[hormiga_electrica]

The final episode was even more terrible than I expected. The story as a whole was all around atrocious. I still gave this show a high score (6/10) because the comedy episodes were very enjoyable and it looked very pretty. If I had to judge the storyline alone it'd be a 2/10. By far Maeda's worst work.

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think Jun Maeda should stop trying to write plot and just have a series with just SoL/Comedy with the occasional wholesome moment like with Izanami's episode. Would be better than having the last 25% be nonsense.

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.......This was extremely bad.

Spoiler:

1. The whole choosing between God and the World advertising is completely false. There was no choosing.

2. The climax of the anime was rushed, but since it wasted like 6 episodes on nothing, this is one of the few anime out there that is both rushed not because it was only given 12 episodes, but because it wasted those episodes.
It seems that apparently, those episodes were used to build friendship between the characters, which is bullshit in the first place, but those "friends" were pretty much just meat shields in one scene and that was it.
Also apparently they cheered-up the protagonist...?????????????????

3. In the first place, the whole drama with Hina was really hard to attach to as the audience. She has a fictional disease with some fictional cure, and then without any explanation, we see people saying the technology is dangerous and we should remove it.
Once that technology was removed, she turned stupid. Doesn't that mean that the Hina the characters spent their time together was actually the technology? Then how are we supposed to be moved in the last episode when they were watching the movie? That's a machine speaking!

4. They waste time going Protagonist -> Izanami, and then all of a sudden the protagonist likes Hina. Also, that plot about Protagonist x Izanami? Out the door.

5. In the first place, how are we supposed to like any of the characters? THe protagonist was incredibly terrible the moment the story started and they weren't wasting time on jokes, Hina spent all of her time screaming as well, and every other character was nothing more than a meat shield.

6. Oh yeah, the hacker.

7. I said this already during the Izanami mom episode, but it's like (and probably is) Maeda knows what can be emotionally moving, but has absolutely no ability to draw the build-up TO that emotional moment.
And then he just stuffs all of that in... and this comes out.

To be honest, I can probably go on and on and on about what this anime did wrong, since it did pretty much everything wrong, outside of the animation (which definitely was not done by Maeda) and the songs (a total waste).

Maeda... should just stick to making music. It is clear from his previous works that he no longer has the ability to write good stories. On top of that, he reuses the same themes over and over again, miraculously making it worse each time.
...Well, that's assuming he comes back, since he seems to have deleted his Twitter account and ran off somewhere.

2/10

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Dear Jun Maeda

Even if you don't read here, I'm sure you saw Anikore and other japanese sites talking how much a mess the story was.

This is my suggestion as someone who liked Clannad.

1- Please go back writing Visual Novels, where you have all the time in the world to develop the story.

2- Make a partership with Kyoto Animation again to handle the anime adaptation. You're clearly not suitable to handle the writing under the constraint of anime's limited time.

That's all.

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Im just amazed people still want to support Jun Maeda
I love Clannad along with liking Kanon and Little Busters. I will even agree the baseball scene from Angel Beats is very good along with the heart scene despite rushed
But he doesnt actually deliver anymore like he used to. Just face facts already, he can't give quality content anymore
You just can't keep trying to elevate his work because he made you feel certain emotions in the past. Is like drug addict who experienced the best high and just constantly clings to the drug despite being less effective every time after the first few experiences

Boy, parece que esta poronga fue tan mala que Maeda tuvo que borrar su Twitter por las puteadas. Maeda hace tiempo que demostro que no puede escribir ni una lista de compras. Lo peor es que empiezo a sospechar que la razon por la que Clannad y otros funciono en su momento fue por la guia del staff de Key/Kyoani.
Opino lo mismo que el comentario de arriba. Hay un monton de tards de Jun Maeda que todavia lo defienden como si fuera mr. Drama en persona porque se emocionaron en su momento con Air o Clannad  (que para mi esta sobrevalorada  como serie pero ese es otro tema).

Igual es ironico que cuando hace 10 años algunos empezabamos a hacer notar que Maeda estaba haciendo agua, eras casi un hereje. Ahora cada vez hay mas gente que lo esta mandando a la mierda como a Shyamalan.

La formula de Jun Maeda murio. Y esta muerta hace mas de una decada.