Towa no Yuugure Episode 12 Discussion

PokefanPT said:
Well, so this is the end of Towa no Yuugure.

I'm going to start off by saying that, as expected, this ending was really fast paced.
We first have that fight between Yuugure and Amoru/Yoiyami. The idea of having that back and forth with Amoru and Yoiyami expressing to Yuugure why they were both mad at her was actually interesting, but as with a lot of things in this anime, needed more time to be explored. Not only that, but there were some moments that just didn't make sense, like, why would Amoru just tear off Akira's core? It just didn't make much sense.
I also found particularly funny how in the middle of the fight, Amoru is just like "I love you as much as Akira, Yuugure" and just goes for the kiss, like that was so unexpected and they certainly didn't build up to that moment either. It was also funny how Yuugure just smacked Yoiyami after they took Akira's core off.
But I have to say the fight looked really good, P.A. Works delivered with the animation for this last episode. The episode looked stunning and even in the end, with all the hair blowing in the wind, the animation looked really good!

Now, I have to say that after the fight, the pacing only got worse. But before that, just a quick mention to how Yokurata was brutally murdered by Hakubo, and the only conclusion we got from that was that "he loved Towasa" I guess. Considering that Akira and Yuugure are shown to also leak that greenish liquid when they were damaged, I suppose Yokurata was also an Android, and would explain how he was alive after so many years.

After the fight, Yuugure heavily suggests that both Amoru and Yoiyami are dead, which is, well, unexpected. Later on it's revealed Yuugure was just exaggerating I suppose, but whatever.
And then, we finally got the long awaited moment: Android Akira meets Human Akira. Obviously that room had all the conditions to cure Yuugure, that was going to die (but then regains all her functions quite quickly), but Human Akira had to sacrifice himself (I mean, he's like 200 years old at this point). And what do we get from this confrontation between the 2? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It's certainly the most disappointing part of the anime. After that plot twist some episodes ago, I was expecting a big revelation to the rest of the mysteries this anime had, but no, Human Akira just goes like "oh, yeah, it doesn't matter if you're a human or an android, it's all the same" and reveals he sees Android Akira as his son apparentaly, that he wanted to see grow up (but left him in a closed capsule for hundreds of years), and that he has seen everything that Android Akira has experienced, and that he is happy that he found his love. He also randomly reveals he created the ehlsea, because reasons. For real, his explanation for the creation of ehlsea was even more disappointing, since it's something present ever since episode 1, and he was like "If the world was starting new, I just decided to change things up, just for the vibes". I suppose the idea is that he regretted not having any other lover besides Towasa, considering she just abandoned him, but if that was the idea, it was poorly explained.
After all this talk, Yuugure wakes up, decides those 2 minutes of rest were enough, and was like "oh, I have an important thing to say from Towasa", and I started to get my hopes up, just for her to say that Towasa loved Akira. Oh, thank you. Even so, that was probably the most emotional part of the episode.

Talking about Towasa... So we'll never know why did she leave, why she accepted Yuugure to follow her, what did she do in those years after she left, like, we got 0 info about that, that was like the biggest mystery after the plot twist, and we got nothing...

If the anime wasn't rushed enough, we then go for a final sprint, where they show every character that has appeared in the series (those random side stories), and we see the 2 siblings now have kids (so some years have passed ever since Human Akira died), the Sauna couple is still together, and the woman that got cheated by her husband was doing a sweater for someone, and I honestly don't know what are we suppose to take from that. After that Yuugure is like "Look Akira, Towasa is buried here" and Akira goes "Oh, Towasa, may I marry Yuugure?" and then they decidedto confess their love for each other and we got the kiss. The kiss scene had a beautiful scenery though. After the kiss Akira is like "Well, about Amoru...", and Yuugure goes "Well, we can include Amoru too" and Akira goes "Yeah, I like Amoru too", like, that dialogue seemed so inorganic... And then they decide to have their own "unique wedding", since Yuugure doesn't want to ehlsea.
And then they just show Amoru waking up and hugging Akira and Yuugure, and done, "La Fino", and the anime ends.

Do I even have to explain those last 2 minutes just left me confused. Like, what "unique wedding" are they making? What are they going to do with Amoru? Like, the anime focused so many episodes on this, and it ends without an answer. And ending with no answers not only happens with this thematic, but with almost everything about this anime. Everything because they spent way too much time on those random stories, and then this final episode had to be rushed.

Overall, I just feel like the whole anime had a lot of ideas to explore, but it ended up not fully developing any of them, making the narrative just feel flat. I remember how unimpressed I was watching this anime between episodes 3 and 8, exactly because the story just doesn't go anywhere, and even after the crazy plot twists that happen in episodes 9, 10 and 11, we reach the final episode, and the story just felt flat once again. I also always found the dialogue between the characters, and just how the scenes went between them feel really inorganic, which is unexpected from P.A. Works, their anime usually nail exploring the relationships between the characters, but that unfortunately didn't happen.
It's really sad to see how this anime ended, since it had so much potential. The setting was really unique, and the plot twist that happened in episode 10 showed that we were right thinking the potential was there.

The best word to describe this anime is just "disappointing". And I'm actually quite sad about how this ended. They just ignored so many plot points they have been focusing so much in these last episodes, I mean, in the case of Amoru and her relationship with Yuugure and Akira, that was a major plot point ever since like episode 3, and it still didn't get resolved. I think that is really problematic, considering they also didn't really promote any reflective thinking with this ending either, which is another thing this anime apparentaly was trying to do, making the viewer reflect about some topics, like love relationships between more than 2 people, if Androids could feel like humans, they even had that incest story (that I suppose was also to make us reflect about the social standards, considering that ehlsea was created with the purpose of breaking those social norms), but they never really explored any of those topics properly nor have they promoted our reflective thinking about these topics.

And my biggest question is where did Amoru's brother shown in the outro at the end of each episode came from? Like, she never mentioned a brother, the anime also never showed it, and it ended that way too. What I'm going to do with this information now?

With all of this, I'm not really sure how much I enjoyed this anime or not. Sure, episodes 1 and 2 were really enjoyable, and the story got interesting in episodes 9, 10 and 11, but this last episode was just so enfuriating, and episodes 3-8 were, in fact, quite boring sometimes.
So, I'm having an hard time giving this anime a score, since I'm between giving it a 5 or a 6.
After some reflection, I'm choosing to give this anime a 5/10, mainly because it failed to deliver what it promised, and for how disappointing it is, since it's wasting such a promising story. I'm going to reflect on this score for a bit longer, and if I end up changing my mind, I'll edit the score, but for now, I feel like 5/10 is the most correct score for this anime, considering the other anime that I gave a 5 or a 6.

Not all things were bad though, since this anime delivered one of my favorite ending themes of the year, "Two of Us", that is such a beautiful song! Also, the other ending Hana Hope did for this anime (the one used in episodes 0, 9 and 10) is finally available on streaming services, so that's a win!

It was a pleasure reading the posts everyone created in these weekly episode discussions! Happy Christmas to everyone!

Edit: Forgot to mention it, but now I also have to score the Prologue, and honestly, I'm not too sure about what to score it, since I normally would just give it the same score I gave the main anime, but the truth is that it was quite better than the overall anime, but at the same time, it's not like someone could just watch the prologue to not end up watching the full anime. However, I'm going with the 6/10 for the prologue, because the truth is that all the potential I talked about in this post mainly came from this episode 0, so I have to give it some credit.
Also, here's a final screenshot from Towa no Yuugure

MegamiRem said:
They got their happy end and this time waiting for Amoru together coming full circle. Everyone else also pretty much got their happy end and was nice to see them again one last time. We also got to see the og Akira and got to know what happened to Towasa.

Pretty meh stuff overall. Quite different than what the first episode suggested. I was expecting more action adventure focused show but this was mostly romance drama. Not that I disliked the anime but the most disappointing PA works anime since Kamisama ni natta hi.