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Xagor
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They were doing the annoying CG crowd scenes for that. (Like PA works have done for some of their other stuff.) At least it's gotten better since they used it in True Tears. |
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DuskyPredator
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Episode 12
From the beginning of the episode I took it as proof of spoiler[my theory last episode that it is an alternate world, one I was thinking where Summer and Winter are reversed]. But the end of the episode where she was spoiler[talking about worlds from imagination and saying something is not real], I am a bit confused now. |
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Blood-
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Yeah, put me in the confused camp. Some shows challenge me and I find it stimulating. Other shows challenge me and I'm simply irritated. This one falls more into the irritated category.
I too assumed the spoiler[alternate worlds] theory until they started messing with that concept too and now I'm just scratching my head. Perhaps all will become clear in the finale. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Regardless of how it all shakes out, at least we still have all that scenery porn. I'm really glad I figured out how to hook up my mac to my HDTV while this show was going on. |
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Chiibi
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Yup..... >____> |
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Vaisaga
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And so it ends. Overall things were... okay. As mentioned before there were lots of head scratcher moments, but they were hardly frustrating ones. It managed to keep me in a fairly good mood and that's certainly not a bad thing.
Still doesn't hold a candle to Hanasaku Iroha or Tari Tari, though (it beats True Tears but that's not hard). Glasslip lacked a sense of purpose. It was just a series of events that happened but they didn't add up to much. You had the whole foresight thingy going on, but what did it really add? It was pretty much just some strange thing unique to Touko and Kakeru for them to bond over. She sees some bad stuff, but they don't factor into anything later. Usually with this kind of thing you at least have a "we must stop the thing we saw from happening" storyline. There seemed to be some dropped plotlines too. One episode had Hiro's sister crying after visiting her boyfriend, so I assumed his condition was terminal. However he's all fine and dandy later, so what was she crying about? Oh well. Top tier imouto ftw. |
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Blood-
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Ah yes, obtuse to the very end. My interpretation is that spoiler[David ended up leaving with his mother (ergo the lack of a tent outside the house). However, the fact that Touko heard his voice means they still have a bond?] I dunno. Oh well, at least it seems like spoiler[the other two couples are viable.]
I ended up rating this So-So. As Vaisaga said this is a show that kind of went nowhere but there was always something vaguely compelling about it (besides the scenery porn, I mean). |
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HaruhiToy
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My take: Kakeru spoiler[never existed for real. He was an invention in Touko's mind.] It is possible that he has spoiler[some relation to Jonathan the chicken] but I'm not sure about that. |
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Vaisaga
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I saw it as spoiler[him finally moving into a room in the house. Wasn't he willingly sleeping in that tent because he wanted to avoid his mom or something? Then at the end I figured Touko heard his voice to indicate they will meet again in the future, or that he was actually coming up behind her.] Wait, wasn't it that spoiler[Touko can only hear things when he's close by?] |
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DuskyPredator
Posts: 15462 Location: Brisbane, Australia |
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Episode 13 (finale)
To echo the complaints of others, this show never really went anywhere, it felt like it just ended as a bunch of different events. What appeared to be the main plot really did not even have a satisfactory explanation, it left it feeling so unresolved. Talking about unresolved, the ending actually felt like it was incredibly vague. Like was spoiler[Yuki who Yanagi was meeting on that date]? Did spoiler[Kakeru stay]? What was the plot with the sister? Exactly what was the deal with the tent? What was the multiple selves? Could it be that Touka and Kakeru were just suffering from mental problems where they suffered from dream like hallucinations under certain stimulus? Was spoiler[Kakeru even real?] I was actually thinking what could have been a really good reveal, it could have been cool if spoiler[we found out everything was in Touka's head from the beginning]. If the dream world spoiler[was closer to reality where she was new and made up a fantasy where she was the friend and centre, with the focuses on art being her own] interest in it. Or that what we had spoiler[seen was a world they both created, she who moved somewhere new and he who had never left, the visions and such were cracks of reality or a "glitche in the matrix"]. It would have even given a point to a lot of random relationship stuff. In comparison the ending felt kind of pointless. it did not even feel there was point to a good deal of artwork for the series. Overall maybe a little low, I rate it Decent. Some of the art and such made it something I did not lose time over watching, but it just never did something that made me really happy to watch it and recommend it to someone for another reason. |
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Jacquipuff
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Those were some really pretty glass beads...I have no idea what all this was about in the end, but yup, those beads sure were pretty...
Well, considering what the series has been up till now, I suppose it's not too surprising that we get an ending like this. Overall it wasn't a bad show, but I'm not sure if I'd particularly want to watch another series similar to it if one were to pop up in the future. |
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Chiibi
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Well.....
meh. Don't do something like this again, P.A.....>_> |
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Ghost_Wheel
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At the end of the day, I liked this thing quite a bit. I liked the pace, momentum, and themes of the show, and most of the characters were fleshed out and believable. I liked how a lot of the drama started quickly and was thus able to be more subtle and involved. It was really funny as well because of it's realism. I didn't like a lot of the "future" stuff, even when a lot of the allegory became clear (except the second to last episode, that was cool). I also didn't like that the last episode just kind of spoiler[stopped and didn't really follow through on a lot of what it was exploring]
However, this doesn't mean I don't want to see more things like this. I want to see a lot more things like this, that way the outliers of them can be really good. |
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L'Imperatore
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I came looking for the beauty of glass-making, and... lo and behold! I got chicken instead.
Man I'm bummed. Thanks a lot, P.A. Works. 
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