Scrapped Princess

[blizeH]

Just watched this; wow, it's absolutely incredible! Right up there with Berserk as one of my favourite animes, or indeed favourite TV episodes of all time, I'd highly recommend it to anyone.

** Below this line is rather spoilertastic **

The characters were all excellent, the show had charm in abundance and it's one of the rare occasions where I actually felt for most of the characters, even Fulle who merely played a bit-part in the overall storyline had a fantastic and emotional death scene, although the old cliched 'dying slowly by arrows in abundance' thing always goes down well with me, there's just something about it that makes you really feel for the character.

There was so much I wanted to discuss whilst watching it, but my mind's blank at the moment, but I'll finish by commenting how awfully crushing the end of the pen-ultimate episode was. I was watching it thinking "this is great, there's no way this can turn out to be a sad ending, hurrah! at least an anime with a happy ending" - and then bam! I should of known it was too good to be true, maybe I should of expected it, but I didn't, and that just made it so much more harrowing.

Fantastic.

[Honoko]

there is a 30 second anime review thread for this.....

[Kraco]

there is a 30 second anime review thread for this.....

That wasn't a review, so a review thread might not have been appropriate. Well, that's just my opinion.

And since Scrapped Princess does have a happy ending, I don't even know what to think of that post anyway...

[blizeH]

I just meant between the end of the pen-ultimate episode and the final episode there was a horrible feeling that everything had gone horribly wrong, of course it picked back up again which was great, but it was an emotional rollercoaster and I thought they scripted it excellently.

Also, I apologise for creating another thread, but I was hoping to draw some attention to this (seemingly overlooked anime?) rather than just do a quick review of it. :-)

[Uberbaka]

It was alright, didn't feel it stood out that much to be honest =S

A rather forgettable affair.

[Ryllharu]

It's not "seeming overlooked," it's over 3 years old. Any discussion on it was done long ago. The series started and was half over before the earliest join date on these forums.

[Archangel]

So i finally finished this series after dozens of people's comments on how i was a fool for having it in my "On hold" list for so long and here i am left with a feeling of emptiness that will probably only be filled with chocolate cake and strawberries.

"What is so good about this show?" is a question that lingered throughout the whole experience and was accentuated with a rainbow ending that was as expected and inevitable as the morning sunrise

I disliked every single character, including the apparently universally beloved raquel-nee, for being either too cool, too lame or too bratty.

Anyway... i'm also known to like shows that nobody else does so i'll hope nobody gets too trolly with me for hating this particular one. Have a good day everyone!

[shinta|hikari]

I didn't like it much either. I watched it without hearing about any of the hype so I was not even expecting anything from it, but I still did not find it anything special. It wasn't a bad show, and was better than the average run of the mill stuff, but it is not even in my top 50.

I think I just didn't love any particular character, which is usually what makes me like a show a lot.

[Kraco]

I liked it but unlike my post from years ago indicates, I don't anymore consider it such an excellent show. However, I still completely agree with Yuki: It'd be a perfect beginner anime. Now I've already seen too many better shows and too many shows in general to consider this kind of a work to be near the top of my list. Although it does belong to my favorite genre: Adventure.