There’s a long review coming………….
About the STORY
As the ending of the last season was so much of a cliffhanger, we are all wondering what happened after that. To my surprise, there’s even a shocking revelation right off the very first episode. It just shows the different new storyline and plot this series has to offer for this finale. There’s a major twist in the story this time because of an apparent major switching of sides of one of the main characters. It is really confusing but it’s just to make the revelations at the end anticipating. A full force war is always a perfect storyline for endings. And if we’re talking about war, it’s always about a battle of beliefs. Who’s right or wrong? What is the true peace? Whose belief will prevail at the end? As always, this series loves to use interesting yet quite confusing terminologies or names for its characters. Some terms are interesting and cool but some are quite mess-up and don’t even matches to the character’s personality and ability. However, I am going to admit that most of the dialogues and lines are really confusing.
About the CHARACTERS
For a new season and for a finale, there are quite a number of new characters both from protagonists’ and antagonists’ side. Sakai Yuji has always been the type of character with an impressive improvement. From being a weak and tiny torch, he became quite a capable fighter that even Alastor was in awe. However, this time around his character development is rather more of a shocking character development which is so unexpected. Personally, I don’t even particularly like him because he can really become quite irritating but in this finale, he’s not only extremely irritating but he’s also really confusing. You will see Shana’s abilities like you’ve never seen it before. There are few new interesting techniques. I’ve always wanted for Shana and Yuji’s love story to really have a development because in the last previous seasons, it was quite in a slow pace but this is so far from what I imagine it to be.
About the ANIMATION
One of the amazing things when there’s quite a gap between the previous season and the sequel is the improvement with its animation. There’s non-stop explosive action from start to finish, befitting the ending of one of the most successful action-fantasy series in the anime world.
About the ENJOYMENT
I don’t find making Yuji a villain and making him fight Shana interesting. It surprises me, not in a good way. Yuji sides with the enemies because he wants to protect Shana and the people he loves. But Shana thinks differently. I know that the kind of drama that comes with that kind of storyline is very common today because it’s still very much effective. Making best friends or lovers go against each other particularly in series with wars at the end is really effective because it is really interesting to see characters that are once ally’s ends up becoming enemies because of their different beliefs. However, it just doesn’t feel right this time. After all the battle that Yuji and Shana had been through at the end Yuji sided with the enemies and fight Shana! At the end it just turns out that all of them want the same thing. Then what’s the point on making the villains so effective. I feel so irritated almost the entire time I am watching this.
I know that because this is the finale, they are going for a different and more dramatic kind of storyline and love story but it just doesn’t work for me. It is so far-fetched and so over the top.
