Sunday, April 5, 2009

The -END- of Air TV...

Just finished watching Air this morning...

Let's start with the good stuff:
- Misuzu "Gao~"
- Uses "family" as its theme (touching scenes at ep 11 + 12)
- Potato "Piko~ Pikori~ Pika~"
- Nice OP...no VERY nice OP
- Lovely BG music
- Sad, Misuzu dies at the end...
- Loneliness, Misuzu cannot get a friend...

The bad stuff:
- 13 eps = TOO SHORT
- Not enough time spent on the other 2 main characters (...Kano and Minagi I believe? Holy I still remember their names somehow --*)
- Kano and Minagi's eps are more like fillers than anything
- Misuzu-chin's hair got cut short, VERY short...MAJOR WTF (thou I know it shows that she went back to being a child, but still)
- Yukito disappears (ummm, he is the main charcter...hello?) in ep 9 and basically never appears again (except in recaps)
- NOT ENOUGH GAO. NOT ENOUGH MISUZU. NOT ENOUGH POTATO. NOT ENOUGH HARUKO (What?!)
- 2 eps of ancient stuff that doesn't really connect to the story imo...2 eps of recap...in a 13 ep series?! = 4 eps or ~30% of series wasted.
- Never really explain why Misuzu goes all crazy when she is close to making a friend...?
- So Yukito became a crow, and flies to the sky to look for Misuzu after she dies...ummm?
- Wait, why did he become a crow? to save Misuzu?! and just to have her die a couple of eps later?!
- Air in Summer: I would rather they show something on Yukito/Misuzu rather than the ancient times

Although the bad stuff outnumbered the good stuff, I did enjoy this series. Don't forget that this is back in 04 so I have to lower my expectations a little bit. There are alot of questions that are not solved and that is very bad. But to be honest, if I were to remake the series, scrap Minagi and Kano, and just focus on Misuzu and Yukito on the entire thing. More Haruko and Misuzu. Have Potato be Misuzu's pet instead of Sora the Crow. NO RECAPS. Just no.

That's about it for now. Probably more when I wake up 5-6 hours later...

EDIT 2: I guess that's it for now xD