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Ran tries to convince the animals that humanity is worth saving.

Impressions:

I thought this episode was great as just a stand alone episode, or more precisely, as an episode of the three episode arc. However it still really failed to do a lot for a series ender except a small unimportant epilogue at the end. The episode didn’t even seem to really make use of the teacher character. They brought her back yet she did next to nothing. The only thing that happened with her was that she saw her grandmother again and effectively became more evil, but I would have thought hat something like that could have been handled at another time because it really had nothing to do with the other bigger story going on.

Still, as I said above this episode and the arc it just finished was very good. It was one of the best the show has had, as it touché don some pretty serious stuff. People seemed as if they almost died because of the animals, and if they hadn’t already the animals’ plan was to kill them. It was effectively an apocalypse that was about to happen if Ran didn’t stop it, as opposed to the other stories they’ve done where if they didn’t do anything some random person from the past will have had broken a promise. It was nice to see them get serious like this, as when the show did it became so much better.

Final Words:

Honestly, I’m a bit disappointed with this series. Not necessarily because it was bad, as it didn’t really try and do anything great, it just stud with some basics. However I’m disappointed just because this series had so much potential to be much more then it was, yet didn’t. The first couple of episodes opened up with this big event that made a big deal on the girls’ powers, an interesting psychological issue on what having he powers made someone, and how society treated them. Then they introduce Rui who has a mysterious power that is quite different then the others, something very unique and potentially very powerful. Then…..NOTHING. They have over 20 episodes of not even beginning to hint at the fact that Rui has any power whatsoever, and they almost completely drop the issue of how serious this could be. They just treat the powers like nothing and barely use them. They really only used the powers to find out what the mystery was, and then solved it using normal means. It’s not that it was necessarily bad, as it was kind of charming and cute to see them solve some of these mysteries, but it was disappointed in that it could have been so much more, very easily, yet it wasn’t

In the end this series boiled down to some random episodic mystery after another. They were completely isolated mysteries take five in a row out in the middle and show the episodes left you wouldn’t even begin to be able to tell there was something missing. Still, if you don’t expect the show to be what it had the potential to be and just look at it for what it is, it’s not horrible. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it has a small amount of charm, but not enough to make this series really great, it was ok. And that’s saying a lot as I rarely don’t praise a show.