Mon Aug 3 2009, 08:46 AM
So, I finished Saikano, or She, The Ultimate Weapon or The Last Love Song on this Little Planet, yesterday on the recommendation from a few members over at MAL. For one, I do not recommend marathoning it like I did, but then again, you may be better off marathoning it (again, like I did, as well as those who recommended it to me) nor will I force recommend anyone to watch this series - it's up to you if you want to see it for yourself. To note: they said it was up to me to watch it, they did warn that it was, for lack of a better word, f-ed up. So I put it in my Plan to Watch list to see for myself what they were talking about.
Saikano is about this clumsy third year high school girl, Chise, who is secretly Japan's lost hope: she's an ultimate weapon with a devastatingly destructive power, and Shuuji, a male third year high school student attending the same school, and their, rather awkward, relationship together. Take note, that their relationship is during a time of war - the enemy unknown, the reason of the war unknown, and for what cause the war is about is unknown - and how both them and individuals around them change. Shuuji, eventually, finds out that Chise is an ultimate weapon and their relationship struggles throughout the 13 episodes. You'll feel melancholy and depression sink in as you watch this series (and thus, why the reason why it may be better to marathon it in one day rather than over a few days) until its final episode.
No, the ending is not satisfying as there are many questions left unanswered, and well, what happens in the second half of the last episode is left to our own conclusion. If you accept the conclusion of the series as it is without putting too much thought into it, then the ending might be acceptable. The overall series does what it's supposed to, show the struggle between two people and how a war affects everyone around them. I heard that the OVA 2-part special includes an explanation of why Chise was chosen as an ultimate weapon. Eh, I'll probably watch that after I watch something more cheerful or watch this first then counter it with something more cheerful.
Saikano is about this clumsy third year high school girl, Chise, who is secretly Japan's lost hope: she's an ultimate weapon with a devastatingly destructive power, and Shuuji, a male third year high school student attending the same school, and their, rather awkward, relationship together. Take note, that their relationship is during a time of war - the enemy unknown, the reason of the war unknown, and for what cause the war is about is unknown - and how both them and individuals around them change. Shuuji, eventually, finds out that Chise is an ultimate weapon and their relationship struggles throughout the 13 episodes. You'll feel melancholy and depression sink in as you watch this series (and thus, why the reason why it may be better to marathon it in one day rather than over a few days) until its final episode.
No, the ending is not satisfying as there are many questions left unanswered, and well, what happens in the second half of the last episode is left to our own conclusion. If you accept the conclusion of the series as it is without putting too much thought into it, then the ending might be acceptable. The overall series does what it's supposed to, show the struggle between two people and how a war affects everyone around them. I heard that the OVA 2-part special includes an explanation of why Chise was chosen as an ultimate weapon. Eh, I'll probably watch that after I watch something more cheerful or watch this first then counter it with something more cheerful.
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