fatslob-:O said: I thought Beyond the Boundary was terrible ... The characters are pretty awful and not very relatable ... There's way too many loose ends that they didn't tie up so I ended up having more questions than answers ... |
I wouldn't go so far as to say "terrible", but the characters were strange. Its like they wrote the characters to actually make sense and then they were like "okay, now we need to sprinkle in generic 'club anime' tropes to keep our fans happy", which just made all the characters feel off. I think they could have thrown away all of that fetish bullshit and made main girl not such an airhead and they would have been much better. Also, Sakura's character was pretty terrible...you can't have a character go 180degrees that quickly. It felt rushed to the point where it didn't make any sense.
They did tie up a good number of loose ends near the end of the show and I actually liked how they maintained some degree of subtlety with some of those answers (meaning that things I was wondering about were answered without say "Hey! This is the answer!" and instead just put the answer in and didn't make a bit to do about it). Unfortunately, the last minute of the series just felt like at the last minute the writers realized that they need to have a happy ending and just deus ex machina'd one in.
Like I said, there was a really good anime buried somewhere in there and I saw it peeking out every once in a while, but then whatshisname started talking about little sisters again and everything just fell apart.