[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for last episode and final thoughts:

An atrocious last episode.
For one thing, it was anti-climatic. Kind of reminds me of Ookami and 7...
And even disregarding the placement of the episode, the content itself was absolutely horrible, destroying everything from the main story to bring about (cold) laughter.



As for the entire series...
Let's say, 6/10.
To be honest, this almost reminds me of Princess Lover. It starts out good, but from half-way, everything dive-bombed.
The first arc, with Kyouko, was done OK. Not great and the execution was lacking, but at least it was put together seriously.
From then on, it was terrible. To sum it up, I would say the staff can't seem to put "serious" and "comedy" together well. What they ended up with was something half-way for both but neither sides good. I guess since the story itself wasn't that good anyways, the comedy saved it a little?

Either way, horrible. And to top it off, the last episode sucked even more. Even if it is a bad anime for most of the season, a good last episode can leave a good impression (like AYAKASHI), but this didn't even do that, leaving my general impression as: Just chaotic, in a bad meaning.

To top it off, the major characters were all dreadfully boring. I couldn't bring myself to liking any of them.

The only points to compliment are:
1. The OP is great (Hogeeeeeee------------!)
2. It was fun listening to "imaginary Yuu"

But I guess I am not disappointed. I never expected anything in the first place.