[Deathkillz]

Originally Posted by Marion

Finished the raw.

Spoiler for episode 1-3 spoilers, review:

Pros:
-Pacing was considerably better than the previous two episodes. Then again, it covered less chapters so I guess there was more time. Even so, it was more smoother than previous episodes.
-A good mix of rearranged game BGMs were included, along with some new trakcs.
-George's mourning of Shannon at the shed, while not nearly as heart wrenching as the game, was still very well done.
-Daisuke Ono (Battler), Miki Itou (Eva), Yasuko Hatori (Kumasawa), Emi Shinohara (Natsuhi) and Yui Horie (Maria) reigned supreme with their voice acting this episode. I was impressed at Horie and Itou especially.
-Dur hur hur Kinzo hiding under the bed and Natsuhi assaulting Kinzo with a candle stick XD I got a good chuckle out of that to be honest
-The conversation in the kitchen was good, save for a couple things.
-Eva and Battler's talk was well done.
-Nothing was horribly cut up.

Cons:
-FFFF NO NIGHTEYES IN THE NATSUHI GUN SCENE ;O;! -saddened-
-Maria overload was annoying. I'm sure that everyone that was annoyed at her 'Uu' will now be annoyed with her 'Kihihihi' |D But seriously, some scenes were just annoying. They didn't even talk about her personality disorder or something.
-Jessica's lung problem wasn't mentioned.
-I'm a bit disappointed that they watered down the impact of Natsuhi bringing in a gun to the parlor, by showing a shameless plug (again). If that scene started with her entering and everyone reacting to her having the gun then I think it would have been much better :/ Was there any real purpose of showing Maria watching Higurashi other than shameless plugging? Seriously.
-The scene with Battler and Eva talking was good, but weirdly placed. Originally they were talking in the parlor but suddenly they're going down the stairs while everyone just shuffles around the main lobby (where the Beatrice portrait is) Every now and then you would see some of the characters just walking somewhere or just standing one place not doing anything.
-The kitchen scene was good, as I said, but did they really need some of those special effects, along with Battler looking like L5 Keiichi half the time or something? Some of them, like closing up on the eyes of the servants ominously as they continued to say Beatrice is real was good, but after that it's like wtff. Also, Maria was annoying with her flashes in that scene.
-Natsuhi almost seems to just jump of Eva with the accusation. Originally Hideyoshi was also pitching in comments about it and when they continued to do so then she snapped.
-With the whole door thing near the ending, when Kanon left I was a little miffed because Genji stood behind. It's like the anime is trying to imply that Genji made that symbol, when he left with Kanon as well to tell everyone in the parlor.
- AND AM I STILL THE ONLY ONE MAD THAT BATTLER ISN'T EXPLAINING HIS FAMILY LIFE FFFFFF. Battler didn't even seem to mourn over the bodies anymore, he just moved on to anger. Meanwhile Jessica - who was the angered one, was just quietly saddened. Although comforting George was sweet.
-Did I NEED to see Hideyoshi naked in the tub :U (not much as a con as a gross out)

Overall: This was a considerably better episode in general. Not many elements were cut up and the ones left behind got decent representation, save for a few. I give this one an 8/10.

Quite a fair review of the episode which I more or less agree with.

Spoiler:

Alright, up until the ending I thought the pacing was done exceptionally well compared to the first two episodes. Not saying it was the best in the world but certainly an improvement.

But then why the F-ing hell did they have to ruin it all by forcefully inserting the second twilight scene was beyond me. Did they really had to do that? They practically destroyed everything at the end solely for the sake of showing something shocking to end the episode by and frankly it could have waited.

However, it was good to see that parts of the story have been left intact with the lesser details being left out. Unfortunately those lesser details are what makes the story so interesting to read and without them I simply couldn't feel a whole lot coming from this episode. It is as if you are reading a summary of the game. You know the plot but you don't know the feelings and complexities behind it. Take that away and it is hardly as enjoyable anymore.

That said it could be worse like the previous butchering of episodes beforehand so it was some sort of improvement for the story to not disintegrate into something worse.

Maria's faces and Battler randomly shitting bricks really gets on my nerves though. Not to mention the scene with Natsuhi pointing the gun at Eva...here it felt as if there was no tension at all which certainly wasn't the case for the game simply because you get attached to the characters during the process of reading about the "needless" bits that the anime decided to cut off.

Not a good thing you know...