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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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2012-03-28, 05:11 | Link #161 | |
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And that's not taking in to account she wasn't actually 100% sure earlier - which is the reason Mei wanted to see the photo of original Misaki, to make sure how "Another" actually appears to her senses and that she wasn't jumping to conclusions. If anything, I'd chalk up her extreme aloofness this episode when Izumi is trying to kill her (which was honestly overdone even for Mei) to the whacky and over-the-top writing that plagued the last two episodes and pushed everything (and everyone) to the extremes. So ... yeah, I definitely can see where Kuroi Saboto is coming from with his "crappy direction" comment, because the closing episodes were definitely plagued with some facepalm-worthy developments (Or at the very least, the way said developments were presented).
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2012-03-28, 14:13 | Link #162 |
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My problem is that the conclusion doesn't fit with the build-up. It may be because of the difference in the anime version from the novel, but it just feels out of place.
I still think it could be better if Akazawa were the Another. |
2012-03-28, 15:09 | Link #163 |
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I still feel cheated. All the hints towards Reiko being the extra, aside from the tiny little fact that as far as we, the viewers, knew, she wasn't in the class, either as a teacher or a student. Then it turns out she was a teacher in the class after all, right at the final moment. It's teasing and cheating.
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2012-03-28, 17:05 | Link #164 | ||
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So basically, all she did was wait from the afternoon (when they arrived at the lodge and listened to the tape) until after dinner (when they immediately went to her room) to reveal the Another's identity. There was certainly no indication from anything that happened earlier in the series that in those few hours the entire cast was going to melt down in an orgy of bloody mob violence, or the weather and the lodge team up to start slaughtering everyone it could get its hands on, too. I hardly think that's something to blame herself over.
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2012-03-28, 21:39 | Link #165 | |
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2012-03-29, 00:38 | Link #166 | |
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To me, the last 2 episodes were really just to get as many people dead as possible. Perhaps they could treat their characters as less throwaway, like they did before.
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2012-03-29, 11:35 | Link #167 |
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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I don't know why people always thinks she went insane...
She actually took her role as head of countermeasures serious and Mei was the most likely to be the additional person. For her action of threatening Kouichi < insert the fury saying in here > (alreadey said it often enough :P
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2012-03-29, 21:58 | Link #168 |
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So Reiko is the Another after all, but the way it was presented this ep (with her emerging helplessly out of a pile of logs and revealing her identity) gave an anticlimactic feel, like, "Oooh, I guessed correctly! Reiko is the Another after all! OK, OK..." Then of course she has to be killed, and we get to the epilogue. It was just predictable for me, I guess. I liked Kouichi's response to his aunt being the Another, though. He was clearly pained and horrified at the fact he had to kill her, and that scene was quite impactful.
Izumi's death...well, I was hoping that she would survive, but that scene was done brilliantly, with the shards of glass looking as if they were suspended in time, and Izumi looking as if she was one of those dolls (her expression, the angle of her limbs). From her flashback, she and Kouichi did encounter each other before. This, coupled with the way she died, was quite heartbreaking to watch. Some of the scenes in the episode were just awkward and they would be hilarious if the situation wasn't so serious. The random chandelier, the guy running out from beneath the chandelier only to be hit by a falling column, Kazami's expression when he was hit by Izumi...they looked so silly, I had to snort. The "one-and-a-half-year-ago" seems so significant though. Kouichi and Izumi encountered each other a year and a half prior to the series' events, and it was also at that time that Reiko (as Ms. Mikami) was killed by someone eerily resembling Kouichi. I can't help thinking that there's a link somewhere in the background. The epilogue was fine, though I found the transition from the events at the trip to the scene of Mei at the grave a bit abrupt. And oh, Mei...do you have to hate phones that much? In the end, with Anamnesis in the background, I can't help feeling for Class 3-3's next batch of students. The curse has only ended for that year after all. A fine conclusion for Another. 8/10 for episode 12, and probably to the entire series. |
2012-03-29, 22:25 | Link #170 |
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I can't speak for anyone else, but for me it's the fact that her logical, well-thought rationale for concluding that Mei was the Another (over Kouichi's protests that Mei was not the Another), was that Mei was the girl that the guy Izumi was hot for was interested in. Or in other words, that she believed Suigiura's theory because it gave her a socially acceptable (in this limited circumstance) reason to let her yandere tendencies loose.
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2012-03-30, 00:29 | Link #171 |
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I appreciate how many people are snapping under the pressure and all but i don't really like how its shown - all ax-crazy and insane facial expressions. Just because you decide to take responsibility and make drastic decisions doesn't mean your mind goes bonkers and you start pulling ridiculous faces =.= I mean most people who do these things irl don't have some exaggerated deranged face on them, they're usually blank and quite normal, and describe the experience as detached, as if they were in a dream or experiencing it in third person. Its too bad the animators resorted to using such cliche caricatures to show characters who're having a breakdown.
I also noticed because of said faces people are attributing these bouts of aggression and possible mental instability to the characters disposition(personalities) and not there situation. Spoiler for Surprise Psychology Lecture!:
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2012-03-30, 00:36 | Link #172 | ||
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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The way she was killed off was ok to me....after all you should be prepared to die yourself if you are going to embark on a murder hunt and if you are going to involve an unrelated (in this case Kouichi) person then you bloody well deserve it too... Quote:
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2012-03-30, 01:50 | Link #173 | |
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But with the building exploding, I guess random lightning strikes aren't as silly. Maybe. And Mei, well, she willfully withheld information that caused a lot more people to die. They tried hard to pull the innocence portrayal on her but to me she's also culpable. Add in those oh so amazing last minute reveals, and I found neither the plot or characters to be compelling for me to try to figure out what is happening. So yea, I pretty much didn't care about anyone at the end. If they all died, it'd be the same. And thus, to me that was a pretty poor finale. Oh and yea, I know to judge characters within their context. It's unfortunate that said context was fairly laughable and not worth considering since to me it was just all an excuse to rack up body counts.
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2012-03-30, 05:29 | Link #174 | |
今宵の虎徹は血に飢えている
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I'm not actually taking sides for any character....
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2012-03-30, 10:20 | Link #175 |
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You know what's really messed up ably only will next years class have to try surviving the same curse. They may not be able to go on a class trip either after everything that went down at that inn. I really couldn't see anyone wanting that class in their facility.
Now that I think about it that probably why none of the other class has p.e. with them. I mean could you imagine having a friendly game of baseball and suddenly some poor soul gets impaled with a bat?
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2012-03-30, 17:50 | Link #176 | |
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2012-03-30, 23:49 | Link #178 |
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I really liked this ending, I had a feeling that it couldn't be any of the students, mainly because most of the main cast was ruled out along the way (except for Izumi in my opinion, she was the only student I thought who could be the another) and all the rest of the students were so non-existent in the story that it Would have made no sense for them to be the Another. As I said, worked out well in my opinion .
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