As I commented in Kabitzin’s excellent retrospective I found this show a bit of a chore to sit through at first but burning through the last five episodes in the space of an afternoon was better than the weekly episode viewing I initially tried. I quite like the open ending with its promise of more to come later in the year but also felt a twinge of guilt: the show is not without its flaws but I feel that it was given a bit of an unfair beating. More than anything I want to be annoyed at the series for the right reasons and want to understand why it took the approaches it did.
Can I be bothered to dig up the eroge adaptation issue again? Quite frankly I can’t see the point. The idea of branching narratives and periodic storyline choices in a VN -> indecisive protagonist in a strictly linear plotline of a TV series ought to be obvious by now, or at least I hope so. This isn’t the area where the show falls down – rather, the frustration viewers felt was the price of presenting the characters in the light they were; not so much the question of whether the faults lie in a poor adaptation or the act of recreating the original material complete with those faults.
