sola - review
Ok. I’m going to be bluntly honest about this series.
I didn’t like it >_>;;
This is more like a opinion-generated critique than a review, and i’m too lazy to make this anything structured.
Let’s cut to the chase. There are a bunch of aspects of this series that led me to dislike this series, and here it is as follows:
1) This part is kind of not the anime’s fault, but I’ve already seen something like this in Windy Tales. Of course, there are HUGE differences such as characters, they follow the EXACT same theme of the sky and I felt like sola is a rip off of windy tales, despite the fact that windy tales is not nearly as popular as sola.
2) The characters. This is kind of where the anime just fell apart for me. For instance, Yorito. I didn’t like him. At all. He lacked personality, and the girls kept going after him for the weakest reasons. I just couldn’t relate to the whole situation at all. There was so much drama going on, and such intense moments that I couldn’t get into because the characters were like… unappealing to me. And they’re killing and sacrficing their lives over him? That’s the part where it was hard to relate to. I also thought that Aono was potrayed very badly. There are times where her personality changes in the end due to "character development", but it just seemed like she was completly out of character for the sake of appealing fan boys >_>;; I also have to add that all of the characters, appearance wise, feel "out of place". As if they were pulled out from different anime series >_>; Mayuko looks like someone pulled out from Rozen Maiden, Matsuri looks like she was pulled off Da Capo, and Aono looks like someone pulled out of Suika or something @_@; It was a pretty bad mix in my opinion, and again, their appearance had no real meaning. I think they would have looked better as regular school girls rather than cliche harem characters…
3) Terrible attempts at humor… do i need to go any deeper?
4) I didn’t like a lot of the flaws and plot holes. How did Takeshi figure out so much about Matsuri, why do the characters act so immature if they’re over 100 years old, etc..
See…the story and plot was REALLY good and had great potential, but what killed it the most for me was the characters -_-;; That was quite possibly the biggest let down. I also have to comment on the pace… the anime came off extremly… dull for a very long time. And I kind of fell asleep through the series and it took me a while to wake up and realize that the series was getting better.
So Sola wasn’t all that great for me, I guess moe harem characters just don’t appeal to me and practically ruin the whole anime. This happens practically all the time when I watch any anime like this :P
Story……………………………………B-
Production (animation/sound)…… B
Characters…………………………… E
Enjoyment……………………………..D
Overall score: 72/100
