The dialogue between Mashiro and Yoshino in front of Aika's grave in this episode was quite interesting in a way that it circled back to who these two were as a person. What a fantastic ride this show has been but all good things must come to an end. Later on when she had travelled in to the future, she mostly seen wearing a skirt and a jacket with a pair of brown boots. As for the final scene, I actually like what Bones did here. I have little to add, you already gave it all the praise I would have. Kaji Yuuki isn't one of my favourite voice actors, but I am fine with his performance in SSY. It was certainly grand and theatrical in classic BONES and Zetsuen fashion, but as a way of settling affairs with the Tree of Genesis – which is, after all, the top boss among all top bosses in this mythology – it was pretty anti-climactic. The Tree of Exodus definitely has a script for Hanemura and won't let him down with the timing. New shows don't fill my need for ended animes. Throughout the anime, Yoshino had to conceal his relationship with Aika from Mahiro in order to prevent him from potentially destroying any form of trust they had for each other on their journey. *waves Team Hakaze banner*. A good, if predictable, ending. OTOH, I agree with Enzo that the last sequence with Yoshino running towards Hakaze was OOC, especially since he was coming from Aika's grave. – Mahiro introduces his girlfriend called Mimori (the girl he briefly mentioned in the anime) to Yoshino and Hakaze. Congrats! It’s a show that will be remembered long after splashier shows with bigger sales are relegated to the ashcan of history. 6) Samon's ponytail. While interesting, I don't like her though. It’s Hakaze with a rocket-launcher and a loincloth facing Aika in a middle-school uniform with a giant sword, and it’s Evangeline calling herself “Fraulein” despite having an Italian first name and Japanese last name, and Junichirou loading up a trunk full of porn to go save the world, and Natsumura looking miserable in an aloha shirt and sunglasses. An excellent show with and excellent ending that does what any well made ending is meant to do .. emphasize the themes of the series and play on its strengths, tie all or at least most loose threads, give closure to the characters, bring things full circles .. and Zetsuen like From the New World and Psycho Pass succeeded in achieving all of those point to a great degree of success. And for all her (past) power and responsibility shouldering both by attitude and upbringing she is also still very young, very sheltered and oh-so-inexperienced and vulnerable at this love thing. Having Aika be a walking contradiction to all logic in the world and having her reflect that by having her voice actress be someone you wouldn't expect such a strong female character to have helped engross me in her character that much more. Yoshino is placed in a similar situation throughout Zetsuen no Tempest, forcing him to adapt to the romantic situations of himself and others. Not that nonsense name I wrote above. I think the friendship between these two young men is one of the more interesting and unique in modern anime. After being fed up with Okada's hand at Aquarion Evol I was skeptical with how she was going to handle this but the result exceeded my expectations. I just marathoned the whole thing today. I certainly don’t disagree with the former, but as to the latter I rather suspect the opposite – I think time is going to be kinder to this series that BD/DVD sales have been. Thanks Enzo for sharing your view…and agreed. Totally worth it. I liked the French option because it went well with the mole she has :p… a very XVIII century French mademoiselle (aka 'fraulein') must look-wise XD. That’s not to say he might not develop those feelings, and I would have been quite happy with an open-ended resolution to that thread. I'll miss those ED songs. I wish Hakaze ran up to where Yoshino is. The other thing that hinders the show a tad bit is HanaKana. Her killing herself was understandable in frame with the character she was built up to that time. Yoshino and Mahiro were best friends, but one day Mahiro suddenly disappeared. The first part is okay, but nothing really happened in the present (flashbacks XD). There are really good exchanges, but it felt dragged on, again. Her power is given to her by the Tree of Genesis. Despite the close bond they had, Yoshino has no idea where Mahiro is. Interestingly, she does not like any other books outside of Shakespeare(? For this same reason I still thought the transition from grave scene to reunion a tad too quick – romance switch time! He derived the name from two Greek words that mean "good news" & "messenger". Most of all, I think, Zetsuen is Yoshino and Mahiro, and Aika pulling them along in her wake from beyond the grave. See more ideas about Yoshino, Tempest, Anime. – Hakaze wants to know the status of her relationship with Yoshino but his feelings are left unclear. After the first episode I was only mildly interested and forgot about it. Thank you! Now as to whether these two quibbles are anime-original or not, I have no idea (if I were guessing I’d say the first wasn’t, and the second was) and I don’t intend to use them as a cudgel to pound on Okada Mari’s writing here. Whatever its faults, Zetsuen no Tempest is a series of signifigance and those types of shows are remembered long after most are forgotten. Yoshino now has to prove the time difference is a myth in hopes of bringing Mahiro back to Hakaze’s side. After all, it's logical that the Tree will use all of its power to help its Mage in a moment of crisis. Hakaze, princess of the Kusaribe mage clan, has been betrayed and marooned on an island by her own people. Zetsuen no Tempest. I picked this up — aside from the talented team — was because of the BGM when I watched the preview. He risks his life to go save that kid? Thank God you didn't because I love reading your reviews, they were part of the anime experience for me. And Andou-sensei was the perfect diretor to conextualize her contributions and make sure they didn’t overwhelm the essence of the material. Gosh…still love your post on seiyu…that was a while back. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, … 8: Off with her maidenhead Sword Art Online Ep. Just thought I'd throw that out there. He wears a small, brown bac… A really under-appreciated anime, as you noted, because many people get the wrong impression about how the plot is going to develop during the first episodes and decide to drop it. Yoshino's reticence – and even that cracked oh-so-spectacularly when prodpoked by a certain girl :p, same girl he had that pseudo-telepath moment with in the heat of battle this very episode. Takigawa Yoshino is pretty much the slave of the Fuwa siblings. I’ll go so far as to say the finale pretty much nailed the Aika storyline on every level. Personally the same sunset scene would have worked perfectly for me just with a timeskip, anything beyond literally a handful of seconds transition XD. I'm glad you brought to light those faults. Yoshino assumed that he found a clue to whoever murdered his family. One day, a single girl was suddenly murdered, and the culprit still runs free. There was a time when bold, unapologetically grandiose re-imaginings of classics were a staple of the anime catalogue but in this day and age Zetsuen plays something like a gloriously welcome throwback to another age. Aside from that, I like ZnT a lot, and there were a number of golden moments for me. Mashiro is the heavily autistic blonde girl from Sakurasou, there's no s in Mahiro's name! Her rigid outlook in reality really sickened me. I liked that they took their time to show the fate of all the characters. Thank you for the amazing ride and journey on this series, it grew on me and it left with a big and lasting impression, definitely memorable for years to come. While not manipulative in a way, she did made an impression on the boys that dragged them into the whole mess. I'm positive that in the future he might get interested in Hakaze but that's left for interpretation. For me, she seemed to be a character that would appear frail but actually be overwhelmingly willful and calculating. Thanks Jimhawk for the compliment…*blush*. At the rate things are going, this season is in danger of doing a little damage to anime’s reputation for utterly crap endings. My only gripe for the finale is that Aika got the short end of the stick. As for the Yoshino/Hakaze thing, it was perhaps a tad overdone, but my reading of their relationship for much of the second cour has been that Yoshino does like Hakaze but was being held back by the unfinished business with Aika. There's your answer. Hakaze is the "Magician of Genesis". I kind of hoped Yoshino would say he'll support Mashiro like he did before. It's good, just scrambling some of my thoughts here…. People also love these ideas Pinterest. This is really what the battle against the Tree of Genesis was all about in microcosm, the fundamental need of humans to chart their own destiny rather than follow the proscriptive path of a deity, or an alien intelligence, or a dead playwright (or girl). Looking for information on the anime Zetsuen no Tempest (Blast of Tempest)? Maybe, I'm just reading too much into it but we're free to interpret it. View and download this 845x1150 Kusaribe Hakaze image with 169 favorites, or browse the gallery. Goodbye Mahiro, Yoshino, Hakaze, Samon, Aika, Hanemura and Frau Yamamoto .. goodbye Zetsuen no Tempest. Takigawa Yoshino [Zetsuen no Tempest]. I’m quite certain that mangaka Shirodaira Kyou knew full well what the audience was thinking, and the anime did nothing to discourage that by offering tantalizingly vague references to her pretty much every episode. In the final analysis the entire Hamlet vs. I still don’t buy her logic for taking her own life, but as I said a couple of weeks ago I rather like the notion that the most powerful mage in the world, someone on whom the fate of society hinges, is capable of the same bad judgment as any other 15 year-old girl. We shouldn't be too sad though, as Aika puts it "The end is the beginning, and the beginning is the end" With the promising Spring season coming up, 2013 is picking steam up with the new shows looming ahead. It has this certain hook that you get over the episodes. Life is, in fact, not a play at all but something to be lived, and it’s somewhat surprising that it’s Mahiro who winds up grasping the big picture most clearly in the end. Fuwa Aika/Takigawa Yoshino; Kusaribe Hakaze & Takigawa Yoshino; Takigawa Yoshino; Fuwa Mahiro; Kusaribe Hakaze; Implied/Referenced Cheating; Fluff; Best Friends; Summary. It's true the reason why this is so good can't be explained. Mahiro responds that Aika said the same thing. Yoshino assumed that he found a clue to whoever murdered his family. Shingeki no Kyoujin: The Final Season – 11, http://www.behindthename.com/name/evangeline, Winter 2021 Season Preview (and Video Companion! For all their differences, Aika and Hakaze – all the main four really – proved along the course of the story to be very steadfast in romance and friendship. Sep 19, 2018 - Explore holly lin's board "Yoshino x Hakaze", followed by 121 people on Pinterest. I enjoyed the series overall. It was a tragedy and a comedy both, and the above scene demonstrates that perfectly.