This show still bothers me
>>282598216I keep saying I should watch the final episode and then never dohttps://vocaroo.com/11QTYQeWNydR
>>282598402Also I still use the OP (or maybe it was the ED) as an alarm sometimes
>>282598402You should just to see how ridiculous it is.
>>282598216Huge wasted potential.Season 2 when?
>>282598402To travel hopefully is better than to arrive, anon.
>>282598216I didn't watch the series, but I always thought the blonde girl was cute as fuck. Any reason why it bombed so hard in Japan? I saw that apparently the DVDs/Blu-rays sold very poorly despite heavy promotion and that the overall reception was mixed.
Was murderous anatomically correct lolibot hot?
>>282598780Because it was shit
>>282598759It was such a pretty looking show and had far more consistent animation than it is given credit for
>>282598780The writer only planned the first half of the story ahead, then started adding more subplots and themes without wrapping anything up. On top of that, the production schedule collapsed halfway in, so the animation in the second half became more minimal the longer it went on (although the storyboards hid it pretty well). Then they missed a deadline and had to fit the finale into an underbudgeted special written by someone else because the original writer ragequit, which resulted in a badly animated episode with an even less satisfying open ending than the original TV run's open ending.The result (minus the special) is still something pretty special if you like mahou shoujo with magical realist character drama and striking visuals, but it filters plotfags hard, and I can imagine why Japanese viewers didn't buy the BDs considering the inflated prices per disk there.
>>282598854She deserved to have her ass kicked.
>>282600049>it filters plotfags hard
>>282600359I saw it happen in realtime. It was so fucking funny.
>>282600903The plot was very loose but I can say it really went to shit and lost all track the second the fucking loli robot was introduced. There was also that thing with the teacher and Aoi lusting after him and it was really underwhelming maybe I expected too much and wanted to fuck Aoi
>>282598216AOTY. Caring about the ending is such silly plotfag shit, what we got was greatly directed and the animation (save for the last episodes) was top notch. Has this team done anything else at CloverWorks?
>>282601374All true, but none of that would bother you if you watched it for the characters, themes, symbolism and fresh twists on genre clichés in the first place.Plot is surface, and surface is for plebs.
>>282600049>the original writer ragequitLol, there goes Japanese work culture
>>282601633>themes, symbolismThese went nowhere>fresh twists on genre clichésDidn't happen
>>282598216Why did they make her look exactly like Coraline?
It’s a very good looking show
>>282601633Anon, the characters and themes of the show all go to shit in the second half, and without them the symbolism is empty and means nothing.The plot never needed to explain every little detail, it could have remained dreamlike and vague. but it needed to have some kind of coherent emotional arc for the characters to make that land and there just wasn't one. There was no catharsis at the end of WEP, just confusion and rage.
>>282598216where are the eggs?
>>282598854Perfection