2011-04-25, 04:12 PM
xBTAx Wrote:Keep in mind that Key as a whole wasn't really involved with Angel Beats, though Jun Maeda certainly was. I personally loved it, but it does have its share of problems and I'm not sure how well it'll hold up when you're watching all the episodes together.
It shouldn't be that bad. I just never got into it because I found a lot of characters to be rather bland. Anyways, at episode 12 of Chaos;Head now. I have mixed opinions about it. I'll post what I think later on when I finish the series. It's watchable. Though nothing to be praised.
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[spoiler=Opinion on "Chaos;Head"]
The series started out as a psychological horror or drama to me at first, and as it progressed, leaned towards science-fiction + adventure. There wasn't enough time to really go into details about most of the characters, and that's what bothered me the entire time while watching this. It was more bothersome to realize that a good 3/4th of the chunk was wasted on the protagonist being a moron. The girls are pretty generic, and I wish there was more flavor to them.
The final battle wasn't really as great as I had hoped, seeing as how a good 10-15 minutes was spent getting to the location of the battle, and remaining time concentrated on the actual fight itself. I do like how "Shogun" played a rather large role, though I had wish that they elaborated the final episode a tad more just for him as well as the protagonist. IMO, seems like the protagonist gained Shogun's memory or they sorta merged at the end. Made sense. Sorta.
Some things felt a bit too convenient, like how help was just literally there before the protagonist was about to get killed off, etc. Actually, no, a lot of things seemed overly convenient. I had to question myself at the end: "What the hell did I watch?"
It's not terrible, but there needs to be more development. If I were asked a question on whether I'd rewatch this again, I'd directly say "No". But it's far from being terrible, what kept me interested were the killings at the beginning. My interest slowly died off near the middle, because it became uninteresting. 5/10.
Overall, something that people can watch, though I doubt it'd be watch more than once. Had they expanded a bit more on the story (like how they got the powers to create delusions), as well as the characters, I would have gladly rated this a lot higher. Felt like it lacked a lot. Meh.[/spoiler]
Ok. Well, school's almost done for me this semester, so I'll be grinding on a lot of stuff I dropped or put on hold for the past.. god knows how long.