Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324162253/@comment-26245542-20150327043609

Fighting off fate was such a brilliant way to save the series. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I missed anything but episode 12 was overbooked and confusing. Yamato, Nagato, Mutsu, Zuikaku and Shoukaku seemed enough to do the Big Heroes moment. Taihou, still pretty okay as a hidden trump card. But then everyone (except Shimakaze, ironically) suddenly showed up who had no business there. The power of friendship? Well, okay... but it seemed more like a shooting gallery in there towards the end with no actual retaliation.

The high point of tension from episode 11 was immediately deflated. It turned into a forced patronization (in my opinion). Pulling the fate card should have been done earlier, to be honest. By then it became something akin to an asspull (pardon the choice of words). I feel like they had something... Like picking up the ball, setting it up for a slam dunk, but then they decided to pass the ball around. By the time they set it up again, they're already down by 20 points.

It still has its fun moments. Scenes where I genuinely laughed at the gags, and scenes where I felt intensity and drama.

I don't think I've said anything that hasn't already been said... ah well.

7/10, because I am a very generous person.