Zel_Ezl said:DestinedHero said:
I'm so confused. I'd unfortunately been spoiled to the "ending" months ago, consisting of the "wedding" and the kiss and them being together and all. But then... they reversed it? They ended it like that? The ENTIRE last two episodes was just pretend? Kyousuke ruined relationships with so many friends for THAT? WTF?
I loved season one, thought season two had its high points, but definitely not as good as the first season, but this? I don't know what I just watched. Stupid. I think it was really stupid. Just a total mess from the "confession" that was so public and so obnoxious that it became entirely stupid. He turned away and hurt the feelings of Kuroneko, Ayase, Kanako, and then Manami all for pretend? Why? Why do that?
I'd never had any interest in the "Kyousuke picks Kirino" ending, as I never thought that would be an option to begin with. This show wasn't about them falling in love. It was all about the siblings bonding through eroge (strangely enough) and helping one another, which, in turn, repairs their damaged relationship. That's it. It wasn't about them giving the world the middle finger so that they could love one another. It had NOTHING to do with that, so this ending makes absolutely zero sense.
While the animation remained quite good, same with the voice acting, same with every other portion of the animated version of this story, the writing is just plain awful. This is one of the stupidest endings I think I've ever seen. If they were going to do an incest ending, fine. I'm entirely fine with that. I think that it takes balls as a writer to write something that's considered so "taboo", so if they wanted to go in that direction, fine, but this feels so forced. So out of left field. It was nothing like a show such as Koi Kaze which focused on that taboo relationship from the very first episode. I found that show fantastic for showing how it would feel to truly be in that sort of relationship. But this? This was just bad. Bad, bad, bad, and I hate to say that with how much I loved almost everything that led to this stupid ending.
Maybe I'll just pretend I never watched these last three OVAs. Then I won't be so upset at how it all ended up. Bummer...
On a better note, I've always been a bit fond of Manami. She seems responsible, kind, sweet, and reliable. I thought she would have been a really adorable pick for Kyousuke, but wasn't expecting it at all. Hoping, sure, but very slight hope. So even though she was shunned like all the other girls, she certainly had her moment in this episode. She kicked ASS! That punch was one of the coolest and unexpected things I've ever seen in anime. And then her giving the cold, hard truth to the stupid siblings was fantastic. Too bad they remained stupid ALL FOR PRETEND! Yeah... fantastic.
Couldn't agree more. I loved the first season and I thought it ended well (irrespective of the beating Kyosuke got). But when they made that alternate episode 12 and added the OVA episodes, the Light novel began to bleed into the anime which in all honesty is WORLDS apart. THAT's when everything went to shit. Realistically speaking, you could just watch the last episode of season 2 and just WALK THE FUCK AWAY. Cause you'd be better off with a happy and ambiguous ending like that then this fuckery. To me, this ending would have been cool IF the series was this from the start. But it takes a great concept, as you mentioned; bonding through eroge, and just shits on it. It undermines everything that this anime started with and makes it seem like no one wins, that all their friendships were brought together only to fall apart and that Kyosuke just didn't care. I'm not trying to read too deeply into it, but honestly that's how it went. Makes me sad man