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Sep 26, 2015 11:18 PM

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Anime had the potential of becoming a great anime rivaling Angel Beats, but by 3/4th of the show; it looked like a trainwreck. However, the ending made up for it introducing a bittersweet ending with a few plotholes and I am a sucker for romance lol

Rating:7/10-7.5/10
Sep 26, 2015 11:18 PM

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This ending was quite satisfying
Sep 26, 2015 11:22 PM

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At least this horrid trainwreck is finally over.

Can't expect anything good out of Jun Maeda anymore.

So much potential, all butchered.
Sep 26, 2015 11:23 PM
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this ending is awesome, but im surprise Yuu did not heal his eye or even his damage brain to regain his memories back or even regain his time leap ability

but overall great anime
Sep 26, 2015 11:39 PM

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CrazyFrogz said:
simbee said:
Dat moment when they sub "Singapore" wrongly as Shisogapo, lmao


Shisogaso,Lumpo probably Singapore, Kuala Lumpur. They think Singapore in Kuala Lumpur.


"What's shisogapo?"
"idk man"
"Think adding lumpur makes it look more legit"
"yep"
Sep 26, 2015 11:40 PM
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A decent closure I guess.

7/10 overall.
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Sep 26, 2015 11:41 PM
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DmonHiro said:
So... here's what didn't matter in Charlotte:
1. Yusa.
2. That guy with super speed.
3. Nao's brother.
4. The blind singer.

Soo... why didn't the healing power heal Yuu at the end?


Because he recklessly used so much power that he could yield anymore in the end. He just needed some rest
Sep 26, 2015 11:47 PM

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Well this episode was...something...

Honestly I was expecting it to be much worse, so compared to my expectations it wasn't too bad. It was still kind of bad in general though.

Let's start with the good:
- Yu got some cool powers, and some of the ones he had got an upgrade. Him stealing the illness power, then using it on the latent power kids was neat. It would've been even better if they didn't put him traveling to 100 countries in 15 minutes, so we could've seen a gap between him getting the power and actually using it.

- Yu's character becoming warped was done really well. They wanted to show the toll of plundering 10K plus abilities on the brain. And it worked. He was all sorts of unstable.

- For all of the suffering he endured, he only got memory loss, which all things considered is basically a happy ending. If you like happy endings, then this was pretty decent.

Now the bad:
- cramming all of those countries into 15-20 minutes was bad. It was exactly how I predicted it last week. It felt super rushed, and half the scenes made him look like some terrorist causing chaos over the globe. It was also stupid how people spoke English in Singapore, yet in every other country they apparently spoke fluent Japanese.

- That final scene in that favela/run down shack place was fucking face palm bad. Random crossbow guy looking for money shoots 3 arrows into Yu, and somehow doesn't kill him. Girl with the power of "courage" shows up, and manages to act courageous even without it. Yu makes cliché speech about being brave. Brother who had no clearly indicated way of finding his brother somehow magically shows up on the plot-copter to save the day.

- Yu didn't heal his eye because he didn't want to use his time leap power...uh how about healing your eye so you have a working fucking eye? Nobody is forcing him to use time leap. It made no sense, mostly because there was sooooo much foreshadowing about going blind as the consequence for abusing the powers and "sinning". But...he doesn't go blind. He also had the chance to restore his eye...but he doesn't. So he winds up somewhere in the middle as pirate Yu even though it was completely unnecessary.

- Nao's personality did a complete 180 for no reason. Her "lover" comes back alive, and all of a sudden she's no longer cynical or condescending every time she talks. It was all smiles and happy memory talk. The fuck?

-------------------------------------------------------
The good and bad for the show as a whole:

Good:
- Yu's character was great. Portrayed very well most of the time. Really the only character that I didn't find fucking nauseating.

- The premise of the show was good. Poorly executed, but good. A handful of the writing was really well done too.

- some of the abilities were pretty cool.

Bad:
- Episodes 2-5. Basically fucked up the entire show. Every one of those episodes was a near carbon copy of each other. Same tropes, jokes, finding the ability kid, etc. Because they spent so much time on that, the important scenes, or scenes that could've been delved into further were rushed or didn't exist.

- Time travel. It's hard to make time travel in a show be good. Charlotte failed with it. They hyped it up to be this all important thing that cost the brother his vision...Yu uses it once. Made all character deaths then feel bland.

- Nao's school life. That really made it a point in the first few episodes to show how isolated Nao is and how none of the girls talk to her. And she even got the shit kicked out of her. That literally never developed into anything. Why not? Why make it sound so critical when it was forgotten by episode 5?

- Terrorist group/syndicate. They made it a big deal about how all of these organizations are hunting ability users and trying to rule the world and experiment on them blah blah. We had ONE terrorist group. They were never hinted at so they came out of nowhere with no foreshadowing. They fucked some shit up, then they lost. They were never heard from again, and no other group ever made an attack on Yu or the ability users again. Why hype up how dangerous the groups are, and then not do anything with that? They made terrorists out to be these big bad villains, yet they never even show up outside of 1 episode.

- The vaccines. They made a huge fucking deal about how ability users are just kids with an illness who need to be cured, and future kids need to be vaccinated to prevent it from happening again...did they ever do it? Did the vaccine work? How did they get it to people when they aren't even a government sanctioned organization?

- The memory loss. Wasn't really much of a punishment, considering how they foreshadowed him having to make huge sacrifices to save everyone and atone for his sins. Ayumi not remembering Shunsuke basically proved that memory loss people don't give a fuck about losing their memories, and the people around them will support them regardless. They hinted at blindness, losing sanity, death, etc. and it feels like he got off easy. And as I said above, he had the chance to fix his eye, and decided not to for no reason.

---------------------------------------------------

Overall the show let me down hard, and I think it could've been a lot better.

- make the show 14-15 episodes.

- episodes 2-5 were 98% pointless filler (with some of the scenes with the brother and mp3 player being important).

- I'd say, keep episodes 1-3. In episode 3 introduce the foreshadowing of the evil organizations. Get rid of 4&5 and move the events of the other episode up.

- Extend on Yu's depression episode by 1. It was done well, but felt short. They handled his post personality well, but they could've delved deeper into his depressed state

- Keep the remaining episodes as is, but use an episode or two to do more with the organizations, make them a legitimate threat.

- Break the final episode into 2-3 episodes. In each episode, dedicate half of it to Yu getting powers/learning about them/traveling around and plundering them like the was. Use the other half of the episode to show Shunsuke and the team back home fighting the threat of the organizations using all of their powers and connections. Do this for maybe two episodes.

- Final episode is basically the last 15 minutes of this episode, just extended and not written like shit. And with more time dedicated to him being back and dealing with his life post memory loss. Show a scene talking about the goddamn vaccine.
Sep 27, 2015 12:00 AM
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What with people and their negative comments. This series is not suppose to have 12 to 13 episodes but they need to cut down. Its not easy to put all plots with just 13 episodes. If Jun Maeda has 24 episodes chance, he might actually make a proper plot. So stop giving crappy comments just because there are lot of plot holes.
Sep 27, 2015 12:23 AM
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Jonesy974 said:
Well this episode was...something...

Honestly I was expecting it to be much worse, so compared to my expectations it wasn't too bad. It was still kind of bad in general though.

Let's start with the good:
- Yu got some cool powers, and some of the ones he had got an upgrade. Him stealing the illness power, then using it on the latent power kids was neat. It would've been even better if they didn't put him traveling to 100 countries in 15 minutes, so we could've seen a gap between him getting the power and actually using it.

- Yu's character becoming warped was done really well. They wanted to show the toll of plundering 10K plus abilities on the brain. And it worked. He was all sorts of unstable.

- For all of the suffering he endured, he only got memory loss, which all things considered is basically a happy ending. If you like happy endings, then this was pretty decent.

Now the bad:
- cramming all of those countries into 15-20 minutes was bad. It was exactly how I predicted it last week. It felt super rushed, and half the scenes made him look like some terrorist causing chaos over the globe. It was also stupid how people spoke English in Singapore, yet in every other country they apparently spoke fluent Japanese.

- That final scene in that favela/run down shack place was fucking face palm bad. Random crossbow guy looking for money shoots 3 arrows into Yu, and somehow doesn't kill him. Girl with the power of "courage" shows up, and manages to act courageous even without it. Yu makes cliché speech about being brave. Brother who had no clearly indicated way of finding his brother somehow magically shows up on the plot-copter to save the day.

- Yu didn't heal his eye because he didn't want to use his time leap power...uh how about healing your eye so you have a working fucking eye? Nobody is forcing him to use time leap. It made no sense, mostly because there was sooooo much foreshadowing about going blind as the consequence for abusing the powers and "sinning". But...he doesn't go blind. He also had the chance to restore his eye...but he doesn't. So he winds up somewhere in the middle as pirate Yu even though it was completely unnecessary.

- Nao's personality did a complete 180 for no reason. Her "lover" comes back alive, and all of a sudden she's no longer cynical or condescending every time she talks. It was all smiles and happy memory talk. The fuck?

-------------------------------------------------------
The good and bad for the show as a whole:

Good:
- Yu's character was great. Portrayed very well most of the time. Really the only character that I didn't find fucking nauseating.

- The premise of the show was good. Poorly executed, but good. A handful of the writing was really well done too.

- some of the abilities were pretty cool.

Bad:
- Episodes 2-5. Basically fucked up the entire show. Every one of those episodes was a near carbon copy of each other. Same tropes, jokes, finding the ability kid, etc. Because they spent so much time on that, the important scenes, or scenes that could've been delved into further were rushed or didn't exist.

- Time travel. It's hard to make time travel in a show be good. Charlotte failed with it. They hyped it up to be this all important thing that cost the brother his vision...Yu uses it once. Made all character deaths then feel bland.

- Nao's school life. That really made it a point in the first few episodes to show how isolated Nao is and how none of the girls talk to her. And she even got the shit kicked out of her. That literally never developed into anything. Why not? Why make it sound so critical when it was forgotten by episode 5?

- Terrorist group/syndicate. They made it a big deal about how all of these organizations are hunting ability users and trying to rule the world and experiment on them blah blah. We had ONE terrorist group. They were never hinted at so they came out of nowhere with no foreshadowing. They fucked some shit up, then they lost. They were never heard from again, and no other group ever made an attack on Yu or the ability users again. Why hype up how dangerous the groups are, and then not do anything with that? They made terrorists out to be these big bad villains, yet they never even show up outside of 1 episode.

- The vaccines. They made a huge fucking deal about how ability users are just kids with an illness who need to be cured, and future kids need to be vaccinated to prevent it from happening again...did they ever do it? Did the vaccine work? How did they get it to people when they aren't even a government sanctioned organization?

- The memory loss. Wasn't really much of a punishment, considering how they foreshadowed him having to make huge sacrifices to save everyone and atone for his sins. Ayumi not remembering Shunsuke basically proved that memory loss people don't give a fuck about losing their memories, and the people around them will support them regardless. They hinted at blindness, losing sanity, death, etc. and it feels like he got off easy. And as I said above, he had the chance to fix his eye, and decided not to for no reason.

---------------------------------------------------

Overall the show let me down hard, and I think it could've been a lot better.

- make the show 14-15 episodes.

- episodes 2-5 were 98% pointless filler (with some of the scenes with the brother and mp3 player being important).

- I'd say, keep episodes 1-3. In episode 3 introduce the foreshadowing of the evil organizations. Get rid of 4&5 and move the events of the other episode up.

- Extend on Yu's depression episode by 1. It was done well, but felt short. They handled his post personality well, but they could've delved deeper into his depressed state

- Keep the remaining episodes as is, but use an episode or two to do more with the organizations, make them a legitimate threat.

- Break the final episode into 2-3 episodes. In each episode, dedicate half of it to Yu getting powers/learning about them/traveling around and plundering them like the was. Use the other half of the episode to show Shunsuke and the team back home fighting the threat of the organizations using all of their powers and connections. Do this for maybe two episodes.

- Final episode is basically the last 15 minutes of this episode, just extended and not written like shit. And with more time dedicated to him being back and dealing with his life post memory loss. Show a scene talking about the goddamn vaccine.
it is not simple to extend the episodes. I agree that the series last 14 to 15 episodes and I pretty sure Jun Maeda finish his plot for that amount. However, getting 15 episodes in a row could not work because the schedules for other shows. Mostly, Anime has 12/13 or 24 episodes. Getting 15 or more episodes are hard to put in the schedule because it is already completed.As a result, Jun Maeda have to cut down which lead to plot holes. Jun Maeda already finish the plot a long time ago but he did not expect this.
2ndly, this is his work. Do not compare with anime that made by light novels. I would actually do the same thing because the anime is an original work not by light novels or etc. And you think it is easy, too bad for you then. It is never easy for animation and the writer. Stop looking on the outsides and start looking on the inside. I hate people who think it is so easy to change or to improve
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Sep 27, 2015 12:41 AM
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Lol i just want to know the song at the end of the show... What's the name of the song?
Sep 27, 2015 12:42 AM

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This anime is basically all over the place. They had so much potential, but there are so many things left unanswered/not further developed throughout the series. (Like the Nao's bullies, Nao's brother, ZHIEND lead, practically everyone else). Nao roughly stated to Yuu that she wanted to make a music video with all her video recordings, and that was not touched ever again which was disappointing. (They could've made it extremely touching if they were to revisit this.) ZHIEND's lead singer was not further explained either. (Originally, many thought that there would be some PLOT TWIST regarding the lead singer but sadly it was merely a touch-n-go.) And honestly nobody even cares about Nao's brother, since there was little or even no character development for him. This anime would've been amazing if it had a few more episodes. Also, many thought that the first few 'filler' episodes were just character development for another PLOT TWIST, but after the series ended it seems like the first few episodes were useless as it did nothing for character development. All this said and I still have not taken all the plot holes into account.

I enjoyed watching this anime, but it is too rushed and again, all over the place.
Sep 27, 2015 12:44 AM

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Well.. it's go down from 9/10 on episode 6 to 7/10 in the end, that's also because I like Nao's kuudere and her silliness ::lol::, Such a waste, didn't it?
If only they didn't rush it so much, by making it 2 cour or anything else, I positive it could make a better story.

It looks like for me that the anime industry right now doesn't really care so much on how to make a decent story like they did several years ago, as long as it's profitable ::sigh::
Sep 27, 2015 12:49 AM

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Surprised it was a happy ending kind of, the only bittersweet parts are Yuu losing his memories and even those with good powers losing theirs.

8/10 the whole series
Sep 27, 2015 12:54 AM
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I guess i`m the only one who actually enjoyed second half of the anime more than first. Was going to rate it 6/10 but last few episodes upped it to 8/10. Decent ending, i`m satisfied.
Sep 27, 2015 1:17 AM
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3/10 and being generous because I liked the first few episodes. Started off at 7/10 and got progressively worse and worse.
Sep 27, 2015 1:20 AM

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Omg they showed Poland, I was so schocked.
I was excpecting something more emotional, and of course sad ending, cause you know, it is Maeda.
But still I was crying, dunno why. Maybe because after this show I come back to watching anime.
The scene when helicopter came for Yuu, I was thinking he is dead. And even if I was very happy he was alive, if he died it would be better in my opinion.
So, I expected more action, but still i was satisfactioned.
Overall, this show is something amazing to me. It is like my guilty pleasure of guilty pleasures. I know how bad some things in it is, but still I was enjoying it so much, I am sad it ended.
Sep 27, 2015 1:28 AM

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not sure if im the only one but i personally enjoyed this anime a lot and the ending was probably one of the only endings i've seen in a good 1 or 2 years where i felt a season 2 would not be needed, overall this is my favorite anime this season for sure.
Sep 27, 2015 1:38 AM

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Disappointed.
If they really had overall scenario for this?
Last episode doesn't have connections to anything!
This is probably worst possible final, that could even be.
One of most rushed anime ever...
DmonHiro said:
So... here's what didn't matter in Charlotte:
1. Yusa.
2. That guy with super speed.
3. Nao's brother.
4. The blind singer.

5. Nao's bullies
6. Terrorists.
7. Organisation that hire them.
Sep 27, 2015 1:39 AM

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Jonesy974 said:
Well this episode was...something...

Honestly I was expecting it to be much worse, so compared to my expectations it wasn't too bad. It was still kind of bad in general though.

Let's start with the good:
- Yu got some cool powers, and some of the ones he had got an upgrade. Him stealing the illness power, then using it on the latent power kids was neat. It would've been even better if they didn't put him traveling to 100 countries in 15 minutes, so we could've seen a gap between him getting the power and actually using it.

- Yu's character becoming warped was done really well. They wanted to show the toll of plundering 10K plus abilities on the brain. And it worked. He was all sorts of unstable.

- For all of the suffering he endured, he only got memory loss, which all things considered is basically a happy ending. If you like happy endings, then this was pretty decent.

Now the bad:
- cramming all of those countries into 15-20 minutes was bad. It was exactly how I predicted it last week. It felt super rushed, and half the scenes made him look like some terrorist causing chaos over the globe. It was also stupid how people spoke English in Singapore, yet in every other country they apparently spoke fluent Japanese.

- That final scene in that favela/run down shack place was fucking face palm bad. Random crossbow guy looking for money shoots 3 arrows into Yu, and somehow doesn't kill him. Girl with the power of "courage" shows up, and manages to act courageous even without it. Yu makes cliché speech about being brave. Brother who had no clearly indicated way of finding his brother somehow magically shows up on the plot-copter to save the day.

- Yu didn't heal his eye because he didn't want to use his time leap power...uh how about healing your eye so you have a working fucking eye? Nobody is forcing him to use time leap. It made no sense, mostly because there was sooooo much foreshadowing about going blind as the consequence for abusing the powers and "sinning". But...he doesn't go blind. He also had the chance to restore his eye...but he doesn't. So he winds up somewhere in the middle as pirate Yu even though it was completely unnecessary.

- Nao's personality did a complete 180 for no reason. Her "lover" comes back alive, and all of a sudden she's no longer cynical or condescending every time she talks. It was all smiles and happy memory talk. The fuck?

-------------------------------------------------------
The good and bad for the show as a whole:

Good:
- Yu's character was great. Portrayed very well most of the time. Really the only character that I didn't find fucking nauseating.

- The premise of the show was good. Poorly executed, but good. A handful of the writing was really well done too.

- some of the abilities were pretty cool.

Bad:
- Episodes 2-5. Basically fucked up the entire show. Every one of those episodes was a near carbon copy of each other. Same tropes, jokes, finding the ability kid, etc. Because they spent so much time on that, the important scenes, or scenes that could've been delved into further were rushed or didn't exist.

- Time travel. It's hard to make time travel in a show be good. Charlotte failed with it. They hyped it up to be this all important thing that cost the brother his vision...Yu uses it once. Made all character deaths then feel bland.

- Nao's school life. That really made it a point in the first few episodes to show how isolated Nao is and how none of the girls talk to her. And she even got the shit kicked out of her. That literally never developed into anything. Why not? Why make it sound so critical when it was forgotten by episode 5?

- Terrorist group/syndicate. They made it a big deal about how all of these organizations are hunting ability users and trying to rule the world and experiment on them blah blah. We had ONE terrorist group. They were never hinted at so they came out of nowhere with no foreshadowing. They fucked some shit up, then they lost. They were never heard from again, and no other group ever made an attack on Yu or the ability users again. Why hype up how dangerous the groups are, and then not do anything with that? They made terrorists out to be these big bad villains, yet they never even show up outside of 1 episode.

- The vaccines. They made a huge fucking deal about how ability users are just kids with an illness who need to be cured, and future kids need to be vaccinated to prevent it from happening again...did they ever do it? Did the vaccine work? How did they get it to people when they aren't even a government sanctioned organization?

- The memory loss. Wasn't really much of a punishment, considering how they foreshadowed him having to make huge sacrifices to save everyone and atone for his sins. Ayumi not remembering Shunsuke basically proved that memory loss people don't give a fuck about losing their memories, and the people around them will support them regardless. They hinted at blindness, losing sanity, death, etc. and it feels like he got off easy. And as I said above, he had the chance to fix his eye, and decided not to for no reason.

---------------------------------------------------

Overall the show let me down hard, and I think it could've been a lot better.

- make the show 14-15 episodes.

- episodes 2-5 were 98% pointless filler (with some of the scenes with the brother and mp3 player being important).

- I'd say, keep episodes 1-3. In episode 3 introduce the foreshadowing of the evil organizations. Get rid of 4&5 and move the events of the other episode up.

- Extend on Yu's depression episode by 1. It was done well, but felt short. They handled his post personality well, but they could've delved deeper into his depressed state

- Keep the remaining episodes as is, but use an episode or two to do more with the organizations, make them a legitimate threat.

- Break the final episode into 2-3 episodes. In each episode, dedicate half of it to Yu getting powers/learning about them/traveling around and plundering them like the was. Use the other half of the episode to show Shunsuke and the team back home fighting the threat of the organizations using all of their powers and connections. Do this for maybe two episodes.

- Final episode is basically the last 15 minutes of this episode, just extended and not written like shit. And with more time dedicated to him being back and dealing with his life post memory loss. Show a scene talking about the goddamn vaccine.
it is not simple to extend the episodes. I agree that the series last 14 to 15 episodes and I pretty sure Jun Maeda finish his plot for that amount. However, getting 15 episodes in a row could not work because the schedules for other shows. Mostly, Anime has 12/13 or 24 episodes. Getting 15 or more episodes are hard to put in the schedule because it is already completed.As a result, Jun Maeda have to cut down which lead to plot holes. Jun Maeda already finish the plot a long time ago but he did not expect this.
2ndly, this is his work. Do not compare with anime that made by light novels. I would actually do the same thing because the anime is an original work not by light novels or etc. And you think it is easy, too bad for you then. It is never easy for animation and the writer. Stop looking on the outsides and start looking on the inside. I hate people who think it is so easy to change or to improve


First of all, it's not hard to plan for more than 12 episodes. Bakemonogatari did it. To Love Ru Darkness 2nd is doing it right now with a 14 episode season. It's all a matter of scheduling with broadcasters. Not hard to do. Kekkai Sensen managed to find a timeslot for their hour long finale as well.

Second, I never made any LN comparisons. Don't know why you said that, but don't put goddamn words in my mouth.

Third, "And you think it is easy, too bad for you then. It is never easy for animation and the writer. Stop looking on the outsides and start looking on the inside"...The fuck are you even talking about? The difficulty of producing a show has nothing to do with the quality of the writing. Actually why did you bring up animation in the first place, seeing as how I never mentioned it? Stop looking on the outside and start looking on the inside? Whaaaat the hell does that even mean? Are you actually Jun Maeda? Because your writing is equally bad.

"I hate people who think it is so easy to change or to improve". Yea? And I hate people who say stupid shit. Guess we're at an impasse huh?
Sep 27, 2015 1:41 AM

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Riveon said:
Disappointed.
If they really had overall scenario for this?
Last episode doesn't have connections to anything!
This is probably worst possible final, that could even be.
One of most rushed anime ever...
DmonHiro said:
So... here's what didn't matter in Charlotte:
1. Yusa.
2. That guy with super speed.
3. Nao's brother.
4. The blind singer.

5. Nao's bullies
6. Terrorists.
7. Organisation that hire them.

8: The "Scientists". You remember? the super evil organization that was talked about for about 10 episodes? Well I don't
9: How he was meant to even know the alternative timeline existed by when all measures It never even existed to him.
Sep 27, 2015 1:42 AM

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Wow, kudos to the ending. Definitely not bad at all. Poor Yuu though. The weight of all of that must have been a lot to deal with. I felt bad for him, but at least he somehow made it back. The return of berserker Yuu was pretty cool. The whole "Shinigami" thing that he nonchalantly took as a handle eventually was fairly amusing.

I wonder if he ever regains his memory. I can accept him not doing so, but it would explain the signed ZHEIND album that Nao's brother has. Bittersweet if he doesn't. Nao's reaction was pretty cute. I teared up myself at that and throughout his journey a bit and at the end. Just a little really. A small feels trip this episode.

Still a relatively happy ending. And I'm definitely looking forward to the OVA in March. I would watch a season two of this, but I doubt it'll get one. I don't think it needs one. It could've had one if they hadn't rushed this whole part, but alas. The OVA should be enough to wrap things up.

Overall, really good story. I liked it a lot.

9/10
vanellabean11Sep 27, 2015 1:46 AM


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Sep 27, 2015 1:43 AM

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:/

I had a thought that Yu may think about "conquering the world"..

I think I wasn't the only one who was just thinking will they show my own country , For me it was very close:P

And if every city has hundreds or thousands of wielders , I don't really think It's possible to visit each city in such a short time.. + minor islands and let's say Arctic.
Sep 27, 2015 1:44 AM

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[/quote]Would you say that they left it open for another cour?[/quote]

No. If they wanted to do another cour they should have stopped at episode 12 and adapted his world travels plundering abilities into a second season.
I say "I'm speechless" to tell you I want to say something though am not sure how...
Sep 27, 2015 1:49 AM
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One of the most overrated worst anime ever
Sep 27, 2015 1:51 AM

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Maaaaaan... I was expecting some A or S grade feels...

In the end, even Hokuto no Ken brought more feels than this supposedly "feely melodrama made by the king of melodrama." Sorry Mr. Maeda, I enjoy your Angel Beats to the point I shed a little tear during some moments, but this one barely touched my heart.

6/10
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  2. To have Inferno Cop properly adapted in TV series form by Bones, director: Urobuchi Gen
  3. An anime crossover of Mushishi x ARIA x Haibane Renmei.


Should even one of the above conditions cannot be done, anime is still at risk.
Sep 27, 2015 1:53 AM

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About 13 episodes worth of content crammed into 1. Fine with a happy ending, but zero drama and zero suspense in the build up. And as if he could really go from country to country without anyone tracking him down, without any ability wielders teaming up to fight him or even trying to run.

Has to be the most rushed end to an anime I've ever seen, and that's saying something. Episodes 2-6 were pointless filler, became fairly good after Ayumi's death, but followed up by a trainwreck of an ending.


Agreed, that was utterly terrible. Right at the beginning, when they show the guy in Egypt with MC photo, the first thing I thought: "now he's going to get attacked wherever he goes, it will be hard to keep traveling", but the next moment he is already in Afghanistan (!), then India (!!) then Peru (!!!), I was already facepalming at that. How exactly the worldwide known "One-eyed shinigami" was traveling by plane without an army of ability wielders, or terrorists, or even government forces waiting to attack him at the airport?

Although the premise was unreal (a single person "saving" the whole world), if they had actually thought this through, and given enough episodes, it could've turned into an amazing story.
Sep 27, 2015 1:54 AM

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Plot-copter!
3/10 because now I am generous.
Sep 27, 2015 1:54 AM

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Sure, it was rushed, and sure there were lots of problems elsewhere (not least the comedy), but I still really enjoyed this series and this final episode. Compared to Angel Beats, which pretty much had all the same flaws this does, it feels easier to forgive this series for its flaws than it did for Angel Beats. Still, 2-cour would have been better, but this was excellent as well.

Probably a tad generous of me to do so, but I'll gladly give this 10/10.
Sep 27, 2015 2:03 AM

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The ending is weak as fuck. I mean 12 episodes of build up and in the end it was all for nothing.
Sep 27, 2015 2:47 AM

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Well, that was a pretty disappointing ending. It was really rushed but I guess that's how it was supposed to be. Good first half until episode 7 but then it starts going downhill with each episode.
Anyways, decent series. I hope for a second, not that rushed, season.
Sep 27, 2015 2:57 AM

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The entire time I felt like it would have had so much potential, however.. it just wasn't well done/thought out in its entirety. The sudden changes in atmosphere were strange, there wasn't enough time to get emotionally invested in what was happening. So many characters, so many loose ends. Nevertheless, I did like the setting and general idea of ability wielders and what not and I was looking forward to every episode to see if things would take a turn for the better. So overall.. it kept me quite interested but left me kinda disappointed. :D 6/10.
Sep 27, 2015 3:02 AM

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That was the worst last episode I've ever watched from an anime. They should have stopped on episode 12 and make a second season from the content of episode 13

So Yuu lost his memories (kinda) because his brain is basically overloaded with information from the powers he gathered. I never understood why his brother let him go alone, it's irresponsible of him. I felt like he doesn't care for Yuu enough.

I half expected Yuu to become permanently brain damaged, but that would be too cruel.

5/10 from me. I loved it until the episode where Yuu saved Ayumi then after that... well...
Sep 27, 2015 3:07 AM

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Gotta collect em all... What shit and mediocre ending... Anime was actually good until time-leap BS...

Finale - 2.5/5
Series - 6/10
Sep 27, 2015 3:15 AM

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I agree that it should've ended with ep12. It was too rushed for me to fully enjoy, but well good thing that the ship sailed.
Sep 27, 2015 3:29 AM
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I wouldn't put Charlotte with my favorite Key anime. Charlotte's full character cast just isn't as strong as Clannad's or Kanon's or Little Buster's. Yes, some characters did get shortchanged here.
I like Charlotte more than Angel Beats! Charlotte doesn't leave me scratching my head like Angel Beats! did. And I see a certain ambition in Yuu's character arc that I didn't see with any character in Angel Beats!
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6/10 From me. Honestly I can summarize Charlotte in two words. "Wasted potential". It had the potential to be excellent , however it had lackluster comedy, lackluster ending and generally how rushed it was took a look a lot from the Anime overall.

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Changed from 7 to a 6. The more I thought about it more more lackluster it seemed.
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This show had potential but it was rushed...

In the end, the only thing i really like about this show is the art
6.5/10
Sep 27, 2015 3:49 AM

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I am just sad this show was only 13 episodes. I really feel 24 episodes would have made everything about this show better. Nearly every episode felt rushed in what it had to do for the plot, and barely any of the characters got enough screentime to really satisfy me. Literally keep the exact same story, shoulda just made every episode into its own mini-arc of 1-3 episodes and it would have been stellar. I think the world felt real and the characters were lovable and the plot outline was great as well, but nearly ever part of that needed more time on screen to be fleshed out. Still, it told a coherent story (i can suspend disbelief quite a bit if something about the show motivates me) with great animation and solid characters. I appreciate it for what it is.
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I finally finished watching it. (I would have been done with this many hours ago if it weren't for the messed up subs.)

Okay. I'm just sad that it ended tbh. Surely, I'm going to miss this show. Thank you, Charlotte.
Sep 27, 2015 3:55 AM

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Kirigaro92 said:
Endcard


I am crying.

(Can someone translate what's written? I know it's probably just saying thanks but I still want to know.)
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Rewatched it. I didn't see many problems with this episode, BESIDES four things:

-The pacing.
-I wanted to see more about Yuu's journey. Some episodes about that would be really cool.
-It needs more episodes, or another season. IS NECESSARY.
-It was a little weak, but I got what I wanted: Feels.

Anyway, good series for beginners. The idea was nice, but wasn't well developed. It was entertaining to see the powers, Yuu stealing' em all, and the story overall. But it was too much information for a 13 episodes series. Did I say that Charlotte NEEDS MORE EPISODES? And there were characters that didn't receive development at all. And the pacing is still a problem.
7/10, maybe 8/10, I don't know. Going to rewatch everything later.


I agree. good show for beginners. I am going to have my sister watch this. She is still really new to anime and i think this is a great choice for those new to the medium (and who arent super nitpicky when it comes to plot holes and pacing lol)
Sep 27, 2015 4:03 AM
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Probably my favorite episode. They did the whole episode a lot better than I thought they would. The world-traveling part went better than I expected. It was fun to see Yuu go mad with power. I also liked how he always kept the cards Nao made for him. Nice to see her bro recovered, too.

However, I really didn't like how convenient some slightly important things were.

The first country he goes to, he somehow finds someone to sell him a list of ability users, and amongst those, there's an ability-finder capable of pin-pointing others on a map. The worst part.. Yuu's brother just happens to be in a police helicopter in China the second he plunders the last ability in the world and is nearly killed by Crossbow-kun. And, holy fuck Yuu, no need to use your time-leap, but at least heal your goddam eye and get some depth perception. At least, he better heal his brother's eyesight

Overall, pretty disappointed. I also really hate how nothing bad happened in the end. Not like the memory loss is a big issue, shouldn't be too bad with all the footage Nao has on her cam. I wish Yuu had either succumbed to those bolt wounds, or died and failed his mission so we'd get a bad ending.

I felt like the first episodes were just filler, but at least he used the abilities he plundered back then in this episode. Still mad about the whole time-leap thing to save his sister, especially after Yuu had finally come to terms with it. Not like Ayumi was an important character.

Also, not sure if it this was posted, but they took Michael Jackson's wikipedia page as the "Personal Data" page for the leader from the list of ability-users Yuu bought lol

JesusmcpwnSep 27, 2015 4:09 AM
Cute, not pedo.
Sep 27, 2015 4:04 AM

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we also don't know who the hell this person is.


i thought that was ayumi. judging from the hair color
Sep 27, 2015 4:07 AM

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Well that's the end of that, I suppose. I'm pretty happy with the ending.
Sep 27, 2015 4:08 AM

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First half of this show was much more entertaining and the second half was pretty crazy actually.
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Sep 27, 2015 4:14 AM

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Perfect English Yuu :p

This series had great potential, I just thought it was very fast paced where mood changes from depression to comedy immediately. Also, I really hated the way they solved the problem.

Other than that, I enjoyed watching the series and cried a lot XD

Overall, 6.5/10
Sep 27, 2015 4:20 AM

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since im too lazy to read all page (haha), did only me thinking that yuu's effort is kind of useless? i dont think taking power from all user will solve the problem because new power user sure would appear again.
Sep 27, 2015 4:20 AM

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I don't even want to bother commenting on the engrish. I'm happy the series got a happy ending. The slice-of-life and comedy moments, as others have said were the best highlights that came out of Charlotte- whilst the drama and overall plot was pretty zzz. 6/10 Intro song was super catchy and ayumi is no 1.
Sep 27, 2015 4:21 AM

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There was so much wrong with this show I don't know where to start.
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