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This is perhaps the only television show I've watched that actually manages to fail through showing evidence of win.
I liked this series for the pretty, but had long ago despaired of it ever, you know, doing anything, seeing as the fact that the boys were vampires was totally pastede on to the plot, yay. Which is why I was watching an ep here, an ep there, around my true loves (currently Chumong and the ever wonderful Daejanggeum.).
Then came episode eleven, which started doing craaaazy stuff, like actually referring to and expanding on events that had happened in previous episodes. And then--joy of joys--came twelve, which not only started answering some of the Momentous Questions (e.g. Why can Ageha sense evil while the others can not; how come Kiyoi is an eternal thirtysomething but our boys are growing up; how did Makoto's mom bear a vampiric child), but decided to gonzo us with all the pent-up backstory like the Mount St. Helens of plot expansion.
(Digression: I'm wondering if the manga starts with the scene where Makoto is planning on jumping from the top of the building, ala Convenient Insert-Chara-Here Girl he saved about ten episodes back. I was actually giving major kudos to the drama for sticking this scene halfway through the season instead of going with the obvious (and cliched) hook-'em-in opener. Placing it in the middle allowed it to make a bona fide emotional impact on viewers, who have come to know the characters through ten eps of what at first appeared to be filler, but which has actually served to give a good, well rounded idea of who these people are.
And so I forged on to ep. 13 in a fit of enthusiasm, only to be greated with the words "Last Blood."
Yeah, Last. As in, this episode is only 24 minutes long and it is apparently THE FINAL EPISODE.
People, how on earth can you end a series with the first episode IN WHICH YOU BEGIN TO DEVELOP THE PLOT!?! What other series have ever devoted ten episodes to filler, two to world-building, character development, and dramatic tension, and one final episode to an abbreviated pseudo-climax. Oh, this is highly disappointing. The "And oh, btw, here's a 30 second summary of Ageha's childhood so we don't have to devote any episodes to it" was just the icing on the cake. Le sigh.
これで以上です。
I liked this series for the pretty, but had long ago despaired of it ever, you know, doing anything, seeing as the fact that the boys were vampires was totally pastede on to the plot, yay. Which is why I was watching an ep here, an ep there, around my true loves (currently Chumong and the ever wonderful Daejanggeum.).
Then came episode eleven, which started doing craaaazy stuff, like actually referring to and expanding on events that had happened in previous episodes. And then--joy of joys--came twelve, which not only started answering some of the Momentous Questions (e.g. Why can Ageha sense evil while the others can not; how come Kiyoi is an eternal thirtysomething but our boys are growing up; how did Makoto's mom bear a vampiric child), but decided to gonzo us with all the pent-up backstory like the Mount St. Helens of plot expansion.
(Digression: I'm wondering if the manga starts with the scene where Makoto is planning on jumping from the top of the building, ala Convenient Insert-Chara-Here Girl he saved about ten episodes back. I was actually giving major kudos to the drama for sticking this scene halfway through the season instead of going with the obvious (and cliched) hook-'em-in opener. Placing it in the middle allowed it to make a bona fide emotional impact on viewers, who have come to know the characters through ten eps of what at first appeared to be filler, but which has actually served to give a good, well rounded idea of who these people are.
And so I forged on to ep. 13 in a fit of enthusiasm, only to be greated with the words "Last Blood."
Yeah, Last. As in, this episode is only 24 minutes long and it is apparently THE FINAL EPISODE.
People, how on earth can you end a series with the first episode IN WHICH YOU BEGIN TO DEVELOP THE PLOT!?! What other series have ever devoted ten episodes to filler, two to world-building, character development, and dramatic tension, and one final episode to an abbreviated pseudo-climax. Oh, this is highly disappointing. The "And oh, btw, here's a 30 second summary of Ageha's childhood so we don't have to devote any episodes to it" was just the icing on the cake. Le sigh.
これで以上です。