Kanata no Astra Episode 12 Discussion

Surprisingly enjoyable series. First half was kind of "eh," there was just way too much "Oh, bad thing conveniently happens! Oh, but this character can conveniently solve the problem!" The biggest one that made me groan was on Vilavurs: Oh, Funi ran away and went on top of the bouncy tree which just so happened to extend really high up which just so happened to put her at risk with the bird creature, but oh good, Kanata just so happens to be a decathlon athlete so he can save her by jumping on conveniently spaced trees and using the conveniently left behind spear to javelin throw at the bird which conveniently nails the bird and then they get saved by Quitterie's conveniently activated parachute plants!

But thankfully the second half of the anime got A LOT more interesting once they finally decided to fully explore the relationships of everyone and focus more on the truth of the world. Although sometimes they really pushed it jumping to conclusions sometimes, like them figuring out the calendar got pushed back 100 years to remove and redo history. Like, that was a real stretch and they quickly accepted it as fact (maybe the manga delved on it more and this was just an anime problem, I don't know).

All that being said, I did really enjoy it. A lot of the plot twists were really well done, and the series wrapped everything up pretty dang nicely. I'm happy and content with it. A very solid 8/10 from me.