Stardate 20031223.1703

(Captain's log): Mahoromatic is yet another anime series I've been watching. It was two seasons totalling 26 episodes, and was released on six DVDs. The sixth and last one, including the last five episodes, was released last week, and my copy arrived yesterday. I watched it last night.

My first reactions to the series are included in this post. I liked the rest of the series on the first five discs, though it was uneven, but I really hated the five episodes on the last DVD. The final plot arc was totally contrived, with far too many characters breaking character, and with continuity breaks, logic problems, and entirely too many important questions left hanging unanswered, in some cases because they appear to have been unanswerable. The outcome made no sense in plot terms, in character terms or in dramatic terms, and seems to have been chosen so as to make a particular image possible in the last seconds.

I'm royally pissed off about it all, and I just spent three hours venting, yielding a spoiler-loaded discussion of the ending, though castigation would probably be more accurate.