Kokoro Connect Episode 13 Discussion

Thatguy31 said:
Execution, Execution, this show really seems to be lacking in that department, yet its still so enjoyable its really odd.

TBH I felt the confrontation with heart seed and Iroi's whole 'development' felt a touch too forced, especially what she told heart seed. Yet I do likeher acknowledging she can receive help from her friends and her mom MADE MY FUCKING DAY.

I have to say this dosn't beat the first arc, but its better than the last one, I'm really starting to get why 'random' is in this guy's name everything that happens in this series is pretty random, which I have mixed feelings on as I like randomness and thats how Life is, yet in the way of story telling it can come off as aimless and messy.

As much as I say that though, I'm still enjoying the series and like the cast overall and their odd perdiciments

Marius2005 said:
It's been a while since I've come across an anime that I despise this much. From the stupid melodrama to the shitty writing to the waste of a perfectly good premise this show failed on all levels for me. Being objective it isn't the worst thing I've seen, but I hate it a good deal more than a lot of the other bad anime I've seen.

The anime starts with a fairly interesting premise that could have gone in a lot of different directions. An alien decides to mess with a group of high school students in various ways such as body switching, unleashing their desires and then causing them to regress to various parts of their childhood. From this premise there could have been some great comedy or it could have made for a great psychological character study. While Kokoro Connect does try to go for both approaches it instead falls into mind numbingly stupid, unbelievable melodrama. It's like someone took every bad cliche or trope I hate to see in an anime and then used them in the worst possible way to make an anime.

To start with there are the bland cardboard cutout characters, lead by Mr. Bland himself Taichi. I would endeavour to describe him but words fail me. He is the prototypical male lead with little personality to speak of other than being a hopeless white knight which in itself is a very generic trait. Aoki is the screw up pervert character with a crush on the tough but vulnerable female Yui, the lady that doth protest too much when it comes to his attentions. Iori is the quiet cute one with a stupid sense of humor. Inaba rounds out the cast and is the only one that can't really be summed in a few words. Frankly, Inaba deserved to be in a much better anime as she provides the only moments of humor in this disaster of an anime.

The anime does make token attempts to explore and flesh out Taichi and his miserable band of emo cohorts but it's attempts to make them three dimensional shows a lack of understanding of how people interact with each other. Sure these cardboard cutouts have been thrown into a bizarre position with the alien interference, but that doesn't mean they should act like aliens themselves. Often when watching Kokoro, I couldn't help but feel like I was watching a bunch of aliens trying to imitate human interaction and failing at it miserably. Every over the top dramatic scene was rendered almost laughable with the emo cardboard cutouts overreacting to even the smallest of situations. If these were real people I would genuinely fear for their safety as even a hang nail would probably drive them into a suicidal depression. The dialogue is often laughable with characters constantly spitting out lines that no one would ever say out loud. Even worse were their senseless actions that did little more than drive the plot into more drama and conflict.

The actual plot of the anime just used the alien interference as a framing device to bring out the "serious issues" of the emo club which just lead to a whole mess of melodrama. It's not to say that some of them didn't have serious issues it's just that the anime didn't have the intelligence to deal with these problems. Instead we get things like a girl with a severe androphobia getting over it in a single episode after a preposterous conversation and learning men don't like to be kicked in the balls. As overwrought as the drama is it never feels like it has any weight because there are never any long term consequences with even the worst problems being solved in the span of a single episode. No matter how bad things looked I always knew it would be solved in running time of a single episode or in some cases two episodes.

The animation, character designs and soundtrack were fine if not particularly memorable. Which just leaves the hammy over the top voice acting. I know this is anime so it's expected to be a bit over the top but these voice actors were taking their shitty dialogue and chewing all the scenery with it during anything even mildly dramatic.

Kokoro Conncet is a lazy anime that wastes it's premise in favor of the cheapest kind of melodrama and I fucking despise everything about it. It might not technically be the worst thing I've ever seen, watching it was a horrible chore every week that I had to drag myself through just wanting it to be over with. Stupid melodrama caused by the moronic club of emo kids making retarded decisions for no discernible reason just is not acceptable and the excuse of alien interference doesn't excuse stupidity on this level or give the sloppy, shit writing a pass.

I'll begrudgingly give this a 4 out of 10 because as much as I hated it, I've seen far worse.

Now excuse me while I go wash the bile off my keyboard.

I know there are four more episodes but they won't be coming until later. This is the last episode of the bullshit I will have to think about for a while. This is the last time I let my girlfriend pick the anime. She must pay for this one.

Zhou said:
Slow down, Iori might not love Taichi, really?!

GoldenBRS said:
So this is the final episode. I really wish they will show more episodes next week.
The arc is fantastic. 8/10

I hope Iori will go with Tachi great couple.
4/5

rainbowdashmimi said:


I believe Iori's epilogue answer that :3

InfiniteDestiny said:



That epilogue was great, made Inaba pretty much a guarantee :D

nretnaL said:
I think I'll just stick with the Iori x Inaban ship :D

Uberchu said:
And so ends the (airing) episodes of Kokoro Connect. To be honest, the show was only decent. Great ideas, poor execution. The drama was forced and corny, and it told us details instead of showing them (did we have any foreshadowing to Iori's and Inaba's problems?).

Kokoro Connnect would've worked better as an episodic slice of life with slow, gradual development through the gimmicks.

AnimeFtw1 said:
Taichi > All.

Isn't he the only one who hasn't had a whole story of his past brought up?

AnimeFtw1 said:
Have you even seen this episode? Didn't you check the MAL episodes for this show? It's not over yet.

nretnaL said:


That's because he doesn't have any problem from the past. His problem lies with his future， which I thought was an interesting take ;)

Uberchu said:


The show isn't airing anymore. The rest will be on DVD. And besides, I doubt the next arc will make much of a difference.

Soshinra said:
It will. The first 3 arcs are mostly drama with some comedy.
There's barely any comedy in the next arc.
The gimmick is also much better than the other arcs.

SetsukoHara said:
I'm not too fond of the way this Iori stuff was resolved. They made a whole "frienship is magic" speech but in the end, her friends didn't do much to help her, she only needed to talk about it with her mother.

Uberchu said:


Eh...I feel that this show gets worse the more serious it is. The first arc was fairly light-hearted and had some funny moments. Now, not so much.

InfiniteDestiny said:
[Then don't watch shows with drama and stick to your K-ON, it should be clear that this kinda series isn't for you.