Reviews

I wanted so badly to love this series in its entirety. Hells, I was warned by a friend but I didn't listen, I was drawn in to it by the beautiful animation and music - the classical literature slightly presented in a different angle - all combined to form something new.

Of course I was drawn in badly, and I'm a crybaby I'll be honest I cry easily and I was perhaps in a tearful mood so this anime suited me incredibly.

That is.

That is.

Until the ending they decided upon.

I had noticed of course as the story and mystery unravels itself, the more well... Subpar it became but I held on in hopes of fully understanding and comprehending the entirety of the series' story.

Alas. Alas.... My heart was stomped out the moment <spoilers> came back and said such ridiculous words in the second last episode. There would be nothing left to save this story. It was over. I merely continued watching the next episode half heartedly out of mere respect of the start and what could have been's.

This could've been a truly wondrous series. Could have. Perhaps one day someone might be interested in rewriting this story, fleshing out the characters more and ah perhaps not... Do whatever this anime had gone down into.

Everything that was good about this anime was ruined, nullified - by the end. A story is a whole. Even if the start is stupendous, the middle decent, but if the ending is awful - then... Then it taints the entire series into truly a poorly written one. Perhaps the writing had never been good, we were simply lured in from seeing familiar classics rehashed into what the beginning teasingly promised could be something so much more with a veil of intrigue drawing us deeper in and watching until the end for... For what are we but fools hoping to see a fantasy they were so very interested in be as good as its start? I held on my hope but I feel bitter now like it was for nothing.

This isn't the animator's fault. Nor the voice actors. No. The fault lies in the writer.

A poorly written but well animated and voice acted anime.

...I even sought out fanfiction but not many wrote an AU. Merely cute character interactions. Fair enough. Perhaps I'll take a turn at it one day. Perhaps not. I have other priorities.

But I suppose this is just like reality isn't it, such disappointment is... a stark reminder of life.

I wanted this to be a spoiler free review but I have to first of all - address the incredibly disturbing thing at the end.

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DAIDA IS A CHILD. MIRANJO IS NOT.

JAPAN STOP WITH YOUR RIDICULOUS CHILD/ADULT RELATIONSHIP FANTASIES HELLS