Yuuki Yuuna #12 — “We Were Lying About Everything”

December 25th, 2014

  

This was even worse than I expected.

Late for I’d hope obvious reasons.

Impressions:

The first sign that this was all going to even more utter crap was when Karin spontaneously got better enough to help them all grunt together, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Remember back a while ago when they first got punished by divine intervention, lost senses, and were told they would come back in time? And remember how everyone went “Oho, that’s obviously a lie.” The surprise twist is that it turns out that it wasn’t a lie. At all. After a friendship hug, Yuuna hulked up and mega-sacrificed herself, etc etc, so on and so forth, and then we move on to the epilogue when they’re all… just getting better. All of them. Every single ailment. Even super sacrifice Karin. They just go right back to normal. Oh wait, but Yuuna’s sacrificed everything and is now a vegetable. Wait… Wait, no. She gets better soon after too and is perfectly fine.

So we’ve moved from angsting over being punished forever with a horrible curse from God, to “You’ll be inconvenienced for a few weeks to maybe a month or two.” God help them if they tore an ACL. They’d probably try to throw the planet into the sun after five episodes of crying about how they can no longer be an Olympic sprinter.

 

Final Thoughts:

I don’t mean to beat it to death, but since the show did, I don’t see why I should hold back. The biggest issue with this show is that every single little thing was designed for angst, no matter how little sense it made, quintuply so in the face of the godawful ending. That in itself still might have worked, except it was all posturing and lip service. “If we fight, we might get hurt!” “By the monsters trying to kill us?” “No, by God.” The characters acted with absolutely zero awareness of anything. Victories, defeats, gravity of the situation, nada. It’s not that they were in a situation where they were getting screwed at every turn that made them insufferable, it’s that they refused to do anything about it. Not only that, they presented trying to better themselves so they wouldn’t be punished by God anymore as a bad thing. Then they couldn’t even stick to that, with everyone spontaneously getting better at the end, making all the pissing on for the last month of the show about the horrible sacrifices they had to make just flat out lies.

Production was okay for the most part, but it needed a real antagonist other than “the universe” and there is simply way too much faffing about, either friendship nonsense at the start or melodrama nonsense in the later going. The monsters were never really a threat to anything, and you’d think with the designs, they would have at least chomped something. A little visceral impact or danger from them would have gone a very very long way over the writers simply spooning out angst. It’s a mess and they couldn’t even commit to their bad melodrama in the end, leaving even that completely hollow.

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Yue says:

    Well, the satisfaction of having evil Kyubey in Madoka is to let the audience have something to get effectively raging mad about.

    So this show went for focusing on the plight of the girls instead?

  • Longhaul says:

    “Not only that, they presented trying to better themselves so they wouldn’t be punished by God anymore as a bad thing.”

    What?

    “They’d probably try to throw the planet into the sun after five episodes of crying about how they can no longer be an Olympic sprinter.”

    Granted you were being humorous but that is a pretty big misrepresentation of the situation.

  • PP says:

    This post made me realize what this anime truly missed: God punching.
    Problem was this was only 12 episodes, I could see it working better if the second part was a little less serious and they went God hunting or something and punched planets and shit, that’d be nice.
    Still a good show.