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| A fantastic way to end this show. |
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| Ha pesar de que no recordaba nada, recuerdo perfectamente que no lloré en ese entonces. Pero ahora... 8:03 am llorando como pocas veces lo he hecho |
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| They nailed the ending pretty well with the emotions , but I still dont understand how they can see her at the end. Nontheless, I liked it 8/10 |
| I loved the ending. Now I have to watch the movie too. |
who_dat_ninja said: JusticeSoulTuna said: I agree, all the crying in the show (but mostly this episode) felt really forced. Especially in the final scenes it was almost comical with all the yelling and over the top crying. I just didn't feel it. Maybe because i dont see what's so amazing about Menma. She's cute and sweet, but they treat her like she's the freaking second coming!I couldn't cry for this one cause I feel like the characters themselves did all the crying, haha. Though I did get teary eyed when Poppo started crying (we've never seen him so sad) and when the kids were picking up pieces of the diary was touching. This of course is followed up by all of them seeing Menma now for some unexplained reason followed by more OTP yelling and bawling. Subtlety is a valuable tool: USE IT Ehh, I guess it's all up to how much melodrama you can take seriously. With that said, i did like this series a lot. It had some nice scenes of nostalgia with old friends who drifted apart coming together again to solve this one mystery. Very nice! Though after finding out what the wish REALLY was, i'd rather pretend the rocket being the TRUE wish... 8/10 I get what you mean with the over the top crying, When it comes to tearjerking, less is more. Sad anime in general unfortunately tends towards Victorian-style hammy OTT melodrama ala Clannad. Most I've ever cried at a fictional medium was a crusty stiff-upper-lip Royal Navy captain saying "It's alright old girl, No one can hurt us anymore" as he goes down with the ship he commanded through 25 years and 2 wars... Just 10 words is all it took. If he'd spend three pages bawling and thinking of the crewmates he lost and the angels in heaven it wouldn't have been half as sad. Imagine if instead of the hide and seek and the last-minute appearance, Jintan had given up on the hide and seek and come to find an empty secret base, with nothing but the letters on the table and "I played with everyone at the secret base again. It was fun!" written on the last page of her diary. Just writing that made me cry more than the actual ending lol. I did think the characters were really well-observed and they developed really well. Yukiatsu and Yadomi in particular felt like they acted realistically in the aftermath of a traumatic death. They felt real, wheich is a rare thing in anime. Overall I'd say an 8/10. Episode 10 was near-perfect, it's a real shame they didn't know when enough was enough in the last episode. The scene at the shrine went on too long imo and everyone bursting out their confessions and at once felt contrived and info-dumpy in stark contrast to the preceding 10 epidodes where we slowly learned about the characters' feelings about Menma and eachother through their interactions as friends and private reminiscences. The chanting was really weird but everyone seeing Menma was bittersweet, and I disagree with the others who said it was random. Yadomi saw Menma because he needed to in order to fulfil Menma's wish, which was essentially to get his shit together and deal with his emotions. The others dealt with it far better than Yadomi, if Menma never reappeared they would still have led full lives. But what they did need was to say goodbye to Menma, to get some proper closure and get rid of that nagging guilt that was building invisible walls stopping tham from truly reconnecting and forgiving themselves and eachother. Still cried tho. |
| Old is Gold "Look, look, we can do spinning shots without wasting our entire budget" "Did you see? Look, it's all smooth and everything !" "You're not looking, please, it's SO AWESOME LOOK AT HOW SPINNY IT IS!!!!" - All anime animators since the invention of CGI. |
| Shi made me cry my eyes out |
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| I thought it was cringe |
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| great ending/finale... damn . |
こんにちは！私の名前はマルハザクです！  こんにちは！私の名前はマルハザクです！ |
| A nice final episode. Menma lives on though. Within their hearts. Within their dreams. And nothing can beat that. A dream without a close one to push you on. A goal without someone to carry you through. The love they have can forever exist. No matter what happens. This may not be a series I can rate a 10, but I'll rate it decently for what it is: a final memory. |
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