One thing I'm going to say about anime in general is that endings, the conclusion to a show, to an anime that satisifies many people are hard to come by. In truth most animes I have seen, even the ones I rate highly have fairly bad endings. Most of the time it's because the manga isn't finished so the anime producers have a hard time ending an anime in a satisfactory manner due to that and they simply have no idea how to end it. It can also be a question of money, perhaps they had a too tight budget, perhaps production expenses were too high (ex. KareKano).
Now to relate this to Kannagi; Kannagi had a worthless ending. Now I recieved a very ambitious comment about how I don't go into detail about the animes I write reviews about, but what is there to say about a worthless ending? It was unfinished, it was unsatisfactory and it did not fit and the thing is it wasn't even the very end that made the bad ending. If you strap on your criticizing goggles for a minute and think back on the climax before the conclusion to this anime, didn't it feel unnatural to the story?
Something I've noticed of late about almost any anime, that contains these or similar themes, is that they all suffer from the same syndrome; "interesting first episode passes over to the thing we've seen 100 times before it ends in something rushed and fairly blurry, often with some sort of flashback/narrating touchy-feely thing". Yea it's a copyright-pending expression. This anime was no exception.
Still I was entertained from time to time by this anime. It had some nice touches and a few of the characters weren't half bad. They pulled off making characters irrelevant to the story amusing enough to be forgiven for bad character development which is always a plus, especially when making an anime 13 episodes long. The animation and art are good in Kannagi, but it is only to be expected of the producers and animation producers of this show. I don't regret having seen Kannagi, but the entire anime feels like fanservice when fanservice isn't called for. Watch when/if you have the time and want the occasional laugh.
