By Ammy | June 12th, 2010

The Choice Is Yours [11]

Dear Diary,

Well, Yuri found out about our bril­liant plan. Oh, and shad­ows are try­ing to eat us and make all of us NPCs.

Hinata and Naoi decided to join me in mak­ing every­one dis­ap­pear. Naoi almost got eaten by the shadow though. News came to Yuri, and she brings Kanade in to ques­tion her, us tag­ging along. After our very fail attempts at cov­er­ing up that Kanade is not evil, we find a whole group of shad­ows. We beat them up, but Yuri hap­pens to spot that the shad­ows are NPCs. Say what?

Takematsu goes miss­ing, leav­ing behind his glasses no less! Turns out he was eaten by the shadow and became an NPC. Well, that just sucks.

Yuri reveals that she knows about our plan (were we that bad at hid­ing it?) and asks if any­one else would like to join us. Hey, it’s bet­ter than becom­ing an NPC. Of course, many are against it. After the meet­ing, Yuri plans to fig­ure things out on her own and told us Kanade is not a real angel. What?! What do you mean I should already know this? What do you mean it was totally revealed in diary entry 5?

Oh, and Yuri sus­pects the dude steal­ing com­puters is the same dude mess­ing with the NPCs. Plus, she found a secret entrance in the com­puter room to…the guild again? Are you kid­ding me?

–Yuzuru Otonashi

Thoughts

Judging by how ter­rible Yuzuru & co. are at cov­er­ing up what they’re try­ing to do, Yuri find­ing out was no big sur­prise. She’s not stu­pid, boys. Still, the inter­rog­a­tion scene was fun to watch. Yuri was pretty awe­some in this epis­ode too. She’s mak­ing smart decisions and moves, and I really like her now.

The shad­ows are an inter­est­ing turn of events. I didn’t feel too neg­at­ive about them. Thank good­ness it’s not related to Kanade. She’s had the spot­light for a while. I never really expec­ted them to be related to her, but Yuri bring­ing up the pos­sib­il­ity made me sigh. It did bug me that they seemed to come out of nowhere and didn’t con­nect much to the story, but that was fixed when the entrance led to the guild. I’m a bit tired of the guild though. Sure, they’ve only been there twice, but there’s not much down there.

It seems Hinata and Naoi are fight­ing for the pos­i­tion of Yuzuru’s BFF. At least Hinata is. We all know Naoi wants to be his boy­friend. It’s the entire reason he’s still there. Gasp, if Yuzuru picks Kanade in the end, Naoi will never move on!

Speak­ing of Kanade, why haven’t we learned about her past yet? I thought they would say at least a little bit about it once Yuzuru real­ized, “Hey, we don’t really know your sob story!” If we learn about it in the next epis­ode, it’ll eat time. First half of the epis­ode should be the battle against our last Big Bad. Second half should be epilogue-like and end with every­one mov­ing on and glimpses of their pos­sible rein­carn­a­tions. No time for Kanade’s past.

RIP Takematsu and his tend­ency to rip off his shirt. He will be missed.

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4 Comments

  1. Iso 3
    Posted June 13, 2010 at 06:23 | Permalink

    The last epis­ode I was still won­der­ing how Jun Maeda was going to make the rest of the SSS dis­ap­pear with so few epis­odes left. Yet, with a twist in the dir­ec­tion of the plot, its really become pos­sible.
    Given that he can make the story pro­ceed in such a nicely thought out man­ner, I believe that we can trust him to give us a good con­clu­sion, where we get to learn a little about Kanade’s past.
    Either that, or he may be plan­ning on a second season.

    Oh well, lets just wait and see. I’m really hop­ing (almost expect­ing) for him to work his won­ders again.

    • Ammy 59
      Posted June 13, 2010 at 07:00 | Permalink

      I’ve learned to never expect some­thing amaz­ing will hap­pen while watch­ing anime. Keep your expect­a­tions super low and you won’t be too disappointed.

      I doubt he’d plan­ning a second sea­son though. The series doesn’t seem to be lend­ing itself to one.

      • Iso 3
        Posted June 13, 2010 at 14:57 | Permalink

        I usu­ally do keep my expect­a­tions low, but Jun Maeda seems to have proven that he (and the rest of the key staff) are indeed cap­able enough =)

        But oh well, I guess its really cause I really hope that Angel Beats ends up as my favor­ite spring anime, given that I’ve given up on prac­tic­ally everything else…

  2. Llora-chan 66
    Posted June 17, 2010 at 07:11 | Permalink

    The inter­rog­a­tion scene made me love Naoi so much that he became my favor­ite char­ac­ter :D

    Things have become more com­plic­ated for the group now that those shad­ows have appeared :( But hope­fully Yuri finds out a good solu­tion to get rid of those shad­ows. I wouldn’t want those shad­ows to get rid of the rest of the mem­bers, but see­ing how we are close to the end it may be as such.
    Llora-chan´s last [type] post: Sum­mer Is Most Def­in­itely Here — 11