sola

[Kraco]

anyway,anyone knows why is this series named sola?

Ho... If I said the name could be romanized as "Sora" instead, I bet the connection would be evident indeed. Yeah, in fact I didn't realise it before seeing the first episode, when it of course became more than obvious. Back when I saw the name for the first time, I was thinking it comes from some European language, or something.

[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.