Amukta Heit - 2021-01-17T16:23:03.483 #00000046
I watched it by accident, as one of my favourite groups of translators picked it up, otherwise I would have missed it.
The first episode was really good imho, loved the concept.
anyone here has watched it? if not, give it a try!
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Gorden Duguay - 2021-01-26T21:06:44.873 #00000048
I tried both Wonder Egg Priority and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei thanks to this thread, and thoroughly enjoyed both in very different ways. Any more recommendations for such "grown up" (if a genre so fixated on teenage girls can really be considered mature) anime?
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Olav Jonson - 2021-03-02T05:20:05.075 #00000064
It's so colorful and I love seeing the action and character development between the main cast and the people they're fighting for.
I probably wouldn'tve watched it, but I finally watched BNA last season, and that compelled me to watch this and SK8 the Infinity.
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Zyani Mattey - 2021-04-03T21:50:13.302 #00000088
So episode 12 aired and it's thankfully not the finale. We're going to get another episode in June that'll serve as the real finale
With this context I really feel that episode 12 was incredible -- you can definitely see the rushed production in some scenes (the long opening pan-and-scan shots on a single animation cel), but they spent the money where it really matters later on in the show
## From this line onward, expect spoilers!
We see Ai finally come to terms with her past-self and overcome her distrust of Sawaki and realize that she is strong enough to face the challenges of life head-on, with the support of her new group of friends and with the maturity that she's gained over the course of the series
The ending with Parallel Ai (Pai) sacrificing herself (instead of Leon) to save Ai from dying was incredible, and the "confusing" narrative I think really just added to this whole episode. As time moved on, the separation between Pai and Ai became blurred, even to the point where at the end, they both were in the same clothes and the same hairpin. The difference between Pai and Ai no longer matters, because they are the same. Ai has learned from Pai the lessons that she needed to be able to stand up for herself, and Pai learns the same lesson from Ai as evidenced by her final sacrifice, becoming a true Warrior of Eros.
In a way this episode really makes me sad to think of what this show could have been with a little more breathing room. The idea of single-season, 12-13 episode shows really hurts creators with expansive visions like this. If this were 18 or even 24-26 episodes, WEP would be an absolute shining star among anime and easily grace top-ten lists everywhere.
Even with their production issues though, I feel like this series has really proven out the potential for this group of first-time directors, animators, and story-writers. I cannot wait to see the additional things that come from them in the future
And to echo again: I am so, so glad that they did not try to force this episode to be the finale. It does not feel like a finale at all, and they did not feel like they needed to slam in a collection of quick explanations to everything that's happened thus far. We still have 30 minutes for that and to see the reunification of the girls and the defeat of Frill, Hyphen, and Dot -- the final barrier to them growing up and maturing past their traumatic adolecenses.