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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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This episode was just epic. The drama! The conflict! The rebellion of their own forces to save their nation!

In all seriousness, this felt "overplayed" in the music department without evoking a real meaning in drama for me. Didn't feel like much of a struggle throughout the series for this last episode to have critically worked out.

Sure, the story fits about Rio and other things but what about the "Angel"? How convenient it symbolizes their group's effort and story to save many lives. I guess that golden skeleton was just for show.

Poorly done symbolic concepts, almost wasteful character development, half-assed story. Series-7/10.

Probably the best episode in the series.

BTW it is "Amazing Grave" not "Saving Grace"...

Well it's over.

-I guess the idea of an S2 pretty much flew away with that ending since everything was just about wrapped up. To be honest, I am a tiny bit underwhelmed since I was thinking that spider gundam would do a little more than just show up for five minutes (speaking of which, that was so cool when it was crawling walls). I am however glad that it was not simply music that saved the day since as soon as Kanata started playing Amazing Grace (which made me groan a little) I was sure they would immediately stop fighting but having Rio officially end it put a much better taste in my mouth

-As a series on the whole, SoRaNoWoTo really doesn't make a gigantic impact. The story is small and tinier than the world that we're introduced to. I really wanted to know about the world itself more than the characters a few times. That being said, if I really did dislike it, I could have dropped it at any time so there was something keeping me watching each week besides just simply updating my episode count. Probably the fact that I rather enjoy the slow slice-of-life shows and that this really was not the K-ON military anime that it was played up to be. It wasn't groundbreaking but it didn't need to be. It was a nice treat each week. Is that bad? No, I don't think so. As long as I'm enjoying it and watching it, I'm having a good time. So I'll give the series 8/10. It would not be an absolute favorite but I would definitely recommend it (I'd just make sure to say skip the episode that starts with Kanata in a dress)

-Also this is a personal preference but I always like shows that have music as a focus.

Yeah, it would have been pretty sweet as to jump from Kanata's ignorant reality to a war-torn story, with the song to be used as a final attempt before more would have been lost in massive bloodshed.

That's just too bad. Good series though.

Monday means it's time for OUR THE SSS rank Sora no Woto

You do mean "Amazing Grace," right? Or was that a joke that went over my head? xD

First eighteen and a half minutes were amazing. After that, I was disappoint. It just turned into Macross or something. Probably no season 2, shame.

That would be horribly hilarious.

*Kanata finishes playing. Everyone stares at her.*
"What the hell was that?'
"I dunno. LET'S KEEP GOING!"
"YEAH KILL THEM ALL!"

Not too bad but meh. They better cover the angel in the specials. I'm guessing it was some kind of creature that some girls at the fort when it was originally a school gave shelter to it. Until it messed up the planet or we messed it up. Rio :( still had to marry that bastard.
i dub this 6.5/10

I liked the first part of the episode beater...And was a bit discussed when amazing grace started playing....Thankfully it ultimately wasn't what stopped the war...
I found Rio in a dress combined with that manly voice hilarious:D
Btw. the spider tank is made of pure awesome ...wish I had one of those :D
I'll give this show 8/10 as well, it's a shame though. It could have been so much beater.

For a moment I thought about rating this an 8, especially when Kanata played that song.. I actually felt I gained hopeI should re-phrase that, I actually felt a feeling of my body filling with hope, but than the actual ending made me re-think that decision. I'm not sure what to think of this show. None of the initial promises made were delivered. But perhaps it was only there just to create the 'hype'. They must have planned everything out from the start, of course. Perhaps they tried to 'outsmart' us, presenting it in a cute package, while showing how time and life is transient, to take nothing for granted.. but in the end, what were they really trying to tell us? (Perhaps I would have liked it better if they all perished in the fight, it even looked like that for a moment.. not because I dislike the characters, but now that would have been a statement.)

Again, I'm not satisfied with the ending. It leaves some room for a second season, but it's probably not something everyone is looking forward to. I just wished they had fleshed out the (back)stories just thát bit more, now we're just left with an empty feeling.

7/10?

The angel in the beginning of the story Helvatian(whatever it's called) probably correlated with the beginning angel, with Aisha's story correlating to the other. That and if the tale is old enough to be a legend, the story might change. The latter story could have actually happened with regular soldier and their enemies, then gets distorted over time.

*shrugs* But then again, they stuck that second legend right when the biggun happens. They were probably trying to portray breaking the cycle from the past if anything- or the opposite.

Enjoyed the series but was let down mostly not by what was show but by all that it was not.

I will say this, hands down this world, setting, premise, call it what you want is perhaps one of the best I have seen in any anime, movie, science-fiction novel, ect. The series set an amazing tone for itself and created dozens of mysteries and myths to be explored and explained.

In the end a great idea somewhat fell victim to a limitation of 12 episodes and perhaps a lack of boldness to explore the thematic elements presented to us a bit more, it is almost sad that things seem to be simply returning to a status quo. If they aren't going to give us a continuation at the very least it would be nice to see some progression, i.e. a re inspired Noel working to better the world by rediscovering beneficial technologies, Kanata setting off to heal the world through music (lololol), w/e w/e but I think you get my drift.

Regardless a highly recommended series from me. It was a different kind of music focus and a different depiction of military life, one that was actually very authentic in many ways but with a huge dose of fluffy topping of course, haha. It was willing to deal with some serious issues including chemical warfare, post-apocalyptic nihilism, and a daunting sense of loss (both personal and to humankind) without it ever feeling too out of place in a rather cutesy show and it gets major major props for that.

To wrap this up I guess I am also not as bothered by the retelling of the angel story at the end. Its quite likely that the Roman iteration is just a flawed and mystical as the Helvetian one. The way it was presented to us simply gives us a bit more to think about, continuing on the same theme as the POW: misunderstandings (theological and cultural) can lead to conflict. Until Noel starts accessing some very old video archives somewhere I doubt we'll know what truly happened.

Vector tank was also awesome :)

Lol, i did mean "Amazing Grace" not "amazing grave". Blame it on going from the school's keyboards to my laptop's...

now that I think about it, seriously red for tanks wtf is up with that. Why isn't Rio on a freaking vector :D

Cheese, cheese, cheese ... oh and more cheese!

The drama doesn't really come across when you 1. know the outcome anyway 2. don't feel with the characters 3. don't like the high-pitched VA work 4. don't like cheese.

The music in the middle really fit though, and the fight scene was bearable too.

Overall I'm really disappointed. Had a lot of potential in the concept but it totally fell apart right around the start.

I was hoping to see some motherfucking tragedy on this last episode but sadly there was none, that spidah Gundamu was sort of cool to watch but I wanted to see it tear more shit up, and now I sort of hate Amazing Grace... fucking trumpetah girls. Also, no material for a second season unless they decide to wage war with some other country, oh well not that I care so much.

Sora no Woto had an interesting concept but it failed to deliver, I think it only had around three good episodes and the rest were pretty forgettable though somewhat entertaining otherwise I would have dropped it. I guess I'll give this a 7/10, now to search or wait for the OST.

First minute of this episode was actually good... but then everyone survived, and Kanata managed to save the day with her trumpet... yay. Cheesy and overly dramatic. Unfortunately with that kind of ending I don't see a reason for the second season. It's a shame really, since potential here was big, and all we got was 'military K-on'.

Since I'm generous it gets 7/10 because of the animation and soundtrack.

K-ON was good compared to this (well, I love K-ON but even objectively looking at it, it was better). At least it wasn't trying to sell itself as epic. And it had less cheese. Well almost none. VA was better too. And way funnier. The only thing SnW was better at was the beautiful landscape arts and the city's athmosphere. Oh, and this had less moe (though i like moe if it doesn't mess up the plot).

The main reason K-ON succeeded (other than all the lolilovers and pantsudroolers) was because it barely had any seriousness in it. There was one ep with some drama and even that was nicely played out. You could just sit down and laugh through it. On the other hand, even though the first 10-odd episodes of Sora no Woto were filled with moe they always reminded you that there is a storm coming. And they had many scenes with cheesy drama. Kinda ruined all the moe for me.

Just my 2 cents though.

I really don't think it was doing this at all. We just thought it was but I never got any indication that it would be that "epic"