Happily, Charlotte really only got vomit-inducing bad in episode 11, but the majority of the material after episode six’s revelations was pointless and detached from the first half’s few charms that the show ceased to be amusing in any kind of way. I don’t really mind Jun Maeda’s tendency to parcel out individual scenes (and scenes within scenes!) without any kind of coherent connection between them, but when he tries to apply that to a plot that ends up crossing the entire world in a single episode…well, it just doesn’t work. I’m not surprised that this was what the writer of Angel Beats! came up with, but Charlotte shares basically all of the same characteristics of composition that Angel Beats! does while managing to be much, much worse. It certainly won’t go down as one of the best in anime history-but when you come away from a season with an episode of a bubble dropping on Lelei’s head, how can you really complain? As always, there were some up weeks and some down weeks, but on the whole I’m pretty happy with the way this season ended up. Despite being a rather slow season and mostly lacking in shows I would consider worthy of serious superlatives, I was generally amused, entertained, and engaged by the stuff I ended up watching all the way to the end.
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