春夏秋冬代行者 春の舞

I love AoB LNs immensely -- and have read the series more than once. 😉 But I think this is distinctively different -- and valuable in its own right. I plan to look into the Agent LNs, starting with the next season as soon as I find the time. Then I can better judge the respective quality of the source material, I will note, I did feel that the AoB LN series had a lot of bumpy spots, especially iv V1.

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I do, I still don't find the two comparable. Shin and Lena were together for several months (10 episodes of anime) while being relatively cognisant teenagers and were only apart for like a year so while their IRL meeting is still significant you still have a general sense of what their dynamic is meant to be. Hinagiku and Rosei only had less than a month together (one episode) when they were both elementary aged and 10 years is a huge gulf of experience and the anime ends while barely showing the difference in said gulf because they're already just lovey dovey.

As much as I love seeing Sakura freak out to Itecho as well as Hinagiku and Rosei finally reuniting , this would've been a happier ending for me if Rosei's ice blade impaled Misuzu right between her eyes. I'm still curious about the twins. The fact that both of them are wearing the same kimono and are standing side by side instead of Ayame standing at the back makes me think that the Council is treating both of them as the current Agent of Summer.

As much as I love seeing Sakura freak out to Itecho as well as Hinagiku and Rosei finally reuniting , this would've been a happier ending for me if Rosei's ice blade impaled Misuzu right between her eyes. Think of it this way, she'll be separated from Mikami in whatever prison hole they throw her in if they don't straight up sentence her to death (which they probably will, but even then she'll still be in prison) and that's a fate worse than death for her. I'm still curious about the twins. The fact that both of them are wearing the same kimono and are standing side by side instead of Ayame standing at the back makes me think that the Council is treating both of them as the current Agent of Summer. Ruri also did the Summer dance so I'm guessing Ruri still has lingering powers. I guess they're really twinning as Agents of Summer now.

My guess, once the power is activated, it can't be extinguished except by death. The initiation in the twin sister jumped the gum by a few seconds -- when her sister was not yet irreversibly dead. Nadeshiko is the big winner here -- because she gets to be the spoiled little sister to TWO big sisters who adore her. The synergy of the various seasons being so inextricably devoted to each other is surely going to be a big BIG benefit.

So that's why Sakura did her best to never allow herself and Hinagiku to meet up with the Winter Boys all season long, she knew in her heart she would be a massive tsundere once it finally happened. The insurgents sure lost quickly once Rosei showed up, I suppose him being able to freeze all of the bombs took away their hostage situation leverage. I really enjoyed the Spring and Winter reunion. It got very pastel. They didn't explicitly say it, but with the way Ruri and Ayame were both dressed similarly for the end of the Seasonal meet up it might be a Buffy and Faith type of thing and suddenly we have two (Summer) Slayers. If so hopefully both incoming fiances are capable of being Guards since that would wrap things up relatively neatly. Hopefully that S2 leak comes true as I would love to watch another season of this.

Sakura and Hinagiku is precious, but Itecho turning Sakura into a full face blush tsundere is priceless. I love how both Misuzu and Mikami seemed to collectively realized how screwed they were the moment Winter showed up. One Agent is OP, but two Agents together is basically unbeatable. It'd be cool if they both have to dance together to enact Summer, just because that would probably be a pretty cool visual.

Two agents but one guard (and one non-guard fiancee). One might quibble about a few details in this series, but from start to finish it remained in my very top tier of new seasonals. It helped that I adored (and felt so sympathetic to) broken Hinagiku II, I loved the fact that Hinagiku's updated dream/vision had Hinagiku I and her mother both thanking her for her valiant efforts, and entrusting her with the future (and giving her full freedom to live the life she wanted to live going forward). I guess I will have a lot of reading to do now.

Honestly I think that as soon as the original summer came back she regained her abilities as summer meanwhile her sister the guard gradually lost them. She might not lose them right away and it be more like a “one for all” thing how once it’s passed on it slowly fades away over time. That or it just straight up reverts back to the original owner OR the guard becomes Summer and Summer becomes the guard. I doubt it will stay as two Summers but it would be cool if it did.

A show I would probably like more if it wasn't trying so hard. After awhile, all the flashbacks that kill the pace and just remind you of the same thing over and over and the sad monologues over twinkling piano while the VAs scream cry about how sad and guilty they are just blend together and start to feel manipulative. When the show insists on having one of its big cry therapy sessions even when the characters are pinned down behind a car facing an endless barrage of bullets, it just looks silly. I like some of the show's ideas and world (science be damned) and it isn't a total disaster like some recent high concept action anime, but in the end it's trying way way too hard.

And with this dance of spring is over. I give this show a very loving...5.5/10. I actually was going to land on 5 but the visuals were too strong for me to not at least give it an extra half, but average is about as much as I can grant it. Now, what to say about this show. I think this is like the first time I've read a story and went "Wow you really thought you cooked huh?" which is, it goes without saying, not good. It's hard for me to put into words why I think it fails to satisfy me despite having a lot of building blocks for a 10/10 aside from the insurgents being one of the worst antagonist factions I've ever beheld, but so many parts of it feels like a more bland overwrought version of better stories I've read. If I wanted to see a story about a traumatized but plucky girl try to navigate a complicated clan situation with Hella traumatized people I would rather rewatch fruitsbasket. If I wanted to see a flashback heavy melodrama with the promise of a heartfelt reunion of two broken people who waited a long time for eachother I'd rather replay the house at fata Morgana. Hell if I wanted to see a two girls develop a romance tinged bond while one's romance is with her friend from childhood I could reread/rewatch Yatagarasu. Double hell if I wanted to just indulge in misery porn that would make these people's horrible lives feel like a picnic I could just read "my fiancé is in love with my little sister", at least that one actually managed to make me cry and had better prose!! The world building for as interesting as it is is under baked outside of its purpose as a trauma vehicle, Misuzu is such a deeply terrible character (she reminds me of a female version of one of granblue fantasy's anniversary antagonist Ceodric in how whatever interesting points she could bring are buried behind being a weird ass nutjob) and if I never hear the word insurgents again it'll be too soon, and the romance that marks the is displayed on the first and second novels cover pages is so undercooked that I somehow feel more baited by it than I do towards whatever the hell the author was doing with Hinagiku and Sakura. That said, if there's one thing I did like it's the summer sisters. Ayame and Ruri are fun so I'll probably check out the next arc if it gets animated. Hopefully they're allowed to actually interact with their love interests for more than 5 minutes in 14 episodes

It's hard for me to put into words why I think it fails to satisfy me despite having a lot of building blocks for a 10/10 aside from the insurgents being one of the worst antagonist factions I've ever beheld, but so many parts of it feels like a more bland overwrought version of better stories I've read. If I had to say it's probably because while the emotional core the author chose for the narrative is good, it just got way too repetitive with it. Different characters are supposed to give a different perspective on the central problem, instead they're like all the same perspective, over and over. Except maybe Misuzu, but then again she's not really relevant that way because she just exists to get owned 🙃 As for the main romance, I'll repeat what I said last week: it feels antiquated. Maybe this kind of long distance soulmate yearning was romantic some years back (reminds me of the classic fairytale damsel in distress x heroic rescuer prince whom she's never met, though not quite as bad maybe). But nowadays we want actual chemistry and shared history. Technically they do have it but its treated like almost ancient so it doesn't feel like something that would work.

This show is a walking definition of what could have been. It was ultimately all over the place. Any time we’d start building momentum we’d get 3 episodes of flashback stories. A lot of the trauma and sad parts just felt overly forced. Gigguks stream did a good job of describing it, “cry bait”. Just a lot of forced stuff to try and make it feel impactful that ultimately ends up failing specifically because it’s forced. Like the ridiculous isekai show actually made me cry at the end because of how well they built it up to suddenly spring it on you. This just forced it and it’s like someone yelling in your face telling you to cry. A lot of stuff very unexplained. Why are all the good guys carrying shitty swords like they got plucked from the medieval era and sent to fight modern equipped insurgents. How did insurgents in a country like this get the level of gear they did? You’re just making me have to suspend my disbelief way too much here when it would be so easy to write in explanations. “The power of the seasons gives them and their followers abilities that make swords stronger than guns” etc. Also the whole winter x spring love / romance plot feels like it came it out of nowhere and was super forced. Like we spent the whole show building up something else entirely between Hina and Sakura and it feels like the author just randomly decided to change that 3/4 of the way through. Like choose one or the other but after you’ve invested the viewers in one route you can’t just change it because it undoes all that development and not it feels forced again.

This I saw a lot of people claim the Guard had basically super power super speed and strength this episode showed NO they never did it's just been a fighting style choice. Which again Make all the question about handgun and blade all the stronger. The Cry Bait was one aspect that ruined this show for me bt the bigger one was the world itself being very interesting then doing NOTHING with it. The main conflict should of been will the villages vs a new round a agents and guard tired of there ways. Not this insurgent group. I think that's the one choice that ruined this story because it lead to intelligence and security agencies full of unarmed noncombatants somehow it lead to guards using sword and handguns it lead to the insurgent having more arms then the RUSSIAN army. There endless bad worldbuild and narrative choice all built around the "insurgents" vs the collective governmental season agency. IF we had kept the conflict to the villages then maybe we could of explain no guns are allowed in the villages we could of then delt with what maybe of use felt was the true villains the old men and women in charge of a flawed and decaying system. I don;t think you;d of need to really changed much and still kept most of these story beats.

I think they did lay on the traumatic backstories and emotional breakdowns pretty thick across multiple episodes, and the world building and "dramatic" plot kind of thin, but I still find the cast likeable and easy to root for. I think at least the flashback to them as kids did a lot to carry the Hinagiku and Rosei romance. Maybe not enough for how talked up it was versus all the time we spent with Hinagiku and Sakura, but it was there in my opinion.

I think at least the flashback to them as kids did a lot to carry the Hinagiku and Rosei romance. Maybe not enough for how talked up it was versus all the time we spent with Hinagiku and Sakura, but it was there in my opinion. The flashback actually does more to work against it for me personally because of the inexplicable choice to have it when they were both babies and had only been together for less than a month. It's just so little that the strength of their feelings feels sustained by the insane levels of trauma they experienced. Going against the other sentiment I don't actually like her relationship with Sakura either, but it at least was allowed to blossom through various stages which just feels so odd when the novels first front and back cover is of Rosei and Hinagiku together.

The flashback actually does more to work against it for me personally because of the inexplicable choice to have it when they were both babies and had only been together for less than a month. It's just so little that the strength of their feelings feels sustained by the insane levels of trauma they experienced. If childhood friend romances have taught me anything, sometimes that's all love needs to blossom.

I can see what you mean, but there are a couple things to bear in mind: While the VE anime did have an overarching plot, it was much more episode- focused. There were some pieces that carried over between episodes, but many of the episodes could easily be watched in isolation without too much being lost. Although the VE anime also did feature plenty of flashbacks, the majority of it focused on how that affected her in the present. We saw a lot more development over the course of VE than we did for many of the characters in this show. While they finally did show some significant growth at the end, this show spent so much time being hung up on past events that it left little room for the characters to actually show growth. While VE was also chock- full of tragic stories, they never really felt just tragic for the sake of being tragic. Every story left Violet with something new and ultimately resulted in the series' conclusion.

yessss like the agent for the tragedy is more.... believable you know, war, sickness. here, the insurgents sounds so big and all but... it's basically a small terrorist group, considering what happens to these kind of group IRL. they not gonna be able to do shit like in the anime, like sure maybe the 1st 2nd attempt might slide. but if government knew they exist no way launching missile or bombing one big building can happen like this. and also it's regarding big BIG thing like season changing stuff, this literally affect many MANY critical stuff, no way they can be this lax about their security. the premise just irritates you instead of like when you remember VE which leaves more of like bittersweet memory when remembering how the story ends for each mini arc.

It's not about it being unexpected; the narrative has been very blunt about telling the audience how much they love each other. The problem is that there's barely any actual chemistry shown between the characters. All we get is the lore of winter/spring loving each other, some flashbacks, and the characters pining after each other separately the whole show. Would have helped a lot to sell the finale if their actual relationship was fleshed out more

Would have helped a lot to sell the finale if their actual relationship was fleshed out more Definitely but Sakura refused therapy and hinagiku is having identity crisis and flashbacks. I don't think its a chemistry, its cause they werent allowed to meet earlier, And it was for the whole stuff with misuzu to be put to an end. Not fond the way, i still think i would prefer if they met earlier and Sakura got rid of that hatred