Interesting how people’s opinions are dropping now. I was definitely, not impressed, let’s say less apathetic this week than last. 15 was just boring from beginning to end. I’ll commend them for, if nothing else, not ripping every visual from the VN this time. The void in Kotarou’s memory is a physical white space instead of a buggy world line. Furthermore, the theory based on Kotarou’s footnote is quite different from the one in the VN which looked just like Kagari’s. Kagari’s theory stretches in one direction with lines going all over the place. Kotarou’s theory stretches is all four directions and consists of only right angles; it completely screams completeness. If you miss the analogy between the complete theory and a tree of life, ask yourself where they would show it. If placed on Kagari’s sheet it would look really similar to the one she already had and just kinda underwhelming.
I didn’t feel it. The excellence of the first two episodes was simply missing. I agree that what evoked emotional responses here were not the adaption scenes, but our memories of the VN.
I won’t say that this part absolutely needed two full episodes, but just one was clearly not enough. Time constraints are the enemy of good adaptions.
The Kotarou looking older thing was kinda weird, too. It’s like they only did that in order to make the moon adaption actually match the promotion posters which they had completely forgotten about in the first two episodes.
I’m kinda worried about the lack of explanation for some things. For example, won’t the anime-only viewers be very confused about why “Kagari” was on the moon? Or why she stayed behind? Won’t the confusion intensify in Terra? I doubt they’ll be able to come to the right conclusion with the broken pieces of information they’ve been given.
Also, it was not mentioned that Kotarou couldn’t “revive” after declaring war on Kashima Sakura anymore, but it seems that wasn’t necessary.
And I still feel that they should’ve shown what happens when the earth dies. There needs to be a picture in the viewer’s heads about the end of the world that happens regardless of whether or not salvation takes place. But we only get a verbal explanation along the lines of “The earth always just… dies. Believe us!”
I think I’ve mentioned this back during the first season, but the way they had ended it was kind of a problem. They took some of the moon/terra scenes and just copied them. Like Yoshino leading the wolf pack against the army of familiars. It just doesn’t feel as strong in moon because we’ve already seen it happen before.
Well, it wasn’t all bad, and I did like some of the kinda-original stuff, like the girls being able to say their farewells. (Though Yoshino’s farewell was still more emotonal than theirs. Is that ok?)
Sakuya is such an epic poser xD
I’m pretty sure the “Kotarou grew up” thing also happened in the VN. I enjoyed the episode but yeah, it could have used one more episode for this.
How is there signal for phone calls on the moon?
I actually think this is the episode I enjoyed the most in Moon even tho it was almost completely different, a bit rushed and animation quality was kinda meh. But seriously, it doesn’t need to be THAT similar to the VN to be good. With one episode to do the second half of Moon, this was actually really good (to me at least).
They did it and explained that it was cuz of the extra years he spent with Akane but then tbh I thought he shoulda been an adult from the beginning of Moon…
The transmitter towers are recreated on the moon too.
One thing I did kinda like was how they made the scenery so damn white! I guess it’s their way of foreshadowing the fact that they’re on the moon. But in all likelihood they probably just did it to keep true to the VN Moon OP.
In the VN, Moon Kotarou was grown up from the start and there was a proper reason for it. But here, he just randomly grew up at some point and then made himself younger again after a while.
This is just a minor thing, but for a person who was comatose for like a decade, Kotarou sure still looked quite neat. It’s a pretty common mistake made by a lot of shows across media, but when the visual novel made a pretty accurate textual description of his appearance at that point, the anime could have been able to include that detail. But eh.
On a side note, I really liked the part where Kagari finally completed the theorem. It looked awesome. I even made a couple of GIFs here, separated because I intended to upload it on Tumblr. There’s a small detail where Kagari broke her nail, and oh god it looked so painful.
Pretty good episode! It went over some things way too quickly, but it managed to be surprisingly clear on others. Overall it mostly leaves out things relevant to Moon route in particular in favor of setting up Terra route as best as possible. Which I’m fine with!
For some reason i loved it when Kotori said “You’re asking a lot, gramps”
I think this episode would have given the anime only watchers a lot better feelings had 8bit and the producer done well with season 1.
I think the thing I’m saltiest about is how this will probably be the only time we hear Rewrite! How did this song get so shafted??
I know, we got that Tabi opening for episodes 14 and 15, and I wouldn’t want to remove that. But, cmoooon, we could’ve had Rewrite play for episodes 8-13 instead of End of the World! Cmoooon, why didn’t you use it there Rewrite anime ;_;
Unfortunately, the lyrics are very exclusive to Moon Arc. As much as I like Rewrite much much better than End of the World, there’s just something odd about using a song about someone’s determination to rewrite fate… as the opening theme of an arc about the protagonist dawdling about until end of the world hit them and he’s unable to do anything about it. 
At this point, I’m just happy about the anime using the song so well… it really carried the exciting mood despite the unimpressive visuals that it accompanied. XD
Right now I’m just excited on what the Terra OP and ED will be. I wonder if it’s going to be a vocal arrange of Yuriha or Remembrance.
Oh wow, I just realised how cool a vocal Remembrance would be for Terra.
It doesn’t help that MintJam’s arrangement of that track (ooh I somehow found it) is so goddarn awesome. :shizuflust:
I’m just happy the plot is getting better for me to follow, unlike in the first ep. I didn’t like how this episode was rushed however, I noticed that after the first couple of minutes watching. Still hoping for this season to have a much better plot than the previous season.
I dunno guys, I thought this episode was pretty amazing. I didn’t feel like it was rushed at all; if anything I felt that it was able to explain things a lot better than Moon was able to. What actually happened in Moon feels a lot less ambiguous in this adaptation, and everything finally seems to click in my head. Of course this is coming from a background of somebody who was already able to read it in the VN and think about it every now-and-then (especially with the great Moon debacle we had a while back).
The emotional impact was on-point (although pretty much all of it was calling on the routes I enjoyed in the VN and was not related at all to the 1st season), and the end just felt perfect, as it clearly stated Kagari’s reason for starting the whole “Theory of Life” experiment. Heck, I just can’t explain how much hype I felt hearing Rewrite as soon as Sakuya appeared.
If anything, the only flaw I can find in this episode is that it heavily broke the “show don’t tell” policy of good storytelling. But, really though, how can you explain something as complicated as Moon without actually telling it :masdum: Or at least, explain it in a way that isn’t ambiguous
This may be more of a “Moon gets better after experiencing it a second time” rather than “the anime did a great job with it” because, as far as I can recall, I actually felt like the VN was less impactful. Maybe if I read the VN a second time around, I’d feel what I felt while watching this episode in a much stronger light. Maybe I won’t. I guess I’ll just wait for the Steam release to figure that one out.
wtf Pepe
Anime had more impact than the VN??
Talk to me again when I re-read Moon once it’s out on steam 
One interesting thing that I noticed about all the people talking on here about this… Everyone said that “Moon would fit in three episodes” and that the first two episodes were pretty great… But then why does this episode feel rushed? How else would they have fit everything in 3 episodes without sacrificing the pacing of the already great first two episodes?
(I’m just salty because I didn’t find it rushed at all)
