Heaven’s Lost Property Æ’ #12 — Everybody Poops

December 17th, 2010

 

…So this season’s Fridays begin and end with feces. Great.

Impressions:

Even for this show, I expect better than a mess of poop jokes intermixed with the same formula it’s been using all season. I’m also still cross at them for riding this whole proposal thing all the way to the end. I’m probably sounding like a broken record, but it began as a joke in a delusion. Hell, Tomoki even says in this episode that he has no idea what any of them are talking about. Furthermore, including Astraea in a wedding dress in that awful "Choose your bride" scene at the end while she’s ranting about food just made it worse. Tossing Chaos back in to glomp Tomoki just made it worserer…er.

So it was a fairly uninspired ending to what was frankly a pretty uninspired season. They narrowly avoided the Tenchi GXP ending… thank god… but it was so awkwardly led up to and then ‘concluded’ that I was just thankful for it to be over. Even compared to all the other obligatory clumsy and poorly handled drama that comedies feel the need to shoehorn in, it was bad. They’re not fooling anybody with this "We’re going to have an ending here" crap, but to toss all Ikaros’s drama and brooding for the last month aside with "I like things the way they are, let’s not rock the boat" is just terrible. Especially when one has just adopted a mind-raping love-obsessed nun.

Final thoughts at the bottom.

Preview:

Movie preview. Tough beans, Hiyori.

Final Thoughts:

The two things that really hurt this series were its stubborn adherence to the same comic formula episode in and episode out, and some very poorly executed drama. Nymph in particular spent almost the entire season feeling sorry for herself and then it was resolved almost as an aside while other more important things were going on. The first episode (and the OVA just prior to it) were both hilarious, but the show never made it quite back to that same level of unpredictability and energetic delivery. Instead, it gradually fell into a rut of just changing the scenario but doing the same jokes week after week. This also wasn’t helped by some bizarre plot threads that never actually went anywhere; Hiyori being the main one, but Sugata’s adventures into Synapse as well.

The show really does have a lot going for it with very solid production, good music, and competent direction, but the writing simply failed it at amost every turn. Character development should have been better paced and handled, jokes should have been far more varied, and the angst should not have been all concentrated on a single point in the series that was resolved in a 15 second speech. It’s not a bad show by any means, but it could have been much, much better if the writing had been a lot tighter or if they had managed to maintain the same level of energy in the first couple episode through the whole thing.

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11 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Takebou says:

    So it’s Hiyori in the movie? :’D

  • anon says:

    The movie preview saddened me. Usually when an anime gets a movie, the quality gets bumped up a notch. But this looks like it’s going to have the same quality as the anime.

    Well the animation quality was pretty good in SnO already, so it’s a minor complaint.

  • Dual says:

    Oh, Aroduc. Your unpopular opinions always make me laugh :)

    Im going to miss my weekly dose of Sora no Otoshimono, the best show of this season.

  • ToshiroNoRonin says:

    This show’s major problem is that the main character should really be Sugata, not Tomoki. Tomoki is nothing more than a running gag, and it makes it very difficult to take him seriously when he suddenly becomes Mr. Stand-up-guy or to even understand how all of the women are so attracted to him given his creepy, lecherous ways.

    Ah well, it was still an enjoyable season, but nowhere near as good as the first. They wasted too much time and attention on Tomoki’s various random adventures in perversion and not enough on the actual plot.

  • Solaris says:

    I wasn’t able to pass through that time the panties started flying so good job enduring this till the “shitty” end. I mean, when an anime actually ends in shit, it must mean something, mustn’t it? :/

  • Anonymous says:

    Didn’t they cut out and make up a bunch of stuff from the manga? If so, that’s a big shame. I wonder if it would’ve been better if they would’ve followed the manga plot.

  • daiki says:

    Believe it or not, the manga isn’t that much better than the anime. In fact, the manga is filled mostly with filler. After about 10-15 chapters of filler, you get a few chapters of plot…oh, just like the anime.

  • The Phantom says:

    I never expected much from this show, thats probably why I could enjoy it, just turn off your brain and laugh at all those silly jokes.

    The best thing about this show is that never pretended to be anything else, it was a silly comedy show from begining to end, and I praise it for it, but to be honest I’m really not going to miss it.

  • Believe it or not, the manga isn’t that much better than the anime. In fact, the manga is filled mostly with filler. After about 10-15 chapters of filler, you get a few chapters of plot…oh, just like the anime.

  • Celestial says:

    wut is luv o baby dont hurt me those who call ppl baka are baka themselves~

  • Whatever says:

    This is one of my favorite animes ever. Even if its a little repedative. Its still made my laugh like no other anime can. i hope that more episodes come out and the movie comes out sooner!