point of making his sister like him? It felt unnecessary and made me feel kinda bad for her. 5/10 |
| 8/10 for me. Yup, and I'm not going to write a wall of text to justify my rating. It was simply an enjoyable show from start to end. |
| TBH I got a little confuse on the ending. Is it a timeskip, or it transits from the previous episode? Well, to my view, the ending was not that appealing imo. 7/10, the first half was better, while the second half was just a waste. |
omega_d94 said: TBH I got a little confuse on the ending. Is it a timeskip, or it transits from the previous episode? Well, to my view, the ending was not that appealing imo. 7/10, the first half was better, while the second half was just a waste. Pretty sure it was a timeskip. Everybody looked older at the end. A show that had so much potential. Only to be marred by shitty budget and execution. |
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| I don't see why people are complaining about the ending. I think that open endings are actually far more interesting than close endings if done correctly, and personally I think this is just right. Although the story seems to be rushed. Would have been better if it was around 24 - 26 episodes for more characters development and such. As most people have said, Kal could have went with Claire as one of her bodyguard. Was expecting to see a scene where Kal and Claire are reunited, but I guess I was expecting too much to happen in one episode. God Ari looks so good in that dress. Was hoping that Ari will fall in love with Ignacio. I find the fact that Ari have feelings for Kal totally unnecessary in my opinion, although it was actually sort of cute. Feel kind of sorry for Ari. “Some love songs can’t be sung” in addition to calling Kal her “prince” those two phrases just hit me. It's like in almost every romance anime, there has to be a girl who is in love with the MC and keeps it a secret. Didn't see Claire for the whole episode despite Kal declaring his love for her. Oh wait sorry, we did see her. For 2 seconds. don't mind the open ending, but it would actually be nice if there's a movie or an OVA to wrap things up a bit, perhaps some explanation or some sort and fill the loopholes and such. |
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| The last scenes were great including the aerial battles Too bad it wasn't like this throughout the entire run And the mole was unexpected to me |
Dulzo said: Seriousti said: 8/10 for me. Yup, and I'm not going to write a wall of text to justify my rating. It was simply an enjoyable show from start to end. I agree Me too. It was great *-* I'd really like to watch a 2nd Season... I want to know how does this great love story ends =( |
| Yeah, that's pretty much screaming ''WAIT FOR THE OVA/MOVIE/SEQUEL, MORE COMING SOON'' or ''READ THE MANGA YOU BUNCH OF FUCKER''. On a more serious note, it was a good ending, but you know, open ending and stuff... So as everyone knew it, Ari forbidden love had no way to become true. She end in the tragic way, waiting for her prince that will maybe never come back... (Just forget about that plot shield for a moment, okay?) Karl declaring his love publicaly to the girl who decapitated his parents. Well, no, okay, she just annihilated his heritage with violent wind and tornadoes. When the father talked about ''The husband being no good'', I thought he was talking about himself and that he married his daughter xD That was a bit creepy. When that weird creepy girl disappeared, I thought as a joke that she was a spy and guess what? SHE WAS A FUCKING SPY. Didn't saw this coming. I hope they do an epilogue OVA around 30-60 min long because I honestly don't want to read the manga to see how it end. Didn't passionated me that much. |
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kuuderes_shadow said: am I the only one who liked the ending? No you're not. Those kind of open ending don't really seem popular even though it's those I prefer. |
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