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YackDe
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:36 pm
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Elfensjón wrote: | And the reviewer stated that the manga is still-ongoing by the events. |
It's not, the manga ended last year. This is just them not pacing out the anime well and so having to cram every single resolution in a single episode.
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blahmoomoo
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 9:30 pm
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Based on the volume synopses, it seems like the anime did a speedrun through volume 5 to reach their confession. I am guessing that there were several dangling threads beyond the continuing relationship that the anime either didn't open or shut off earlier than in the manga. The synopsis for volume 6 (of 11) does state that the relocation is no longer dangling over their heads though, so that was definitely resolved by then.
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MFrontier
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Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2024 11:45 pm
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After so much exploration of what marriage means, what it means to love and be in a relationship with someone, and struggling with who they are as people...I'm glad Takuya and Rika could finally get together and be happy. Their pure domestic bliss as a couple that faked being married, ended up falling in love, and getting married anyways without dating was adorable. These two dorks are precious.
Kurokawa best boss and relationship goals with her husband.
I still wish we could've gotten a proper resolution to GondaxKaori though.
Elfensjón wrote: | I felt this episode rushed towards the happy end of our fake couple as if the producers wanted them to love each other by the end of the season no matter what. And this is just sad, because all other episodes were slow-paced and relaxing.
And the reviewer stated that the manga is still-ongoing by the events. It kinda ruined a solid show for me. I really liked these two awkwardly protagonists and they were quite interesting in their personalities and I wished they would have given them some more episodes to get more character development. Maybe a 24-episodes anime would have been a better solution than a 12-episode run with a rushed conclusion.
And another wasted chance was the childhood friend. I do not know how she is represented in the source material but in the anime I felt she was useless to the plot. I expected her to be Honjouji-sans rival.
At least the opening theme song is one of the better ones this season (I do not skip OPs or EDs). |
Honestly I'm glad they actually resolved things because it felt like the only thing holding them back was their own anxiety and self-consciousness which they finally overcame to be with each other in this episode after several worth of self-sabotaging themselves.
Also Nao basically facilitated the moment where Takuya first asks Rika out which lead to the dominos falling, more or less.
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Covnam
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Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 12:11 am
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I thought this was a bit of a rushed conclusion to finish the series in a good place (presuming there's no season 2), but after skimming a bit of the manga, it seems that it happened like this there too! Probably felt a bit less rushed over the course of all the chapters though
The boss taking the job still felt like an easy out though.
Oh, and in the manga it's Siberia apparently, not Alaska! O_o
I enjoyed the series, so hopefully we get a second season. The first covered about half, so another season should be good to finish things
YackDe wrote: |
Elfensjón wrote: | And the reviewer stated that the manga is still-ongoing by the events. |
It's not, the manga ended last year. This is just them not pacing out the anime well and so having to cram every single resolution in a single episode. |
The manga may be finished, but it finished well past these events.
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YackDe
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Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 1:04 am
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Covnam wrote: |
YackDe wrote: |
Elfensjón wrote: | And the reviewer stated that the manga is still-ongoing by the events. |
It's not, the manga ended last year. This is just them not pacing out the anime well and so having to cram every single resolution in a single episode. |
The manga may be finished, but it finished well past these events. |
Yes, hence the manga isn't ongoing. This isn't a result of the anime production team having to come to an abrupt stop without manga content to adapt, they just did a poor job of allotting their time for the volumes they were adapting.
Despite giving off the superficial impression of an appropriately climactic moment, this was not the correct place to end things off. A single cour was likewise not the correct format here (especially given the telling lack of an announcement of a second cour at the end), and it was not worth skipping through swathes of material to get to this point.
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BaronViolet
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Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 6:35 am
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This nonsense is why I prefer reading the manga over watching the adaptation. Seriously, why couldn't they just adapt everything correctly? There was no need to rush the ending. I am sick of anime adaptations that only exist to promote the source material. Anime are slower, have endless filler and cut content from source material. It is why I prefer anime IG content like Bebop and Odd Taxi.
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Gina Szanboti
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Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 3:58 pm
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Quote: | we find out who that mysterious voice on the phone is |
So who was he? I didn't recognize what we saw of his face, and my brain is swiss cheese, so I'm still in the dark. And does the manga give his reason for doing it?
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