September 11, 2014

Strike the Blood -- ep 24, and done

And it was a pretty good ending. Not awesome, but not bad at all. There were some things I wanted that I didn't get, though.

The series suffers a bit from "sorting algorithm of evil", but they don't climb the power curve all that fast, so it doesn't feel as blatant as, for instance, DBZ. However, it suffers from accumulation of characters, and that does get out of hand. Every plot arc added one or more permanent characters, and it gets to the point where you can't even vacuum around them.

Everyone can still move in the last plot arc, but if there's a sequel series, it's going to get pretty damned crowded in the canon.

I had one big question, about Aiba:

Anyway, it was fun, and I'm glad I watched it. And it turns out that all the BDs are out now, so I'm downloading a complete BD raw. There was some really blatant fogging going on in the broadcast version I watched, and it'll be interesting to see what they did with it.

Recommended? Yes.
Rewatch? I can see myself rewatching parts of it.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 06:54 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 On Aiba, though just conjecture from what is said in the series:
As for the whole series, it was always watchable, which is hard to say for a lot of series.  It wasn't trying to be much beyond an Index clone, but Yukina is a lot more pleasant to have around & Kojou simply just wanted to not be bothered.  His tag line is pretty much "give me a break".
This was also the "what color is Yukina's underwear this week?" series.  This is not a joke.  Though it's sometimes a bit more blatant about what it was up to.

Posted by: sqa at September 12, 2014 05:23 AM (gWcVa)

2 Considering all the characters it held together well. It interested me enough to read forward a bit and they resolved the harem as well as I could hope for.

Posted by: topmaker at September 13, 2014 12:42 PM (2yZsg)

3

About the harem:

The final plot arc was the only one with a serious characterization failure.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at September 13, 2014 01:35 PM (+rSRq)

4 On the Final Arc:

Posted by: sqa at September 15, 2014 11:19 AM (gWcVa)

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