Kanon

Diese Folge habe ich lange gemieden, weil ich wusste, dass ich mich mental gut darauf vorbereiten muss. Ich erinnere mich noch lebhaft daran, wie Clannad + After Story mich packte, und ich wusste nur, dass dies ähnlich sein würde. Und es kam genau so, wie ich es erwartet hatte, und trotzdem traf es mich unvorbereitet. Kanon stellte mir einige der erstaunlichsten und süßesten Anime-Charaktere vor, die ich je gesehen habe (Makoto, Ayu, Shiori...), brachte mich dazu, mich Hals über Kopf in sie zu verlieben, und fügte sogar niedliche Voiceover hinzu, um sie noch niedlicher zu machen. Und das nur, um mir zu zeigen, dass das Leben kein Ponyhof ist und wie sehr es wehtun kann, also heulte ich wieder einmal große Krokodilstränen und ließ mich auf den Wellen dieses Werkes treiben, das etwas Unwirkliches, Emotionales, Süßes, Lustiges und unglaublich Trauriges hatte. Glücklicherweise kam das Ende und es geschah genau das, was ich mir unterbewusst gewünscht hatte, also war es am Ende einfach perfekt. Dieser Anime ist an sich so ein kleines Wunder für mich... 10/10 (07.07.2015)

A beautiful, sad story with an ending that kind of prevents me from giving it a full score. I guess I'm a bit of a masochist. Not that there's anything wrong with the way it ends, God forbid, but it didn't sit right with me. However, I believe a lot of others will like that ending. I enjoyed the opening sequence only with the last (penultimate) episode, before that it didn't really impress me. The ending theme didn't interest me at all, hear it once and throw it away, not bad, but my taste doesn't favor it. The girls, appearing here, around the main character, all seemed to me kind of the same; sure, each had their pros and cons, each had their feelings, but they had something in common, what it is I won't say, because I can't figure it out myself. Maybe when it clicks... But the biggest plus of this anime is mainly the one that forgot what happened 7 years ago – Aizawa Yuuichi. I loved his sense of humor beyond measure, his jokes, teasing the others, it was just amazing. He kept it up for a long, long time, until he started to suffer too much and the pranks disappeared, luckily, it was only for the last few episodes, so all ok. Plus, his comments probably wouldn't have been appropriate (For me yes, for the script no -_^ ). Otherwise, getting back to the girls – they were all fine, not one of them got on my nerves, not one of them showed her panties, not one of them suffered from the "I-have-small-boobs-what-now?" complex. It's definitely an above average schoolboy anime spiced up with the supernatural. (24.07.2009)