Andy Janes on Aoi Hana

I may boycott lezbanime even when made by J.C.Staff, but never fear, the animeblogosphere is diverse enough to have all your perversions covered. Here's a what Andy has to say:

Finally got round to watching the last 3 episodes tonight, really wasn't worth it. The pacing in this show was seriously off, the last episode seemed very rushed (Toradora was like this too, seems to be a reoccurring problem at JC Staff).

Hah! Another one to fall into the usual pit. Not for nothing I wrote about Toradora:

People who complained that events of the finale were sudden missed the 20+ episodes of build-up. But I cannot look down at them too much. I wasn’t that blind, but still did not pay enough attention.

And it would've been a great ending anyway, even if not deeply rooted in the previous 22 episoes.

With that out of the way, Andy has better complaints:

Another problem was the art style. While the watercolor-esque backgrounds were pretty, anything that involved movement seemed a but off or baldy CGI'd. Trains were a glaring example, but also whenever characters were in a car the rolling backdrop seemed really obvious.

Ouch, J.C.Staff pulled a GONZO. What Will Sixten Say?

Worst omission was that despite the teaser in the title sequence the relationship between Fumi and Akira never went anywhere. Instead there was far far far too much wangst between Fumi, Yasuko and Kyoko. While I do like yuri, I guess its only fun when is tongue in cheek or for laughs (a la Strawberry Panic).

Shanderfreudesque.

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