Oh boy, it’s been a while since I blogged a series with this many anime original fillers. Or at least, this episode had nothing to do with the main plot, was poorly animated and was very much a standalone story. The Irony is however, that the anime fillers are actually better than the manga fillers. That is to say: the stories in the manga about characters who are only going to play a role in their respective arc and completely disappear after that were much less interesting and atmospheric than what the anime came up with. Of course I’d rather see the main storyline animated, but seriously: I’m not exactly regretting watching the past number of episodes.
This episode was of course nothing spectacular, but it could have done a lot worse with the ingredients that were given to it. Right from the start it was obvious that the woman was deceiving her boyfriend; her acting was shallow enough for that. The pacing of this episode, along with Lag’s usual meddling made it interesting to watch, though. And the ending was actually pretty nice in the way that the creators cleverly stayed away from a forced happy ending, and that the two just broke up after Lag’s powers revealed Bonnie’s lies.
These fillers aren’t perfect of course. This episode was badly animated, and the creators clearly didn’t have the budget for it. I’m also not that happy with how Lag just “happened” to run into them. Still, for a filler it was pretty good. My only hope is that the creators aren’t going to let them take over the show in order to wait for the series to progress, especially since the manga is still relatively short. In most cases I really advocate long series lengths, but thanks to Studio Pierrot this is turning into an exception: I really hope that this series closes off at 25 episodes, only for a second season to be animated in a few years time.
Rating: * (Good)
I actually dropped this series because it doesnt stack up to the manga. Overall its just lacking what makes the manga good, the fillers are just so mediocre it really feels like they phoned it in. I’ll read your blog to see the plot unfold but not gonna bother watch eps anymore
I dropped it after the first episode because it seemed just a tad too shallow and simplistic… it’s been getting really good ratings though, maybe I’ll pick it up again because of the dry winter season.
such a shame at the moment i’m really disappointed with this series, the divergence from the main plot are really killing it for me. I guess I had too much high expectations since I actually really liked the previous special & enjoyed it more than this series so far.
droped on eps 1