Favourite Air Episode discussion

[x-X-MiSuZu-SX-x]

Hmmmm... I was wondering What everyone's fave Episode of Air was:p

[Ziv]

hmm... that's a hard one. There's lots of episodes where it reaches a climax and seems like it's ending but it keeps going, so I'll have to say 12 since it was the most dramatic climax of all. Poor Misuzu... :sad:

[sliceman22]

i have to say the last epsisode....
If its the movie than the best is the part when she fell in love.

[Shiroth]

Overall, my favourite episode of Air is episode 10, Hikari (Light). It shows the final climax of my favourite character Yukito in a way i've never seen before. Also, with my number 01 track from the game soundtrack, Sousei being used for the best scene in the series - it pushes the episodes up even more into my number 01 list.

Still, i love just about each episode as much as the rest - each of them have an important roll.

[Minoto]

Overall, my favourite episode of Air is episode 10, Hikari (Light). It shows the final climax of my favourite character Yukito in a way i've never seen before. Also, with my number 01 track from the game soundtrack, Sousei being used for the best scene in the series - it pushes the episodes up even more into my number 01 list.

I've got to go with that one too, for the way it ties the whole series together, past and future. The music selections are perfect, too, from Natsukage at the beginning to Sousei at the end. Absolutely beautiful...

[Areguzanda]

hmm... that's a hard one. There's lots of episodes where it reaches a climax and seems like it's ending but it keeps going, so I'll have to say 12 since it was the most dramatic climax of all. Poor Misuzu... :sad:

I agree with you.
but I totally love Air.
It's an amazing and beautiful and sad Anime. and the Quality is incredible.
I just wished it had a little happiere ending :sad:
but then again.... it wouldn't have been Air without it.
Air is one of my top 5 Anime series ever.

[Shiroth]

Did you mean episode 10? I've got to go with that one too, for the way it ties the whole series together, past and future. The music selections are perfect, too, from Natsukage at the beginning to Sousei at the end. Absolutely beautiful...
Strange - i even looked at the DVD's to see which episode number i meant - silly mistake by me. :3

Glad you agree with me. The whole series is just one big beautiful experience, and episode 10 sums up that beautiful feeling all into one. & yes - i've said a number of times how Sousei is one of my favourite BGM's i've ever heard - and it works perfectly for that scene.

[Cyz]

On the TV series, I say ep. 12 since it's really dramatic. As for the movie, I say the part where Misuzu kisses....um...forgot the guy's name during a festival.

[celcius]

Ep.11, last part. Everything is beautiful. The fade out music, the screen switches between Haruko and Misuzu, the total silence and the following two syllable word, and finally Haruko moving while Giniro cues.

[martino]

Watched so long ago that I can't remember...

Probably the last episode though...or any episode with lots of Minagi... :)

[Vexx]

The millenium flashback sequence for me.... yes, it extends over more than one episode :P I just enjoyed the characters and it gave vital context.

[K3cT]

Seconding the above post. I really like the Summer arc of the anime.

[EternalDragonWarrior]

Hmm, this is a tough one...but I'd probably have to go with the last episode. The ending was the most memorable part of the series IMO, and it's still the saddest ending I've ever seen.

[frad113]

All of them; each episode is an unforgetable fragment of a complete amazing journey.

[Sai the Dreamer]

Mine would have to be episode 9. Maybe it's because AIR was somewhat confusing to me at the time, but this episode was the most touching and beautiful one to me. Or maybe I just have a weakness for past tense, who knows. :heh:

[Jeiku]

I loved all episodes, because if one were removed it wouldn't have done justice to the series (AIR In Summer exception, though). I would have to say episode 10 - Yukito being my favorite in the anime, his final presentation was fantastic to watch, and it turned out in something much more important than a love confession, methinks. He started out as someone rather closed off, but later understood that there was something more important than him and Misuzu staying alive longer without obtaining their goal. It also sets up the stage for the final episode, which I think is one of the best endings I've seen.

That, and I found some of the Sora moments very amusing. Hurrr.

[Rengemaru]

Simply put, I can't answer that question since AIR is my all time favorite show. I just love each episode equally. Kinda boring, I know :(

[SealedTears]

i woude say last episode, when she reaches her "goal" i stile feel the sadness in my hearth everytime i think about that. and the episode when she was almost taken away with her dad but ran back and screamed "mamma" the sadness there i stile feel sometimes when i think about it.
the movie when she falls in love, and the kissing scene. the last part when mizusu dies is the most painfull ending i have ever seen, "i tryd my best rigth? its okey now rigth?" :'( hurts so bad.

[zoozoc]

I would have to say all the flashback episodes, (8 and 9 i think) including the 2 OVA episodes. I found those very enjoyable and funny. Going back and learning the history was definently the most enjoyable part of the series for me, though i liked the starting couple of episodes as well. (once my favorite character turned into a freaken crow, it sorta killed it for me)

[snisni]

My fave must be the last episode... it made me cry :(

[shinn_asagiri]

the last episode, that really made me cry...

just remembering the scene itself already makes my eyes heavy...

[zrdb]

I second that-the final episode made me cry-it was so sad when Misuzu died-and with the reincarnation going on into the forseeable future with no release in sight-again sad.

[Yukito590]

In the movie I my favorite part is when Misuzu is feeling weak and is hiding in the shrine. Then Yukito punches Misuzus dad and runs in search of her. At this point, that epic song, "Tsubasa Nin Densetsu" plays. This scene was done so well that it gave me chills and brought tears to my eyes from sadness, excitement, and eevrything. It then ends up with a kissing scene which I hoped for in the anime series. I loved all that so much and always will.

I don't really get the end of the movie. You hear what appears to be wings heavily flapping, then Yukito looks upward but you can't see any thing. And this happen after Misuzu...died. T^T Then at the end Yukito says "why don't you ask Misuzu" (if I remember correctly, it's been almost a year) and it zooms into the boble-head thingy that Misuzu left for Yukito. It made me think that he is in denial/ see's her soul being in the bobble head. Was kind of creepy. xD

As for the series. The beach seen, the ending, and the last of Yukito just killed me so much!! But I can't choose any favorite because hey, I also loved when they first met, and when they played in the water, and many other scenes. The whole series was perfect and I named it my favorite series when I first watched it in 2005. It'll be 2008 soon and nothings even came close to reaching to me as much as Air did. So yea, #1 forever, it's just too special.

It makes me sad whenever I think about Air because then I just feel like watching it over again even though I know nothing new will happen. Not only that, but watching it again will only make me even more sad and think about it even more. I haven't ever shut up about Air
since the first day I watched it almost 3 years ago.

Misuzu =(

[Wuya]

End of the 2nd episode I believe.

Kano was sleepwalking/tranced and she released the burst of magical energy that caused the illusion.

[Solafighter]

First episode. :)

And also favourites episodes: All other. :rolleyes: :D

[Hikari]

Summer Arcs for me. I dunno it had a unique magical-historical feel to it, I really can't explain it.

Altho the first time I watched it and they went back to that period right at the end of the epsiode I was like WTF? Why is it this sad drama on a seaside town that I was watching suddenly becoming all Rurouni Kenshin all of a sudden with the samurais and such. This was not what I wanted! But then it all made sense in a little while.

Even in context as the backstory, the summer arcs did seem to take a different feel in terms of having way more flat out jokes and funny moments/gags not shown or fitting at all in the modern era counterpart. Even after watching the series in full I thought it was quite a constrating change between the two.

But whatever, I like it, so yeah...

[Monster in a box]

Can't really pick a favorite episode in a series like this. But I'll tell what wasn't my favorite episode. Episode 4. Man was that episode ever bad. I loved 1-3, thought they were the high point of the series, but 4...4 was just not good.

[fading sun]

Last episode/movie for me. The movie was so much better done than the anime, but the anime was still excellent.

[pcube19622]

My favorite ep is definitely the last ep...especially the last part where sora(yukito) flies off saying "ill continure on my journey to find...."

[Kristen]

If the movie counts as an episode, then definately the movie. I felt the movie was a much more fluid flow than the anime.
But if it's the anime, then probably episode 12. It really just was something special.

[Samatarou]

It’s hard to single out a favourite episode, except perhaps by a process of elimination.

Not the first episode, since it was rather random, after watching it I had no idea what the series was going to be about, it was just a collection of encounters.

The second episode was better in terms of being a lot of fun, but the real hook that got me into Air was that final scene where they see the glowing figure of Kano stumbling along, and then that explosion of light... at that moment, for me, the series took off and became something special. So not the second episode either since it was just the start.

Third episode was brilliant, finally developing the strange themes, but this was topped by the revelation of Kano's story of possession in ep. 4, and also the enigmatic meeting with Minagi (in her summer hat) where she describes herself as a fragment of her mother's dreams, thus setting up the next arc. The ending of ep.4 was incredibly poignant with the song of the mother about her lost child, at this point Air established itself as one of the most emotionally powerful anime series I think.

Ep.5 was more strangeness (did I tell you I like strange stories?) and very sad with both Misuzu's and Minagi's troubles developing at once. But ep.6 topped things again, like ep.4 having another incredibly emotional climax to Minagi's arc, even sadder than ep.4 I thought.

From ep.7 I found confusion starting to creep in, by the end of that ep. I just didn't know what was going on anymore, and this began to tarnish my enjoyment of the series. The historic episodes that followed made sense but I felt somewhat detached from them, and the final episodes 10-12 resumed the confusion, and this combined with the tale becoming depressing without a feeling that there was something worthwhile to justify the suffering left me unsatisfied at the end. The Summer extras were fun but shallow.

So by a process of elimination I would say probably episodes 4 or 6 were best, with 5 and 3 in contention. Really it's hard to split 3 and 5 from 4 and 6 since they are necessary for setting things up. It's a shame they didn't manage to tell Misuzu's story as clearly as they told Kano's and Minagi/Michiru's, Misuzu's was supposed to the the main story with the other girls lives merely being touched by the winged girl, but for me it was too muddled for her finale to really shine.

[Monster in a box]

That's an odd opinion to have. I personally thought Kano's story didn't make even the slightest amount of sense, and I've seen it three times now. I just didn't get it. Misuzu's was much clearer, though probably still not as clear as Minagi's, or at least harder to understand.

[Sirth]

For me, the greatest episode was 11. There was so much going on between Haruko and Misuzu. I really wanted Haruko to get what she wanted, and that was to keep Misuzu. Then the beach scene. Has to be one of the greatest scenes in history. To me, that should of been the end, since not even the end had as much of an impact on me.

[Gaara133]

I'd say episode 13 (even though it's a complete recap); the most moving part for me would be when misuzu said, "Goal" then it went into the full version of the opening song