neko's thinkbox

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!

( ¯3¯)

I decided I don’t like this series anymore.

…or do I?
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Wishful thinking…

These last two episodes gave so much food for thought, they almost managed to wreak havoc in my mind. So many questions, and so many possible answers, but… who knows?

Rest assured, I tried to restrain my tl;dr urges this time. May look superficial though. Haven’t gotten this conciseness thing down yet.

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I approve of you, little girl. *thumbs up*

No, actually it’s only because I can’t be arsed to do a properly shop on my laptop right now. Either way I found this scene so compelling, and it somewhat confirms it now: Ryuuji does indeed like Taiga, in an interesting kind of way. Yacchan will be very sad if she finds out.

Sorry Minorin, you have no chance. :(

Slowly recovering from my very emotional start of the week, I thought I should watch Toradora 19 before going out to experience the start of the Venetian Carnival. Big mistake. Now I’m sadder. Perhaps even angry. Gah, I don’t know.

By the way, happy Valentine’s Day you roners. HIGH FIVE!
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Ah, I’m torn. Sure, I’m glad I caught up, because I was clearly missing out on a couple of quality episodes, however now I’m plagued with the long wait for the next episode again. Ah well. These last four episodes contained so much food for thought, I’m sure I will be in for yet another tl;dr conjecture and fake psychology session today.

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