So, another of my most memorable series finally ended, and after watching the finalé it left me with that familiar feeling of nostalgia and void. Moreso, because Zero no Tsukaima has ended for good, particularly that the Light Novels reached their conclusion first.
The episode overall worked for the emotional aspect that between Louise and Saito they expressed their feelings of love towards each other without inhibitions and being transparent at not hiding anything from each other.
I can't believe it was just the start of summer about six years ago when I first tuned to Zero no Tsukaima, watching at the very start Louise messing up her spell and summoning Saito into her world in front of everyone.
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I guess the epilogue ran full circle.
The series started with Louise summoning Saito accidentally into her world in front view of both her teachers and classmates, and the series ended with Louise opening Door Gate again into Saito's world with Saito taking Louise into his world in open view of many people present.
I guess the two of them decided to spend their honeymoon in Saito's world and will be staying at Saito's home for the time being.
The relationship matured in great millions from how Saito was literally whipped and forced to wash Louise's laundry at the beginning of season one up to becoming her only man and marrying her at the end of this final season.
He met with Louise's classmates, the Teachers of the Academy, Queen Henrietta, Julio, Tiffania, many allies, and formidable foes along the course of the story spanned in four seasons of worthy anime.
But, I do digress at how the story for this fourth season handled things with the climax and the conclusion:
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1. I disliked they ass-pulled the Ancient Dragon to be the last Big Bad for the fourthe season, because it was only a force of Apocalyptic nature per se; it lacked conscience and sentience.
The formidable villains our heroes fought were people of all kinds and species, cunning, scheming, and manipulative, and I believe that's what truly made them both dangerous and remarkable as long as the writers properly fleshed them as 3-D believable characters.
2. The second copout is that the Elves lent Tristain a helping hand with dealing with the Dragon. When both Saito and Tiffa got abducted by the Elves and put into their court, the Elves' disdain and speciestic hatred for humans was more than meets the eye.
- I see the Elves assistance as I sort of rushed Deus-Ex-Machina vehicle to grant the people inside the Academy and the Tristain fleet a stand against time.
- I would have preferred if the writers have handled the rest of this season with the Elves leading into an open-scale, world war between Neftys and Halkeginia with both sides standing to their own ideals and beliefs, but adding a twist that another party would be playing both sides of the war.
- If you ask for my opinion, the Elves were just added for decoration into the storyline to give more weight to Tiffania's status as a persecuted child.
3. The third ass-pull, although minor, was for the writers to quickly threw at us that there was a solar eclipse happening at Saito's world, and he used it to work the other way around to return to Halkeginia.
However, the first season had already established that a solar eclipse acted as a bilateral doorway connecting both worlds. The problem I saw for pulling that surprise was we were never prepared or hinted at the possibility of the solar eclipse in Saito's world, until the audience got to see the contents of the newspaper Saito read informing about the coming solar eclipse.
4. What I saw as the last cop-out was Saito travelling back into Halkeginia by stealing a modern JSDF plane. It doesn't matter how much he became powered-up by Louise's magic, Saito would have been noticed by the staff one way or another and be deterred, at least once him getting into the plane and taking off.
Other things to complain were that the Gunson siblings were added just to temporary foes to Louise and Saito. When Josef was alive they put a good fight, but with Josef dying very sooner they quickly fade and only to return as were mercenaries on paid.
There were a few little details that bothered with this episode, but I do praise the series overall due to its soundtrack which never ceases to mesmerize my senses, and I see that the opening for the second season is like the mascot theme for the whole franchise because the last two seasons have played different variations of the second opening, and it was played more prominently in Louise & Saito's wedding.
Moreover, I believe it was a nice touch, and one which I prayed for the most ever since Saito returned two times to his world in the previous episode and the epilogue to the finalé.
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That he finally returned to his parent's home, and I always wanted to see who were Saito's family, and if the novels give any description about them.
I mean how many months Saito stayed in Halkeginia after vanishing all of a sudden and never got any chance to be remembered about his family.
What about his family: his dad, his siblings if he has any, and his mother, the most worried and concerned about his whereabouts?
But, as I said earlier, it moved my heart that the whole series ended with Saito bringing Louise to his house in order to introduce her to his parents, and Louise getting that nervous look on her eyes made her reaction quite cute and natural.
After all, Louise might have felt guilty, since she brought Saito into her world against his will from the start, and she never thought about how Saito's family might have been worried about him since his dissappearance.
Saito's family could remain a mystery to us the audience, unless they decide to produce an OVA detailing Louise & Saito's honeymoon at the Hiraaga household.
And I wonder how would the Hiraaga's react when they answer the door and learn their long and lost, missing son turns at their front door, and, furthermore, he gives them the unexpected surprise after not learning anything about him for a time that he got married and brought along his wife with him?
Okay episode. The wedding between Saito and Louise at the end was cute and nicely done, and some of the nonsensical elements (Namely Saito somehow hijacking a plane) reach 'So bad it's good' territory.
The moment where Saito proposed to Louise wasn't something I was able to find moving, though, because the relationships in this series are so random and jump around so much that I pretty much lost my ability to care about these bizarre relationships (That are so unlike normal human relationships) a long time ago, in much the same way that someone who's just finished a twelve hour trip might be too nauseated and carsick to care about the fact that their destination's reached. Isn't this like the 47th time that Saito's confessed his love to Louise for reals? It's only a matter of time, too, until someone else falls in love with Saito, at which point they'll have their personality (Whatever that might be) warped into a slobbering obsessive cock-starved bimbo that completely disregards the fact that Louise and Saito are an item, since the anime apparently thinks that chararacters with consistent personalities are the devil's work. I think SmarterChild could write a story with characters that make more sense than these do. (Though, writing issues aside, the series does have likable characters and very pretty artwork. I like the series, no doubt, it just gives me a headache sometimes.)
first, the dragons battle is maybe the best since this anime got aired... although we need more action battle.... the dragon looks so easy when it is fought by 4 factions
second, okay! I got confused about how Saito manage to steal an airplane... nah! whatever... we're dealing with ZnT so anything can happen... it supposed to be a light story so it's better if I don't care about simple things like that....
third, yay! what a timing! it's solar eclipse today... lol...
yeah! Saito arrived at right timing with awesome missiles... Delf still alive?? aww...
looks like we must have a happy ending so the only one allowed to die is Pope
I can also conclude that Louise is the only void magician who have offensive attack
fourth, hmm... happy ending... when I hear Saito's confession, I can hear 4 breaking heart's sound from 4 girls at the same time...
I'm one of harem end's hater so I support this ending
fifth, this is the reason why I should give this episode a high score.... I'm the one who always say I want to see an episode when Louise come to Japan... hey! J.C. Staff hears me so they make it for me... lol
J.C. Staff... you just do a very good job lately.... I'm still amazed by Shakugan no Shana and now I'm quite satisfied with Zero no Tsukaima (although I really want to read novel's ending... maybe sounds better?)
well, I still prefer season 2's ending but this is an okay ending for me... Zero no Tsukaima got a simple story so a happy and peaceful ending like this totally deserved it
Shakugan no Shana and Zero no Tsukaima.... both have same seiyuu's lead (Rie Kugimiya and Satoshi Hino) and end at same time....
I'm sad but I must move forward... looking for your new project, J.C. Staff
The dragon attacked. The reinforcements came.
It was quite a battle, but that dragon sure played dirty..
Saito's entrance was really impressive ^^
That fighter jet sure came in handy against that dragon.
There was no doubt they would win, but the marriage part was sort of a surprise.
Good final episode with a fairy tale ending LOL
I don't know, I thought the princess was a much more interesting character than Louise because she struggles between her feelings for Saito and the country politics whereas louise just either throws a tantrums or ends up running crying only to end up being captured by the enemy.
Louise struggled between her duty and feelings too. Its just that in anime it was shallow as hell and barely noticeable.
I dont think its fair to compare Shakugan no Shana and ZnT because Shana had much more length and episodes so naturally it will come better and deeper.
Ofcourse you could do it in short way with good directors but ZnT had a pairing of fucktards directing season 2 and 3 and as a result it stank up the ending too as there had to be many stuff left out.
Well, everything played out as I expected, plus a little more. Stealing the plane and revived Delf was a bit pushing it, but I've already given this final season enough slack to not care about it. I was happy that we got a wedding scene, which bumped my grade from 8 to 9. Finally, Saito is free from his Harem hell, or so I'd like to believe. We also got an epilogue, which I will be looking forward to read in the chapter.
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So CAN SOME ONE TELL ME IF this follow the NOvel and this is the last season? please
Um, the show is not called "Zero no Tsukaima Final" for no reason
And I hear that the anime were quite loyal to the novels. Dunno about the ending though, since the last two novels aren't out yet, so I dunno if the anime ending will be same as novel ending.
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Louise struggled between her duty and feelings too. Its just that in anime it was shallow as hell and barely noticeable.
I dont think its fair to compare Shakugan no Shana and ZnT because Shana had much more length and episodes so naturally it will come better and deeper.
Ofcourse you could do it in short way with good directors but ZnT had a pairing of fucktards directing season 2 and 3 and as a result it stank up the ending too as there had to be many stuff left out.
That's why the anime Louise is crap compared to the novel one.
I can't believe it was just the start of summer about six years ago when I first tuned to Zero no Tsukaima, watching at the very start Louise messing up her spell and summoning Saito into her world in front of everyone.
Wow. I didn't realize I watched ZnT first season 6 years ago. That means I've been watching anime for even longer than that. I believe my first anime was Kannaduki no Miko, then Mai Hime. I don't even want to know how old those two animes are.
The wedding wasn't a surprise to me cause the eyecatches since ep 7 had been hinting us of a wedding going to take place in the last episode.
I guess all the feelings of being unsatisfied with the whole season are because even though this season followed the light novels it adapted 1 volume story into 1 episode on average and as a result many things were rushed without showing some details.
I wonder if the light novel will end with Louise and Saito getting married including them going to Saito's world as well. Maybe that scene will be elaborated in the light novel.
And I hear that the anime were quite loyal to the novels. Dunno about the ending though, since the last two novels aren't out yet, so I dunno if the anime ending will be same as novel ending.
lmao who told you that? like my friend said the anime followed the novels as well as dragon ball evolution followed dragonabll (which is not very well). Just best to consider them 2 separate birds. I think most could agree to adapt this properly it'd need to be 60 or so episodes
i think this just adds on to what has been a disappointing start to the 2012 anime season. This and guilty crown were epic fails, and theres still a few more series to end, i just thank god i had highschool dxd to get me passed on the crap this season
Um, the show is not called "Zero no Tsukaima Final" for no reason
And I hear that the anime were quite loyal to the novels. Dunno about the ending though, since the last two novels aren't out yet, so I dunno if the anime ending will be same as novel ending.
You heard wrong. Though again its mostly them skipping components like crazy because of the schedule not because they are stupid.
But they changed/skipped a lot. No one knows about the last episode as the last volume isnt out yet but prior that they sure skipped plenty of material.
And I dont think novels will let Pope dissapear just like that without a mention. After all he was one of the main characters lately (though not positive one).
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