IT IS FINALLY OVER. Just took me 5 years to finish this anime.
First the positives.
- Silver Link knows their stuff, the manga has great art, and it was adapted wonderfully to anime, I loved the art and the designs, the usage of color was soo good;
- The OST is better than what this anime deserves, there are parts of this show where the sound pushes the drama to new heights, Neko confession and kiss scene at episode 8 was the best part of this adaptation, it is soo much better here than in the manga, the usage of the sound and the directing there is 10/10;
- This brings me to this, Neko is much more enjoyable on the anime than she was on the manga, her VA just fits her so well, she is the best girl of this anime adaptation quite clearly;
- Neko and Aki karoake scene on this episode was soo cute~~
As the anime continued, it only got better, the drama at parts felt too soulless in the manga, this anime did such a good job at selling it, putting life to it.
So why does it FAIL so bad by the end?!
The worst offender... negatives:
- This fucking SHIT fatso asshole, I LOATHED in 6 years ago when I was catching up the manga translation, I was far from being alone on this feeling, the writer was uninspired and wanted to introduce a rival, and wanted to make us hate said rival, he does it successfully for the worst reasons, you obviously know this asshole is an impostor, it doesn't help the case, fucker comes out of nowhere just to force BS drama, Neko's arc had good drama, this is just SHIT;
- The adaptation stops at the middle of this arc, without finishing it, the conclusion to this arc should have been adapted, the anime stopped at the end of manga volume 6, the arc ends on volume 8, POOR decision;
- I had forgotten how much I hated this arc, sure the kiss scene is good and all, but whenever the fatso is on stage, pisses me off, and in the manga, at the end of the arc, this character background is finally revealed, very annoying, but at least comes to an end, gets punched, explains stuff and you actually cool down, get the arc over with and this does develop Masamune x Aki, quite a bit, because in the manga Masamune finally comes clean with Aki about his past, this conclusion did wonders to get us rid of the sour taste this arc gives;
I think most people are not coming to the series, really expecting the revenge to happen, I always expected Aki x Masamune, I wanted to see how it would progress to it, from the revenge story, but no one was expecting the anime adaptation to stop at such a critic point, in the worst arc of the manga, to me, it destroys a lot of the good feeling I was getting after Neko arc, the positives the adaptation did... I m still going to consider them, but honestly, if this show had been a 2 cour, fully adapting the manga, and bringing the OST to full glory to the last drama chapters of the manga, I honestly could have rated the anime higher than the manga, and I already enjoyed the manga ending more than I expected.
Whenever I will come across this anime again, look upon it and see the score I gave, I will definitely recall how much the drama surprised me, a rare adaptation that gets it, and how much a stain and a poor decision it was to leave the adaptation at the middle of this arc, how foolish was I to forget how much I hated most of this arc on the manga, I let myself having expectations that this could have ended good, but there is no way this was ever going to adapt, not ending it like this.
I urge anyone that enjoyed the good parts of the anime to go and keep reading the manga, you can start at volume 7, the manga is far from amazing, but at least with it, you get this arc over with, and I can definitely see glimpses of how good could the adaptation become if it fully adapted the manga.
SHAME, what a WASTE.
6.2/10 = 6 |