|
View Poll Results: Another - Episode 12 (END) Rating | |||
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% | |
Voters: 142. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools |
2012-03-26, 18:38 | Link #62 | |||
Senior Member
|
Quote:
The most important thing that the anime left out which I somehow put back in when working on the list right after was, Reiko's biggest regret being being unable to see Kôichi at least once after his birth; as he has spent all his life in Tôkyô with his father and It being strongly hinted at that it was Reiko's wish for Kôichi, Kôichi's wish for a mother and their grandparents denial of Reiko's death which triggered her return as the one person more. This would have also given the "Farewell, mother." a much easier to understand notion. Quote:
Quote:
Spoiler for novel:
Also it is less the doll eye that has mystical powers Spoiler for novel:
|
|||
2012-03-26, 18:43 | Link #63 |
C-Z
Join Date: Jan 2011
|
This was a good anime which had good suspense. Especially the last two episode was awesome.
But this anime kinds of scares me. It seems like the author is "alright" with taking the lives of others in order to "live". I know that Reiko is already dead, but felt sorry for her because she doesnt know about this.
__________________
|
2012-03-26, 18:46 | Link #64 |
simp for Lyria
|
I heard speculation it could be Reiko or Ms. Mikami, but I never thought they were one and the same. Plus, after Kouichi called Misaki and she said that he shouldn't come, cause it'd be too painful, I thought Misaki was going to kill herself. Those elements was really well-played on their part.
I feel kinda bad for Reiko's last moments. Even though she was already dead, that doesn't[immediately] exclude the memories they had of each other. The rather abysmal state she was in, under that rubble, looking so scared, was kind of a sad way to go . I'm surprised Kouichi had the courage to do it.
__________________
|
2012-03-26, 18:56 | Link #65 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: United States of America
Age: 33
|
What a let down.
This show had such awesome music and very good visuals. But it all fell apart in the last two episodes. Even if the source itself doesn't have a more impressive finish (which I doubt is the case), all they needed to do was keep up the same quality of presentation. But alas, it wasn't to be.
__________________
|
2012-03-26, 19:19 | Link #66 |
Kamen Rider Muppeteer
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Unknown
Age: 40
|
AAAAAAH! How was I supposed to figure this out? I was feverishly discounting all Reiko theories because she wasn't in the class when she actually was! Seriously there's no way anyone could've figured that out.
At least that dumb theory about "Sakakibara is the proxy for Reiko" was still disproven. AAAAAH! I liked this series, but the final explanation as to who the extra was kind of pisses me off. It's not like "Oh damn I should've noticed this sooner." I'm seriously like "To have figured this out is simply impossible without any foreknowledge.". I dislike this. |
2012-03-26, 19:26 | Link #68 |
Wonderland's hitman
|
I was suspecting Ms. Mikami since I heard she was the homeroom teacher from another class and that year the curse happened, but that she and Reiko were the same person...never crossed my mind. But the seiyuu name thing was really clever!
If you are, I am too. I had to stop the video to LOL.
__________________
|
2012-03-26, 19:59 | Link #71 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Age: 38
|
Quote:
Jokes aside even if the last two episodes were the weakest I can't say I didn't enjoy this series. It was a fun ride but it was indeed a shame what happen to Izumi I really would've like her to have lived...
__________________
|
|
2012-03-26, 20:05 | Link #73 |
Guess what time it is?
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Age: 39
|
After episode 10, there was no other possible suspect but Ms. Mikami (correct number of students, but still a calamity), but I didn't make the Reiko connection. I'm glad there was one, if only because it made the general sense of wrongness about Reiko one of the few threads the anime actually bothered to tie up.
Spoiler for My less positive thoughts, carefully tucked away to avoid offending:
Loved the reveal that the bird -- named Rei-chan, naturally -- was literally a Replacement Goldfish- er... Replacement Mynah for the grandparents. Great stuff, hiding that in plain sight. Akazawa's death was awesomely heartrending, even though I'd expected her to be the final casualty. Even through her blood haze, she really just wanted to protect Sakakibara and the others. Probably the most grounded and gripping scene of the episode. Mei was terrific throughout the whole series. Her character arc was worth the price of admission alone. She's one of my favorite characters of the year so far. So while I feel things went a little bit off the rails near the end there, I'm really quite pleased with Another. It feels like a lot was left out, but maybe that's more a credit to the set-up than a criticism of the execution. What the show was really about was this year's class 3's struggle to survive the calamity. If they wanted to delve deeper into the mystery of Yomiyami, I suppose they can always come back to it. While I don't share Dengar's view of the ending, I have started reading the threads on this forum that I avoided to keep from being spoiled, and it seems to me that making the Reiko=Mikami connection involved at least a little bit of meta detective work. So I can kind of sympathize with those who feel they were robbed of a chance to fairly deduce the connection. My view though is that with so many memories being altered by the calamity, everyone was already an unreliable source of information, so I'm not too displeased that we weren't exposed to this bit of knowledge Kouichi had. Last edited by ThereminVox; 2012-03-26 at 20:16. |
2012-03-26, 20:14 | Link #74 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
|
I'm completely fine with the "extra" being Reiko, but the "astonishing connection" between her as the assistant teacher and her as Kouichi's aunt was just stupid. The anime never really hinted once at a suggestion that they were the same person, and she acted totally differently in both settings... it felt like a shoehorned connection meant to create a stronger emotion and reaction in the fact that Kouichi cares for her/her for him, and all of that relationship stuff that was elaborated in the novel/manga.
But as a horror "twist" it was stupid and meaningless. They could have almost done the same thing to any random unsuspecting classmate in the entire series had Kouichi had some distant cousin that he saw but we as a viewer never got to see or something. |
2012-03-26, 20:45 | Link #76 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: California
|
The last two episodes didn't really make an impression on me. Not quite sure why, maybe it was the abundance of random deaths that made me feel a bit desensitized to the whole tragedy.
Anyone else thought the person who killed Reiko looked an awful lot like Kouichi?
__________________
|
2012-03-26, 20:47 | Link #77 |
Senior Member
Author
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Philippines
Age: 47
|
The identity of the Another was expected, yet still this finale, despite being imperfect and lots of red shirts falling, has a sizable emotional punch.
*sighs* Too bad, Izumi... you were so good while you were alive. Now, all's left of you is an urnful of ashes. Spoiler for And...:
Anyway, one crazy helluva ride, and again, excellent audio SFX. 8/10 from me.
__________________
Last edited by sa547; 2012-03-26 at 21:48. |
2012-03-26, 21:14 | Link #78 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
|
F--king LOL, the comedy continues.
Bwahaha! "Four" in one kill! One lives but then pillar! Then there's that one (cute, but obviously a bit slow) girl just walking around calmly looking at the fire when an explosion blows her out the window, and she lives. LOL WTF? Then Kazami turns into a second knife psycho, kills two random girls, and Sakakibara gets to show off his l33t blade dodging skills (hold Triangle, and pull away, I never managed it). The fire is also ridiculously clean. People can move around and even fight at normal pace without worrying about smoke. During this episode, there are not one, not two, but three scenes of people being pinned by knife-wielding assailants and getting saved at the last moment. Oh, and Akazawa gets owned by a random lightning strike shattering glass and wood, but Sakakibara survives with glass in his back (the one in the shoulder didn't hit an artery?!) and later runs around with his injuries. This guy's tanking everything! The whole Reiko=Ms. Mikami was rather clumsy. Hiding from the viewer such crucial information that the most of the characters know, while essential for the mystery, feels like the author "cheated." Misaki witnessing her murder years ago and giving absolutely no indication is also a bit odd. Really? I can understand that she rightfully knew bad things would happen, but keeping such a secret takes enormous willpower. Sakakibara rekilling her was a really dark scene. I can logically deduce, but cannot understand what's going through his head at the moment. Anyway, despite the director turning deaths into absurd comedy and the horrible choice of OP (unlike most of the show, it was loud and lacks subtlety, and wasn't appropriate until the amazing bloodbath during the last two episodes), I think the show is pretty good. It was one of my three favorites during the season, the other two being Aquarion and Lagrange. 9/10
__________________
|
2012-03-26, 21:51 | Link #79 |
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
|
This series was absolute love~ but then episode twelve came and i was like meh... I found myself loling at all the deaths except for akazawas. Her death scene was heart wrenching for me and not just because i just absolutely adore her. Honestly though there was absolutely no reason for her to die. More of a wtf moment more than anything.
The last ten minutes was sort of... really redundant >>, we get it its over, I feel like the manga got the message through much better. For some reason I started disliking mei starting from episode like 10.. and that dislike grew even more in this episode >>>>>>> |
2012-03-26, 22:02 | Link #80 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
|
Quote:
I think it was, "I love my aunt, but I'm pretty sure I can get Misaki to put out if the curse ends." |
|
|
|