I just really hope that Episode 13 will simply leave some plot threads hanging to make way for a presumably Moon and Terra Season 2. I’m actually suspecting that Episode 13 will end bitterly. ;-; The thing with Sakuya in the OP bothers me on how they’ll handle it though.
On another note, what happened to Akane’s letters???
yeahh…that dude is a major character who represents an entire faction within Gaia that doesn’t agree with Sakura’s methods. They literally summed up that entire plot point in 2 lines. Rather than you being lost, I think you just don’t even realize things are missing because it’s handled so poorly.
lol as someone who dislikes Hanakana in general and hates Kagari’s character, yes, that was terrible.
Eh? Maybe you had bad subs, but he never said that. He asked if she was still alive after their battle (which he describes, but never talks about killing her) then says “So you are still alive” when he sees her. A boring but reasonable script. Of the many problems this episode had, that was not one of them.
I mean, how could they not? Honestly, most of these shoe-horned plot point complaints people are making are things that, in my view, are really just very bad foreshadowing. For example, Terra spoilers In the VN, not everyone who read it caught that the Midou was with the kids Kotarou saves. It’'s going to be super obvious in the anime. Why include Kotori’s parents drama? Because it’s similar to how she feels about Kotarou. From a directing standpoint, there have been so many plot threads that need to be tied up in Terra. Granted, they fell into the typical trap of “foreshadow as much as possible!” which results in this mess…but I kind of see what they were going for in a broad sense. I kind of feel they just made a list of things they wanted to include that would lead into/connect with Moon/Terra and then checked them off without caring how well it was actually done.
I still believe, that it would have been much better if they simply went with an established route.
I don’t see how this is “the story of a girl that wasn’t represented in VN”. Literally, Moon, then Terra, then Harvest festa’s last character route does this extremely well. To heck, Kagari was represented way better even in OPPAI-ending and its continuation in Strange Fantasia.
If I didn’t love Rewrite’s vn, it’s manga adaptations, and Harvest festa this much, I would have dropped this anime on the 4th ep. When they tried to cram every aspect of why Kotarou would care for Shizuru that much (more than for a friend) it was already bad. Then… Rushed Lucia’s route in ep5. I never liked Lucia’s route in the vn, but, man, it was even worse here in the anime. Btw, they’ve killed Krivoy Rog in 1st ep, no? Kagari did it. With ease. With an extreme ease. In a dungeon, which was similar to that in “Rewrite Quest”. Yeah, I know, Kagari’s Ribbon are strong. But she never was this strong.
They’ve crammed together Kotori’s and Chihaya’s (Sakuya’s) routes… Only to show us how OP (god only knows why) Sakuya kicks Kotarou’s ass in a sore excuse for training? And then to kill off Kotori’s parents in such a cheap way.
Seriously, they should have made an adaptation of either Shizuru, Akane, or Chihaya’s route. And then Moon => Terra.
Or make 2 split adapations of 2 different routes to better connect it with Moon… Yes, that would not show everything, but at least that won’t change one of the best vns out there into some mindless pieces of plain text.
Seriously, it was so bad, that my ever so poor English grammar gets even worse.
The VN did made it a point to show that the aurora ribbons were very strong. I mean Kotarou in Akane route evolved his aurora blades to the point that it resembled Kagari’s and defeated the Earth Dragon. And Kotarou himself, who was a trained Guardian superhuman when he attacked Kagari ten years ago, got ribboned to near-death instantly. It’s not a far-fetched idea that she can easily defeat those giant beasts. Plus Kagari’s ribbons are meant to be strong because she herself isn’t. That’s why her weakness is stealth attacks. Seasoned Guardian hunters can defeat her, but those giant familiars aren’t. Plus it makes zero sense for Gaian familiars to attack the Key of all beings.
The anime has its issues, but I don’t think this is among those.
The point here is that, what Kotarou wasn’t even at his half-best form, when Kagari pwned him… err, was it 10 years? I think, its closer to 7 or 8. Kotarou is about 24, right? Sorry for offtop… Anyway, think back to Moon. She only managed to start the whole Terra thing because Kotarou and gang did everything in their power to protect her. She wasn’t even strong enough to beat that squirmy-black-little-Takasago-mamono. You may say, that she was already rather weakened by this point, but still. 1 on 1 fight with Krivoy Rog because of a can of coffee looks rather strange, if anything. Still, yeah, Ribbons can crash Krivoy Rog’s defense if they have enough power on the users side. Kotarou did such statement back in Chihaya’s route.
So I have an important problem to solve. The okaken is basically uniting but whether there is a third faction or not is arguable, so was I close enough?
Okay, I will put down my predictions on how the anime will end.
I think you’re entirely wrong but, we’ll see
Well I seem to have this knack that whatever predictions I have to a show will never happen, so I might just likely end up eating pig ears anyway. XD
I mean, I once predicted that Episode 6 will include stuff from Chihaya’s story from Official Another Story, but it went in a different direction instead.
Its gonna be the Akane finale but with everyone there and with Sakura instead of the Jobber Dragon. Elements from Chihaya finale might show up like Kotaro’s fire blade.
[Proceeds to hit something else entirely despite declaring his intent to hit Akane]
So many things wrong with this episode ahhhhhh…
Midou using the Earth Dragon while still using Fuego
Earth Dragon actually recoiling from any of those attacks
Midou fighting with a freaking sword and then actually taking a hit from Kotarou
Kotori’s parent’s scene felt terrible. The banging sound in the background sounds to intense for the scene they were trying to set up among various other things
THAT RE-COLORING OF KILIMANJARO AND KRIVOY ROG ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
The heat from Midou’s fire should’ve killed Kotarou instantly (unless he was playing around with him)
These are all of the problems I can call off the top of my head
The only seen that kind of got me in a “good” way was the scene with Midou as a kid and all of those other kids getting shot. That felt pretty bad to watch.
Also I decided to take a screenshot of the ending scenes of the opening because I saw something interesting in it
Akane confronting Kashima?
Yeah was really just… on this. I felt nothing on the reveal for Kotori’s parents and then things are just so rushed and there’s no impact. I really enjoyed the Midou story because we git way more insight than the game gave.
But I have a sneaking suspicion there will not be a second series, only because it feels like they’re using bits from Terra here. I wonder how this will all play out.
The sense with Kotori’s parents didn’t make me sadly, this sense is played so fast
Well, not really. There are going to be some walls of spoilers next, so if you didn’t read Rewrite’s VN completely before, you better not read it, I guess… Indeed, game didn’t give a full story of Midou and gang, but you can find bits and bites in Terra and Chihaya’s route. First of all, in Chihaya’s route Midou states, that he lost that, that Kotarou still have. He couldn’t walk on the same road, that Kotarou now walks and that he got his power too late. Then we have a solid piece of Terra contributed to Kotarou’s experience in a Middle East (or some minor Asian country). He mets Jasmine and kids there, then he learns in a rather cruel way that all of them are mamono users. Most of them die in process of this revelation by hand of either Guardian, or a completely devastated Louis. Later, when Kotarou manages to save Jasmine and a couple of other kids, there is a remark, that Jasmine picked up kids who called themselves MIdou, Tenma, and Tenjin. Based on all of this and CG’s in the end of Terra (there are Jasmine together with Midou and gang), we can guess, that in Chihaya’s route Midou was refering to the fact, that he couldn’t protect Jasmine and got his power (Fogo) way too late. Well, indeed, this is close to speculations, but given anime’s piece of info now, this all looks rather plausible. Midou loved/liked Jasmine, he couldn’t protect her, then he went to Japan’s Gaia, there he got Fogo, but as it was too late, he had nothing but resentment to those, who simply lives in peace and knows nothing about civil war’s hardships. There in Japan he comes across Kotarou, who is all that he hates. Kotarou is a power user (hunter), he has no real sense of danger, got a girl he wants to protect and she is still alive… Literally, Midou is another possibility for Kotarou. Actually, Kotarou from Akane’s route is a bit similar to Midou (IMHO), though he still got his sole salvation there.
I hope this wasn’t completely “off-topic”.
This episode was totally a disaster. The following might be what people said before but I can’t help repeating it.
The episode of Kotori’s parents were especially awful, it made me nothing and felt like a stereotyped sob story. It looks like the writer killed parents only to make people sad. (This is the common and pointless criticism on key’s animes, but to the scene the opinion might make sence.)
I think the scene in the VN was moving because of carefully designed plot, effects, and acting. The anime doesn’t have that sort of careful direction but stuffs things randomly. They should have exclude this episode.
The design of Earth Doragon is not so bad, but the motion is very slow and totally different from what I felt in the VN. In the anime as a whole, there are no tense atmosphere in the battle scene.
The episode of Midou and Jasmin might be new for me but it wasn’t helpfult to understand what Midou’s character is.
To sum up, this anime crams too many things from VN though they have cheap quality of animation.
They should have use fewer materials from original. (It might be common problem in adaptation of the VN)
They took too much challenges for their capability.
So the full version of End of the World basically describes salvation happening from Kotarou’s perspective.
Wow, apparently I’m one of the very few that liked the episode. I’m really liking the direction the series is going so far and this episode was pretty darn cool. But there were three considerable problems that got in the way of it:
Holycrap, what an animation downgrade. Seriously , it all just looked terrible, especially the action scenes. Midou kicking Kotarou was particularly bad animated. So stilted. Also a lot of detail in the expressions of characters kept changing all the time.
Kotori’s parents revelation was way too fast and felt shoved in, in contrast to the VN where it was quite an emotional scene. They just glossed over it, I guess. It also doesn’t help that Crunchyroll’s subtitles translates it to “monsters” instead of “familiars”. I’m pretty sure “mamono” is supposed to mean something more along the lines familiar. But whatever.
The City of Stone was COMPLETELY random. Seriously, they don’t so much as offer an explanation for how they got there in the first place, they just did. And again they glossed over what the city of stone is.
Those are the only things that actually felt like they were rushedly adaptedly in the show so far. I mean, until now they were pretty much taking their sweet time with things, which I liked.
People are saying the series season one will already end at the next episode, but is it true? As far as I know there’s no episode count announced.
There are 7 BDs announced for Rewrite anime with 7th BD boarding two eps (12th and 13th) + a couple of bonuses.
You can actually check it on official site.
