While it didn’t manage to invoke gushing or fanboy splee in me personally, in the manner that a number other shows that in one way or the other have managed to precision-target themselves ‘close to heart’ (so to say) have, I was throughly entertained by it. It was a fun ride, and something I eagerly looked forward to as more new episodes piled up for me to watch. I guess you could hold is as a form of paragon example of just how good a mainstream, well-backed anime can be when done right.

I was troughly entertained by it – Except for the ending. Or rather, the huge fucking bitchslap in the face of the audience that ended in episode 25, because she show didn’t have any ending.

In the end the most frustrating thing about (non) end for me wasn’t the unfinished plot buisness directly, but an otherwise so good series had to mangle itself so horribly in that regard. It was just plain awful.

Fuck you Sunrise, and fuck you hard.

Yesyes, I know there’s more coming and yaddayadda, but frankly that’s an poor excuse of leaving things as is, what with the year-long gap, and especially when the alleged 2nd season doesn’t even pick up directly after the clusterfuck known as episode 25. It just reeks of poor handling and excuses, to the point that I don’t really even want to know the real reasons behind it. It won’t change the sucking to any degree, and it would just remind me of the horrible inexcusable clusterfuck that it was, and that it was probably intentionally done so.

But hey, at least we get another season of Pizza Butt the anime, so I guess it could be worse. Though with the huge break in-between (the plot, that is), the clusterfuck end of last season, and Sunrise’s track record of doing ‘sequels’, I really don’t want to place much anticipation on S2.

…Which I guess is only good, as at it will be hard to be anything else than (hopefully) positively surprised when S2 eventually rolls around!

Haven’t seen Ryvius, so no comment. But as long as we’re speaking about the same director, I liked the ending to Gun x Sword, even if it was a bit short.

In the case of Code Geass, the non-ending pretty much spelled out that this wasn’t going to be a one season show. If there was no more Code Geass, it would be a horrible way to end things. As it is, it’s a stinking cliffhanger I don’t like, but it serves its goal: to make people want to watch the next season more and more.

This was by far the best/worse dropping of the ball though.

By the way I realized my excerpt for this blog post contained a line from an earlier version of this post. But yeah, this show is exciting.