Kyoukai no Kanata
Shadows
Classification:
Recommendation:
Very entertainment! (73.25 of
possible 100)
Blogger Note:
To my astonishment,
when I went to update my Unfair Studio Ranking, I didn’t find Kyoto Animation studio! I went to search
for the animes produced by that studio and besides some animes that are in my
to watch list (Clannad, Clannad After Story), I never see an anime from this
studio in my life with exception to 3 episodes from Free and Lucky Start
that result in a dropout!
Warning this review
could contain spoilers!
If the
reader wasn't watched this anime, this could reduce the enjoyment!
For instance Sasuke
will kill Naruto in season finale!
See the danger of a
Spoiler? Now this was a lie, only to show the power of a spoiler!
The reader was been
warned!
Now Let's Get
Started:
"The Youmu
massacre and Glasses!"
Directed by - Taichi Ishidate
Studio – Kyoto Animation
Year - 2013
Season 1 / 12
episodes
The Opening
A very enjoyable
and calm song, with a awesome artwork. The opening (especially the artwork) is
only functional after watching a couple
episodes from the series, to be a great opening for me it has also to work as a
trailer but in that field it fails!
Bellow I present
the video:
(Kyoukai no Kanata
- opening)
Last Spoiler Warning!
Analysis
A start (minor spoiler alert – watch the first 4 minutes) at the level of Angel Beats with a mortal stabbing to a normal human! But as we learn is not an ordinary human.
Kyoukai no Kanata
presents a very enjoyable world (with great artwork) were there are boring
humans, demons (called Youmu) and were are demons are hunters that go by the
name of Spirit World Warrior.
This hunter
society job is murder Youmu in defense of our society and to maintain the peace
(besides they never show an Youmu hurt a human). After the murdering the Youmu
are transformed in stone and they can sell it, in a market for a price
depending of the Youmu ranking!
And this is one of
the most annoying facts of this show for me, no more explanation is giving
about his marker and this constants missing explanation of some facts, for me
hurt the show a little bit!
The series can be
split in two arcs with a filler episode in the middle (a filler in a 12 episodes
show, sincerely I don’t understand). The first arc is the start of the romance
and the world is presented with great level. The second arc is a total episode
sunk with 2 or 3 plots twist and with the aggravating of some unexplained
phenomenas.
The characters
suffer from a total absence of development (with exception of Mirai and Akihito). I reach to the
final episode without knowing the origin or a simple name identifier of some
characters!
To end this show
could be great unfortunately they Screw UP!
?Future Seasons?
I would like to
see a new season, but under certain conditions, to explain the stuff that
annoying stays unexplained during all the 12 episodes of Kyoukai no Kanata.
The points I would
required a deeper explanation are the follow:
·
What happened to
the World Warrior Society.
·
The World Warrior
Society clans, members and origins!
·
The Youmu stone
dark market
·
The story of Akihito Kanbara mom and his half Youmu origin!
If a new season
cover this points, I would enjoy and much probably give a top 20 classification
in the All Time Top.
Final Conclusions
I want to say a
few words about Kyoto Animation Studio, after watch this show and 3 episodes of
Free, this studio presents a good animation team but in term of story writing
it SUCKS!! A very inconstant flow in history, starts to be a mark of this
studio that I hope they correct in future animes!
*Watched by me in
2014 - originally released in 2013
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