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Originally posted July 2020

Going from what MaL states, this is technically OVA episodes, but at the same time is technically the final arc? Imma talk just on these 4 episodes alone, and not to much as the anime as a whole.

yeh that was good, i actually liked the ending. Sure it wasn't the perfect ending, but it checked enough boxes for me to say "hay, that was pretty good"

Off the bat, the best way i can describe these 4 episodes would be along the lines of "imagine finally biting into a delicious muffin that you've been fantasising on eating all day. thinking that those chocolate chips were REALLY chocolate chips, only to find out they weren't and in fact fucking RAISINS" I wholeheartedly enjoyed the first 2 episodes. Iori was always the most distant character, she kept to herself on her personal/ family issues, always tried to put on a smile to cheer everyone up and was probably the most valuable to stress. Seeing her finally break down from pressure and stress from all the unnatural events, was eventually going to happen and SilverLink did a pretty good job at showing it. They did a good job at her showing her real self, how she was fed up with everything, how she could no longer handle being positive to cheer others up when she herself couldn't even cheer herself up. Her drastic change of attitude was really shown when she talked back to characters, expressing her true feelings to characters and the situation and sometimes going with the "non-cliche" ending. These 4 episodes did a great job on expanding and developing Iori as a character.

However the last 2 episodes really didn't sit well with me, Kokoro connect literally have a "villian" specifically made to cause mayhem and pandemonium, yet they choose NOT to end the 4 episodes (let alone the entire anime) with his final act . The whole "Inaba suddenly role playing as Taichi and deciding to do a 1v3 clutch against a bunch blockheads" flopped as hard as you'd think it would. It felt forced for her to suddenly do that, and more as an excuse to progress Iori's "i'll think about it" dialogue she chose. But it dosen't stop, sure i was happy Iori finally found who she wanted to be and could finally relax, but then out of the bloom like a father who left his family until he heard they won the lottery, blockhead no.3 suddenly used his self revive skill and followed them for god knows how long, and for god knows what reason they didn't see yet even HEAR the wandering psycho while they were alone in a silent area. Dude must of fucking had dead silence or something for all i know. Either way, Taichi jumping in to take the blow, was the most Taichi thing you could think of and i really wasn't surprised. But the finale conclusion for the gang was pretty good in my eyes. Iori and Taichi reset their friendship, Taichi and Inaba both have the love life together they deserve with lots of pampering wanted from Inaba probably, Aoki and Yui yes, and it wouldn't really be a Kokoro connect ending without Heartseed the main antagonist of the show, getting little to no character development or any explanation wouldn't it :)

all in all, 6/10 to these 4 episodes and the anime then if its the true conclusion for this anime.

edit: Overall ranking UPDATED AS OF 8/11/22

Story 6/10
Characters / development 6/10
Visuals / Animation 6/10
SFX / OST 5/10
Overall 6/10