I mean, Kyousuke was practically in your face having you practice each day, and that challenge match was set up perfectly and naturally.Īnd of course, the runaway was hinted before, and there was about an hour and a half of content as part of the runaway that was just cut out entirely. Riki talked with Kengo about running away, to which Kengo replies "Nothing but despair will await you if you take that path." prior to the baseball game. He would practice all day and receive depressing text messages from Rin at night, and there was heavy tension building up. There were baseball practices between Kyousuke/Riki each day while Rin was gone. HE was the one who would pitch and Riki would bat/practice with. Without Rin, the baseball practices still continued, and guess who was the pitcher? Yep, Kyousuke. Well, I'll note that there were a lot of setup for the plot points of this episode from the VN that were cut out. Even with 3 episodes, they could've written it to be better and more emotional, but they're just glossing over plot points, trying to pull off a good ending, and disregarding having to build up and develop much for anime viewers.
They took away the very essence that made the route so tense. Riki's just running around like a headless chicken and getting depressed as time is looping, and there's no struggle for Kurugaya and Riki to retain their memories as the world around them slowly starts to crumble. The extent of her character was "The girl who obtained emotions, wished time would go on forever, played around with Riki, and watched fireworks with him." They didn't DO anything with the time loops, other than create weirdness and intrigue at what the Secret of the World was.
The final scene where she disappeared was beautiful, but there was little character buildup for her. (Kurugaya route) Even with Kurugaya's route (my favorite girl), the fact that they left out parts with her diary and failed to buildup the last episode well was really frustrating.
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