Ooh, well, I don't pay close attention to the fandom, so I didn't know most fans took anime!canon over manga!canon for crucial details. I think it's because there are some people who appreciated the anime, but found many of the manga developments pretty ragey? For example, I think manga!Akito is a complex, interesting character -- far more so than the anime -- but there's some gender essentialism thrown in with those twists that's not really cool. Generally, Takaya is not much less heterosexist than the average shoujo mangaka: she's willing to tease with the best of them, but like most of the series that run in Hana to Yume, the final outcomes aren't very LGBT friendly.
I'm sure that even if this weren't the case, many fans would still act like that just for the sake of m/m slash, but this happens all the time, so it doesn't really surprise me...
I think it worked well for the anime climax? It may seem too weak for the Tohru who proved her mettle in the manga, but as a standalone, it didn't bother me. Even in the anime up to that point, Tohru had never really faltered, so it did up the tension a bit as far as that was concerned. If the anime had continued after that point, I would probably agree with you.
And hey, maybe it could have been done better! But I'm willing to reserve judgment on that without, say, another anime adaptation to hold it in comparison. (Although I wouldn't be opposed to that either.)
Yeah, a lot of the things I thought were contrived in the latter half were meant to bring the story full circle. While it is nice to have a degree of cause-and-effect in a story, there is a point where you can overdo it, and I think Furuba definitely did. I can clearly see what she was going for, and at the same time, it came off as cheesy rather than clever storytelling. "Kakeru's girlfriend's father killing Kyoko" was a more extreme example, but I couldn't invest myself in Kyou's side of the story at that point.
Hahah, I'm not sure that Yuki/Machi has completely grown on me yet! I like it more in theory than in execution. I'm actually looking forward to the student council sections more than I expected, though, since I like them more now that I see where Takaya was going with them to the end.
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on 2012-10-28 11:22 am (UTC)I'm sure that even if this weren't the case, many fans would still act like that just for the sake of m/m slash, but this happens all the time, so it doesn't really surprise me...
I think it worked well for the anime climax? It may seem too weak for the Tohru who proved her mettle in the manga, but as a standalone, it didn't bother me. Even in the anime up to that point, Tohru had never really faltered, so it did up the tension a bit as far as that was concerned. If the anime had continued after that point, I would probably agree with you.
And hey, maybe it could have been done better! But I'm willing to reserve judgment on that without, say, another anime adaptation to hold it in comparison. (Although I wouldn't be opposed to that either.)
Yeah, a lot of the things I thought were contrived in the latter half were meant to bring the story full circle. While it is nice to have a degree of cause-and-effect in a story, there is a point where you can overdo it, and I think Furuba definitely did. I can clearly see what she was going for, and at the same time, it came off as cheesy rather than clever storytelling. "Kakeru's girlfriend's father killing Kyoko" was a more extreme example, but I couldn't invest myself in Kyou's side of the story at that point.
Hahah, I'm not sure that Yuki/Machi has completely grown on me yet! I like it more in theory than in execution. I'm actually looking forward to the student council sections more than I expected, though, since I like them more now that I see where Takaya was going with them to the end.
And yes, but that's never a bad thing. :D