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| @Gorgos Up until Episode 11 most of the changes are just reordering events or skipping scenes until the moment Xiaohei’s generic disappears and he reveals to Reiko and Yaomei that Kudou is the center of the Kowloon simulation. This whole scene in anime only. In the manga |
samspot8r8sJun 29, 12:00 PM
| It was a great mystery and a better resolution... ...and the end, the best to me!!! A chicken with lemon! An anime to enjoy!! 8/10 kekeke |
| Nice messaging with the “moving on” and accepting and being “your absolute self” but the execution was rather messy. Didn’t know the manga didn’t finish…why they do this 😅 If anything hope it makes more people read the manga |
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| I’m guessing Kudo never asked Reko-pon to be his girlfriend due to the fear of losing her again. Why did the gen terra redo everything for Kudo? If it was based on Kudo’s memories, why did Reko-pon’s personality change? Jk, it was because she was so complex. In the end, Reko-pon made it out alive and reunited with Kudo after 2 years <3 This anime was really good, but boy was it confusing. The animation style was chef’s kiss and so was the soundtrack! It’s a shame it was so rushed though 😭 8/10 for me! |
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@Gorgos
Up until Episode 11 most of the changes are just reordering events or skipping scenes until the moment Xiaohei’s generic disappears and he reveals to Reiko and Yaomei that Kudou is the center of the Kowloon simulation. This whole scene in anime only.
In the manga
Up until Episode 11 most of the changes are just reordering events or skipping scenes until the moment Xiaohei’s generic disappears and he reveals to Reiko and Yaomei that Kudou is the center of the Kowloon simulation. This whole scene in anime only.
In the manga
| @samspot8r8s Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll try to catch up the manga. |
How will I survive without listening to Yaomei saying Reko-pon every week? |
| So it was real? Kujirai still alive after getting out of there? Really interesting story... |
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| what a bittersweet end.... |
| Yeah figured we were getting an anime original ending with how episode 12 was going and the fact that the manga is still publishing. Weird decision that I'm not sure paid off. This show had a lot of potential but I feel it failed to deliver pretty heavily on developing the large cast of characters. Which of course is a direct cause of the pacing and them trying to fit a "full" story in 13 episodes. So while some of the mystery elements were pretty cool at first, and towards the end were pretty interesting as well, there was not a lot of emotional resonance for me with a lot of the character moments. |
| so i guess Rekopon exclusively owns the gene terra now. expected a explanation of how that shiz works tho... Ending of this season felt like the conclusion to the whole story, is there any continuation of the story in a manga or LN? |
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| very weird pacing, but tbh it was an interesting watch and very refreshing, it was probably rushed becuase it for sure felt like that. A lot of stuff unexplained too, maybe a little too much becuase there weren't really that many things you could say are best to left unexplained or up to interpretation in this stuff. One thing tho, the generic terra worked but in a different way? Kujirai became real thanks to it essentially reviving her or literally birthing her into reality from the simulation, maybe she is the generic terra at the end, it turned into her. Right?. |
| This anime had me anxious until the last minute. Just when you thought you had the answers, it just gave you more questions. It's over now, but there are still many mysteries left to be solved. Just like Kudou, we never knew anything about Kujurai B, not even the cause of her death, since it wasn't the pills. So what killed her, and why was Reiko able to leave the second Kowloon, and what was the Hebinuma group really hiding? Still, I really liked that in the end it wasn't a story centered on romance, but on learning to let go and move on with your life: being true to yourself and finding your "Absolute Self". The fact that Kudou forgave himself and finally accepted the loss of his beloved or that Reiko has always been a different person than Kudou's image of Kujurai B conveyed that message. The ending seemed a bit rushed to me, and I just found out that the manga isn't finished, so it's possible that the ending will be different from the anime. In any case, it was an excellent story. |
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| To be honest, I'm not really that invested in romance between kudo and reiko, the reason is it seems that I don't feel like Kudo really loved Reiko but the original, and can be jerk at times. What I'm glad though is that she was able to exist at the end. I was afraid that she might disappear by the ending of story. |
| So after all of that it turns out that Reiko was able to become her absolute self to the point of being created by the mysteriously disappearing Generic Terra and go outside. That's quite the unexpected result since I was sure she was going to vanish and even Success made it out. Also Kudo's regret is finally laid out and explained on what he meant that time by saying he killed her. SHe actually killed herself and there are gaps of her facet and thinking we still don't really know about. By the end even if the animation was just alright and there are some loose ends to pay attention to, I can't say I regret watching this. What grabbed me the most was how the set of characters were portrayed. It felt more down to Earth than your typical hyperbolic anime. These feel more like people even after laying out one or two cryptic lines here and there. Either way, time to continue watching something else and put this in my absolute shelf. |
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| My 329th completed series chronologically. For the record, I extended it a 7/10 rating. |
| Very good stuff, starting with the nostalgic visuals that put most new anime to shame. the animation style and animation quality were actually excellent, beautiful background and sharp character models. Kowloon Generic Romance ended quite unromantic, it's not within my expectations, nevertheless an interesting setting was created and I enjoyed watching it. maybe this or that could have been done differently. |
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| "the worse she can say is no" imagine you propose to a girl and she kill herself the next day... you too would create an illusory version of a demolished town in an eternal summer loop as escapism... |
| In fact is that Reko-pon still alive, and thought it's a different personality? The ending is way more better than i expected. Good ending, but not Best ending tho. |
| A bit anticlimantic but it wraps dat up real nice.. I mean idk how this reko pon manifested into a real human.. i'm guessing the pills or something? idk man... |
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| I think that those looking for hard materialist explanations of the outcomes and some of the more outlandish and logical leap-related developments leading up to that point should probably look elsewhere, since this ended up being more of a science fantasy in practice than a full-on Sci-Fi let alone hard Sci-Fi, so they don't even attempt to go for feasibly credible scientific explanations. At least I'm treating it as a de facto science fantasy by way of omission, as that's how it presents itself. |
WatchTillTandavaJul 3, 7:22 AM
| People seem to have mixed feeling about the ending. I'm confused only about how Reiko (and the fish) didn't disappear and actually have physical form; instead, tera-thing in the sky vanished. Is she made of flesh and bones? Is she immortal? It's clear she isn't visible only by some. She actually exists. How? Apart from this, the show was very good IMO. |
all I could think of this episode was Reko-pon entering the cinema of Kudo's memories and she was like this at the door: there are bits I get and some bits I don't but ehhhhh things seem fine so I guess that's fine lol |
| Reiko proved she was her absolute self when she was able to leave Kowloons ruins. Even Kudo couldn't deny how unique she was by changing in the ever repeating summer. The revelation that he didn't really know much about Kujirai B even though he was so close to her makes me wonder if that was the key element in this outcome. Generic Terra brought life to Kudo's regrets. But a lot of good came out of this. Several people got closure and were able to leave their regrets behind. This was quite the entertaining mystery and the happy ending left me satisfied. I know the manga is still ongoing, but as an anime only. I'm appreciative of this anime original ending. I'd say this finale was a success. |
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| Great set-up and the psychological representations throughout the first half very entertaining to keep up with, but the second wasn't able to fully live up to the expectations built. I'm glad that we got the happy ending though, the whole question mark on Kujirai-san's existence was never clear until the very end and Kudou-san wasn't helping the case either until possibly the very end in a roundabout way. A gamble that finally seemed to work (i.e., Kujirai-san making it out alive out of Kowloon Walled City 2) unlike the previous instance which caused the Generic Terra to flare up and whatnot. I feel like a lot of the nuances probably flew over my head which is why I've this unsatisfied part in me right now, but this turned out to be a fun watch regardless. I was keeping up with a few episodes alongside the manga but I suppose it's time to get back to reading now and have a better general opinion, lol. I can't seem to make a final impression of the show just yet... Nevertheless, got to give credit where it's due - the Op, ED, background art, early mystery and developments and many more. I was super hyped for this series and I still am for the live-action movie but then my summer trip came around and life got busy so I wasn't able to finish this right when it ended. Still, solid 7/10 is what I'll stick with for now. Might come back to it after reading the manga though, so tentative score for now. |
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| I was thinking more and more this past week or so about some of the ideas at play and conflicts presented within this series and it struck me that for the first time I came to really, I believe, truly understand and sympathize with Kujirai B's decision and what motivated her actions leading up to the suicide by pharmaceutical overdose of that sketchy medication which probably had a whole host of toxic effects. In many ways she serves as the foil to and antithesis of "our" Kujirai, or Kujirai A, in the present. But leading up to that fateful decision on the night before she was due to give Kudo his answer (to the marriage proposal), I have to think that her line of thinking was "Better to potentially die by my own hand at a time and method of my choosing and perish in and with my old world than be forced into a new and unfamiliar one against my will." And you know what? That's extremely understandable, sympathetic, and relatable. Our Kujirai was, of course, by contrast, always trying and seeking and wanting to try more and more new things. But for some people, a way of life is just too precious and core and intrinsic to their very personality, identity, and sense of self to part with amicably, or at all, other than in death. |
WatchTillTandavaJul 20, 1:22 PM
| Wait, so she didn't die literally? Reiko B's memories was erased or something. Why did she do that though? Why take the drugs? Kudo's regret was he didn't understand Reiko B after all this time and that's why he looped summer with the Reiko B he knew. |
| I like the themes that anime makes you think about. But I don't like that it only touched them superficially, and didn't go deeper.. the potential was good, but it never revealed itself. And instead of interesting thoughts and reflections on the topic of nostalgia, identity, simulacra and existentialism I watched 13 episodes about a slightly dystopian ubiquity of adults who work, kiss and eat delicious food. So many mystics and mysteries were laid down - and they were not revealed at all.. just like the characters, whose internal conflicts and problems would be interesting to explore, turned into some kind of candy wrappers |
| Loved this show. It had good atmosphere, an engaging mystery and complicated feelings to unravel. That being said the ending felt super unsatisfying. |
| Extremely disappointed with the ending I thought that anime original endings have come out of fashion long ago and were not used these days anymore I hate this kind of quick metaphorical wrap-up which explains nothing I wish I knew it was going to end up like this, then I’d never have picked up this title |
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