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Ebb1993
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Yeah... This show looks like it's doomed to crash and burn. Maybe if it didn't have the bullshit melodrama in the first place.
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FireChick
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Or trying to resolve it all with easy solutions that fly in the face of any kind of logic. |
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InfiniteNothingness
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Yeah, I take far more issue with how undercooked and easily handled, or otherwise comically solved (still not over how the record store situation got sorted), than the melodrama. That at least, like, kinda fits in terms of vibes and setting.
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YackDe
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When I wrote there wasn't enough time to cram anything for Suzuha into the remaining episodes, I didn't expect them to wait until the literal last second for her to go "btw I'm going to try out to become an idol, bye".
Not the worst P.A. Works original (unfortunately Glasslip will continue to exist for eternity), but this show sure worked hard to get that silver medal. |
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InfiniteNothingness
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This show was fascinatingly, engagingly messy, and it's hard not to think of the myriad ways it could've been much, much better (focusing on fewer arcs, fewer characters, better directing, etcetera etcetera), but I can't pretend I wasn't invested in these girls' dreams all the while. ... No matter how undercooked or paper-thin a painful number of arcs and characters were.
I get the idea, with Suzuha. Like, hey, because of her friends she now has a goal she wants to pursue and all, and now they'll be おうえんing her on, ain't that sweet. Everyone else is also better thanks to mutual support, etc. I like the emotional and thematic throughlines! Just, not how it all ended up, which was a sprawling mess. And Suzuha ain't even the worst off; Nodoka felt like she got an even shorter end of the stick, vs the former's at least gradual defrosting... even if, nonetheless, what she got was only modestly less threadbare. What an ending. Least it was fun, despite, uh, everything. I would actually watch a show all about Suzuha, though. |
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texnixmir
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I think Suzuha's ending was actually pretty well foreshadowed; she has an idol poster in her room that we got an extended shot of in e3 (shortly after she joins PomPoms), and then in e6 (right before she runs away to avoid taking a bath with the other girls) she's wearing an idol t-shirt that she has an conversation about with Megumi. During that conversation it explicitly mentions that she likes the idol specifically because of how expressive she is, in contrast to how Suzuha thinks of herself. On the other hand, maybe I just like Suzuha because she reminds me of Ai Narata Kagaki Shojo!!
Nodoka's ending, on the other hand, feels like it came out of nowhere to me. Even if she came out of this wanting to cheer for people it feels like there's a difference between that and being open to the therapist office hours that people want her to do / that she winds up doing. I am really disappointed in this show in general. I think from the premise there's like a really interesting comparison about visible and invisible disability that it wants to make with Kanata and Megumi - I'll point specifically at Moore's entry in the preview guide, which I think misreads Kanata's disability pretty significantly in a way that I don't think would happen if Kanata were visibly disabled, in the way that Megumi is. Unfortunately, that's not really something that the show spends much time on at all. |
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YackDe
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A character wearing a shirt is not sufficient foreshadowing for a plot point that gets resolved in a couple seconds at the very end of the show by said character going "peace out, roll credits" after 6 episodes of nothing. |
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Terraziel
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Well I can at least say that the show kept the quality levels the same till the end. Just not in a good way, like you want...
For me it feels like the Kanata story (minus PomPoms) was supposed to be a movie/short plot, but then they were told to flesh it out and ended up with... well not much really, just a strange collection of abandoned half ideas and characters. |
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Florete
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What a shame. I remember being really impressed with the opening scene of the series, and the first few episodes were mostly pretty good, but then they just...lost it.
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