[Sarah's Knight]

(My rant has gone on longer than I imagined. Forgive my having to double-post, please.)


.... But it gets even better.

Beginning around episode six or seven, Sekai at least develops the decency to admonish Makoto to let Katsura know that he no longer loves her to her face, ... BUT MAKOTO WON'T EVEN DO THAT MUCH. He just continues to grope Sekai all over the school like the worst freaking horndog I have ever seen in movie history (complete with loads of fanservice shots for the average otaku! tm*), and lets Katsura continue to sit pretty on the rooftop of the school, thinking to herself that all is right with the world. Naturally, his fling with Sekai causes him to begin blatantly ignoring Katsura, cutting off her calls and constantly finding some excuse to not ride the train home from school with her and such, yet she is far-gone enough by now that she still believes he is being faithful to her.

... Amidst all this, there is the nosiest group of classmates that Makoto, Katsura, and Sekai all have, who are busy wasting their pathetic lives snooping around in the three's diseased love triangle, as if any of it concerns them at all. Most notable among them is Otome, a childhood friend of Makoto's who has had this crush on him herself all along (but I don't feel any pity or adoration for her through the TV screen, because she demonstrates from the very beginning that she is a total self-centered narcissist), and there is also Otome's three henchmen who follow her around and do everything she says at a moment's notice. Because of Otome's crush, she constantly has herself and her three damned henchmen verbally abuse Katsura and break her spirit with various chidings now that it is becoming obvious to everyone else at school that Makoto is no longer showing attention to Katsura in the manner that would imply they are a couple. The four basically do and say things to continue making Katsura feel as though she is a completely worthless human being and no man would ever have reason to love her. Even worse, there is another friend of Sekai's - a small-statured, underdeveloped, serious-looking girl named ... I forgot, and I really don't care that I did. We'll just call her "Short Stuff" for the duration of my rant. Anyway, "Short Stuff" notices that Makoto is groping Sekai all over the school, so naturally, since she is the childhood friend of Sekai, "Short Stuff" does whatever she can to help Makoto get along with Sekai by physically getting in Katsura's way in any way she can think of. ... That's about it. So, now we know that not only is Katsura being betrayed by someone of a such a slimy caliber as Makoto that she had had the most forgiving nature to consent to date, but at the same time the whole school is pretty much making her feel like scum over it all. Okay, case closed, done deal on that one.


.............. And yet it gets even better. When Katsura finally catches Sekai and Makoto making out herself one day, she merely slaps Sekai (I think it was nice of her to only do that much) and asks Sekai to please call off whatever feelings she has for Makoto so that he'll come back to her (Katsura). Katsura then rushes to Makoto and promises that, whatever it was she did wrong before that might have driven him to start getting the "wandering eye", she will do her best to be a better girlfriend for him, although Katsura clearly did nothing wrong at all in the first place. (This is where we start to see signs of growing depravity and senselessness in Katsura herself, as well as pretty much every other major and minor character in the series already has; Katsura is starting to go insane with obsessive love for a scumbag who clearly does not care about her or even anyone else but himself.)

Makoto just blows Katsura off, and around the time of episode nine or ten, during a school festival he starts cheating on Sekai as well with a third girl - Otome (the narcissist I mentioned from before). ... How does he do so? Well, you might be pleased to know that these days Makoto has no problem having unprotected and mindless - albeit visually implied - sex with a girl (in this case, Otome) just seconds after she simply confessed to liking him, right there on school property during a festivity in which probably hundreds of people are gathered in the immediate vicinity of his sickening display of immoral and selfish lewdness. Meanwhile, Otome's three magnificent henchmen trap Katsura elsewhere on the premises and chide her to the point of tears that if she is still Makoto's girlfriend, then why won't he come to her when she calls for him. ... And then when she tries to push by them in order to go cry by herself, one of them trips Katsura and makes her fall on her face. ... Wow, girls are mean. .... By this time I am just livid with unbelief at the immorality of pretty much every character here; I don't care if this is just typical high school bullcrap in most places or not.

.... And yet, it JUST GETS BETTER. By the beginning of episode eleven, any slew of random stuff happens: 1) Otome continues to have recurring three-minute bouts of unfulfilling sex with Makoto around the school in the next few days to follow the festival where she first slept with him, 2) in spite of discovering for certain that Makoto has now either had sex with or at least groped the chests of three different girls by now, "Short Stuff" charges into Makoto's house one night and is so desperate to ensure Sekai's happiness that she, "Short Stuff" - a much younger-looking girl, might I add - offers her own body to Makoto simply in return for his promise to continue just going out with Sekai alone, 3) another horndog from around school who is friends with Makoto makes a pass at Katsura just because he "thinks" that she is already broken up with Makoto, and 4) Makoto starts sleeping around WITH EVERYBODY, ... and I mean EVERYBODY: .... I'm not talking just Sekai, Otome, and now "Short Stuff", ... but all of Sekai's other friends, all of the upper-classmen who were a part of the same clubs that Katsura and Sekai and Otome were, and all three of Otome's henchmen (all three at once, might I add).
Really, I'm not making this up.

... I'd say by now Makoto's collective hormones are planning world or even galactic domination all on their own or something.

.... And finally (and this is the best part for me, personally, because it means the series is now coming to an end, however it does so leaving the bitter taste of bile in my throat), at the end of episode twelve Sekai realizes she is pregnant from Makoto, because he obviously slept with her at some point, too, although that in particular was never actually shown in confirmation. Sekai confronts him without hesitation before everyone at school, Makoto just brushes her off because even an expecting mother of his child isn't enough to make the jerk have any care by this point. Katsura's eyes have drawn such a creepy blank from her obsessive love for Makoto at this point that I think she is capable of going into serial-killer mode from the slightest stimuli. Sekai finally gets so fed up Makoto that she emails him a message on his phone telling him "goodbye" ... just seconds before she sneaks up from behind and stabs him to death. What I cannot fathom at this point is how on earth Makoto was able to whip up all of those tears in his eyes as he was having a large knife repeatedly thrust through his lungs, and somehow it all came together to form a look on his face that implied he was thinking the entire time: "Why is this happening to me? I've been made such a victim in this whole ridiculous series." ... Anyway, Katsura apparently finds Makoto's body in his home, later on after Sekai has broken down and ran out, and she takes his head, stuffs it in her bookbag, and takes it with her to the roof of the school building that night, ironically the same place where she, Sekai, and Makoto all used to have lunch together in the first episode when things weren't all screwed up. Sekai meets Katsura there, and they argue obscurely about something that I do not even care to go into by this point because I just did not retain enough remaining shreds of interest in order to listen carefully when it was happening. Finally, Sekai attacks, Katsura responds and stabs Sekai, and then the very last few seconds of this thankfully last episode showed something that Katsura was doing from the recently slaughtered Sekai's point-of-view in such a way as to imply that Katsura gutted Sekai open after killing her to see if an unborn child was sleeping in Sekai's belly. ..... Great.



... Wow. What a truly thoughtful masterpiece of an anime series, huh? Considering I could find more compelling and meaningful stories within one of those stupid soap operas that my mother used to be a fan of during my childhood, I don't think I could possibly tell anyone in person that I recommend this anime for watching and actually be able to keep a straight face as I say it.


You know what? Maybe this anime is quite realistic and therefore better written a series than I think, and I fail to appreciate it simply because of my personal and maybe rather naive view of how the world should really work, ... but man, everyone in this entire story was really messed up.

I have to just type out this one last thing in order to make my utter disgust at all of this crystal clear to every other forums-goer here, so please excuse me for just one more moment ->

................... UGHHHH!!!!






*breathes a heavy sigh after the great weight is lifted from shoulders from the endless rant* ...... Care to comment?


(EDIT -> Look, don't get me wrong. I am well aware that I knowingly kept watching to the end of this anime simply so that I would have an excuse to make an angry rant about it. ^_^ )