Well, there’s no denying that this episode had cheese, but it’s of the good kind. After all of the badly written episodes in this series, it’s at least good to see a heart-warming bitchfight between Anne and Edna that works reasonably well as long as you suspend your disbelief. Thank god Edna wasn’t another one of those stereotypical side-characters, but instead got a bit of depth to her. Even though her mother is the umpth mother who suffers from the “useless and sick mother”-syndrome.
Thinking back, it’s definitely been interesting to blog such a flawed series as this, mostly because while there were plenty of cringe-worthy moments, it never derailed completely: there always was something interesting going on that gave me plenty of inspiration to write about, compared to other rather one-sided shows as 07-Ghost, Valkyria Chronicles and some of the other shows that were a pain to blog for me. It’s really been a joy to blog Konnichiwa Anne throughout the past three seasons, despite it’s large share of problems. In the end, where this series truly shined was right after Henderson left, up to the point where Anne arrived at the Hammonds: these episodes were absolutely amazing, and the rest of the show really was hit or miss. I’d really say: crew Anne, Bert is the best character in this series. It’s not like Anne is the Anne of Anne of Green Gables anyway. Try saying that three times.
But yeah: there still is that matter of the two final episodes. The final episode will be fine. I’m not worrying about that one. My biggest worry is about the next one: the Amy Thompson episode. The creators have been hinting towards her quite a while now, but she never had her own episode yet, so there’s no doubt what next episode’s going to be about and that has me worried a lot. This show has a really nasty tendency to ruin perfectly fine characters with one-sided and shallow development.
Rating: * (Good)
LOL at Useless Sick Mother(tm) that’s basically all of World Masterpiece Theater, they practically invented it.
Oh the reason I believe the series is rather hit or miss is because the director has never handled any shows like this, the most he’s done is a children show called Dinosaur King, and a couple of shota OVAs according to animenewsnetwork
Apparently the next Nippon Animation is going to be about some raccoon.
I really liked this show, despite some flaws, the characters , well some of them , were rather good , the storytelling , most of the time, very interesting to follow and made me look forward the next episode. So, on the whole, I can say that this is quite a good series. That’s why I also love Masterpiece Theatre series, even if all of them are not “utterly amazing” , they are always a pleasure to watch anyway. This one doesn’t make an exception.
I really liked this show, despite some flaws, the characters , well some of them , were rather good , the storytelling , most of the time, very interesting to follow and made me look forward the next episode. So, on the whole, I can say that this is quite a good series. That’s why I also love Masterpiece Theatre series, even if all of them are not “utterly amazing” , they are always a pleasure to watch anyway. This one doesn’t make an exception.