Nezumi is the heroine!
Episode 10 - 奈落にあるもの
GJGJ Bones, you actually went and fit in a full 2 novels in 1 episode!
...I can't even tell if I was supposed to be sarcastic there or not. This was certainly an intense episode all around. Obvious emphasis was given to Shion's descent into yandere, but I'm not sure what to think of this sudden one episode change. Actually it was more like half an episode, wasn't it... They've kept Shion all gentle and innocent up till now, so I wonder what anime-only watchers think of his sudden change? And Nezumi's sudden change as well. Similar case of not including his first crying scene and then going all-out with this second one. I can't judge since my mind automatically fills in all the gaps, but I do feel like it was out of left field. They left out the part where Shion tries to kill himself too - no wait, would have been twice going back to volume 5. If anime!Shion's got a couple screws loose, novel!Shion barely has any correctly screwed in wwww.
Well, it was a good episode. They did an impressive job fitting so much into a single episode. This amount of rushing could have been avoided if they changed things earlier on, but too late to complain about that now. Inukashi and Rikiga had a much more active role here than in the novels, which I applaud Bones for. Though taking out Getsuyaku's character also means Lili's pretty much useless. Inukashi and the baby were cute~ I wonder if they're going to mention his name somewhere in the last episode?
This episode's animation deserves a special mention. Dat sakuga during Nezumi's fight scene hnnnnng. Best animation sequence of the show so far? I say yes. The fight scene itself though - as expected, the feeling was different with Rashi... It's one thing to kill off a random grunt, it's another for Shion to exact his revenge on that one evil guy that started it all. Man, you don't know how satisfied I was when Rashi died. Shame he doesn't exist in the anime. And then Nezumi's crying scene - the flashback to 4 years ago was a nice touch, I liked it. In fact the use of flashbacks in this whole episode was really well done, and that's saying something since I'm normally not a fan of flashback use.
Last scene... uwaah, Safu looks like the final boss! Is Ely!Safu gonna be the final boss? wwww
Shotas end card - toi8, you've even mastered drawing shotas? Damn. Though it took me a bit to realize that was Nezumi, and even longer to realize they're on the bed lol. Wonder what the final end card is going to be... Shion and Nezumi being happy please? ;; A full cast shot would be nice too.
Final episode preview - welp, for once CR didn't get the extended preview. "Shion, I'm supposed to do this!" - I don't recognize this line... Anime original? Can't predict at all how they're going to handle the last episode. Vol8 ch1 and vol9 ch4 are the necessary chapters to include. They could combine the first half of vol9 ch4 with vol8 ch1, then jump into the latter half of vol9 ch4, and then the ending and the epilogue... but if 2ch spoilers are to be trusted, they're going to include that one scene in vol8 ch3/4? Oooi that's just unnecessary drama then pffft.
...I'll say it now, I expect to laugh at the last episode rather than cry. If I do cry, I'll consider the ending a success.
GJGJ Bones, you actually went and fit in a full 2 novels in 1 episode!
...I can't even tell if I was supposed to be sarcastic there or not. This was certainly an intense episode all around. Obvious emphasis was given to Shion's descent into yandere, but I'm not sure what to think of this sudden one episode change. Actually it was more like half an episode, wasn't it... They've kept Shion all gentle and innocent up till now, so I wonder what anime-only watchers think of his sudden change? And Nezumi's sudden change as well. Similar case of not including his first crying scene and then going all-out with this second one. I can't judge since my mind automatically fills in all the gaps, but I do feel like it was out of left field. They left out the part where Shion tries to kill himself too - no wait, would have been twice going back to volume 5. If anime!Shion's got a couple screws loose, novel!Shion barely has any correctly screwed in wwww.
Well, it was a good episode. They did an impressive job fitting so much into a single episode. This amount of rushing could have been avoided if they changed things earlier on, but too late to complain about that now. Inukashi and Rikiga had a much more active role here than in the novels, which I applaud Bones for. Though taking out Getsuyaku's character also means Lili's pretty much useless. Inukashi and the baby were cute~ I wonder if they're going to mention his name somewhere in the last episode?
This episode's animation deserves a special mention. Dat sakuga during Nezumi's fight scene hnnnnng. Best animation sequence of the show so far? I say yes. The fight scene itself though - as expected, the feeling was different with Rashi... It's one thing to kill off a random grunt, it's another for Shion to exact his revenge on that one evil guy that started it all. Man, you don't know how satisfied I was when Rashi died. Shame he doesn't exist in the anime. And then Nezumi's crying scene - the flashback to 4 years ago was a nice touch, I liked it. In fact the use of flashbacks in this whole episode was really well done, and that's saying something since I'm normally not a fan of flashback use.
Last scene... uwaah, Safu looks like the final boss! Is Ely!Safu gonna be the final boss? wwww
Shotas end card - toi8, you've even mastered drawing shotas? Damn. Though it took me a bit to realize that was Nezumi, and even longer to realize they're on the bed lol. Wonder what the final end card is going to be... Shion and Nezumi being happy please? ;; A full cast shot would be nice too.
Final episode preview - welp, for once CR didn't get the extended preview. "Shion, I'm supposed to do this!" - I don't recognize this line... Anime original? Can't predict at all how they're going to handle the last episode. Vol8 ch1 and vol9 ch4 are the necessary chapters to include. They could combine the first half of vol9 ch4 with vol8 ch1, then jump into the latter half of vol9 ch4, and then the ending and the epilogue... but if 2ch spoilers are to be trusted, they're going to include that one scene in vol8 ch3/4? Oooi that's just unnecessary drama then pffft.
...I'll say it now, I expect to laugh at the last episode rather than cry. If I do cry, I'll consider the ending a success.