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Decompression: sola
Jul 13th
As of about fifteen minutes ago sola has been completed, and it really was a ride.
sola is an interesting series. When I first watched it I found it was best described as ‘Kanon Lite’, which is close to the mark but not quite. It is very similar to another Key work, AIR, in both story and thematic elements, but there are many things that make it stand apart – in both good and bad ways.
sola starts off quite strong – for one, it was a series whose first episode I enjoyed (as opposed to say, Haruhi, Azumanga Daioh, Lucky Star, Shuffle!, and so forth) – but it is true that it does stumble a lot in the middle, but in the end the conclusion was fulfilling and it really could have been done a lot worse in the end.
There are flaws for sure in sola if you look closely – some of the characters are paper thin, there are continuity errors on occasion and more than a few uses of epic hax. sola definitely feels more of a work of fiction as such than a real, believable environment, but it still has merit as such.
In the end it’s not so much a Kanon Lite as one would believe, and sola does do a decent job of standing on it’s own. I give sola a recommendation to anyone who still does like the genre of mysterious, visual novel type things, with a request to not be too picky.
Preliminary other final thoughts and stuff after the jump.
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Doublepost: Kanon Kazahana + sola 1
Jun 21st
Luckily, before the downtime I was able to stock up a nice pile of anime to watch, a lot of them old and some of them new. Among the ancient we have Honey & Clover, Da Capo, To Heart 2, and ONE. Among the newer we’ve got Wangan Midnight and sola in the queue along with Lucky CHANNELUUUUUUUUUUUUU Star.
Although, I must say, with every series I’m getting more and more piled up in a jumble of names, hair colors, and relationships.
In this post I’ll cover briefly in text form Kanon Kazahana, the special OVA-ish thing that came after the TV run of Kanon 2002, as well as the first episode of sola, a series from 2007. Whoa.
Technically, I should warn for Kanon spoilers, as Kazahana comes after the canon Kanon (OK, I just like to say that word) storyline, not to mention me discussing the ending of Kanon for no reason than other to scare off people. Hit the jump.