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My thoughts on Charlotte
Nov. 4th, 2015 09:22 amYeah, it's been a while since the show ended but why not voice my thoughts on it? Procrastinating from NaNo, yay~ (well, I already reached the quota for today so it's not really...)
So which is worse? Angel Beats or Charlotte? (yes, I said worse...) Charlotte, definitely. I liked Angel Beats despite the issues. Yeah, there were a lot of characters who were barely even there and hardly ever said or did shit, but the humour was good and it had a likeable cast. None of them annoyed me in the least. Anyway, the underdeveloped characters get character development and fleshing out in other media such as the VN or the manga/light novel, so they were able to be saved. The plot, while lacking and also rushed, was much more coherent and steady.
Charlotte on the other hand is just a mess. Maeda claimed the issues with Angel Beats were fixed. Hahaha. No. We still had woefully underdeveloped characters. There was no fucking point in Yusa being there at all and she wasn't interesting in the least. She was basically just a braindead bimbo whose sole purpose was to be a waste of oxygen and turn Joujirou into a drooling fanboy.Even Saya's a better character than her. (On second thoughts, I've decided to take that back. Tokido Saya is a disgusting piece of trash and the worst Key heroine of all time. Nobody can be worse than her.)
... Ouch. Now I'm really pulling the punches. Ugh. I just don't like Yusa. Like, why is she even there? She's so pointless. Joujirou wasn't so bad in the beginning but then Yusa came in and he became an irritating, drooling fanboy, causing Nao to utter repetitions of "such a turn off" and kick him all the damn time.
Charlotte just repeated the same old tiresome and unfunny gags over and over. Pizza sauce, though it got grating, was handled well - it signalled the running out of the comedy and when Ayumi died, I was honestly sad about it being gone. I entirely forgave her and her pizza sauce obsession.
The slice of life episodes were mostly pretty boring, save for the first episode. The humour was bland. All they did was waste time that could have been spent on the plot and because of that, the serious stuff was horrendously rushed. There was scarcely any foreshadowing. Surprise yandere and surprise evil foreigners out of nowhere was just ridiculous. The evil foreigners were forgotten about pretty darn quickly too. They basically just show up without warning, do stuff, and are never heard of ever again. Seriously? >_>
And we got a whole bunch of new, underdeveloped characters. Maedomari was the worst... like, did he have more than five lines through the whole show
Sala was an interesting character, but ended up being nothing more than a freaking plot device. She was so wasted. Misa was a decent character too, but suffered the misfortune of being a mere ghost possessing her useless sister.
At some points, the plot was so rushed, and entire episodes even end up getting retconned into not happening at all. I get they existed for the sake of Yuu's character development, but, egh. There are also so many questions that don't get answered at all.
I'm gonna aggravate my RSI if I keep going on, so I'll cut it short now. Charlotte was just a massive disappointment. I don't know how the hell anyone could have thought this mess was better than Angel Beats.
How would I fix it? For starters, I'd get rid of Yusa. Fuck Yusa. Misa would be alive and already a student council member at Hoshinoumi, so we wouldn't have to waste an episode recruiting her. Joujirou would not turn into a drooling mess all the damn time. I'd have the serious stuff start much earlier too, and introduce Shunsuke and his group earlier. They were introduced way too late in the show's run. I would also have had Nao die in the collapse from episode 11 because I'm sadistic and evil. I don't dislike Nao, but... I dunno, I just feel like her dying would have had so much more impact and Yuu would suffer even more...
I don't know what's wrong with me, seriously. Oh yeah, and Sala would be around much more and not just be a freaking plot device.
Phew, that was long. Okay, that's enough. Better save my typing for NaNo...
So which is worse? Angel Beats or Charlotte? (yes, I said worse...) Charlotte, definitely. I liked Angel Beats despite the issues. Yeah, there were a lot of characters who were barely even there and hardly ever said or did shit, but the humour was good and it had a likeable cast. None of them annoyed me in the least. Anyway, the underdeveloped characters get character development and fleshing out in other media such as the VN or the manga/light novel, so they were able to be saved. The plot, while lacking and also rushed, was much more coherent and steady.
Charlotte on the other hand is just a mess. Maeda claimed the issues with Angel Beats were fixed. Hahaha. No. We still had woefully underdeveloped characters. There was no fucking point in Yusa being there at all and she wasn't interesting in the least. She was basically just a braindead bimbo whose sole purpose was to be a waste of oxygen and turn Joujirou into a drooling fanboy.
... Ouch. Now I'm really pulling the punches. Ugh. I just don't like Yusa. Like, why is she even there? She's so pointless. Joujirou wasn't so bad in the beginning but then Yusa came in and he became an irritating, drooling fanboy, causing Nao to utter repetitions of "such a turn off" and kick him all the damn time.
Charlotte just repeated the same old tiresome and unfunny gags over and over. Pizza sauce, though it got grating, was handled well - it signalled the running out of the comedy and when Ayumi died, I was honestly sad about it being gone. I entirely forgave her and her pizza sauce obsession.
The slice of life episodes were mostly pretty boring, save for the first episode. The humour was bland. All they did was waste time that could have been spent on the plot and because of that, the serious stuff was horrendously rushed. There was scarcely any foreshadowing. Surprise yandere and surprise evil foreigners out of nowhere was just ridiculous. The evil foreigners were forgotten about pretty darn quickly too. They basically just show up without warning, do stuff, and are never heard of ever again. Seriously? >_>
And we got a whole bunch of new, underdeveloped characters. Maedomari was the worst... like, did he have more than five lines through the whole show
Sala was an interesting character, but ended up being nothing more than a freaking plot device. She was so wasted. Misa was a decent character too, but suffered the misfortune of being a mere ghost possessing her useless sister.
At some points, the plot was so rushed, and entire episodes even end up getting retconned into not happening at all. I get they existed for the sake of Yuu's character development, but, egh. There are also so many questions that don't get answered at all.
I'm gonna aggravate my RSI if I keep going on, so I'll cut it short now. Charlotte was just a massive disappointment. I don't know how the hell anyone could have thought this mess was better than Angel Beats.
How would I fix it? For starters, I'd get rid of Yusa. Fuck Yusa. Misa would be alive and already a student council member at Hoshinoumi, so we wouldn't have to waste an episode recruiting her. Joujirou would not turn into a drooling mess all the damn time. I'd have the serious stuff start much earlier too, and introduce Shunsuke and his group earlier. They were introduced way too late in the show's run. I would also have had Nao die in the collapse from episode 11 because I'm sadistic and evil. I don't dislike Nao, but... I dunno, I just feel like her dying would have had so much more impact and Yuu would suffer even more...
I don't know what's wrong with me, seriously. Oh yeah, and Sala would be around much more and not just be a freaking plot device.
Phew, that was long. Okay, that's enough. Better save my typing for NaNo...
