Kyoukai no Kanata

Special 3. Which is actually kind of funny, for once. Almost entirely on account on the defendant, and the reactions of the small ones. Especially the ones on the edges.

I'm getting Free vibes from Hiro'omi.

Free from what?

Yes, and somebody was in deep-Tsun mode there.

Well, clothing of course.

Yeah, I wonder if this becomes a bit of a thing for Kyoani.

Special 3 is indeed the best of them. Hiromi pretty much makes a joke out of all their attempts to punish him and then gets the silliest punishment.

dammit, Kyo Ani.

those last two minutes kinda ruined the finale for me. even though I ended up liking Mirai a lot.

now the big question: will Kyo Ani do a second season? considering the preliminary sales it's going to be hard to justify the budget. is the LN selling well?

Episode 12. In which is unpleasant. With a smile on her face.

You know, it's rather refreshing that someone's actually calling someone out on being oblivious, rather than just letting it pass. Then again, episode 12. These things should happen at least mid-season to be actually surprising. Still, many anime don't even do this.

Someone's rather kickable. With pants or whatever it is about as round as a football.

Good weakness she thought of as an example. Though it really just highlights that she knows him.

"Do you have a licence?" Priorities, Mirai, priorities...

"I have no idea which way to go, but go full throttle." Well, if you don't have time to figure stuff out, go with your gut.

They're making quite a lot of statements about how they have no clue about what they're doing or what they're fighting.

"I'm the immortal half-youmu." True words.

I think the last two minutes were too late to even matter. Rather predictable, though. Happens a lot in anime.

I get what you're saying. If you're going to kill someone off with no foreshadowing just for drama at least go through with it properly. Don't just bring them back three minutes later. What was the bloody point of that?

edited 18th Dec '13 1:08:09 PM by Elfive

I tend to think that if you pull a Diablos Ex Machina, then pulling a Deus ex Machina to solve it isn't really as bad as just doing one of them, as it's usually quite easy to pretend neither exists. But then, I wouldn't quite qualify the first as a Diablos Ex Machina, since whether or not she was actually alive was questionable to begin with. For her to die there made sense within the context of the story, so I wouldn't agree that it happened without foreshadowing.

So,I haven't watched yet but it sounds like the show pulled a TTGL at the end.

Meaning the hero didn't get the girl at the last possible second thereby ruining the entire anime.

Is that true?

it seems that the hero would get the girl, then there was The Reveal that the girl was Dead All Along (where "all along" means the final three episodes), and then there was an Deus ex Machina with the girl re-appearing.

there has been plenty of foreshadowing for Mirai's death; since the opening monologue of the very first episode, actually. plus, it's been explicitly said in episode 10 that she used her blood to contain and consume the Kn K youmu; that's why her body disappeared, and she was declared dead in the process.

I get why she was brought back. well, the two reasons: one, a moe character means selling DVD/BD and merchandise; two, any eventual second season will need the dynamic between her and Akihito. but for the last 10 minutes of the show I honestly hoped Kyo Ani would do something actually ballsy, and in line with the "dark fantasy" mission statement for this series. I guess I was expecting too much.

edited 18th Dec '13 2:53:30 PM by CmdrStriker

No, through some Ass Pull Mirai is alive and well, sans glasses, in the post-credits scene. Supposedly revived using Aki's Beyond the Boundary powers? (that seems to be the consensus).

edited 18th Dec '13 2:55:08 PM by AetherMaster

and

Answered my question. Awesome. I don't have to avoid the last four episodes like the plague then since I hate bittersweet endings. They leave a bad taste in my mouth.

DOHOHO!! Puns!

edited 18th Dec '13 2:53:01 PM by Silentedge89

you can probably explain the Ass Pull with the fact that Mirai (as she says) was absorbed by Kyōkai no Kanata, and since Akihito got the youmu back inside him then he could conceivably restore her from her memory? blood? but it's still pretty much random and not really satisfying, especially because the episode devotes about 60 seconds to that process, from the moment Mirai's ring disappears in the middle of the closing monologue.

edited 18th Dec '13 3:27:19 PM by CmdrStriker

Actually that does sort of make sense now. Akkey is really fucking powerful and really wanted Mirai back, so he subconsciously spent several months reconstituting Mirai from inside himself. He finally put those world-ending powers to constructive use.

Yeah, I felt like that could have been explained a lot better. Also it seems like the fight with the glasses guy villain (whose name I can't be bothered to look up or remember, that's how memorable he was) was brushed off easily in a 30-second explanation at the end. "Oh yeah, we defeated him and it turns out he was lying about his Spirit World Warrior group connections".

edited 18th Dec '13 3:17:53 PM by AetherMaster

Oh, I expect he'll be back if they ever have a season 2.

edited 18th Dec '13 3:18:19 PM by Elfive

Miroku and Izumi's fight (and revelation about both having absorbed youmus) was clearly set up for a new arc, alongside Akihito's mum intervention.

So… What the hell was Miroku trying to accomplish? It seemed like he wanted KnK to destroy the world, but I don't see why could possibly want that.

The youmu was influencing him? Youmu being made of spite and stuff I guess it could make sense as a motive, even though it was annoyingly cliche.

I was sort of under the impression that he was trying to become part-Youmu or something along those lines. I thought that's what he said in the fight with Izumi. And they were trying to create a Youmu-only world?

But… KnK was going to absorb all the Youmu! They should want that thing dead just as much as the humans to!

Haha, oh wow, that was pretty bad. One of the definite cases where pretty visuals can't really redeem a production if everything else was... lacking. The out-of-place (and corny) humor during the serious segments for one, the cartoonish "villain" another.

And can someone confirm that Kyo Ani actually adapted just two thirds of the first book? Out of two only out? What?

Yeah that's what I was reading as well. Apparently that was only one volume or so. Maybe they're hoping it will be popular enough to warrant a sequel series.

It's not even one book, but two thirds of one, and whats more, the end of the book did something else entirely. o_O

What is with it with Kyo Ani these days? I understand they want to be content creators, but jumping the gun and adapting something with a single volume to its name doesn't really sit right. Sure, it can produce hits (see Chuunibyou), but it's also going to cause misses, at this rate.

edited 18th Dec '13 10:34:46 PM by MyssaRei