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seichanEmma S2 10-12! Finished this show up. Episode 10 was soooo sweet. William enacted a balcony scene a la Romeo with everyone watching. Even though I thought he was a dunce in the first season, he proves to be such a charming gentleman from time to time. These last few episodes stray from the manga, but you get a little more Hans and Hakim time. Episode 11 focuses on William dealing with the consequences of turning down the Campbell family. Even though we don't get the climactic kidnapping scenes, we still get the BEST HUG EVER with Hakim helping out his bestest pal.
BUT the actual end was gawd awful. It's not that I hated it. It just made me go *ugh*.
Leading up to the awful ending *spoilers*:
-In the manga, William's true friends and business partners appear when Campbell slanders and sabatoges the Jounes business. In the anime, Hakim saves the day (points to Hakim, but you lose the moral of the story).
-In the manga, Mr. Campbell is depicted as more evil as he has a whore on the side, sabotages the Jounes business, and kidnaps Emma. In the anime, he only sabotages the Jounes business.
-In the manga, Emma is kidnapped and William and Hakim save her. In the anime, William proposes and sets up a meeting at the Crystal Palace. Emma is deterred by a fire, but makes it for the sunset hug. This change didn't bother me so much. Hans gets to kick her in the butt so she get a move on, but afterwards...barf.
-In the manga, Emma learns the ways of high society. In the anime, Emma is a baby-making factory and William learns how to use hair gel. Maybe in anime-time, she does go through everything in the manga, but geez, the manga ending was more elegant. We don't even get to see her in the pretty manga dress.
~7/10 rating~ for a likable Cinderella story...a point lower for the last few scenes.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 1! was a visual treat. You could screencap every second and it would be a artistic scene. Due to the same director and series composition person that worked on Negima?! the show presents itself in a similarly unique manner with interesting angles, textures, crops, etc and high quality bgm & animation. As for the story, I browsed the manga back here and it basically follows the same plot of a suicidal, pessimistic teacher and his students. My sympathies to the fansubber/translator who wants to work on this for it has a hellavalot of on-screen text and word puns. I do hope someone fansubs this 'cause I surely didn't understand everything. Although this doesn't seem to be laugh aloud funny, it has that dry humor that I like. That being said, the opening song is weird, the censored parts are weird and the ending song is the typical female seiyuu song. Forgot to mention the seiyuu who does the sensei was also Takemoto in Hachikuro. ♥
BUT the actual end was gawd awful. It's not that I hated it. It just made me go *ugh*.
Leading up to the awful ending *spoilers*:
-In the manga, William's true friends and business partners appear when Campbell slanders and sabatoges the Jounes business. In the anime, Hakim saves the day (points to Hakim, but you lose the moral of the story).
-In the manga, Mr. Campbell is depicted as more evil as he has a whore on the side, sabotages the Jounes business, and kidnaps Emma. In the anime, he only sabotages the Jounes business.
-In the manga, Emma is kidnapped and William and Hakim save her. In the anime, William proposes and sets up a meeting at the Crystal Palace. Emma is deterred by a fire, but makes it for the sunset hug. This change didn't bother me so much. Hans gets to kick her in the butt so she get a move on, but afterwards...barf.
-In the manga, Emma learns the ways of high society. In the anime, Emma is a baby-making factory and William learns how to use hair gel. Maybe in anime-time, she does go through everything in the manga, but geez, the manga ending was more elegant. We don't even get to see her in the pretty manga dress.
~7/10 rating~ for a likable Cinderella story...a point lower for the last few scenes.
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 1! was a visual treat. You could screencap every second and it would be a artistic scene. Due to the same director and series composition person that worked on Negima?! the show presents itself in a similarly unique manner with interesting angles, textures, crops, etc and high quality bgm & animation. As for the story, I browsed the manga back here and it basically follows the same plot of a suicidal, pessimistic teacher and his students. My sympathies to the fansubber/translator who wants to work on this for it has a hellavalot of on-screen text and word puns. I do hope someone fansubs this 'cause I surely didn't understand everything. Although this doesn't seem to be laugh aloud funny, it has that dry humor that I like. That being said, the opening song is weird, the censored parts are weird and the ending song is the typical female seiyuu song. Forgot to mention the seiyuu who does the sensei was also Takemoto in Hachikuro. ♥
