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Perfect 10 | 32 | 22.54% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 42 | 29.58% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 29 | 20.42% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 10 | 7.04% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 9 | 6.34% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 6 | 4.23% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 4 | 2.82% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 4 | 2.82% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 3 | 2.11% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 3 | 2.11% | |
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2012-03-26, 22:15 | Link #81 | |||
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I will say, I knew that chandelier was going to fall the instant I saw it, though, since it's actually falling in the OP (though the lamps are all doll eyes in that image)!
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2012-03-26, 23:19 | Link #87 | |
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I hope you remembered that from the start the director is the same guy who turned the last two episodes of Blood-C into a bloodbath. Expect a slow buildup at first, and then a sudden storm of violence and bloodshed in the final two episodes. Quote:
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*Plays The X-Files theme music.*
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2012-03-26, 23:29 | Link #89 | |
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2012-03-27, 00:13 | Link #94 |
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^LOL, damn right.
At least it'll not warp, assuming that in several decades time MD players still exist, but then if the shit happens again around 10 years later they'll have to use Micro-SDs. And Kouichi and Misaki... I can see how they'll eventually wind up (through fanfic glasses ). The ending would've been better with him confessing his true feelings for her.
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2012-03-27, 00:20 | Link #95 | |
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I was even hopeful (but still very skeptical) after 11. I just didn't feel anything watching this last episode but dissapointment. I was really wanting to read the novel at some point if it was ever translated but that prospect has gone out the window now for me too. The first half of the series seems to be in that genre of Japanese horror that is masterfully slow build and suspenseful. The "first" death really caught me off guard and drew me in. Then they just became so predictable and uninteresting. Actually, I think one of the problems is that so many people ended up dying it completely desensitised me the viewer toward the whole basis behind the calamity. The impact of their deaths became nothing more than a guessing game as to who would be offed next. If it had been done so that only one or two major characters had died, it would have been more thrilling. Similar is the example in Gurren Lagann. We all remember Kamina and Nia. Maybe even the Spiral King guy, but there were a lot of +1s in there that I sure can't name or even remember their faces. Great potential in Another but I feel it was ultimately wasted by a weak followthrough. I will rate it higher than Blood C, which I deleted off my computer in pure disgust after watching the final episode. |
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2012-03-27, 00:45 | Link #96 |
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I liked the whole show but I must admit that the last 2 episodes fell more like final destination with all the cheap deaths than the early episodes, specially the chandelier falling to the group of students and then the pillar crushing the other one, now I really find it funny how Sakikabara stood there in the middle of the fire just to call his girl and ask her if she was ok.
But overall it was a nice ride, I think this was the best show of the season but it could have been better =/ btw, I heard there was an ova and a sequel in the making, what do you think the story will be this time? due to so many students deaths and the lack of a teacher all the survivors must start the whole 9th year again? :P Last edited by bartz; 2012-03-27 at 01:05. |
2012-03-27, 01:10 | Link #97 |
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So much potential was wasted on that ending.
The whole story just degenerates at the end to a disappointingly anticlimactic ending, since it turns out the whole time the main character knew what the audience wasn't allowed to know until the end. This is the most annoying kind of storytelling, which only serves to mock the audience rather than create any tension. Then again, by the end the director of Blood-C had abandoned all pretense of giving a fuck and just served up a bunch of random gratuitous bloodshed for no apparent reason. If this sounds at all familiar, it should. This director seems to like mocking the audience, the son of a bitch. Another is an example of a series which was less than the sum of it's parts. Combining equal parts Stephen King, John Saul, Corpse Party, Higurashi, Final Destination, and eyepatch moe should have resulted in something glorious. Instead, it ended up being kind of flat, and I'm not talking about Mei's DFC here. It was certainly well-animated and the art design was top-notch, and the show really took pains with it's nicely crafted soundscape. It's too bad the story ended up trainwrecking at the end after most of the series was spent setting up something that should have been quite awesome but decidedly wasn't. |
2012-03-27, 01:16 | Link #98 |
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It would've been even better if only Takashi Miike were to be directing the series, which means, too bad anime directors should be learning much from him and his works on how to pull off a proper horror/suspense show.
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2012-03-27, 02:00 | Link #99 | |
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Sadly, Another left a very similar aftertaste in my mouth and will fall into oblivion in no time. |
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That, I feel, is crucial for making readers/viewers care more about Kouichi's emotional connection to his aunt/surrogate mother. The way their relationship was treated in the anime (pretending it doesn't exist thus, in effect, making what should have been a strong bond completely non-existent; ah, the irony), I felt only a yawning hollowness when Kouichi bade farewell to Reiko before "killing" her, when I should have been emotionally crushed instead. It felt like a smart-alec "aha!" afterthought, rather than something that should have hit me like a tonne of bricks. Quote:
The comparison to Shiki is apt, unfortunately. I'd already registered my great disappointment in that series earlier in this sub-forum. I was hoping that Another would be very different. Certainly, in the beginning, it showed a lot of promise. It appeared to be quite clever and well-constructed, in terms of thematic and plot development. In the end, though, it just descended into the horror/slasher tropes that are the hallmark of entertaining but entirely forgettable popcorn summer flicks. As I've said in a blog, I had been emotionally detached from the show since it "jumped the shark". The series had been immensely entertaining, and it's a great pity that it ended on such a cheesy note. |
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