Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324162253/@comment-25274994-20150502154042

I know it's kind of late but I just finished watching the last episode, and for me, it was bad in some ways. The reason why I don't really like this anime is because I enjoy the game and want the anime to expand more, they could explain stuffs like the origin of the abyssal, are the fleet girls count as a human or not, and others, but what we got is like an animated version of a doujin story. I really feel like they wasted so much potential here, and I think they also fail to attract new fans, since most people that I know who is not a fan of the series drop the anime after around 5 episode.

My actual problem with the anime is that the anime doesn't even know what it want to be, and when it decided to, the result isn't that nice. I really enjoy the first three episode since it have a balance of humor, action, and drama. It also give a pretty decent development to Fubuki, and I actually like what they did at the end of episode 3. I know that most of us don't even care when Kisaragi dies due to her few screentime, but it can have a great effect on other characters and give reason for drama and development. Sadly, it was dropped on the next episode.

Episode 4 onward was my main problem in that they shift tone from action-based anime to slice of life, if they actually do slice of life from the first episode then it's okay, but the first three episode suggest that this will give much more focus on the war with the abyssal and even killed of a character, whose dead really give no impact whatsoever (except for Mutsuki, then again only when Fubuki nearly kills herself) and resolved as an after-story to the actual story of the episode which is Kongou sisters' antics. Most episode after this are only there to introduce new characters, but I just don't find excitement within the episode themself.

The last arc which is the MI arc is just full of lulz moment for me. I really hate how they handled the admiral in this anime. I understand not wanting to create an admiral character since they represent the player, but the execution is just bad. They make it that the admiral is a really important character that is loved by all the other characters but doesn't even actually appear or talk, if they make the admiral into a character like the producers in Idolmaster anime then it can work, but here just feels weird, especially how the admiral can make all this plan from informations that are supposed to be secret for the abyssal, and in the end the admiral just disappear and return without any explanation, what the hell indeed. And don't get me started on the reason why Fubuki is so important, because there is none. The writers don't know how to explain Fubuki's status as the main character and just make things up, that doesn't make any sense.

The final battle is just so bad that it kind of feel like a gag. The enemies are not that strong compared with the protagonists, the only reason they are losing is because of the enemy numbers, and when reinforcement come, the battle turn into a joke. At least foreshadow Taihou somehow, her arriving like that is just a Deus Ex Machina. Then there's that AIrfield Princess evolving into Midway Princess thing, that enough is already weird, but what really weird is how they defeat her. Why is the Wo-Class is the core for the Princess, why is she have to be killed to kill the Princess? And Wo doesn't even try fighting Fubuki back after that build-up from the previous episode, she just fire once and doesn't even react when Fubukl launch her torpedoes. The Princess herself also goes down easily, I don't think any of her attack hit something. The whole some force is manipulating everything from the background is also forced and weak.

I know that I rant a lot but this is how I really felt watching this. There is some good part like the opening and ending theme are really good, and the carriers development were pretty nice, but the rest just doesn't feel right for me. For the second season, I kind of wish that it is actually a second anime with different writer(s) and director.