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Episode 20. That pre-opening credits scene ...
Spoiler: show Continuing into the first third of the episode ... Spoiler: show Just finished the episode. It was okay in my opinion. Spoiler: show Now to read what Deo thought of this episode ... Spoiler: show
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03-03-2013, 01:09 AM | #102 |
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Book Comparison:
So, like I promised, I decided to check up on the books to see whether the current story arc is made for TV or not. But first, I went back to where we last left off and decided to see how closely J.C. Staff has been sticking to the novels. Now, I'm not gonna lie: I skimmed really quickly through Volumes 3 and 4 because what I really came here for was to see if the current story arc is made up or not. But when I hit Volume 5.5 (which my computer showed me before Volume 5), I discovered, much to my surprise, not only that the Point-5 novels are just as important as the regular ones (I figured they were mostly omake stories) but that several of 5.5's scenes made it into the anime. Sooooooooo ... I'll share that with you now. Volume 5.5: Spoiler: show Next up we have Volume 5. This volume basically covers all of the Valentine's Day arc. Which means ... we need to skip back to Volume 4, to see if that's where Christmas happened. (Whoops. ^^; ) And sure enough, it is, along with some other stuff. So ... Volume 4: Spoiler: show So back to Volume 5. Like I said, it looks like it's pretty much one giant Valentine's Day novel. So let's see if that checks out on closer inspection. Volume 5: Spoiler: show And finally, we reach Volume 6 where ... well whaddya know ... it looks like the current arc is taken straight out of the books. So any complaints I may have with it I'll have to take up with the author, not with J.C. Staff. Volume 6: Spoiler: show So basically, we're halfway through Volume 6 right now. There are two additional main series volumes out right now though (7 and 8), one additional Point-5 novel (7.5), and two further planned volumes (9 and 10). Not really sure why the series is wrapping up now then, with (by all reports I've found) only four episodes remaining. Especially not now that I know that the current arc was actually part of the original books and that it happened as far back as Volume 6 of 10 main (or Volume 7 of 12 total, depending on how you choose to look at it).
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tfw no one wants to talk about snpnk anymore
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I do but not right now. :< Paradoxically, I care about the show too much to write up anything less, but I'm not in the mood right this minute to write up a lot.
I can at least tell you I enjoyed it but still feel like the series has not done enough to persuade me that Sorata and Mashiro would've fallen in love. An initial attraction, absolutely, but it's pretty nuts how much more living history Sorata had with Nanami.
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I have a place where I generally talk about it. I CAN take that here, but it's just me and this other guy bitching about it. We joke about how we dread Sakurasou day and all that. I figured you and everyone else would appreciate it more if I just stayed quiet.
If it's any consolation, this week's episode wasn't bad. They just kept plugging Nanami and going against Shiina to the point to where anything else just seems weird. The train scene was still nice though. |
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Episode 23: Haven't read your guys' posts yet. Pausing and beginning to jot down thoughts so I don't forget 'em.
Spoiler: show Given some of Misaki's comments to Sorata at the end, it'll be interesting to see whether a "Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo 2" (i.e. the remainder of the books) is going to be announced for Summer / Fall 2013 or for any time in 2014. I'm not holding my breath for it, but I also wouldn't say no to tuning in to one should it come to be. Just read your guys' posts. Spoiler: show
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Final episode. Gonna reply to it as everything happens.
Spoiler: show And with that, I give Sakurasou a 6.5/10 overall. I enjoyed the show quite a bit, but I'm not blind to a lot of the bad mistakes the show made and a lot of the "meh" plot decisions and cheese factors. I actually am having a hard time giving it that score because, like I said, I REALLY liked it, but I have to stay true to what my brain says, even if my heart feels different about it. I'll see you all next time for season two (assuming there will be one). |
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Oh thank heavens! Sakurasou is finally over! No more suffering on Monday! The last episode was decent. It was loaded with the usual awful Sakurasou humor with everyone over-reacting to everything. We had a few ending moments with some of the characters, but they weren't really anything out of the ordinary.
For Sakurasou itself, it started out with potential. I seriously enjoyed some of the moments during the first of the show. Sorata had a decent problem, and Misaki/Shiina were entertaining. Of course I hated the humor. Later on, they just started forcing everything. Sorata got angry every episode for some forced-ass reason, and I just did not enjoy the drama. Actually I hate how Sorata gets upset during his game developing adventures, when he just halfheartedly walked into it. He's against people who have much more experience, yet he expects results? Speaking of Sorata, he has to be one of the worst protagonists I have ever seen, and he IS the worst tsukkomi character I have ever seen. He overreacts to everything, and he feels the need to do this obnoxious screaming tsukkomi to everything that doesn't even need one. Later on, he gets angry every god damn episode, because Mr. Author wants to cheaply make it look like he cherishes the people he's around. I get what he's doing, but good fucking god is it cheesy. Overall, I enjoyed walking into Sakurasou with a few bits of rage here and there. However, every week after the first 8 episodes left me sighing in exasperation. I usually drop stuff when it starts to irritate me, but since I liked Shiina, Misaki, and Ryuunouske, I stuck with it. Overall, this gets a 5 from me. |
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I watched the final episode a few days ago; and while I'm not up for an in-depth post about my feelings about the final episode, I can at least briefly offer that I did enjoy it for what it was, I agree with everyone that it leaves the door pretty wide open for a second season that focuses on the second half or so (slightly less than half) of the novels, and that I want to like the two new freshmen but they feel like such a, such a, such an obvious forced pairing. ^^; As for feelings about the show as a whole ...
In the end, it was foolish of me -- foolish of all of us on the Internet, really, who made the comparison -- to ever compare this series with ToraDora. Not because there didn't seem to be some positive similarities early on -- there sure did -- but because it condemned Sakurasou in the long run. The series never did manage to live up to ToraDora, and as a result Sakurasou was destined to let me down when, had I never expected it to match up to ToraDora so much, I think I would have been much, much happier with it. (deoxys, if you're reading this, and if you haven't seen ToraDora yet, you totally should do so now that Sakurasou's over. ) TBH, I think Sakurasou would've fared much better as a harem visual novel than as a non-harem light novel series. I mean, don't get me wrong! I was glad that Sakurasou wasn't just another harem! But in the end, it sort of devolved into a two-girl harem: Shiina Mashiro and Aoyama Nanami both in love with Kanda Sorata and he attracted to both of them. This created a very regrettable sour taste in most of our mouths whenever the issue of Nanami came up. The show did such a great job of establishing her as a girlfriend candidate for Sorata -- frankly, it did a job 2x to 3x better than it did for Mashiro! ^^; -- that we all were left scratching our heads and wondering "Really? " whenever the series would yank Sorata back into Mashiro's lap. If the show had simply not given as much attention (or as much success!) to Nanami's relationship with Sorata, I don't think this would've been as much of a problem. But it would've also made for a rather boring show. Given that the author clearly wanted to tantalize readers with both girls, I feel like he would've simply been better off giving us a harem. Sorata x Mashiro for the canon path, Sorata x Nanami for the most popular alternate path, Sorata x Misaki for the path where you pursue her more heavily (the result being that Jin leaves her to you and/or that she gives up on Jin, who neglects her feelings, and falls for you, who returns them), and hell, why not, a Sorata x Chihiro-sensei path for the milf. (Dem boobs.) But nah, that isn't really a good solution. Like I said, I was happy that Sakurasou wasn't yet another harem. So why turn it into one? No, what the real ideal fix would've been ... would've been to have had Sorata's falling in love with Mashiro actually justified. We still haven't really been given a good reason to see why he should've fallen in love with her. Attracted to her, sure; but fallen in love? When he's done all that he's done with Nanami? That's the thing. That's what upsets us. That Mashiro gets Sorata ... despite doing nothing to earn him. That Nanami doesn't get Sorata ... despite doing everything she could. It's almost symbolic of the series' overarching theme (about how people who lack natural-born talent frequently fall short of gifted prodigies, no matter how hard the first camp works at it and no matter how little effort the second camp puts in). Mashiro, the prodigy, gets Sorata effortlessly. She simply is and he is drawn to her like a moth to the flame. Nanami, the average girl, does everything you see in love stories -- including quite a few times where Sorata puts Mashiro on hold so that he can go and rescue Nanami like her knight in shining armor -- and yet in the end she doesn't get anything. If the author did this on purpose to be meta, then for it as a brainy work of art but for it as a feel-good love story. hahaha I might offer my overall series rating points later. I might also offer my specific thoughts on the final episode. Or ... I might put it off ŕ la the Fate/Zero Episode 25 review post.
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Excellent post. You hit the nail right on the head 100%. If I could gild a comment here like on reddit, I'd gild that one. Tres bien!
Oh, and I'll add it to my ever growing "to watch" list. I'm sort of all over the place in terms of anime right now with absolutely no organization. |
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