Tora Dora Episode 25
nekosasu | March 27, 2009 | 11:13 am
As I thought, this episode brought absolutely no change to the story and THUS! It’s a boring epilogue – I’ve mainly said it all in my last post, read it you scurvy dogs.
I kinda hated how this episode tried to be all serious and tear-jerking, because, well, it tried to build some kind of suspense within one episode (which incidentally is the last but it probably never occurred to them – which is fine to an extent if you do it right though), but how can you do that if it already feels like an e-pi-logue!! How much must I emphasize it! Seriously, this felt a little rushed.
Especially the über hazukashii serifus that were uttered throughout this entire episode, made me want to scream KINSHI! all along. (Ami almost got it, but she’s waaaay too soft on the KINSHI part.) It felt as if they wanted to pack a ton and a half of morals before kicking the bucket, even though Yuri-chan-sensei rarely approves of it. And it was so incredibly filled with clichés once again, geez. Graduation? Come on, that’s older than animeblogs.
Well, one moral still sticks out: Too much is seldom good. Reflect upon it.
But (and it’s of course the big but that changes everything) it did make me smile (in a genuine kind of way) and laugh a little too, and I usually don’t do that when I’m that negative, so I suppose it was not all that bad either. Well, apart from the meek ending of the story itself. …blah. Minorin FTW and all that, you know. As I said, read here.
Anyway, props to Toradora, great series with “a sour aftertaste”, as a commenter said. I can only agree. This under 200 words? Crud, I’m such a tweetliar.
Oh, and I am sure you can easily recognize which series > this screen < will remind you of. Hint: mouth. Shit, I gave it away. Haha.
Anyway, I will be off to Barcelona in an hour. Got some AC/DC Concert to attend. Rejoice! One week without my stupid comments, how’s that feel? No, wait, sometimes I’m here and I don’t post for three weeks. Argh, dunno. Know what? If I don’t drown in Top Gear/Disagea/Booze pastimes, I’ll come back with a Toaru review. Though I’m not sure I’ll be able to abridge boredom with more boredom. Meh. Cya!
Top Gear is good. :D
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels the last episodes of Toradora were lacking.
Minorin’s a b**** for not apologising. Obviously, Ryuuji had a higher understanding of Taiga at that stage.
Minami-Ke is good :P
I felt fine with the episodes in the end, good series, but wish it would have peaked a bit more. Enjoyable with lots of smiles… also Yasuko!
It was…
I know they filled in the list of things to do but I feel as if it’s misssing something, or they forgot something.
Inko said his name. :3
I thought the episode was important, since it resolved all the lingering issues and everyone got their happy ending. A decent finale overall, but episode 24 was just… I don’t wanna talk about it lol
That’s a rather scathing commentary. Sad to say, I can’t agree with your viewpoints.
@X10A: Thou hast won a Mako-cake!
@RyanA: I definitely agree with you, and I suppose I almost had written exactly the same commentary down, but nowadays it’s all about exaggerating opinions or being boring! :D
@Sarah: I agree, it’s missing a few things. However they didn’t forget Inko (unlike me lol)! That old retarded bird said his name indeed! Epic. Probably one of the highlights of this episode!
@TJ: I hate happy endings that don’t suit my preferences. Just like every retard who whined about True Tears and Noe losing to Hiromi. (I was overjoyed! Though I’d have preferred Aiko nevertheless…).
@Kurogane: I exaggerated widely indeed (some blogs apparently don’t need to troll and vituperate to be interesting and popular) but I didn’t mean to scathe Toradora as a whole, as I pointed out in this post. However, the point is, and I still maintain my position: the last two episodes were decent, but disappointingly rubbish.
Too bad you disagree, I’ll be the only curmudgeon here now. :(
I’ve finally found time to watch the last two episodes – studying for The Final Exam is killing me and my free time (and my parents still whine about that I’m watching anime now instead of studying; oh come on, I know I’m bad at school, and I have two weeks before the Exam, and I don’t have enough “credits” to even take the Exam, and I know that I’ve to do that Exam good to enroll to the university I want to go and if I fail, my life is failed and I don’t have another chance like in normal countries in the world, oh how I hate my country it’s a piece of %#@, but Give Me at least a Day break DAMMIT!).
Khm.
So, I think for the first time I’ve to disagree with you. I think the ending was the best it could be. Of course there was the parents part and the running away, but after reflecting on my past two years when I reinvented myself and tried to act more mature, actually I found everything pretty realistic. Of course ToraDora is still the clichéd romcom like it was in the beginning and always, but from the beginning to the end it was written so good, that it almost looked realistic. It wasn’t, but it was at least. <- That sentence just don’t make any sense. Whatever.
So, what is ToraDora in my opinion? A Good show, from the start to the end. It’s like a general romcom, however it’s like it was written by a Troper. Or somebody who knows about Tropes. He used some of it, and he knew that he was using clichés. Everything was planned. It was written this way because he wanted this. ToraDora was meant to be different, yet not different at all. I give it a 9 out of 9. (Why not 10? Because that’s only reserved for Aria alone.)
Wow. I haven’t wrote so much like this since I’ve watched the last episodes of Aria for the first time.
@Will: Darn, tough times. Hope you will succeed on your exam – you still got some time until then, so make the best out of your free time… “studying” I guess ^^
Well sure, obviously everything that was used and shown in the anime was as intended by the creator. I’m not discrediting the originality of Toradora, however I just don’t like the ending because it could have been so much better in my opinion. Like… Minorin… ahaha ^^; nono I mean… *cough*
It might have been realistic, something about realizing one’s own recklessness, mistakes of youth, etc. I totally agree, it’s good, but in the end, I believe that such a moral lesson should have been used earlier and a lot more efficiently, like in some context of suspense for example (which the transition from ep 24 to 25 clearly lacked because nothing was at stake anymore, unless you cared about what happened to Yacchan). Neither was this episode a tear-jerker like ep 16. All in all, I found it an uneventful and boring ending. But as I said in my earlier comment, I’m not that dissatisfied of the series as a whole – I would also give it a 9 out of 9. Or perhaps just a 8.9. Or 8.8.
(At least 5 people were wondering wtf I was doing here, writing up tl;dr stuff on a colorful website… “oh, you’re that anime/manga freak!” they go after I explain it to them. Argh, blogging at a LAN can be tiring.)
(Besides, WTF I’m not posting from the UK D:!)
This anime should have been predictable from the get-go. I am glad they did not try to stray TOO far away from the typical Japanese High School love stories involving more than one available girl for an extended period of time. The only ending I would’ve liked more is if Taiga got pregnant and eloped. That’s when it gets real!