So bummed about this.
Whenever I watch Charlotte, I try to look at it based on its characters. What molds and pushes them and the like. I don’t care about the twists, I wanted to care about the characters. There were so many interesting personalities in Charlotte that they quickly throw off half-baked.
It think it’s best to watch Charlotte from Yuu’s POV. I realized that this show has always been about Yuu. Yuu is the center of Charlotte and Charlotte molded itself from this character. It keeps pulling him to different directions, pushing and testing him, making him discover new things and so, risking pretty much everything (characters, plot, sense) just so he could grow up and have courage. I appreciated that and I see could see Yuu’s change, though subtle it was. Charlotte is about Yuu learning to face things on his own and this episode saw to that…
That’s pretty much the show in a nutshell.
I think, aside from all of these basic problems that plague the show, a big problem early on was Maeda’s comments on keeping with the show until episode 6, and the many promises the staff put out.
I want them to just leave it out of the show. Keep it trailer exclusive! At least then there’s something I can look back on fondly.
That’s an anime that manages to be entertaining despite not fitting people’s expectations. With a low budget, inexperienced staff, and possible time constraints, it somehow ends up looking pretty good.
It’s definitely better than some overplayed rpg story, and even though it isn’t what I expected, even though it has a lot of problems, it is still one of the shows I enjoy most this season.
It developed a good amount of characters in the time Charlotte developed one.
The problem I have with this is that it’s such a restricted perspective.
It’s like my joking comments on Chaos Dragon. It might seem bad in a casual viewing, but if you imagine, and you put yourself in the shoes of someone playing through the campaign, it could maybe be good.
It’s like… You’re searching for a way to appreciate the show.
Like Bowiie said jokingly about the skirt, nothing in the show barring comedy in the start has led anyone to expect going into something as offputting as even the -idea- of her being displayed that way. They even force feed the disturbing nature to you when Kumagami states how awful it is. It’s immensely disturbing, but also very real. Just look at the daily world news. I think it is beneficial to tone and shellshock of the episode.
In regards to something I mentioned in my previous post…
After rewatching the episode, I realized that it’s been explicitly pointed out that the vaccine won’t make existent powers disappear. In other words, even after spreading it, Shunsuke’s group won’t be able to rest until every power user’s puberty is over. As long as powers exist, humans will fight over them. If we take Ayumi as an example, it looks something like this: Power awakened at some point during middle school. Power will be lost around the end of high school at the latest. That’s about… 5 years? Given the situation, that’s enough time for several world-changing events to occur. Defending a castle under siege for 5 whole years, that’s crazy hard.
Successfully spreading the vaccine won’t put an end to the series’ main conflict. I doubt the last two episodes will be about 5 years of fight for survival. In that case, the series must be concluded in a different way.
Yeah, I can see the ending now.
Knowing that Yuu has the ability to use not only Telekinesis, but also Levitation and Thought-photography… I really would have hoped to see him utilise those abilities at some point up to now.
It really doesn’t look like Yuu will ever get the chance to put those to use any more. I mean I get that they’re trying to make us realise the consequence of Collapse and how much of a monster he can be… But I think it would have hit home harder had we had more of a display of some of the destruction he can cause with the other abilities he has plundered… But me nitpicking aside, I’m okay with it… The message is quite clear, and message received… I guess? Just disappointing to say the least.
I was thinking that but, in that specific situation, what use would he have for the levitation and thoughtography? I feel those were useless in this episode’s case. Perhaps in the next, we would see some use out of it? Who knoooows
I’m trying to work out what use it would ever be now in the series… Considering we’ve come this far, Thought-photography seems to me like just a gag power with no real purpose. Levitation…? Beats me.
Just seems too late to implement them if they were going to.
He could have got a revealing photo of the terrorists and black mailed them! I do hope thoughtography has some use as out of the 3 it seems the most pointless so why give it to him? He’s used telekinesis a few times and levitation could come in handy but I can think of nothing for thoughtography.
Maybe they were trying to reference Kud?
I still don’t understand the fact that they know yuu has time travel and how can they tell if he time travelled though the most logical reason would be a diary of whats been going on but it just dosn’t make sense.
Probably because if taxi dude’s family was suddenly fine or Someone was in Nao’s room waiting for them it would be obvious as how else would they have found out these plans besides time travel?
It doesn’t have to do with memory, it has to do with inexplicable bumps in a very thorough plan. Where something goes awry where there’s no logical reason for it to- Because the plan was made from so long ago, the outcome of them trying to change it along the line will always end in the death of the family.
I said it semi-jokingly. It is kind of funny to think about but at the same time I think it was intentionally set up this way. Every time Nao jumped/kicked and it had that moment when the skirt would flutter, and you expect it to flip but it doesn’t puts this idea in your mind that they are playing with the expectations that most anime series have set up. They present Nao as this “pure” character that they won’t soil with cheap skirt flips so when you see her in this degraded state it brings more impact through that feeling of soiling something that is “pure”.
It was a nice touch for me I liked the set up and payoff.
