QUOTE (nijlandp @ Jun 27 2015, 01:43 PM)
what the heck did the writer do to the story. Suddenly we get a surprise about Bell's history...the fight was also weak with the sudden strength of Bell. This last episode felt to ruin the series for me. Welf's story wasn't executed very good. Lili was useless even if she can use magic. Some other characters seemed weaker. And the sudden Zeus story with the remark of the labyrinth hating the gods came out of nowhere.
The series in a whole began pretty good. Just an adventurer and a goddess who try to make the best of being a weak familia. However the story ran to a sudden climax which fell down on itself for introducing way too many things. Characters were fun with Bell, Ryu and Lili being the better ones. However their character growth felt weak. Bell grows as a fighter but his character seems to fall behind. The plots in the story did have some weaknesses..for example Lili mentions she wants to go to another familia..the rest of the episodes we don't get anything on that part anymore. If the writers just used one minute to let her ask Hestia if she may join the familia it would be resolved but it didn't come..also the letter for Welf, what happened to the backstory? Syr and Freya...what is their connection?
The series was okay but fell apart in the end due to rushed parts and not fulfilling the sidestories..for me just a 6 out of 10..
I do hope we get a second season which fixes a lot of those open threads..please just let the Hestia familia grow with a few additions like Lili, Welf and Ryu..
Can't say that I disagree with your sentiments. I personally enjoyed the heck out of the episode as a stand-alone event, but yes, there are quite a few open threads left needing closure. My personal take on it was to cut them some slack, as if the production house has only been authorized to address up to a certain point in the story's time lines, then they would by necessity have to leave certain side-stories unresolved.
As a follow-up side-note, I TRULY hope that the development group/author hears and takes-up my heart-felt wish for Taco-Bell-Kun-Usagi-Kuro!
Be it that he faces the repressed "darkness" in his own heart, or another partially-"Divine relative" twin cousin or unknown twin brother. (Oh, and PLEASE LET HIM HAVE A GOATEE!!!!) Fans of Star Trek's Mirror Universe Spock UNITE!!!!
If they just do a lame version like they did with Garth Knight in the last seasons of the Knight Rider series and have them be identical save for extra-heavy eye-liner on the evil version, I'll be very disappointed...
All that said, yeah, fairly anti-climatic for the series considering the developments between episodes 6 and 11, but again, if your disclosure agreement with the author ham-strings what you can present, what can you do? (Admittedly, all assumption on my part, I have NO PROOF of my theory. They could have just botched the ending, and I'd never have a clue.)
And for good measure, since I seem to have become a "Shipping-maniac" may I propose the eventual "ship" of WelfxLili-chan? It's just WAITING to happen in my twisted imaginings! They fight, they fight, they fight, Then somewhere along the way when they get in each other's faces, one of them blushes, and... "DA...DADADADA...DADADADADADADADA!!!!!!" LOL
I think that I MAY need professional help...