@Korath In the end each wanted what the other had. Sae just wanted to be noticed by someone and feel special while Riko wanted someone who didn't treat her like she was special. Both of them felt lost in the crowd of unpopularity and popularity respectively and Sae being a loner who didn't get...
I have to say that I really appreciate the way this series shows life in all its ways, both the light and the heavy, and that a sweet chapter like this can come after a heavier one and it doesn't feel out of place.
@jak She didn't think she held any value to him/them and that she was just going to hold Azur/Kiyosumi back. It's not really difficult to understand. Ushio's an emotional person who acts on impulse.
@Faulheit It's about getting what you want out of music. Kiyosumi was cloistered but after performing live and forming Azur he realized that he wanted to have his music reach a wider audience, presumably so others could experience that same sort of joy with music he gets. Riku wanted to play...
@coolbond In all fairness Naoko was definitely the heart and soul of this series and watching Kazuya try to act like her and kill the rest isn't as fun and feels a little cheap. I won't say it's gone off a cliff or anything but post-Naoko definitely isn't as good as what came before and it's got...
I'm half expecting that Mika's going to develop, or is developing, a crush on Nao but for obvious reasons it'll cause her a lot of confusion and complications.
I'm assuming that the person she's been talking about the entire time is actually Yamaguchi but she's too nervous and too lacking in confidence to tell him directly so she basically pulls the "I've got a boyfriend but he totally goes to a different school" card to mask it. The entire chapter...
This is one of my favorite series and the art is one of the reasons why so to see it get adapted with poorly animated lifeless PS3 models is kind of depressing.
@livesofflight While I love Ushio and am anticipating to see when and how she shows back up at the end of the day it started as a fairly ordinary young adult romance with a manic pixie dream girl. Personally though I find the stuff that focuses on the actual business of music -- talent...
I always feel like the chapters dealing with death/Heaven and friendship are generally the strongest ones in this series and this one is probably one of the stronger arguments for that.
@Tamerlane The relationship between Teru and Koishikawa feels a lot like the kind of close female relationships you'd see out of other mahou shoujo works (which as a genre I feel this series draws more obvious inspiration from than battle shounen) so I don't think anyone who sees romantic...