Zetsuen no Tempest, I admire your guts. I really do. You went into a direction that has caused so many other series to crash and burn horribly, and you pulled it off wonderfully. Creators who try to forcefully insert romance into a story have failed in so many different ways. It often has no place in the storyline, and while it’s normal for characters to fall in love, it somehow has to take control of the entire story and characters while feeling horribly uninspired.
Here too the romance has taken control of the story at this point, but dear god, it’s glorious! This show analyzes its romance with the same amount of detail and mind-games as it did with its other subplots. It does not feel uninspired at all, and in fact this episode was hilarious. Not to mention that the depictions of love were really well done, and not cheesy like you would expect.
It’s the episode in which Yoshino finally reveals his big secret. He has been dating Aika. This needed a lot of build-up to work well, considering what a huge part it plays in this series. The past few episodes did this really well by using Hakaze on one hand, and Samon and Mahiro on the other.
Especially the characterization in this episode was amazing, though. Hakaze’s attempts in order to find out more about Aika were awesome (not to mention that this gave us even more excuses to know more about that girl who really has been dead for a year). What I expected even less was that hilarious discussion in which Samon and Mahiro started guessing why Yoshino would hide his girlfriend from him. That really made me laugh.
Rating: 6/8 (Awesome)
The whiteboard discussion was really hilarious. The ideas they came up with was like watching ‘name your favorite fetish’! I mean .. a nurse? It was watching really clever being really stupid and needed an idiot to state the obvious.
I swear. This is comedy gold. That discussion of girlfriend scene was hilarious not only for who was involved, but the classical music playing, everyone (Except Hanemura) talking all seriously, the whiteboard in the middle of the living room (I swear that that is a Back to the Future reference) and out of all the people to spout out what the obvious was, it was Hanemura.
I swear, Bones is the only studio who would do this and could think they could get away with it. They really are a great studio.
Did this series change its broadcasting day?
Now we just need to know the identity of Hanemura’s ex-girlfriend.
He is also under suspicion, and has also hidden her from the rest.
I liked most of it aside from Hakaze’s OTTness
And also found it hard to believe that Mahiro would talk so nonchalantly of killing Yoshino if he was the mage, this is his best buds forever we’re talking about, no hint of shock or doubt or whatever.
He already stated several episodes before that he is going to join them in order to save Yoshino.
so enjoyable, I found it fresh and fun. I hope they can keep up the excellent work.
Awesome episode with quite a cliffhanger. This show never ceases to excite me.