Ok, it took me 2 days to set a perfect atmosphere to watch this last episode without restrictions nor interruptions and half a day to write this review because I wanted my avatar picture to be shown (it turns out I thought the profile pic and the forum avatar were the same thing, newbie thing I guess).
It will be long so here I come...
At first I thought Rin was coming back from buying the gas but then I saw the bike, I saw Rin with a different haircut, and everyone else different and I got confused because I thought we were having that breakfast from Nadeshiko instead of a time skip but as soon as Nadeshiko was mentioned as someone succesful with her own brand I started to think it was all a dream, wasn't so far because it was a fantasy about the future (though I must say all of the girl's future versions were gorgeous... Even when Nadeshiko was kinda the same but she's already gorgeous, well, everyone of them X3) and flying tent from op spotted.
Then we get back to where we left off and Rin was just coming back, being recieved by Nadeshiko and then the op starts; this time I listen the whole op because I cut them everytime to save some time, I just hear the whole op and ed the first and last episode and that made me realize we were on the last ep and set my mind to it so maybe I became somewhat more emotional.
The op ends and Chikuwa leaves because a chihuahua can't be in such a cold place :(. Then the girls go and take the hot bath they've been waiting in 2 groups, Chiaki smirks at something I thought it was going to be a boob grab (out of place on this anime) but then nothing, later on I found out it was her trying to recruit Saitou but failing because she's a lazy one XD.
While the first group is bathing Rin and Nadeshiko find out that the one camping with Toba sensei was her sister (I actually thought she was a he at first too XD), then comes Nadeshiko disbelief on Chiaki's gender even tho she knows she's a girl GREAT XD. The second group starts their bath and then the Shibire lake theme comes and Rin remember that creature she saw that night and scared her, while sensei is clueless enjoying herself.
We got a Shimarin Dango song!! Why no one in here is talking about that commercial? XD now I want to try a Rin shaped bun, and Nadeshiko now wants a bun too but she got a cactus instead and we got the new version of the first episode pic "Oyoyo?". Loved the way they thank Rin as if they were little girls! My sugar on blood raised at that moment. That Back to the Future cameo tho, totally unexpected; Chiaki had a nice idea taking her tablet to watch videos even tho everyone wants to watch their own thing, then everyone goes to sleep except for Nadeshiko and Rin seems like Toba sensei was already sleeping :9.
Then the pre-sleep talk between Rin and Nadeshiko starts, I wanna know what anime is Nadeshiko refering to :/, and I guess the bikes one was a made up anime? Pure girl needs job Rin believes in UFOs, now I like her even more :), pure girl is sleepy and wants to camp more with Rin the next year and Rin smirks at it and says she wants to :') (I know it's not a yuri anime but MY OTP!!).
Rin's an early bird, she looks nice without combing her hair >w<, Nadeshiko still a sleepy head but she thinks she slept for a whole week, that's too much XD; she she wakes up so she can cook the breakfast, everyone wakes up for breakfast and grandma Nadeshiko is back for a second, that food sure looks tasty, the sunrise brings a great look at Mt. Fuji but seeing the girls bathed with the morning light made me shed a tear :'). Now it's the packing up to get back home.
Rin fantasizes at work about camping the New Year's Eve, she didn't even realize Saitou was the one "buying" that winter camping magazine, everyone's busy for New Year and pure girl is sad because she still can't find a job, that's untill Rin text her and then Saitou saying she got a job for her, that makes pure girl happy and so everyone else X3.
The the ed starts and I'm surprised because the fansub I use to watch anime put the karaoke and the translation, the scenes pass, we see the characters that showed up and then the wall with all the pictures, I started to cry while looking at the last one getting zoomed being the one from the first episode... I knew I would cry, I wrote it on the past episode review :'( (I thought we were getting the full version of the ed here but that wasn't the case). Now we see Nadeshiko biking through a familiar path, getting to a familiar location and doing familiar things with some differences, oh! She bought that lantern from some episodes ago! Rin starts to text Nadeshiko and then surprises because she's solo camping as she is, then Nadeshiko comes up with showing the pictures of the places where they're camping and when she sees the Rin pic... She just can't hold herself and goes with her, I also cried a little bit there :')
Well, everything was so comfy, so good, so heartwarming that I really felt like something precious was being taking from me at the ending of the episode because the season is over (tho I read we're having specials), this anime is a gem for me and that ending just put the ribbon on so I can give someone this precious and delightful gift; nothing to complaint except that it's over, gonna miss this show, no doubt about it, it will be my AotS.
1000000/10
Jaeger07 said:Nice book-ends. Also damn that coincidence.
It was on purpose XD |