2009-03-30, 15:00 | Link #881 |
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Even though this series is like...eh, I'm enjoying it. So is this our last season and ep 13 was our final episode? Kind of a rather opened ending..... ~_~ Dramatic with undramatic conclusion. Season 3 anyone?
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2009-03-30, 15:18 | Link #883 |
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 38
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Eh? What's eh? This show is a beautiful experience for all of us. No eh's about it.
Spoiler for Episode 13:
My final thoughts for this series are going to be what i say every week about this series, and what i said about the first season --- i love it to pieces. Each episode is a fresh, beautiful experience that i wouldn't change for the world. I just hope we can carry on this experience with a third season.
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2009-03-30, 15:20 | Link #884 | |
Incoherance is my friend!
Join Date: Dec 2005
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2009-03-30, 15:53 | Link #885 |
User of the "Fast Draw"
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Spoiler for Ep13:
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2009-03-30, 18:24 | Link #886 | |
You are Next
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: NE USA
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Spoiler for ep 13:
I kind of also got the vibe that it could end at this point, though I saw (deluded myself?) a couple hints for a third season. Wishful thinking? It's just that delightful of a series, I'll really miss it.
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2009-03-30, 21:13 | Link #890 |
Seishu's Ace
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kyoto, Japan
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12 really was another absolutely fantastic episode. This was about as introspective as I've seen Natsume, which is a growing theme as the season progresses and appears to tie into the finale. It's a show that really has the adorable shouta characters down pat - Kai was right up there with Fox-boy (also a demon, of course). I don't think this show has all that much in common with Petopeto-san other than the Shinto elements, but like that show this is one where in less skilled hands the sweetness might just become saccharine. But because the material is so intricate and handled so deftly, it serves the story rather than detracting from it.
I normally hate to watch final eps of series I love on work nights - I like to save them for an evening where I can really enjoy them. But this cliffhanger probably isn't going to allow me to sit still for four days, dammit.
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2009-03-31, 06:02 | Link #894 |
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 38
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Sometimes i have to rewatch some of Natori's scenes because i'm so focused on the lizard moving around. I have such an urge to find out what the lizard is all about, though i'm guessing that's going to be told when his backstory arc eventually begins in the manga.
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2009-03-31, 19:48 | Link #899 |
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Very nice final episode my favorite parts were
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Anyways I am depressed that the series is over. It was such a nice and relaxing series to watch. It just really made me feel happy to watch. It's the type of series that makes you forget your troubles at least for that 1/2 hour. Well I guess there is the upcoming spring season and the hope for an eventual 3rd season. |
2009-04-01, 08:14 | Link #900 |
Somehow I found out
Join Date: Feb 2006
Age: 40
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Ep 12 was excellent again, and they found another avenue to explore the theme of loneliness and again subtly showed how Natsume behaves towards people and yokai slightly differently (and he's not good with children, another interesting little idiosyncrasy). There was so much to like about this episode, and a good deal of the theme-driven storytelling and character development that we've seen in pretty much every episode, but I have to admit that I was particularly taken by something much more superficial: screentime for Taki and Jun. I like this idea of "natural moe" (mostly because I coined the term... although, knowing my luck, there's probably already an established term to describe it which has been in circulation for years), where the moe characteristics aren't so blatantly forced down the audience's throat and the characters are cute just because of how they are. I think it's something which tends to appear in more subtle anime, particularly slice-of-life titles (I'd call both ARIA's Akari and Sketchbook's Sora cases of natural moe), and, after this episode, I'd certainly say Taki especially and Jun (to a slightly lesser extent) are both examples of natural moe.
Anyway, I remember Ascaloth talking about Clannad and how it's hard not to think of "family" whenever we see one of the more child-like characters like Fuko or Mei standing between Tomoya and Nagisa. I think the same goes for this scene as well: I know there's very little romance in this anime, and I generally don't like shipping, but I really wish there were time in this anime for Taki and Natsume to become a couple. Very few couples in anime strike me as deserving each other for the right reasons, but these two do. And, I realize full well that it's probably never going to happen.
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