That ending was fuckkking terrible. Wow.
It's not even the ending itself I had problems with; some people wanted to stay, some didn't. Fine. But they way they went about it was fucking deplorable.
Koharun went from an already shitty villain, to a shitty, pointless villain. Acted evil as fuck for no reason, and then 2 minutes later you find out she's just a little tsundere and she loves her daddy.
They tried to make the large cast of characters a selling point of the show when they were promoting it, but in the end 99% of them were fucking useless. Christ I don't even remember most of their names.
And not surprisingly, the useless forgettable ones were basically all of the ones who stayed in the house the whole time. It also doesn't make much sense that the people who decided to leave at the end were like "ohhh, well yea guess I'll just accept my Nanaki out of nowhere and go home. And we'll walk out even though we get teleported to the bus anyway".
Like, looking at who stayed and their level of importance/wasted potential:
- Blonde hair guy w/ orange shirt and hat: completely useless. Did nothing. Don't know his fucking name. Stayed because he didn't want to pay debts.
- Slutty girl in purple dress: don't know her fucking name either. She LITERALLY did nothing the entire time. They didn't even use her slutiness for fanservice. Stayed because....she could?
- Leon: wasted potential. Had that whole thing where she could see dead/going to die people. That contributed nothing to the story other than 20 seconds of backstory...which also had no impact on her character. Stayed because she was too lazy to accept her scars or something.
- Valkana: ehh. Was a central character of sorts because of his leadership-ness of the group, but the story wouldn't have been too much different without him. Stayed because he's undecided, and also wants to observe Koharun. Basically makes Koharun fall for him.
- Koharun: important but also wasted potential. A lot of the mystery played around her the whole time, which was important. But she didn't do anything until the last 3 episodes...where she became a royally shitty villain, and then actually served a purpose in the last 4 minutes. Stays to continue her fathers research but from a different aspect, and to help right her wrongs.
- Jack & Judgeness: completely useless. Waste of potential. Just parody fodder as henchmen. Probably suck each other off in the woods at night. Stayed so they could be beaten by Koharun.
- Soy-latte: wasted potential. Didn't even know what her name was till this episode. Was the only one who wasn't affected by her Nanaki being separated from her. You'd THINK that something like that would be fucking important, but guess not. Stayed because she could help people that were affected.
- Brown haired guy: don't know his goddamn name either. Not even sure he has one. Stayed...just cuz, and because Soy-latte stayed. Effectively sailing the brown-haired x soy-latte ship that nobody expected.
Also lets not leave out the fact that all of these people are eventually going to lose their humanity and just become sleeping vegetables. They know this, and there isn't any way to prevent it, but they decided to stay anyway. Not even deciding to accept the scars and just leave the village and go to a different place. They basically all just accepted what is essentially death, without a second thought.
Now, looking at everyone that left:
- Dahara: completely useless. Wasn't even wasted potential when he didn't have potential to be fucking anything noteworthy in this show. Just some shitty tour guide who probably sucks his boss's dick to keep his job.
- Spikey blonde hair guy: again useless. Outside of trying to rape girls with the DJ guy in the beginning, and throwing in his opinions on shit every now and again, he had no relevance. No idea what his name is.
- Young sickly kid: don't even know what his name is...again. Honestly he might be THE most useless character on the show. Wouldn't doubt that he had the least amount of screen time in the show. Don't even remember seeing him during all of the big incidents either.
- Feminazi bitch: completely useless. No potential, no name. All she did was fucking complain and yell at people. Literally go back and watch all of her scenes. See if she contributes fuckin annnything in any scene she's in....she doesn't.
- Piitan and Husband: holy fuck, these two were annoying? If their usefulness was supposed to be comedic relief, that shit failed hard that's for sure. So, yet again, another set of characters that legitimately did nothing.
- Fat guy: guess what? Also useless! Aside from saying fat joke one-liners or something stupid. The biggest surprise here is that his fucking fatass got up and left the village.
- Girl with blue shirt and beanie: does she even have a name? She had so many like 2 word lines of dialogue thrown in randomly, but she served no purpose whatsoever.
- 2 gun nut kids: I'd say wasted potential. They seemed knowledgable, we saw both of their Nanaki, and they were crazy glasses guy's henchmen for a bit, but they fizzled out into nothing right after that.
- Girl at 22:36 in episode 12: That's all I can say to describe her. Girl in the pink who's not Piitan and has short hair with clips. Honest to god I don't even remember seeing her at all in the prior episodes. Maybe SHE is even more useless than the sickly kid.
- girl with dark tied-up hair and purple shirt: not a fucking clue who she is. I know she even had some dialogue there too, especially towards the end. But again, useless.
- Eve (I think her name was): wasted potential. She was the girl who got along with Maimai who was also interested in Mitsumune. Said she was looking for her "Adam". Thought she'd be a part of some ship or harem or have an interesting Nanaki related to her being a flirt...but she didn't even flirt. She did nothing expect spout a few lines to Maimai.
- Maimai: Incredibly wasted potential. Was so much potential around the Mitsumune x Maimai ship. Hell that's practically all she ever talked about till the last parts of the show. Yet it never amounted to anything. And probably never will after Mitsumune essentially confessed to Masaki.
- Nanko: I'm actually going to say slightly wasted potential here. For the most part she wasn't bad. She was an important character. She had a goot bit of dialogue. She was central to the plot moving forward. She was smart, and contributed. She was funny. When I say she was wasted, I mean that she was fine as is, but could've been a little bit better. We never saw her Nanaki, and she basically just went through this entire ordeal like "mehhh, ok, I get it". And with how many fucking retarded characters there were on this show, it would've been nice for some of them to get a little less screen time while Nanko could've gotten a little more. As it stands though she wasn't bad.
- Love Pon: what the fuck? How did this deeply traumatized fucking nut job just so easily accept her scars and leave? Why did she even want to leave when she was such a psycho social outcast? Even on the goddamn motherfucking bus she managed to spout off one last "execute" line. Everything about her character was bad and nonsense filled it wasn't even funny.
- Crazy glasses guy: basically Love Pon with a cock. Dude was all over the place emotion wise. Couldn't get a grip with his past at all. His train Nanaki was driving him crazy compared to pretty much everyone elses. He's unstable, untrusting, accuses everybody, acts like a leader and tough guy but cant take criticism. Completely unfit for regular society and the village. No idea how he accepted his scars so easily after how paranoid it made him. Also...I'd like to point out how fucking poorly hypocritical this guy was. In the finale he goes "why should we trust this Reiji guy? We have zero proof that anything he's saying is true. How could we possibly believe something so crazy sounding? etc" BUUUUT, he was the one who believed that Masaki and Mistumune were ghosts, that Masaki summoned evil monsters to kill people, blah blah. ALL OF THE OTHER SHIT that was just as crazy and non-believable, and he bought it, but anytime someone told him the truth he was having none of it.
Then lets not forget DJ guy, who in the ending scene you can see decided to stay with the professor for whatever reason. Kind of hard to be a recognized DJ when you're stuck in the woods doing fucking nothing, but that's none of my business.
It's ridiculous that all of those characters I mentioned were just completely useless to the story as a whole. The only truly important ones were:
- Mistumune
- Masaki
- Hayato
- Koharun
- Valkana
- Dr. Kami
- Nanko
- Bus Driver
Rather than trying to make a show focused on a huge cast of characters in a big tour group, this show would've been much better if it focused on a much smaller number of characters. Like perhaps a bunch of people who spend time on blogs on the internet all found this shit/chatroom about this village, and all randomly decide to meet up and go together for their own reasons.
Then everyone who was important could've still gone for their own reasons (Mitsumune to change, Masaki to find Reiji because she was already there and found out about the place again online. Koharun to help her dad and she scoured the internet and found the same blog or something). Then on top of those essential characters throw in maybe....crazy glasses guy to be a better villain, and maybe 2-3 other characters to be on the villains moral side, and to be the peons who show the effects of cutting off the Nanaki and getting sleepy. Seriously, this story could've been played out so much better with the 8 essential characters I mentioned plus another 3-4 at max for a total of about 12, compared to the well over 30 characters they decided to use.
Oh well, waste of time show with a wasted potential in both story and characters...but at least the OP was good. 4/10 |