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REVIEW: Tokyo Ravens BD+DVD part 2

A few points could also stand further clarification and the ending, despite resolving one major late plot twist, feels unsatisfying.

In fact, it gets too complicated for its own good at times, as a score card is needed to keep track of all of the important players in the voluminous cast and where their affiliations lie.

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In fact, it gets too complicated for its own good at times, as a score card is needed to keep track of all of the important players in the voluminous cast and where their affiliations lie.

I've seen others make this same complaint, but I didn't get confused. Not sure why though, I'm bad keeping up with names and I had trouble with 2 other shows that I at least found to be confusing: Mahouka and Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere.

In this second half the quick pacing and relatively large number of interesting plot twists resonated with me very well. It's a shame that this show probably won't be getting a second season.

-Some rough scene transitions, sometimes too complicated for its own good.

I'm afraid it already is. spoiler[ considering that he's calling Kon Hishimaru now clearly dictates that the memories of his past life is emotionally changing him ] which would of course mean he'll no longer be the "stupid tora" his friends know and love.

I see what you mean but I don't think it's enough to measure how much he's changed, at least not till there's another season (if ever)

also i'm more surprised that people arent peeving on the pseudo harem aspect after ep 18 considering that all of the girls in the group including natsume and Kon have romantic feelings for that idiot. the last thing anyone really wants is for that absentminded fool to turn into another Touma Kamajo who is also involved in his own pseudo harem.

which is exactly what i suspected. the whole 24 ep is nothing more than a series promotion where to continue with the story,you will have to read the original source materials. similar to what happened to keikashi and other series.

the fact that theres at the moment of typing no confirmed second season works against it because its a hell of a cliffhanger but if theres a second season it'd be interesting to see how the spoiler[narrative shifts to natsume with harutora doing his own thing. Also with Harutora now an independent force what with his reawakened memories it could either be awesome(like kaneki a drastic change in personality) or terribly boring(broken no challenge like Tatsuya). I guess i'd want to see is that his new memories change him on an emotional not just a power level]

also i'm more surprised that people arent peeving on the pseudo harem aspect after ep 18 considering that all of the girls in the group including natsume and Kon have romantic feelings for that idiot. the last thing anyone really wants is for that absentminded fool to turn into another Touma Kamajo who is also involved in his own pseudo harem.

jr0904 wrote:

which is exactly what i suspected. the whole 24 ep is nothing more than a series promotion where to continue with the story,you will have to read the original source materials. similar to what happened to keikashi and other series.

That isn't really fair. It covered the novels available when the anime starts and ends with what the author calls part 1 of the series. It is handled very differently from your standard LN promotional anime.

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jr0904 wrote:

which is exactly what i suspected. the whole 24 ep is nothing more than a series promotion where to continue with the story,you will have to read the original source materials. similar to what happened to keikashi and other series.

That isn't really fair. It covered the novels available when the anime starts and ends with what the author calls part 1 of the series. It is handled very differently from your standard LN promotional anime.

Calsolum wrote:

the fact that theres at the moment of typing no confirmed second season works against it because its a hell of a cliffhanger but if theres a second season it'd be interesting to see how the spoiler[narrative shifts to natsume with harutora doing his own thing. Also with Harutora now an independent force what with his reawakened memories it could either be awesome(like kaneki a drastic change in personality) or terribly boring(broken no challenge like Tatsuya). I guess i'd want to see is that his new memories change him on an emotional not just a power level]

There is no way they could confirm a second season for several years considering that there are a whole 3 volumes of the second half published.

As for Harutora, you can tell at the end that he spoiler[has changed emotionally. Not entirely into another person because he didn't lose what made him Harutora, but he is different. Also, his power level isn't all that amazing. His major trait is his knowledge.]

jr0904 wrote:

also i'm more surprised that people arent peeving on the pseudo harem aspect after ep 18 considering that all of the girls in the group including natsume and Kon have romantic feelings for that idiot. the last thing anyone really wants is for that absentminded fool to turn into another Touma Kamajo who is also involved in his own pseudo harem.

That seems more like a gripe you'd have if you watched it air once a week. The second half as a whole shows there is spoiler[no harem. He accepts and reciprocates Natsume's feelings; the others are just friends.] Incidentally that makes it not like Kamijou Touma at all. Touma's shtick is being completely oblivious.