The ending was very sweet, no question about that, it had me smiling a lot, haha. Curious to see how the last three episodes will unfold - there will be plenty more emotional scenes to come I'm sure, particularly the 'end of Isla' - they're not going to let that happen, surely?

I do feel better about this episode than the last one (which I didn't really like, if you couldn't tell). I'm still having trouble with the drama/comedy balance though, I feel like the bits of comedy are hurting the serious moods in the main storyline... it's hard to tell when a joke will be made out of scene, but that's been the nature of the show. It wouldn't be what it is without comedy but I wonder if they stripped it back more for this arc I would have more of an emotional connection with it.

Balancing drama and comedy is what KyoAni produced shows usually do very successfully, but then I don't think they have any equal, haha.

I do give the show points however, as Proper has pointed out, for the minimal fanservice the show has had, nice to see the show at least try to be entertaining without that trope.

(This post was last modified: 14/06/2015 11:10 AM by S7*.)