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Dec 16, 2007 10:39 PM
#1
Dec 16, 2007 10:46 PM
#2
This episode is more of a recap/summary. The story ends at 12. |
Feb 8, 2008 5:07 PM
#3
Feb 9, 2008 12:10 PM
#4
I realy cryed at the last 2 episodes (11 and 12).Episode 13 was supposed to be a review of the entire series.Yet it is imposible to resume 13 episodes into 24 minutes one so the action seemed very incoerent.A person who had not seen the other 12 episodes would never understand anything from the last episode.I think it was a useless episode. |
SailorKagomeFeb 23, 2008 6:49 AM
Don't talk to me about character development if Kaizuka Inaho or Slaine Troyard are in your favorites. |
Aug 26, 2008 12:36 AM
#5
this is kind of a sad ending i dun really understand.the last epi only make up of parts that was left out so some kind of extra |
Aug 31, 2008 8:34 AM
#6
I skipped through ep 13 though.Nice anime :) I hope the movie is good! |
Oct 18, 2008 2:55 PM
#7
Interesting recap... But it missed something very important... THOSE KIDS AT THE BEACH!! Anyway, this was a great anime, with a great story(thanks to Key) as well, that's full with Tragedy, yet it's very beutiful as well. I rate this at 9/10! Genix said: chinaboat said: For what it's worth, I put this together after going to a lot of different forums, websites, etc. For me it ties up a lot of loose ends. If someone doesn't agree with any or all of it - good for them. It's there, take what you want from it I'm not going defend it or discuss it. I would say however if you disagree with something within post your own resolution for the situation - you can't why are you disagreeing? 1. Michiru, who is the spirit of Managi’s dead sister, is constantly shown as not being able to blow bubbles. This refers to a sad song that mothers of babies who have died sing to comfort themselves. The main verse is: A soap bubble vanished away. Before it could fly it vanished. The moment it was born it burst and vanished away. 2. Yukito is the last in a line of descendants from Ryuya and Uraha. Sora, the crow, is the spirit of Ryuya who died trying to protect the woman he loved, Kanna. Sora, appears many times you just are looking for him. 3. Misuzu is the latest reincarnation of Kanna. Kanna was the last of the winged beings. In order to destroy her and the cult built around her species, Buddhist monks cursed her to live an endless cycle of reincarnation, suffering and death; never knowing happiness. She suffers from the knowledge she will be alone and sad, that if she is even fond of anyone she develops an extremely painful illness that eventually kills her, but even if she didn’t she will die young because a human is not strong enough to be the reincarnation of a winged being. What causes the greatest amount of suffering is if she thinks that a person likes (not even loves) her they, too, will suffer a painful death. 4. In some forms of Buddhism, reincarnation is not linear which means that a spirit’s reincarnations can overlap and or take different shapes and, therefore, be in the same plane at the same time. While the girl in the sky is Kanna’s spirit, Misuzu is the human reincarnation of Kanna. Yukito’s human reincarnation is the boy on the beach, his (or rather Ryuya’s) spirit is Sora, the crow. Misuzu is reincarnated as the girl on the beach. 5. Yukito left Misuzu to convince her that she would once again be alone and therefore recover. In fact he did not stop loving her even though he knew it meant his death. Misuzu didn’t recover because she made a conscious decision to love Huruko, which caused her death. Huruko didn’t suffer because the curse was broken when Sora took Misuzu’s happy memories of that summer with Yukito and Huruko to Kanna’s spirit, the girl in the sky. Because Misuzu was Kanna’s reincarnation the memories became Kanna’s as well thereby defeating the monks curse. 6. That the curse is broken is shown first by Huruko not being ill and then by the two children on the beach who are the reincarnations of Yukito and Misuzu Thanks alot!! I already knew part of what you said, but you clarified what I already knew and suspected, as well as imforming of the few little things I didn't get. This was a very beutiful, yet sad story. I rate this anime at a 9 out of 10. Key employees have an impressive talent at story-telling... Roketsu said: Huge post, so click the spoiler tag at your own risk :P Kano: the freeplanetling. When she touched the feather (Kanna's feathers possess [sad] memories) as a child, perhaps the sad memory was passed to her. Like the infant in the flashback, Kano had lost her mother as a child. So maybe she was sensitive to that memory -- the separation of a mother and daughter by death. Recall that Yukito felt nostalgic and sad when he encountered the feather that Kano had touched. The magic feather, Yukito's power and Kano's wish made it possible for her to meet and thank her mother as Yukito had suggested she do. This helped resolve her sorrow and guilt over the loss of her mother and I suppose the feather was returned to Kanna with the happy memory Kano experienced by meeting her mother. Recall also that the bruise on Kano's wrist disappeared with the feather. The child had the bruise, yet Kano was reciting the words of the mother. So she had a connection to both mother and child from the memory. As to Minagi, well, she's Minagi, not a reincarnation of someone else. Minagi and Micheru (the buttshaking-ling). I think Minagi was a bit of a plot device to get Yukito (and us) to realize that the "girl in the sky" was more than just a folk tale or legend. Michiru, Minagi's sister who died before birth, meets the Kanna, the girl in the sky and borrows one of her feathers which enables her to come to Earth as a "dream," in order to comfort Minagi and reconcile Minagi with her mother, emotionally broken by the loss of Michiru. Michiru's companionship helps Minagi through the difficult time with her mother; Yukito steers Minagi back home where Minagi and her mother are reunited as a family. In the end the mother finally sees Minagi as herself rather than her dead child. Before she leaves (the dream comes to an end), Michiru gets to finally meet her own mother; another happy memory to bring to Kanna when she returns the feather. So really neither Kano nor Minagi or Michiru played a role in the past (Summer Arc). Neither did Yukito, Misuzu or Haruko for that matter. Misuzu dreams of Kanna, she is not Kanna herself. She is one of Kanna's dreams, she is part of Kanna, but not all of Kanna. A winged being's essence cannot fully fit into a human being. Like the water of the ocean, it cannot fit into a teacup without shattering it. Likewise, Yukito is not Ryuuyu, but he does carry on his will. He is descended from Ryuuyu and Uraha, separated by 1000 years. He inherits Ryuuyu's will (to find and save Kanna) and Uraha's power (magic and the doll with generations of unfufilled wishes which will ultimately be used to help Misuzu save Kanna). Why did I mention Haruko, Misuzu's substitute mother? There's a similar theme between the Summer and Air arcs. Kanna wished to be reunited with her mother, Misuzu has a similar wish: to experience happy memories with her mother. The goal which has taken 1000 summers to finally reach. When Yukito has an attack in the hallway and is wounded, later to discover a scar just like Ryuuyu's suggests Yukito suggested to me that Yukito has passed the point of no return. He's experiencing the curse that his mother warned him about: caring about the girl will cause both he and the girl to die. Misuzu's dreams are having a physical effect on both Yukito and Misuzu. The common theme: Memories and the mother-child relationship. Families stick together. Each of the girls in the series, Kano, Minagi, Kanna and Misuzu were separated from their mothers either by death or by circumstance. The goal and wish for each of them is to reconcile that loss. Sad memories hold us back, happy memories give us hope and keep us going. But we cannot live on memories alone. Each of these girls, even Michiru to some extent, resolve that mother-daughter separation and the guilt or sadness associated with it. Kano meets and thanks her mother. Kano had felt guilty about her mother's death and accepted part of the blame as the reason for her mother's death. Until Yukito set her straight, Kano had wished to apologize (for having been born) rather than thank her mother. Good advice, Yukito! Minagi is able to reach her mother and be recognized as herself rather than her dead sister. She had accepted her mother's condition the result of her sin: wishing for a younger sister who unfortunately died before birth. She then lived as a fragment of her mother's dream, taking on the role of Michiru, whose death devastated her mother. That dream had to end to bring Minagi and her mother together. Misuzu lost her mother as a child and was taken in by her aunt Haruko. The two remained somewhat distant in part because Haruko feared losing Misuzu to her natural father, and Misuzu kept her distance because affection resulted in fits and pain. They overcame these obstacles and became close in the end. Haruko ultimately would have lost Misuzu no matter what she did anyway - the least they could do was to create some happy memories. Yukito guided each of the girls to their respective goals, but ultimately each had to resolve the obstacles on their own to find happiness. Such is life. All of these happy memories were returned to Kanna who was all alone in the sky. Finally a word about Sora the crow. As tragic as it is that Yukito seems to have run away and abandoned Misuzu when she really needed him and cared for him, he did the right thing. He'd gone as far as the two could go with the way things were. Had Yukito stayed as the freeloader at the Kamio house, Misuzu would have died without reaching her goal. Yukito may have lived on, or he may have died within a year anyway, like his ancestor Ryuuyu had 1000 years earlier. This would have solved nothing. Instead, like his mother before him, he placed his heart, his wish, into the doll while he still had power, while he was still strong. His wish was to be by Misuzu's side forever and to help her reach her goal, and to save the girl in the sky, Kanna, fufilling Ryuuyu's 1000 year old wish. In the final three episodes Yukito, as Sora rarely leaves Misuzu's side. He intervenes when Haruko tosses away Misuzu's birthday gift, the baby dinosaur, and alerts Haruko to its presence at the temple towards the end. Misuzu tries her best to reach the dinosaur and succeeds, a rehearsal perhaps for reaching her ultimate goal. But why a crow? Haruko's (some say corny) speech at the end should give us a clue. Humans cannot fly in the sky, but birds can. After Misuzu reaches her goal, Sora flies away to find the girl in the sky who's still alone to bring her back for a new beginning. What is the use of wings which cannot flap nor fly? It's to remind us of those happy memories from when we could fly. What is the use of friends or family who ultimately die or leave? The happy memories they leave behind. Uraha is not Misuzu's mother. They aren't even related. Ryuuyu, not Yukito, was Uraha's companion. Their bond to Kanna was as a family. They would do anything, even give their own lives for Kanna's happiness. Yukito turned into a crow but he never left Misuzu. He's in every scene from his transformation until the end. Don't confuse the series with the movie. Similar themes but different story. The movie jettisoned a lot of the mystical elements that were in the series other than the legend (soap opera) of Kanna and Ryuuyu and... The bit at the end where Yukito's doll leads him to Misuzu and then bounces into a feather and disapears. The connection between Kanna and Misuzu, Yukito and Ryuuyu is more thematic than literal in the movie. At least that's how I saw it. I enjoyed both the series and the movie, but the series is far superior in my view. As for the two kids at the end, Misuzu dies and her soul returns to the sky but this time with happy memories she got from having spent the time with her mother. There's a bit more to it though. There's debate as to whether or not the two kids seen in the ending were yukito and misuzu reincarnated. Nobody really knows. They represent "a new beginning". I hope this was helpful to someone even though it was a bit long-winded. (Credit goes to an unknown poster on Animesuki. I added my own insights where I felt they'd clarify, but the main body is his) Ah!! Thanks alot! This deepens my love for these series, as well as clarifying EVERYTHING!!! Well mostly everything, since I still don't know if those 2 kids at the end were their rencarnations... ^A post I made on episode 12. If you didn't get something, then read through it! |
Nov 7, 2008 12:29 PM
#8
Genix said: Interesting recap... But it missed something very important... THOSE KIDS AT THE BEACH!! Anyway, this was a great anime, with a great story(thanks to Key) as well, that's full with Tragedy, yet it's very beutiful as well. I rate this at 9/10! Genix said: chinaboat said: For what it's worth, I put this together after going to a lot of different forums, websites, etc. For me it ties up a lot of loose ends. If someone doesn't agree with any or all of it - good for them. It's there, take what you want from it I'm not going defend it or discuss it. I would say however if you disagree with something within post your own resolution for the situation - you can't why are you disagreeing? 1. Michiru, who is the spirit of Managi’s dead sister, is constantly shown as not being able to blow bubbles. This refers to a sad song that mothers of babies who have died sing to comfort themselves. The main verse is: A soap bubble vanished away. Before it could fly it vanished. The moment it was born it burst and vanished away. 2. Yukito is the last in a line of descendants from Ryuya and Uraha. Sora, the crow, is the spirit of Ryuya who died trying to protect the woman he loved, Kanna. Sora, appears many times you just are looking for him. 3. Misuzu is the latest reincarnation of Kanna. Kanna was the last of the winged beings. In order to destroy her and the cult built around her species, Buddhist monks cursed her to live an endless cycle of reincarnation, suffering and death; never knowing happiness. She suffers from the knowledge she will be alone and sad, that if she is even fond of anyone she develops an extremely painful illness that eventually kills her, but even if she didn’t she will die young because a human is not strong enough to be the reincarnation of a winged being. What causes the greatest amount of suffering is if she thinks that a person likes (not even loves) her they, too, will suffer a painful death. 4. In some forms of Buddhism, reincarnation is not linear which means that a spirit’s reincarnations can overlap and or take different shapes and, therefore, be in the same plane at the same time. While the girl in the sky is Kanna’s spirit, Misuzu is the human reincarnation of Kanna. Yukito’s human reincarnation is the boy on the beach, his (or rather Ryuya’s) spirit is Sora, the crow. Misuzu is reincarnated as the girl on the beach. 5. Yukito left Misuzu to convince her that she would once again be alone and therefore recover. In fact he did not stop loving her even though he knew it meant his death. Misuzu didn’t recover because she made a conscious decision to love Huruko, which caused her death. Huruko didn’t suffer because the curse was broken when Sora took Misuzu’s happy memories of that summer with Yukito and Huruko to Kanna’s spirit, the girl in the sky. Because Misuzu was Kanna’s reincarnation the memories became Kanna’s as well thereby defeating the monks curse. 6. That the curse is broken is shown first by Huruko not being ill and then by the two children on the beach who are the reincarnations of Yukito and Misuzu Thanks alot!! I already knew part of what you said, but you clarified what I already knew and suspected, as well as imforming of the few little things I didn't get. This was a very beutiful, yet sad story. I rate this anime at a 9 out of 10. Key employees have an impressive talent at story-telling... Roketsu said: Huge post, so click the spoiler tag at your own risk :P Kano: the freeplanetling. When she touched the feather (Kanna's feathers possess [sad] memories) as a child, perhaps the sad memory was passed to her. Like the infant in the flashback, Kano had lost her mother as a child. So maybe she was sensitive to that memory -- the separation of a mother and daughter by death. Recall that Yukito felt nostalgic and sad when he encountered the feather that Kano had touched. The magic feather, Yukito's power and Kano's wish made it possible for her to meet and thank her mother as Yukito had suggested she do. This helped resolve her sorrow and guilt over the loss of her mother and I suppose the feather was returned to Kanna with the happy memory Kano experienced by meeting her mother. Recall also that the bruise on Kano's wrist disappeared with the feather. The child had the bruise, yet Kano was reciting the words of the mother. So she had a connection to both mother and child from the memory. As to Minagi, well, she's Minagi, not a reincarnation of someone else. Minagi and Micheru (the buttshaking-ling). I think Minagi was a bit of a plot device to get Yukito (and us) to realize that the "girl in the sky" was more than just a folk tale or legend. Michiru, Minagi's sister who died before birth, meets the Kanna, the girl in the sky and borrows one of her feathers which enables her to come to Earth as a "dream," in order to comfort Minagi and reconcile Minagi with her mother, emotionally broken by the loss of Michiru. Michiru's companionship helps Minagi through the difficult time with her mother; Yukito steers Minagi back home where Minagi and her mother are reunited as a family. In the end the mother finally sees Minagi as herself rather than her dead child. Before she leaves (the dream comes to an end), Michiru gets to finally meet her own mother; another happy memory to bring to Kanna when she returns the feather. So really neither Kano nor Minagi or Michiru played a role in the past (Summer Arc). Neither did Yukito, Misuzu or Haruko for that matter. Misuzu dreams of Kanna, she is not Kanna herself. She is one of Kanna's dreams, she is part of Kanna, but not all of Kanna. A winged being's essence cannot fully fit into a human being. Like the water of the ocean, it cannot fit into a teacup without shattering it. Likewise, Yukito is not Ryuuyu, but he does carry on his will. He is descended from Ryuuyu and Uraha, separated by 1000 years. He inherits Ryuuyu's will (to find and save Kanna) and Uraha's power (magic and the doll with generations of unfufilled wishes which will ultimately be used to help Misuzu save Kanna). Why did I mention Haruko, Misuzu's substitute mother? There's a similar theme between the Summer and Air arcs. Kanna wished to be reunited with her mother, Misuzu has a similar wish: to experience happy memories with her mother. The goal which has taken 1000 summers to finally reach. When Yukito has an attack in the hallway and is wounded, later to discover a scar just like Ryuuyu's suggests Yukito suggested to me that Yukito has passed the point of no return. He's experiencing the curse that his mother warned him about: caring about the girl will cause both he and the girl to die. Misuzu's dreams are having a physical effect on both Yukito and Misuzu. The common theme: Memories and the mother-child relationship. Families stick together. Each of the girls in the series, Kano, Minagi, Kanna and Misuzu were separated from their mothers either by death or by circumstance. The goal and wish for each of them is to reconcile that loss. Sad memories hold us back, happy memories give us hope and keep us going. But we cannot live on memories alone. Each of these girls, even Michiru to some extent, resolve that mother-daughter separation and the guilt or sadness associated with it. Kano meets and thanks her mother. Kano had felt guilty about her mother's death and accepted part of the blame as the reason for her mother's death. Until Yukito set her straight, Kano had wished to apologize (for having been born) rather than thank her mother. Good advice, Yukito! Minagi is able to reach her mother and be recognized as herself rather than her dead sister. She had accepted her mother's condition the result of her sin: wishing for a younger sister who unfortunately died before birth. She then lived as a fragment of her mother's dream, taking on the role of Michiru, whose death devastated her mother. That dream had to end to bring Minagi and her mother together. Misuzu lost her mother as a child and was taken in by her aunt Haruko. The two remained somewhat distant in part because Haruko feared losing Misuzu to her natural father, and Misuzu kept her distance because affection resulted in fits and pain. They overcame these obstacles and became close in the end. Haruko ultimately would have lost Misuzu no matter what she did anyway - the least they could do was to create some happy memories. Yukito guided each of the girls to their respective goals, but ultimately each had to resolve the obstacles on their own to find happiness. Such is life. All of these happy memories were returned to Kanna who was all alone in the sky. Finally a word about Sora the crow. As tragic as it is that Yukito seems to have run away and abandoned Misuzu when she really needed him and cared for him, he did the right thing. He'd gone as far as the two could go with the way things were. Had Yukito stayed as the freeloader at the Kamio house, Misuzu would have died without reaching her goal. Yukito may have lived on, or he may have died within a year anyway, like his ancestor Ryuuyu had 1000 years earlier. This would have solved nothing. Instead, like his mother before him, he placed his heart, his wish, into the doll while he still had power, while he was still strong. His wish was to be by Misuzu's side forever and to help her reach her goal, and to save the girl in the sky, Kanna, fufilling Ryuuyu's 1000 year old wish. In the final three episodes Yukito, as Sora rarely leaves Misuzu's side. He intervenes when Haruko tosses away Misuzu's birthday gift, the baby dinosaur, and alerts Haruko to its presence at the temple towards the end. Misuzu tries her best to reach the dinosaur and succeeds, a rehearsal perhaps for reaching her ultimate goal. But why a crow? Haruko's (some say corny) speech at the end should give us a clue. Humans cannot fly in the sky, but birds can. After Misuzu reaches her goal, Sora flies away to find the girl in the sky who's still alone to bring her back for a new beginning. What is the use of wings which cannot flap nor fly? It's to remind us of those happy memories from when we could fly. What is the use of friends or family who ultimately die or leave? The happy memories they leave behind. Uraha is not Misuzu's mother. They aren't even related. Ryuuyu, not Yukito, was Uraha's companion. Their bond to Kanna was as a family. They would do anything, even give their own lives for Kanna's happiness. Yukito turned into a crow but he never left Misuzu. He's in every scene from his transformation until the end. Don't confuse the series with the movie. Similar themes but different story. The movie jettisoned a lot of the mystical elements that were in the series other than the legend (soap opera) of Kanna and Ryuuyu and... The bit at the end where Yukito's doll leads him to Misuzu and then bounces into a feather and disapears. The connection between Kanna and Misuzu, Yukito and Ryuuyu is more thematic than literal in the movie. At least that's how I saw it. I enjoyed both the series and the movie, but the series is far superior in my view. As for the two kids at the end, Misuzu dies and her soul returns to the sky but this time with happy memories she got from having spent the time with her mother. There's a bit more to it though. There's debate as to whether or not the two kids seen in the ending were yukito and misuzu reincarnated. Nobody really knows. They represent "a new beginning". I hope this was helpful to someone even though it was a bit long-winded. (Credit goes to an unknown poster on Animesuki. I added my own insights where I felt they'd clarify, but the main body is his) Ah!! Thanks alot! This deepens my love for these series, as well as clarifying EVERYTHING!!! Well mostly everything, since I still don't know if those 2 kids at the end were their rencarnations... ^A post I made on episode 12. If you didn't get something, then read through it! boy...I am soo glad I took my time reading through this... I was planning on giving this series a 9/10... but after careful consideration I must give it a perfect 10 (the 7th anime to get a 10/10 for me out of ~150 :P) |
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Nov 8, 2008 1:44 AM
#9
Dec 27, 2008 12:23 AM
#10
To me, this episode just took out a lot of the effect of episode 12. I think it's very unnecessary for a series that only has 12 episodes to have a recap episode. It would have not been so bad to have it as the second to last episode, but it just ruins the show's emotion. |
Jun 9, 2009 9:33 PM
#11
Jun 15, 2009 5:23 PM
#12
I donno what to say... but... 7/10... maybe I'll give it a different score after I re-evaluate it in the future... I can fully understand the story, however, I just can't bring myself to appreciate it like others. The whole series left me confused until episode 13. A very hard story to understand. The sad elements are not sad enough in this, perhaps they should've make this a 24 episode series to have more character development so that people like me could understand/love the characters more. Or maybe because I've just finished Clannad After Story before I started watching this? Which over shadowed this show... (If this is the case... I hope there's not too many show in the future will be effected this way...) |
AirStylesJun 15, 2009 5:27 PM
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Jun 30, 2009 4:36 PM
#13
An okay recap ep... Unnecessary yeah.... but well it had tobe there, to make us remember the whole series and the feel it left on us.... Loved the last song... it's the full ver. of Tori no Uta.. YAY.... Oh well at least it wasn't completely useless... At least we've known through this episode that there will be a side story that will extend Kanna's story... nice.... Gotta watch that later :P Signs, Green |
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Jul 2, 2009 4:08 PM
#14
rebwaters said: An okay recap ep... Unnecessary yeah.... but well it had tobe there, to make us remember the whole series and the feel it left on us.... Loved the last song... it's the full ver. of Tori no Uta.. YAY.... Oh well at least it wasn't completely useless... At least we've known through this episode that there will be a side story that will extend Kanna's story... nice.... Gotta watch that later :P Signs, Green you are wrong about one thing it was not the full version of tori no uta at the end it was the short version the full version is 6 minutes long |
Nov 20, 2009 2:23 AM
#15
SailorKagome said: I realy cryed at the last 2 episodes (11 and 12).Episode 13 was supposed to be a review of the entire series.Yet it is imposible to resume 13 episodes into 24 minutes one so the action seemed very incoerent.A person who had not seen the other 12 episodes would never understand anything from the last episode.I think it was a useless episode. idk... i mightve just watched ep 13 if ida known how empty the story would be and just wanted to get this searies in overview.... i just watched this in 3x speed to get to the 10 second bonus footage at the end |
Dec 21, 2009 1:10 PM
#16
i get somethin at this episode, i wonder how could i be so stupid and didn't match some things. now i know that the Yukito is the spirit of Ryuya, when he got the wound on his back Yukito also got it. (i matched the spirits earlier, but not the wounds) Asrialys said: This episode is more of a recap/summary. The story ends at 12. true. and thanx a lot for chinaboat;roketsu i understood more (; |
Jan 16, 2010 1:21 PM
#17
So this is the recap. That series was just so sad. So the kids they were showing in the opening and as part of the title were actually the reincarnations of Yukito and Misuzu. This recap was kind of unnecessary as they didn't really explain everything like i thought they would. But oh well. This series really had some tear jerking moments though. Can't wait to see the Air in summer special. |
ArtimesGamerJan 16, 2010 1:25 PM
Jan 20, 2010 3:14 PM
#18
Jan 30, 2010 11:57 PM
#19
Ehh a recap. |
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Mar 24, 2010 3:05 PM
#20
not bad not bad |
May 14, 2010 2:42 PM
#21
Jun 25, 2010 1:45 PM
#22
Jul 31, 2010 7:13 PM
#23
Air took sometime to watch but after all the mysterys solved and the story came together it was a great overall, poor misuzu |
Aug 21, 2010 8:50 PM
#24
that had to be such a lame way to end a series. lets do a quick review of the series. |
Aug 25, 2010 6:08 PM
#25
It was a recap, i knew that. What I did not know is that it was crap. They left important parts and showed unecessary stuff. If I wouldn't have seen the series I wouldn't have got anything. |
Aug 1, 2011 6:09 AM
#28
Meh... I don't really mind recaps that much but this was one of the worst I've seen. Well, obviously it's impossible to coherently summarize 12 episodes into 20 min but this... It was just poorly put together. Oh, and I just realized how some kind of new content can make a recap much better. If they'd just added a narration by one of the characters or something it would have been passable. |
Oct 25, 2011 8:12 AM
#29
Oct 30, 2011 9:44 AM
#30
If anyone is interested in reading about the themes of Air, I have posted an analysis dealing with this here: http://thecolorless.net/thread/535723 Thought I might as well just post it. |
Dec 11, 2011 8:04 AM
#31
I was wondering why there was a 13th Episode, but it didn't show up for streaming, maybe this is why. Interesting. Given what everyone is said, I feel the story is completed at 12, frankly. |
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Apr 23, 2012 11:59 AM
#32
lol that was pointless. Series gets a 3/10 |
Apr 25, 2012 8:38 PM
#33
Your statement is ironic considering that the story of Air actually does have a purpose. Whereas in Clannad After Story, the ending results in everything that Tomoya goes through having no purpose whatsoever. All that character development is wiped out by a god awful ending. The opposite is true in Air. Misuzu's death by collapsing in her aunt's arms near the sea ensures that no longer will the reincarnations of the Kannabi no Mikoto have to live in isolation, and Kanna herself will no longer be tormented by visions of Ryuuya's and Uraha's 'death'. |
MeddigoApr 25, 2012 8:42 PM
Jun 6, 2012 9:58 AM
#34
Can't believe the last episode was a recap...I don't really see the point in that. Overall, the series was okay. I didn't like it at first but as I continued to watch, it got more interesting. |
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Jul 28, 2012 4:03 AM
#36
Sep 17, 2012 5:40 PM
#37
pointless episode.. lol but i enjoyed the series! however i did get confused in some parts xD |
Feb 19, 2013 3:33 PM
#38
Blehhhhh, I just skipped through it. Didn't look like any new scenes or reanimated parts. |
Jun 21, 2013 4:33 AM
#39
Jun 29, 2013 1:09 PM
#40
Well, AIR was great, but I really hate summary episodes. They just destroy the climax of the final episode.. But I can't just skip an ep of such anime, eh. |
Jun 29, 2014 1:55 PM
#42
Maybe it's because I didn't marathon the entire series in a day or two like I usually do, but I didn't mind this recap at all. It helped bring to mind some key events from the first two story arcs so the viewer could tie together some plot elements he may have forgotten about. Yukito holding the feather Kano touched and saying it makes him feel nostalgic is understood under the light of Yukito being a descendent of Ryuuya, carrying on Ryuuya's will - the nostalgia was a subconscious reminiscing of when Ryuuya was with Kanna, and it helped having this event brought to mind to add depth to the early arcs that I, at least, had forgotten about. The same could be said for when Michiru told Yukito the only way the girl in the sky could be freed from her "sad dreams" is by collecting happy memories. This makes so much more sense knowing about Kanna's curse. I dunno; I liked it. I just think it sucks the first 8 or so episodes are compressed into the first 12 minutes of the recap, and the final ~12 minutes is dedicated to the final 2 episodes. It could've been evened out better, though I suppose it covered the most important information from the earlier episodes. Anyway, good anime. Deep anime. Tragic anime. I just really like that it makes me think about everything and connect all the events together rather than directly handing the information to me. It didn't phase me on an emotional level the way it does others so I definitely can't say it's as good as Key's other work, but I still definitely liked it. |
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Sep 4, 2014 9:36 PM
#43
Jun 10, 2015 3:37 AM
#44
Nothing new in this episode, just a recap of Misuzu's story arc. |
Nov 13, 2016 2:11 AM
#45
Sep 8, 2017 10:58 AM
#46
Sep 8, 2017 11:20 AM
#47
Dammit, I got so excited because I thought this would be something new. I actually didn't watch the recap,but I marked the original series as completed anyway haha. |
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Sep 8, 2017 12:11 PM
#48
Yaboku said: I got excited and thought this was something new. FeelsBadManDammit, I got so excited because I thought this would be something new. I actually didn't watch the recap,but I marked the original series as completed anyway haha. |
Sep 8, 2017 12:52 PM
#49
I though it was something new I was fucking exited :/ |
Sep 8, 2017 1:05 PM
#50
SeasonADay said: Yaboku said: I got excited and thought this was something new. FeelsBadManDammit, I got so excited because I thought this would be something new. I actually didn't watch the recap,but I marked the original series as completed anyway haha. Well look at the air date... it was a really late April fools joke. |