Mahoromatic: Welcome Back #02 — Total Wardrobe Failure

October 24th, 2009

 

Restart from muumuu.

Impressions:

More action this week, and more exploding clothing. Thankfully, they toned down Minawa’s clumsiness too, outside of socially. The fight at the start was very well done, though I did roll my eyes at a few shots causing the missle to wildly careen around, only for it to then turn back and head straight for Feldy’s jet. Most of the rest of the episode was decent enough, but it did veer a little close to overly saccharine more than once. Mahoro’s extended ballet sequence should have also probably been cut in about half.

Overall though, it was a mostly enjoyable pair of specials, just a little dull at times. Clearly my memory of the series is not as good as I thought and since they were slotting it into the middle of pre-established events, it was obvious that nothing important was going to happen, but they got some fighting in, some hand holding, some and even a few hair-handlebar twitches in. That’s really about the sum and total of what I remember from Mahoromatic years after I watched the original series anyway.

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • NAveryW says:

    Feldrance was killed in the airplane explosion. I don’t care that screencaps show him later in the episode; he died. Anything to retcon “End of a Dream” and “Na-Geanna”.

    If it weren’t for krypto-revisionism, I’d probably be in an asylum by now.

  • Myssa Rei says:

    I dunno, I think it’s actually EASIER to accept the manga ending than the TV series ending. The blasted thing made more sense, for one.

  • NAveryW says:

    A *bit* more sense, sure, but [SPOILER]Suguru’s own grandmother, knowing how depressed/nihilistic/alone he’d become, chose to keep the fact that Mahoro was alive from him until she turned 19. It avoids the whole toddlercon thing, sure, but it’s still ridiculous, and it certainly doesn’t explain how Mahoro was reborn as a human.[/SPOILER]

  • Myssa Rei says:

    NAveryW: Because it isn’t EXACTLY Mahoro, but Ryuuga’s daughter raised AS Mahoro.

    • NAveryW says:

      [spoiler]So the “new Mahoro” is just a replacement goldfish and the “real Mahoro” is irrevocably dead? That makes more sense? That’s easier to accept? Whaaat?[/spoiler]