Final episode and
somehow I don't know what to feel about it.
Truth be told, after
watching episode11 I just couldn’t stop myself to search for spoilers and POOF!
The same night, I watched episode 11, I knew who the extra one is. Not
satisfied with what I read, I took the time to read through the manga and not
to my surprise, it sure had some differences from the anime.
I wouldn’t like to
go on the details of the episode but what do I generally think about it? It was
decent. It started off pretty well though not really what I was hoping for. I'm
mostly thinking that this episode will continue with a scene of Kouichi and
Izumi together where Mei left them off. BUT what happened? The opening was a
little mess, I guess I could say it at that. The students were flattened by ahuge chandelier and one still stood up and was killed by a fallen column.
Teshigawara and Mochizuki were running away from the old lady - who for some
reason is trying to kill them. Kazami's gotten psycho because of Teshigawara.
Izumi suddenly met Mei at the main lobby and went off to kill her and so on.
If this episode is
trying to keep up with the well made psychological chaos and deaths that
happened last episode. Well, for me, they failed. It wasn't exciting or
anything at all other than confirming that Kazami has gotten psycho. Izumi sure
have gotten a little off by the last episode. Her scene with Mei in the anime
sure is completely different from the manga but I don’t really want to complain
much. The anime has its own version of the story. Which one is more
interesting? I can't tell for sure. Which one I liked the most? Can't answer
because I don't really know.
This episode
practically took 3 chapters in the manga, as far as I can remember. Maybe I
could say that one reason this episode went pretty bad was because it was
rushed. The rushed feeling it gave somehow seemed off with Another's usual slow pacing as it gives its
viewer time to think. This episode, from where it left off in episode11 where
everyone's just getting killed and panicking, Another
started to pick its pace up. Though episode11 was actually done in an
interesting manner while this episode was done to just make a conclusion. Some
of the art and animation were a little poor and there aren't much notable
scenes. 
Was I satisfied with
Reiko being the extra one? With all the over thinking I did in this series
which I have never done before, I'm not really upset or dissatisfied with who
the extra one is. I think that Reiko being the extra one was just fair enough
and falls under the unexpected part of the story which is pretty good. Reiko's
death, on the other hand, didn't even seem dramatic or anything even though it
was Kouichi who killed her. Practically, I'm wondering why is it that P.A.
Works actually disappointed me in this episode. With how Another ended, I sure can't make up my mind
about including it on my top list this season or what.
I'll post the series review next time :)
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Epilogue:
You know. After reading your review on this much of my own hype has calmed down. Like.. when I saw those last two episodes I suppose I also got into it and lost track of what's important due to so much action just being constantly bombarded. You're right. There's a lot that happened within those episodes that was never explained very well. People dieing left and right. There's a fire in the dining room - not explained. Manager's become a killer - not explained. We're not even told if that kid who had asthma lived or not (though assumption is that he was alright). Neither is it explained how Kazami managed to live and it didn't state his reason for going crazy very well. Reiko being the extra was something I did not see coming. I guess that's because we've always assumed that the extra must be one of the students so I'll take that as a bit of a twist.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the manga though I take it that you have? Would you say that I should read it too? Does the manga end where the anime did or does it continue the story further?
yeah, I believe that this series had been pretty good until this last episode. When we all thought that all questions'll be answered, they added things that they didn't explained - the fire at the dinning room & the Manager becoming a killer really did became my top questions there.
DeleteAs for Reiko being the 'another', it really was a pretty good twist since we're all thinking (or most of us) that the 'another' has got to be one of the students. Maybe this is their first case to have an 'assistant teacher' as the extra one.
I didn't read the entire manga, I just looked for the part where episode11 left off and apparently it wasn't there and I saw episode10 (which is chap17) - where the ending is when Teshigawara unexpectedly 'killed' Kazami. They practically ended the same though they were quite different as I have mentioned, chap18-20 was only ep12 in the anime, and there were scenes that came in really different as far as I can remember.