Quote (Gensokyo @ Feb 21 2012 12:23pm)
I didn't much like this series, felt lacking as far as Key's adaptations go.
TK's unscriptedness really kept the early episodes together. But the last 2 episodes had their signature heartwrench, so at least it ended on a good note.
agree,
it was rushed.. felt like the were just trying to push girls dead monster cd's with crummy anime full of cheesy false emotions but good artwork..
Angel Beats has convinced me that Jun Maeda doesn’t know how to write an original story his previous hits Air, Kanon, and Clannad have been about a bunch of mentally and/or physically broken high school girls who all fall in love with a guy whose only significant character trait is that he exists, and along the way one of these girls will die of a mysterious illness. in angel beats tho he twists his tried and true formula by having all the characters dead to begin with, and stuck in some sort of high school purgatory, where a group of kids shoot a little girl in the kneecaps for no good reason.. there is never a really good explanation for why they’re fighting Angel. they make her out to be evil incarnate at first but quickly find out that she’s actually a normal girl. but instead of doing their research Yuri somehow convinced everyone to build an underground factory, stockpile weapons, and hold rock concerts just to fuck with everyone’s dinner time. If you stop to think about it, the war on Tenshi was nothing more than pointless bickering started by a petulant bitch. Using the budget cuts to defend the trainwreck of a story is like when high school student complain that they would have done better on a test had they gotten more time
after watching Angel Beats and seeing the audience reaction to it online, I feel like it’s done its job of manipulating its audience with false emotions because of the heavy marketing done for this series, it feels like nothing more than a cheap ploy to get to peoples wallets by tugging at the heart strings of people who probably have never experienced real romance. It’s a formula that has worked for previous Key works, and their sales of figures and dakimakura prove it
to much melodrama, the random tone shifts, random events all made it a bad experience overall
and the main character was so bland and boring..
also it may have looked good to most people but all in all it was cheap.
lazy ass production.