Agreed. Although it got a bit hard for me to follow who was in whose body near the end. To be honest, I still don't understand fully who was friends with Mato (Yuu or STR) and who was inside the flipped-out STR, or how Yuu's body managed to stay the same over the 10+ years between first meeting Saya and the present time...
The way I see it is that Yuu had swapped places with STR sometime before Saya-chan met her. There's just no way any normal person would walk around school grounds in a swimsuit. Yeah, I don't get the not ageing thing either.
JohnHayabusa said: That ending was so beautiful. Second season please.
You know what, the ending does leave it open for another season. Seriously, 8 episodes is just not enough.
bunkhead said: The way I see it is that Yuu had swapped places with STR sometime before Saya-chan met her. There's just no way any normal person would walk around school grounds in a swimsuit. Yeah, I don't get the not ageing thing either. You know what, the ending does leave it open for another season. Seriously, 8 episodes is just not enough.
Keep in mind that Yuu was bullied into near-insanity, so she might not have been fully rational when walking around school in a swimsuit. In fact, I think her dissociative personality disorder enabled her to commune with the Other World in the first place. I think the switch occurred on the night her home burnt down. It would coincide nicely with Shooter killing her to ease some great trauma, then after the switch, STR taking revenge by burning the whole place to the ground.
As of Ep.5, I thought that Yuu never even existed in the first place, and Yuu Koutari was just a manifestation of STR. Turned out I was half right...
As for a second season, I'm not sure there's anything left to pursue. I mean, what would Shooter and co. fight for/against? Maybe an anime adaptation of Innocent Soul?
I hate to say it but I was a little disappointed with the ending, at least I think I was. I'm not sure how I felt about it, but I know I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous episode that followed. 5-7 was amazing, but this ending felt really different to me.
I doubt there will be a second season. It had closure on all the main characters.
ThunderBird said: As for a second season, I'm not sure there's anything left to pursue. I mean, what would Shooter and co. fight for/against? Maybe an anime adaptation of Innocent Soul?
Huke has an entire stable of characters that could conceivably be brought in to help expand the plot and flesh out the setting. Personally I'm kind of curious as to what Dragon Slayer is like.
DOCoSPADEo said: I hate to say it but I was a little disappointed with the ending, at least I think I was. I'm not sure how I felt about it, but I know I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous episode that followed. 5-7 was amazing, but this ending felt really different to me.
I doubt there will be a second season. It had closure on all the main characters.
Same here. I kinda felt nothing about the ending because of everything else that transpired. You can easily tell the animation studio treated an 8-episode anime as if it were a 12-episode anime. 24, even. Progression was fast and forced, pacing was inconsistent. It had a great message to tell, but it wasn't delivered strong enough, making it feel a little cheesy. I was really behind said message too.
I personally would rather see a rendition of BRS that gives the otherworldly characters their own identity, just like the manga or the video game.
Comartemis said: Huke has an entire stable of characters that could conceivably be brought in to help expand the plot and flesh out the setting. Personally I'm kind of curious as to what Dragon Slayer is like.
I'm personally not a fan of the "How should we explain this? Oh, just introduce another character!"-approach. Even Kagami/Chariot was expendable, IMHO. What I'd like to see is maybe an anime where the main trio (Shooter, Master, and STR) fight against nameless other personas, an otherworldly "emotional helper service", if you will. I liked the "kill persona, free person from grief"-angle.
I'm actually disappointed by how small Kagari's role after her arc ends. Seems like she has become a background character watching over Yomi. And then, suddenly the ending comes... I'm also disappointed by Kohata's other world persona and Saya-chan-sensei's weird and provoking behavior in some of the episodes.
I will say that I legitimately enjoyed the anime, even moreso than the Pilot edition.
That said though.....there ARE a few things that still bug me, granted the plot holes aren't as big as say Guilty Crown (oh yeah I just went there ) Like why Kagari get retconned badly, or why they made it look like Dead master would make a comeback.
but all in all the overall gripe that I have is the whole 8 episode thing. I feel like they could've made it a tad longer at least to 11 like Nisemono did.
still, for what it was, it was damn good. and I look foward to either a second season, movie, or OVA.