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Shelf Life - Wing Man

When one of the characters finally gets the courage to confront her mother about her abusive boyfriend, it's solved with a simple, "Oh, you dislike him? Okay, I'll tell him to leave and never come back." It's lazy storytelling and lazy conflict resolution, almost to the point where it feels as though the issues in the series were pulled at random from pamphlets at the local college counseling center.

it definitely sheds light on the world and many of the characters of Fam and greater deepens the appreciation.

I initially appreciated Last Exile--Fam the Silver Wing for confirming that Dio was still alive from the first series, and I enjoyed it overall for being a fun series, a fun sequel to the first, even if it felt rather rushed in places and especially toward the end. Having just watched it for a second time on Blu-ray, I found myself genuinely loving this show. Yes it looks pretty, but I believe the characters and their stories are just as charming. I love the relationship dynamics and how they develop at the end of their journeys, even if it isn't "deep" per se. It's the right mix of everything that makes this show come together, and I get the impression it's kind of underrated. I also disagree about not having to have seen the original show, whether before or after Fam, for it definitely sheds light on the world and many of the characters of Fam and greater deepens the appreciation. There is that recap episode, but it's not really enough. For me at least, it's definitely Shelf Worthy!

The series is less about the “gotcha” than it is about the journey there.

Its been blatantly moeified and converted to an all female cast with yuri possibilities simply to cash in on this trend of moe all female yuri cast shows. And anybody who says otherwise is naive or has not seen the first show.

The problem is that We, Without Wings first couple of episodes were SO INCREDIBLY ALIENATING TO ME that I had NO desire to attempt to burn through however many episodes to get to the stuff I cared about, the coverage of the MPD.

By going with that obnoxiously polarizing first couple episodes, it results in a much more jarring experience that I think there MUST be a better way to do it. Navel apparently had one of the BEST stories in this title but... If you want to draw in a crowd, that was SO not the way to do it.