The episode seems quite well and the extra scene are consistent.
Nevertheless, the atmosphere is still much less dark than in the game. This is not necessarily a bad thing. if it adds interaction between the characters.
My regret concerns the character of Akane who seems less cold and more friendly. If I remember correctly, she was much more aloof with the others after the serious business begins, even with Shimako.
New OP isnāt as interesting as the first one, so Iāll just go over some easy-to-miss screens. Thereās some insane fading in the part after Sakuya morphs into a dragon(?); at one point there are 5 images superimposed on each other. For characters, we have Akane, Kashima, Nishikujo, Imamiya, and Yoshino. Hopefully Iām wrong, but it looks like these images are supposed to be inside Kagariās head.
Thereās also a random shot of some fighter jets, and when Esaka twists his sword, he totally points the edge towards himself.
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Alright well it would have been hard to follow up that last episode.
I donāt really have any big complaints about this episode, save for the humor focus on it. With the pacing the series has been going at so far slowing down like that is kind of jarring and it feels like that time could have been spent on something more important.
I see this episode as serving to decompress and let the tension go after that last episode and Iād say it does an overall decent albeit lazy job at doing this.
Itās been really hard to form coherent thoughts on this episode for me. Some of the things I like are also the things Iām having trouble digesting, mainly Kagariās personality. On itās own, I think itās entertaining and actually pretty good, but on the other hand, the fact that it belongs to Kagari, and her importance to Rewrite, is what I have a problem with.
If I were to look at this episode alone, not taking into account what consequences it has later on, Iād say I definitely enjoyed it. I laughed, and even the moment where Kotarou gets teary eyed over hearing from Kotori got to me a decent amount.
As for where the anime will go from hereā¦ I have no idea, and my predictions are limited. Itās going to be interesting, no matter what happens. (Although, interesting doesnāt necessarily mean good)
EDIT: Forgot to mention the OP and ED. Really, really like both. Iāve heard āEnd of The Worldā quite a few times, but it works quite well with the visuals that they had. The ED sounds nice, thatās for sure, but the visuals for that were derp-y just plain weird to me, despite the symbolism.
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Harvest Festa Invasion Confirmed!
I repeat,
Harvest Festa Invasion Confirmed!!
(kudos for people who get that reference)
Truth to be told, there is little reason for Kagariās haywire personality change in Harvest Festa, other than itās a fan disk and the writers and CV are all having great fun.
But story wise, it may be possible that (Rewrite/Rewrite HF Spoilers) [spoiler]Given Kagariās ability to adapt knowledge, she spent too long time compared to the original Visual Novel around Koutarou and Co. Thus adapting too much of Occult Club from them. And since we all know how weird the members of Occult Club could be, itās only natural Kagari adapted all the weirdness.
To me, she almost feels like a āout-thereā Kotori in this episode, [/spoiler]not that itās a bad thing,
Also, a moment of respect for the Guardian Duo who successfully defeated a monster that took the entire Occult Club multiple times to beat in Rewrite HF, great job.
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This episode was relaly fun to watch. I loved the new opening and ending songs, the mv was very beautiful, The comedy for this episode was really great, I greatly enjoyed kagariās use of her ribbons as a crane and when she invaded kotarous school; Creamy Kagarin confirmed jk.The second half was quite intresting as we got to see what each side though of each other and I have noticed the cg/fight scene animations have improved from last episode. I really hope they develope further on kotoriās thought process and interactions and thought process of Akane and Shimako.
I personally didnāt like the complete personality change for Kagari, though it seems interesting/funny in its own way. Theyāre taking this story way further from the original VN stories than I expected, so Iām not sure what to think. It has potential, but it definitely wonāt be anything like the experience the VN provided for us. Kagariās new personality is basically the āideal loli characterā for the anime viewers. I just hope the new story can make up for it.
One more thing is that the episode was kind of all over the place, constantly switching between completely separate things, I feel like the show could have been directed much better overall.
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(Rewrite HF)Thereās a route in Harvest Festa where Kagari pretty much acts like this. She calls herself Miracle-chan and spends her days manipulating the student body into believing that her ribbons are the pinnacle of fashion and that feecof should be consumed by everyone.
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Sheās not this silly. She still tells Kotarou to not bother with her and have a fulfilling harvest festival. Miracle Kagari still has a gloomy side to her.
Kagari is amazingly cute in this episode 
Then again Iām also extremely biased for HanaKana.
That Kapyun sound she made around 13:00~ and really every other sound she made was great
Does Suzaki sound different are am I just crazy?
Also I guess this where seeing a novel turn into a video format turns into a put down for imagination. I always imagined Takasago as a super upper heavy bodied guy and Suzaki as a little more aged.[quote=āSonic112003, post:7, topic:3114ā]
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Yeah I would say that is him with the way his ears look. THEY LOOK LIKE ACTUAL DUMPLINGS!!!
Also I never really payed to much attention to Inoue in the VN because she didnāt have a sprite so I didnāt think much of her but she is pushing for second best girl for me at the moment
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The poseā¦so close, inspiration from MasaKaga confirmed
Aspi.
Aspi can you not see?
Aspi this is Oppai Route Kagari.
The constant references to Akaneās chest. Kagari acting like this.
Do you not see, the Anime is not doing Terra, or Moon. The Anime is adapting the Oppai route ending.
Itās always been the canon ending in my heart, to see that the Anime producers agree with me is wonderful.
I wouldnāt call it the Rewrite I love, but itās not the Rewrite I hate.
Afterall, the Rewrite I love is dead in this adaptation, theyāre killing off all the boss battles from it, weāll probably get Midou at best.
But itās not spouting that pretentious garbage and expecting me to respect the awful writing either, so I donāt hate it.
An earlier episode already established a relationship between two characters with those names, theyāre clearly going out at this point and some guy seemed to have voiced his disapproval with a powerful uguu AND WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS BIZARRE BACKGROUND CHARACTER RUNNING GAG KANON REFERENCE THIS IS INCREDIBLE.
Iād give the episode a 10 but they skipped the actual fuck out of the best not Sakuya Route scene in the VN with Inoue is it sucks and I want three months salary worth of Frecof in compensation.
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Iām liking this direction they are taking with Kagari. Her character wasnāt developed well at all in the game, now she feels like a person and a character we can feel for. The direction is working too because Kotarou feels really impartial to both sides where I never feel that until later.
The opening is a much better timed this go around and the ending is nice since they didnāt try too much.
Look forward to the other routes in this story coming through.
I have to say, Iām loving the adaptation so far, I think itās actually doing wonders for a VN that was overly-big and full of inconsistencies, butā¦NOW I donāt have any idea on how itāll go.
I was sure they would acknowledge the route-split and weād get into routes individually, but now I just donāt know. The most interesting part is that they are showing quite a lot of foreshadowing and plot details from every route, while doing something very different.
Are they seriously going to try to āomni-runā everything? If so, quite a lot will be lost, but hey, the original content is showing itself to be quite interesting so far.
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The case is that Rewrite cannot be adapted like CLANNAD or Little Busters does.
Both works, while has lots of heroine routes, they donāt affect each other and the core story follows a certain heroineās route.
However, Rewriteās routes cannot co-exist, so either they choose a route and cut out everyone elseās, or do a brand new retelling. Youāre looking at a brand new retelling.
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Doing all girls would take too much time, so they made a new story. At least thatās what they call it, but it looks more like theyāll take points from mainly Chihaya and Akaneās routes and make that a single story.
They confirmed they are making a whole new story?
Yeah, way before the anime aired.Last week, all their tweets were āblabla original route blabla.ā
Well, thatās disappointing and kinda cool at the same time. After all, not even VN readers know quite what to expect now.
I havenāt played Harvest Festa, so I wouldnāt know, but isnāt it meant to be played after the events of the main VN?
Iām guessing you mean if the story is a continuation of the original. The answer to that would mostly no. HF has 6 scenarios, and only 2 of those are direct continuations of routes.
