Holy crap, this episode was intense. This show actually got even better with this episode. I don’t care how butchered the last episode was with the three murdered high school girls. This episode made some awesome use of it by continuing that path of sacrifices and toying with how hard it is to save everyone. There was a lot of stuff going on at the same time here, combined with some awesome action scenes.
And yeah, I just can’t help but praise the visuals of this\ series. This animation is just so incredibly expressive. This is an effect that you can’t get no matter how big of a budget you have, how well it plays together with the music and the storytelling. Really, TMS Entertainment has shown some wonderful stuff this season.
There are only two really bad decisions that they made. By far the worst was the decision for this series to only have 13 episodes this show really deserves more. The problem probably is that they couldn’t get enough sponsors to really get to 26 episodes, hoping for good DVD sales. Now this was a very big production error that unfortunately happens way too often. The second big mistake was hiring Atsuhiro Tomioka to compile the scripts. This wasn’t all bad: like with his other series, he really managed to add that something extra and succeeded in making this a standalone series. But someone needed to oversee the content that he cut away to do it because he really tends to do that. Then again though, I haven’t read the manga, but having the restriction of only 13 episodes to work with, I can also very much understand to skip certain parts in order to get further into the manga at the end.
Rating: *** (Awesome)
nice episode yup but i still don’t think it will do the manga any justice at the end for some reason its the same as what happened with mugen no junin it got a 12 eps series which barely covered like 15% of the story and the manga’s been ongoing since 1996
Wow what a visual emotion I got at the end! I was buzz and this episode was amazing!
Im happy I haven’t read the manga (yet). I’ll enjoy this show to the fullest. This season has some shows (Lupin, fate/zero and this one mainly) that have a good old fashioned fun factor that I’ve been missing for a while.
Yeah for non-manga readers wait for this to end before reading it. Some of the characters you didn’t like you will come to understand better in the manga will not be instantly unlikable. Actually the manga is still ongoing so for manga readers it feels like a punch to the gut when it will only have 13 eps.
Better a little of something than nothing at all, at least to me anyway.
Sure if you are talking about food, water, or something of that nature.
Anyway i am curious as to how they are going to end this. Early on they skipped a ton , and they also condensed insane amounts of chapters into single episodes, but now they have slowed down quite a bit. I am curious if they are hoping for sales and leaving it open for another season, or are they going to go with an anime original ending, and when will the original material start?