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Shelf Life - C+C Anime Factory

I've been craving a mature show for a while and my appetite is settled for now.

Also this might be to much fyi for people on the forums and get B& but I've never wa*** to any ecchi show nor do I see the point in doing so, however it's got to do with not having a sex drive anymore.

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Without giving too much away, the writers pretty much just stand up and say, “JUST KIDDING!!!” and everything you thought you knew or felt about the series up until this point is thrown into the wind. Importantly, this also includes Saya's emotional reactions to the events in the series, which does a great deal in building her character. But if those are negated, then what has been accomplished? Nothing. It's all a gigantic waste of time.

It boggles the mind why they would do something like this. What's the point exactly? Why make something good and then do the stupid "It was all a dream!" thing?

Show me some on college girls or older, or the very least 16+ high school students I can deal with it, and I'm all in.

*Sigh* I miss the days of Blood+. Don't care what anyone says, that was a swell show.

prime_pm wrote:

Seeing as how Control only has 11 episodes, one or two less from a normal season, it really sounds like the studio lost their budget and had to give it a rush ending. Which is funny, considering the subject matter.

It was a noitaminA show, so [C] having eleven episodes was planned from the start. Budget doesn't come into it. If the ending seemed rushed, that's because the writing was grossly incompetent, not because the show ran out of money and had to finish early.

At first, I was going to put Blood-C in the Rental Shelf bin, because I genuinely enjoyed the middle five episodes of the series. But then I thought about how much I disliked the first five and loathed the last two, and realized that if I actively disliked over 50% of the show, that it would be ridiculous to really recommend this to anyone.

Personally, I found the ending to "Blood-C" to be positively brilliant.

The anime market is oversaturated with shows that just settle for being "cute girls with dark alter egos who kill things", and use that to peter into a nice, tidy little conclusions that leaves everybody with a good taste in their mouths. Sure, that's nice, and it makes for some solid, B-Grade work.

However, the writers and director of this series decided to take a bold artistic risk at the end of the series, and actively try to infuriate viewers who had stuck with the show. Instead of leaving them satisfied, it left them angry, upset and confused. Compared to 90 percent of the junk released today, "Blood-C" was a breath of fresh air with its refusal to make fans happy and pander to the status quo.

If the end made you angry and left you with questions, then the creators got what they wanted. This is just my two cents, and I figure plenty of people will disagree. But yeah, I really loved the show, and I can't wait to see "The Last Dark."

Psycho 101 wrote:

Show me some on college girls or older, or the very least 16+ high school students I can deal with it, and I'm all in.

Out of the core cast of eleven, there are three younger than sixteen: Yoshika, age 15; Sanya, age 14 and Lucchini, age 13. Your complaint is with the artstyle.

jymmy wrote:

Your complaint is with the artstyle.

No, my complaint is what I said it was with thank you very much. Not with what YOU decide it is. You can disagree with me if you want I don't mind, Don't try and shove words in my mouth though or tell me what I am thinking. That I do have a problem with.

Some could argue it's to make money from the movie. I feel that it was to brutally deconstruct modern "girls with swords" anime, which usually ends on a nice little tidy note. By contrast, "Blood-C" proudly flips the bird to viewers and destroys everything you've gotten used to. It's an elaborate prank, and a brilliant one, in my opinion.

Apollo-kun wrote:

Personally, I found the ending to "Blood-C" to be positively brilliant. The anime market is oversaturated with shows that just settle for being "cute girls with dark alter egos who kill things", and use that to peter into a nice, tidy little conclusions that leaves everybody with a good taste in their mouths. Sure, that's nice, and it makes for some solid, B-Grade work. However, the writers and director of this series decided to take a bold artistic risk at the end of the series, and actively try to infuriate viewers who had stuck with the show. Instead of leaving them satisfied, it left them angry, upset and confused. Compared to 90 percent of the junk released today, "Blood-C" was a breath of fresh air with its refusal to make fans happy and pander to the status quo. If the end made you angry and left you with questions, then the creators got what they wanted. This is just my two cents, and I figure plenty of people will disagree. But yeah, I really loved the show, and I can't wait to see "The Last Dark."

Raising a middle finger to the audience isn't exactly clever. It takes more daring than a safe route, but how much was a super-star collective like CLAMP actually risking?

If it wants to mock bland "cute girls killing ugly things" action series, just pulling the rug out at the last second isn't a great way to do it. I'm reminded of Zettai Shougeki: Platonic Heart (aka Master of Martial Hearts) which seems to be doing a pretty boring "power of friendship!" story until the last episode where suddenly nothing that came before matters and it goes crazy.

Bait-and-switch on its own isn't anything to admire. "It was all an act!" isn't much better than "it was all a dream!"

Still, I look at Blood-C and I just have to ask, why, why did the writers and directors feel like they had to go so far with those scenes at the end of the series?