sola

[kenren]

LOL kraco, i like the way you start your post. "Ho..."

I guess that's the only explanation.. since sora actually means sky. right?

[animus]

Mana still annoys me to no end. Matter fact, every character besides Koyori annoys the hell out of me.

[Kraco]

Yeah. They are starting to annoy me as well, more and more. In the beginning it wasn't so bad, because my attention was diverted to other things, but now I don't know if there's a single character that doesn't bother me. Koyori would be cool otherwise, but it bothers me to no end how in Lunar's subs her own name is so often in her lines yet I can't hear it there but much more rarely. It has to be some Japanese grammatical structure that explains the discrepancy, alright, but still it unfathomably bothers me.

[kenren]

Sola- 9

Downloading right now. =D
GO GO GO !

[animus]

Oh god that was so stupid. How does seeing paper (though seemingly Origami paper) lead Mana to believe that it's Aono's paper. Because nobody else in Japan folds Origami, or happens to use that paper, right? Why does Mana think she has more authority over Yorito than Aono, her sister (though, she isn't really his sister)? After Matsuri scales a frickin tall tower, how does Takeshi a human get up there 3 seconds after her? Sure this is anime, and stuff's not supposed to be realistic but Takeshi doesn't have the ability to get up there so fast. I'm starting to think this anime is bad for my health, due to the fact that it induces me with fits of rage and confusion.

[shinta|hikari]

Its unfair to say that just because it is anime its supposed to be unrealistic. That line would mislead people into thinking anime is crappy. Its because it is some weird cross between supernatural action AND harem that it is going all nonsense right now.

The stuff you mentioned is actually no big deal, since it can at least be explained if you stretch stuff a little, such as the paper Mana saw being of a specific kind that few people use (including Aono of course), and Takeshi having some superhuman abilities, (he can maybe cover the same distance in 3-4 jumps) which is reasonable since he was able to hold his own against a monster that can jump that high without effort. Mana has always been the type of character who cannot mind her own business, like when Matsuri first came around and she went snooping.

All these things are excusable, but not because it is anime and unrealistic, but because overall Sola is a bad show. You know its a bad show if you are forced to stretch the facts and rationalize it the way I just did for it to make sense.

Koyori always says her name when speaking about herself, and never uses Japanese equivalents for I (though there are a lot). But Japanese language usually omits the subject of the sentence if it is obvious (and speaking about yourself is quite obvious), thus the disparity between the english sub and the voiced out Japanese lines.

[kenren]

Yorito, being a made existance was unexpected.. to me of course. I don't get the part where Matsuri said to vanish together. Does that mean they're gonna die together or something?

[Kraco]

Yorito's state was indeed a big surprise for me as well. No wonder Aono was able to control him so well. I guess this even redeems this series a bit in my mind, if only from the technical point of view. It's still no great entertainment for me, though.

I also missed the meaning of that line. I thought they were going to keep sitting on that bench, with Matsuri burnt away by the sun and Yoriko perishing some other way. But I guess that would have been a bit too straightforward!

Well, the last eps should be interesting, at least, if any such morbid ending is going to take place. Although with still three episodes left, a lot could happen.

Edit: A little confusing typo.

[shinta|hikari]

I think that Matsuri is going to use the sword that was supposed to kill her to kill herself, and Yorito in the process. Nice and sad, if only they did the entire series a bit better, this twist would have been great.

[Kraco]

How would Yorito die in the process? I think if Aono was killed, Yorito might perish. Unless you mean we'll be getting some ending like in Hero here with Yorito and Matsuri...

[shinta|hikari]

I meant that to be as vague as possible, since I dont have solid guesses either. But if I had to make predictions, the sword may be able to destroy Yorito as well, since Matsuri asked how to use it. If she was just going to kill herself, she could have just, you know, go sun bathing.

[kenren]

So Matsuri will probably sacrifice herself for Yorito's sister to return her to human state using the sword..i missed the preview..though.

[Everon]

What a dick thing to do. Kill off your best friend so that you can live in the daytime? Worse off Yorito seems to have no problems with allowing the murder of his sister.

Maybe it'll be one of those 180 things where Matsuri lets Yorito's Sister use the sword...but thats not really a good plot direction either.

[shinta|hikari]

Err, I think Matsuri is going to use the sword to turn Yoritos sister back to human, sacrificing her own life in the process. With the sister back normal, Yorito, who was produced by supernatural means, will disappear. This was all hinted on by what Matsuri said about them disappearing together.

[animus]

Episode 12 - Doremi

[kenren]

So, it would be Aono becoming a human alone while Yorito and Matsuri dies..
With their past revealed, the story actually makes sense now. So who played the movie of the sky? @_@

[Kraco]

Episode 12 h264 - Lunar
Episode 12 xvid - Lunar

It indeed seems that way. And it would certainly be the best way to end it, for the story like you said. It'd actually be a pretty elegant ending and would redeem this series another step in my mind.

And yes, I was also wondering how clicked the switch. Seems a bit unlikely for a random occurrence...

[Kraco]

Two skies, forever apart:

Episode 13 Final h264 - Lunar
Episode 13 Final xvid - Lunar

I find it hard to evaluate this series. The beginning looked promising indeed, the middle made me dubious and then the end left me with highly mixed feelings. I have to say, foremost, that as such the ending is just the kind I appreciate: Fateful, kind of sad but in a good way. Well, in theory, at least it was. However, it was lacking something. When I think of a favorite type of an ending for a series I oft recall Elfen Lied and Tsukihime (and also FSN, but it wasn't so pure as a whole). They have a heavy impact when the fatefulness takes place. But somehow when Yorito and Matsuri vanished in this series I felt nothing. Nor did I sense the kind of sweet loss when Aono was left behind with the restored humanity.

This was like from a textbook, alright, but somehow it just didn't click for me. Maybe it's only because I never felt any sympathy whatsoever for Aono. And the rest of the cast just forgot everything about the characters as if they never were there, and that effect was played so succesfully you couldn't anymore consider they really lost something (if you don't know you've lost something, then it matters little whether you even had it in the first place or not).

I guess I'll write this down as a decent series but nothing extraordinary.

[kenren]

I'm somehow fine with how this show ended. Although Aono became human again..her age seems to remain..or rather,she can finally start growing and aging again.I like how the series shows the two cans of juice right before it ends. Well, this is it.. =|

[oyabun]

A good ending, did they cast spells on mana and the others in older episodes? Or they just automatically forgot about yorito?

If i may feel any sympathy on any characters of this series it would be for Mana. Talk about one sided love. She even forgot who was Yorito. poor girl..