October 06, 2015

Yozakura Quartet Hana no Uta -- through ep 7

This should could have ended up being really dark, even outright horror. But they are tossing in just enough fan service and sight gags to keep it somewhat light.

Now this is what I call a "railgun"!

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And... what is she shooting?

There's a lot of exposition and backstory here, but they're doing a really good job of revealing it slowly without bogging down the story. As of ep 7, we've passed a crisis but there's another, larger one looming.

This story has been told several times in several series. In this particular one, "quartet" is inherited but makes no sense. There are six major characters involved in fighting for the town, and at least another four doing close support, two of whom are gods. (This is the second series where I've heard the word tochigami.)

Of the main six, only one is a human male. Nominally he would be expected to be a harem lead, but this isn't a harem show -- which is fine with me.

This was a point where I thought the show was about to get really dark:

But it turns out OK.

I have no idea whether the other series in this canon are any good, but I'm really enjoying this one.

UPDATE: Ep 13 and done.

THEY DIDN'T FINISH THE STORY!!!

What they gave us was pretty good, and a lot of stories did get resolved, but the most important story was left dangling! And I don't mean like this!

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That's the last scene in the show, by the way, not counting the final ED.

There had better be an OVA that follows this, damn it!

UPDATE: And no, there isn't. There are two OVAs but they tell side stories that land in the middle of this continuity. (Or the middle of the continuity in the original series.)

There apparently is a manga, and I bet it isn't finished, which is why they couldn't tell us in anime about

UPDATE: Yes, there is a manga. And this show ended with episode 49. The manga runs through chapter 85, so now for some reading.

By the way, a bit of frig logic:

UPDATE: The reason the anime didn't finish the story is that it isn't finished in the manga. And at the rate he's going it won't be finished for years.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 01:19 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 Now I remember! You had a post years ago that centered around the glasses girl who could conjure with words. That post turned me onto this series.

You used the many machine guns image, I think. I mean the ones she conjured, not her personal - never mind.

I really liked this series. The remake was very different, but good in its own right. So even if you don't remember, thank you for posting on it.

Posted by: topmaker at October 06, 2015 03:08 PM (6stZH)

2 I don't remember ever seeing, or writing, about anything like that. I think you must be remembering someone else's blog post.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 06, 2015 05:33 PM (+rSRq)

3 Yeah, it's pretty straight forward in its implication that the immortal Sister is Mariabelle.  Which also explained why there was land in his name in the city.
The second OVA series should follow right after the main anime series, but it's really more of a side-light.   Though the Inugami hitting on Kyousuke was pretty dang funny.

Posted by: sqa at October 06, 2015 08:02 PM (suEDm)

4 I think you must be remembering someone else's blog post.

I know I had something like that over at The Pond once upon a time, but I can't find it now.  On the plus side, though, I did enjoy the scroll through my entire anime category.

Posted by: Wonderduck at October 06, 2015 08:31 PM (a12rG)

5 It wasn't in your anime category.

(I remembered the post since I knew I commented on it... and found it by searching for my name & yozakura quartet.  Which found posts around the aniblogosphere titled "a note on spam", "are there any serious anime nurses", "if you watch this anime backwards...", and "I can show you some boobs."  Ah the magic of google bing.)

Posted by: Mikeski at October 07, 2015 06:24 PM (TuMIP)

6 Good catch, thank you Mikeski!

Posted by: Wonderduck at October 07, 2015 07:41 PM (a12rG)

7 Oops! I apologize, Steven and Wonderduck. That looks like the image I remember.

Posted by: topmaker at October 08, 2015 01:45 PM (6stZH)

8 That's from one of the other series; it never happens in this one. The most sustained series of summons by her in this series is a whole load of metal dinner trays she's using as barriers to stop incoming projectiles. And she says "Tray" so many times (each summons just one tray) that her tangue start getting toungled.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 08, 2015 05:47 PM (+rSRq)

9 That's from one of the other series...

The machinepistol shot first appears in the first episode of the first series, but that particular screenshot (and the one with the 88) is from the second OVA ("Hoshi no Yumi"?).

Posted by: Wonderduck at October 08, 2015 09:10 PM (a12rG)

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