Island

This review contains SPOILERS - both direct and indirect - so if you do not want spoilers, you should not read it... I am not going to deny that Scalpelexis once again wrote what I am about to repeat, although what can I say, we probably watched the same anime series... What is it about then? Well, it goes around in circles, but even so, the magnificent power of love conquers all in the end... Unpredictable? A little. Shocking? Not so much as the idea of how it might have ended if Rinne (the first, though actually probably the second) and Setsuna... That is quite enough now! I am just going to say that the part of my brain which deals with the classic "What if…?" questions is annoyingly rather very busy at the moment... I am thinking that the fact this is Visual Novel adaptation, and that I know about Japanese people and their fetishes, which scares me a bit, and that if this is canon and VN offers a lot of different possibilities... Well, let us just say I would probably rather not play this game... But enough already! As far as the anime series goes, the start is unnecessarily drawn out, not very interesting (or rather, not mysterious enough) and it feels a lot like this - main male character has three girls around him, so he has to go around them and help them... Exposition, I think it is called, which crawls along at the pace of a snail. Well, then suddenly they decide it is probably time to actually start solving problems, so there is then an interesting part which happens somewhere else (or rather in another time). However, because of the preceding long drawn-out exposition, it does not get as much screen time as it probably requires so everything feels quite rushed and it does not have the effect it probably should... Do you want an example? Well, children die, in fact, many many children, and it did not really affect me at all. I did not feel angry, I did not feel sad, I did not feel anything... Was I shocked? Perhaps, a little... However, that is probably not enough at a time like this - don’t you think? In addition, there is the ending, or maybe it is a new beginning? Setsuna proves that Hououin Kyouma is a nincompoop, because he goes and solves everything immediately so there is no suspense, no fatalities, we saved that for the final point of all this - it is quite a good one, even though it is a message that left me with many doubts and unanswered "What if…?" questions, although by then I am back to square one... In the end, it is like a badly put together puzzle, there is some kind of a picture, however, it could have been put together in a much better way...4/10 (19.09.2018)