I've been really enjoying this shows lately. Tackling a mature issue, and the heartwarming chemistry really grabbed my attention. But unfortunately, the last six episodes hit me straight on the face about how dumb the plot behind it really was
So here's my thoughs, since this a wrap up:
I had an issue since the first episode (an issue that had keep teasing me to drop this series) First of all; A girl, that ran out from home for six month, with literally nothing but a school uniform and a small backpack that i believe can't carry a damn thing on it. So i assumed, ok maybe she's go out in a hurry, so she's forgot to pack any other clothes or wear any other appropriate outfit. But even for that small efforts to fill the plot holes, it feels so stupid to even think it would work. I mean, it's six month goddamit!, and she's got nothing but only a pair of outfit to wear, why the police didn't ever search or notice her in that range of time?, or the neighbour's atleast, maybe getting suspicious about an unknown underage girl that had been roaming around with the same school outfit, going in and out a guys apartment. To think of it, it actually so easy to track her out, if a police had notice and maybe try to approaches her for just once, they can easily tracked her down based on the uniform alone, and getting the information about a student that been missing for six month in her school. Is this supposed to represent how a police work on the big city in Japan? What a lazy attitude! (Or maybe, what a lazy writing!)
Second of all; is she didn't have any relatives around? I mean i get it from the first time that this had something to do with schoolgirl issue, so maybe she can't rely on any friends (or maybe she had no friends around). But again c'mon, it's been six month godamit! Even if she's had getting used or been enjoying this kind of behaviour, (offering her body) She must have a slight though about where's she's gonna go from the first time, or which person she's gonna see if it's come a day where she can't find any guy to take her home
So again, i take time and a small efforts to fill this plotholes. I assumed that she had a small family from far away. Maybe her family is poor so they didn't have any connection or relatives in the big city that this girl can rely on. And maybe her family it's also just a complete ignorant like she's been hinting, that didn't even ever try to search for her. So ok it's settle, with that mindset i can actually enjoyed this shows for a couple of episodes. But then episode 7 came out, and it feels like being punched so hard with a silly fact that her brother it's actually a CEO and president of a food company. Ok so i think again, maybe her brother didn't actually care for her, that way atleast this story doesn't seem too bullshit. But the next episodes come and uppercuted me once again to the floor. When she decided to run out from home (with a zero preparation), her brother had stopped her and even ask about her feeling, even drive her to the station, even give her 300.000¥ for accommodation and even tell her to call for him when she need anything. So when the half month of estimated passed, why didn't he try to search for her? When his one and only sister didn't give him any information, why didn't he filled a missing person report so that lazy polices on the big city can aware for her? Pushing that aside, from the very beginning, he should be the one who been keeping in touch with his sister, or atleast hire some guys from his company to keep an eye on her, maybe some bussines partner can accommodate her, or maybe, she can actually live with him for the meantime, or maybe he can rant her an apartment (if he is really that grown up man that lives with his mother). No. The author even try to cover this plotholes and try make the story seems believable by ditching Sayu's phone (told you, that damn backpack can't even carry a small charger)
So the question left are, is the brother actually care or not? Is he stupid or not? If he really that idiotic, then why the hell he can became a CEO of a goddamn company?
The next thing is, the backstory. With all that nonsense being going on about the family and the six month of prostitue, i keep reminding my self "Keep calm, the backstory can redeemed it, and it will hit you hard". Oh boy how wrong i am..
At first i think, we gonna got a full exposure to learn about the story, maybe the protagonist visited their home, and learn all about it, and eventually put in a closure to the cases. So maybe they gonna reserve atleast 2 episodes of Sayu (Highly-anticipated) backstory, to make us invested in it. But no.. The backstory only least about an half of an episodes. And they tell it, by being summed up by the girl herself. At first i think she's gonna have a hard time telling it, but she's seems pretty light and easy about it. To think they had been build up this moment since the first episode and executed it this cheap (by everyone keep saying "If you didn't wanna to tell it, it's okay" pfft)
The story of Sayu's friends didn't even added anything to the build up. What is the main reason she killed herself? Because she think she's being an obstacle to our main heroine?..wtf. I had enough with all this side's character that their whole purposes just to revolve around MC. Goto-san reject Yoshida, because she doubt it but actually love him. The girl from the office had a crush on him, the only other guy from the office, Hashimoto is Yoshida's friend, and nothing more useless than that. Sayu's girl friend from the department store is Hashimoto 2.0, the horny boy at the department store just to served as a stereotype of all the guy Sayu's been sleeping with (so we don't have to mention all of them one by one), and now the first friend that Sayu's have in the highschool, killed herself because she think she's not good enough for her shine? Atleast give them a life dammit!
Arriving at the last three episodes, everything just keep going downfall. At the eleventh, they almost run out of fuel, so basically the anime production needed ito over dramatized everything; The view on the plane windows, the sand clock at the cafe, the bleeding hand, even the wind blow on the rooftop of the school. I mean, did we really need to get those? Even the moment on the rooftop seems unnecessary. If they would explain Sayu's past there, that would have been a really good moment, but since we already know all about that, there's nothing new to gain
And the disaster is on the twelfth episode
Do you guys ever play a retro, RPG games who had no voice over? And the whole dialogue is on the board with a character picture displaying a single expression, and changed everytime if we clicked the action button (just like the conversation in Persona2&3 or maybe every Galge) That is the best way i can describe the whole conversation at the dinning table. Everyone just look so fucking stupid with their still expression with a mouth slightly open for no reason waiting for their turn to talk. At some point, Sayu is crying, but when Yoshida started to talk, she immediately look at him with a dummy still expression. The mother is always at the high pitch when she's talking, but when she's not talking, her face just went out straight for nor reason. The conversation even make it worse, each of every line feels like it being written by some 10years kid that had a booklet on their hands that say "How to be parents"
And the worse thing of all, is the Mother. I've never seen any character that being written so swallow like her. She's a temperamental lady in the suit six month ago when Sayu ran from home, and she's still a temperamental lady in the suit six month latter, there's no improvement on her character, there's no improvement on her speaking manner. Time feels like just stopped for her at that dinning table since 6 months ago. Her personification is just as a temperamental lady nothing more, there's not enough layer for her to be seen as a mom, there's not even enough layer for her to be seen as a human, she's as empty as a f*cking video games NPC. And in the end, she just keep saying "you can't understand my struggle", oh please.. then showed us her struggle's dammit!
So in the end, seems like all of Sayu's main problem and past, is just an excuse so the author can created an intriguing situation for her runaways story, and not the other way around
4/10 |