Rewrite Anime - Episode 12 "The Song of Destruction"

[Likeaneko]

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.

This face reminds me of a certain art style…

Also I decided to take a screenshot of the ending scenes of the opening because I saw something interesting in it
Akane confronting Kashima?

Nishikujou and Imamiya meh

This is what I found! Yoshino fighting some raptors which I find to be pretty interesting.

Although I’m not sure if they plan on using all of the events from the opening seeing how the last episode is next week.

[grooven]

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.

[minhthuan274]

The sense with Kotori’s parents didn’t make me sadly, this sense is played so fast

[Khsellhu]

I really enjoyed the Midou story because we git way more insight than the game gave.

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”.

[waravim]

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.

[HeliosAlpha]

So the full version of End of the World basically describes salvation happening from Kotarou’s perspective.

[Funchal99]

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.

[Khsellhu]

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.