No I'm not going to talk about anything other than animated tennis today. Consider yourself warned.
So I finally watched the last episode this afternoon. I've been putting it off because I don't want it to be over!!! I know there's the apparently neverending OVAs butbutbut. Srsly the last twenty episodes or so are EPIC. Awesome filler, crack, UST out the wazoo, FUDOMINE- it was epic, I says!
Confession time: I totally wept through the last few episodes. This may be a new low. DAMN YOU, EMOTIONALLY MANIPULATIVE SHOW. DAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU.
I mean, first you have the Golden Pair hookup backstory episode which was SO AMAZING OMG CANNOT EVEN :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD and I couldn't help it, they're just so DAMN CUTE AND ARGH. And the totally botched surprise party they threw for Ryuzaki-sensei where Tezuka is a TOTAL DRAMA QUEEN and announces his recovery and everyone FREAKS THE FUCK OUT because OMG BUCHOU and OISHI WEEPS and yes. AMAZING. So much more amazing than Tezuka's creepass welcoming party starring the WORST SINGING PERFORMANCE EVER by pretty much every cast member. ARGH so weird and wrong. However, Fuji doing 'magic tricks' and Inui doing something ridiculous that I can't remember except that it was hilarious partly made up for it. Really, it was Sanada that did it. WTF VICE-CAPTAIN DORKFACE, YOU ARE SINGING TO TEZUKA NOW WHAT?
And then there's the epic Momo-Echizen bitchfight ridiculousness that omg so amazing hahaha ILU MOMO and then the epic makeup match of SAPPY SAPPINESS and I was hopelessly weepy because am HOPELESS. And then the UTTERLY EPIC TEZUFUJI MATCH OF INSANITY that I loved immensely and I couldn't help but bawl at weepy Fuji and omg.
And the LAST EPISODE. OH MAN. THE LULZ. The amazingly ridiculous drama of it all! SO AMAZING. I don't anything can beat Echizen hauling ass back to Japan so he can 'finish it off with Tezuka' (OMG ILU HILARIOUS SUBBING PEOPLE <33333333333) and the KEVIN BITCHSLAP at which everyone cheered because the audience has been wanting to do that for FIVE SEASONS NOW and everyone rushing dramatically to be present at the AMAZINGLY OVERTHETOP RIDICULOUS ANIMATION as Echizen finally beats Tezuka. Not only were there the usual goldwashes and cyclones and lightning, but Tezuka leaping from boulder to boulder to find Echizen and EIGHT RAINBOW ECHIZENS running up the side of an impossibly tall skyscraper to reach his buchou and PINK HURRICANES AND SPARKLES AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT. Not to mention the weird frequent dreams he had about his buchou which involved an awful lot of heavy breathing and panting and Echizen running past all the people he had 'conquered' throughou the series only to find Tezuka at the end (and even creepier when he kept thinking it was Nanjiroh... ahem) and OMG AMAZING. But I srsly cried when Echizen is weeping all over Tezuka and EVERYONE ELSE IS WEEPING AND OMG. DAMN YOU SHOW. DAMN YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU.
And yet, having said that? BEST. SHOW. EVER. I know that I will change my mind when I finally get to watch the last season of Yugioh which will be even more epic because it's in EGYPT and involves the most canon non-canon pairing of ALL TIME and yes. But for now, BEST SHOW EVER. ANIMATED BOYS' TENNIS FTMFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So you may be spared future animated tennis rants, depening on how epic the OVAs are. But if they're anything like the series? Ahahahahahaha. Buckle in, sit back and enjoy the ride. By which I mean ignore me for the next week or so. Hahaha...