I don't know why they didn't follow the LN, but this was so bad.....
Jonesy974 said:
We have:
- Tooru legit dropping dead, then waking up and walking like nothing happened.
- Torou being a tard and stopping Julie from killing K for the SECOND time.
And just like the first time, they let him live, then he got back up for one final attack
- Tooru telling Julie to not use her power...despite the fact that it's the only time she's been useful in the entire show.
- Tooru becoming a pussy. His whole speech about is revenge worth it and how he wants to protect, basically implied that whenever he meets the person who killed his sister, he's going to fight him, and then forgive him like a little bitch.
- We had Bunny-sensei being a badass once again. Her and Tooru are both level 4, yet Tooru still needed Julie's help to deflect an attack that Bunny handled solo. Her Oroburos can literally turn into a blade spinning shield with an equal power to Tooru's shield...plus...it's a goddamn sword. Why is Tooru even a necessary character then?
- Once again we had loli headmistress spouting fucking nonsense about how all she wants to do is reach absolute duo. Meanwhile we still have no idea what the fuck it truly is or what it does.
- Oh, Miyabi visits a fucked up Tooru in the hostpital AGAIN. Yea, let's not ask her how she's doing or say you're glad she's back to normal. Nope. We'll just brush over that incident like it never happened.
What a train wreck ending. And I very rarely ever use the phrase train wreck.
Ehh. Overall 6/10. Lilith, Bunny, and Miyabi made the show. And even Tomoe a bit too. And it was decent enough during the meat of it. Just the beginning and end sucked. Will probably rewatch a bit of it on BD just for all of the uncensored tits.
Good analysis.
The only points I'd add would be:
- Tooru collapsing with a hole the size of a golf ball in his side, then waking up, running around AND fighting for the better part of the second sequence, AND getting hacked in the shoulder by Julie, and STILL not bleeding to death by then.
- Tooru going through all of that mentioned above, and STILL being able to jump two stories DIRECTLY into a beam of laser (that previously blasted a hole in his side) and have the power to SLASH through K and his armor. The dude fell unconscious after getting the lightsaber rammed through him (as shown by his shield disappearing from his arm), there's no friggin asspull in hell that would make him recover so fast, AND find the strength to hug Julie when she's raging hard in Berserker mode and slashing his shoulder off.
- Julie unleashing her awesome power against Tooru so much that she starts bleeding from her arms, legs AND a cut in her face. Then Tooru spends another 30 seconds monologuing to her face as she plays hack, slash and bleed all over his shield... THEN suddenly miraculously stops and and all forms of bleeding and even loses the cut in her face.... wha...?
- K not shooting another round of beams at the dorms. Considering that his first shot left the Usagi half-dead, a second shot probably wouldn't have been deflected, and hence he would have achieved the best case scenario of the student body and Usagi dying in front of Tooru. I thought K's aim was to proove Tooru wrong and make him despair. That would have done the trick for sure there.
- Tooru generally being a complete ass. The writers clearly wanted to chalk him up as some idealistic hero who wants to protect everyone in the entire universe with his own two hands. The unfortunate things is, he can talk the talk, but when push comes to shove, he can't do shit on his own (but he managed to Kill K by himself?), AND he hasn't learned his lesson about talking big and not delivering either. Near the end of the show I was actually hoping for K to take him down a few pegs. Tooru really should have let Julie perform a lobotomy on him while she was slashing him, it might have actually made him smarter...
- Then all the bullshit talk about Julie being an EL Awake, which is pretty much an Exceed who naturally had their soul power awakened, as opposed to Exceeds who had their powers "Artificially" awakened..... and being afraid to tell Tooru???
Uh.... what the fuck is the difference? Why the hell would anyone be afraid to tell others? It just means you're a naturally awakened Exceed, big deal....
- Then all the bullshit talk about Tooru failing to stop Julie from using her powers. Dude, if you didn't want to make her use her powers, then don't play dead for the better part of two minutes and then jump back up completely healed of all injuries.... and if you knew you weren't a match for K, then back the F up and get help from those friends of yours.
Seriously, the way they animated this show, you'd think the only ones that were worth more than two shits were just Tooru, Julie, Usagi and Lilith, whereas the entire student body besides them (including all the upperclassmen both one and two years their senior, who technically should be more experienced and much more powerful than them, but.... aren't?) were complete useless canon fodder that weren't even able to run away from the beam attack, much less counter it. Are you telling me that besides Berserker Julie and Level 4 Tooru, there is NO ONE in this universe that can come close or match Usagi's Level 4 skills?
Why the hell have a school there then, since all other students are completely useless? Just have the Principal focus her training on JUST Tooru and Julie. You'd achieve Absolute Duo in no time, no?
I know the LN is better, but at least make the friggin' anime adaptation make sense for god's sake...
The only reason I'm not dropping this down to a 5 is because Lilith's characterization seems legit. |