Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Review Kyoukai no Kanata aka Beyond the Boundry

I just wear the glasses, not have a fetish for them

One day Akihiro Kanbara meets a girl standing on the school rooftop (for those not in the know it is perfectly normal to hang out on the rooftop in Japanese schools). What isn't all that normal is that the girl (named Mirai Kuriyama) stabs him with a sword made of her made of her own blood and that Akihiro doesn't die because he is an immortal half youmu.
 
Nice to meet I mean stab you
Kyoukai no Kanata is a twelve episode urban fantasy light novel adaptation and the latest offering by the very moe studio Kyoto animation. What this means is that this show is a combination of slice of life and supernatural action scenes that is nicely animated in no matter what the current tone of the show. Although there are many cases where cute characters and furious action can work together it seems that it is not this style's or character's forte.
 
Your friendly neighborhood siscon
Kyoukai no Kanata is fairly decent all though not excellent show for the majority of it's run. The slice of life segments of the show are decent but don't really contrast well enough the action scenes for the action to really shine on it's own. I find that this show to be the answer to the question is there a show that has been redeemed by it's ending for the final arc of Kyoukai no Kanata to be something rather special and if you watch this show I suggest you stick with it to the ending.
 
Overall I found Kyoukai no Kanata to be a decent but not not great show. It show that is sort of worth watching but there are many shows that are even more worth watching.
 
Rating the bronze The bronze Azunyan for being a show that has the pretty Kyoani style but not all  that much else going for it.

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