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Ayu-ayu · 2006-08-23, 01:25

Hrm...

Spoiler for wrap-up thoughts:

I wish that they spent some time reanimating the bad animation they reused rather than recycle it as-is...I have a bad feeling that the DVD release won't get the much needed do-over it deserves. That's all the more frustrating given that Onikakushi-hen seemed to be animated and directed so well in contrast to the rest of the series. Did they lose an animation director or a contract with a good subcontractor or something? With any luck, perhaps the final arc will at least be handled by whoever was responsible for getting Onikakushi-hen right...

2006-08-23, 01:25	Link #6
Ayu-ayu a.k.a. Akari_House Join Date: May 2003 Location: Somewhere near Seattle Age: 53	Hrm... Spoiler for wrap-up thoughts: I rewatched most of the relevant question arc episodes last week after seeing episode 20, and this episode went pretty much as I anticipated...although I imagine the description in the sound novel of the torture scene with Satoko must have been really brutal indeed. I did have some theories (albeit sloppy ones) about how the final Watanagshi-hen scene would be explained, so I was rather disappointed that it wasn't at all. Was this originally explained in this arc in the sound novel, or was it left for a later answer arc like this one? My own best thought was that Shion survived the fall with severe brain trauma and was mistaken for dead, leaving her "animated corpse" to still go after Keiichi one last time. Of course this still leaves open the questions about Takano's body (dead 24 hrs before the break-in), the contents and purpose of the mysterious syringe, and Satoshi's real whereabouts...but that sounds like all material for a later answer arc to reveal along with the many questions left from the other three arcs. I wish that they spent some time reanimating the bad animation they reused rather than recycle it as-is...I have a bad feeling that the DVD release won't get the much needed do-over it deserves. That's all the more frustrating given that Onikakushi-hen seemed to be animated and directed so well in contrast to the rest of the series. Did they lose an animation director or a contract with a good subcontractor or something? With any luck, perhaps the final arc will at least be handled by whoever was responsible for getting Onikakushi-hen right...