A Place Further Than the Universe episode 13 part 2!

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And that’s...the show.

Man.  Wow.  A Place Further Than the Universe, huh.  This is now my favorite anime I’ve ever watched.  Great pacing, great writing, strong and lovable characters, gorgeous animation...all pulled together into one big warm blanket of feel-good fiction.  This show is so sweet and so sad and so happy at the same time.  It’s rare for a work of fiction to pull tears out of me, and this one did so multiple times.  Especially Megumi’s farewell scene, man, that DESTROYED me.

God, this was good.

It’s a show about four teenagers going to the end of the world and finding themselves.  It’s such a simple premise, but they got so much out of it.  I loved this show.  I think the only bits of it that I didn’t like were when Hinata was trying to flaunt her body for the adults early on and that brief blip where they emphasized that it was the MALE staff who were extra sorry to see the girls go.  Those bits were weird.  The rest of it, though?  Amazing stuff.  Chef’s Kiss dot meme.

The relationship between the four girls is my absolute favorite part of the show.  They come together so quickly as such natural friends that it’s amazing to think that there was a part of the show where they didn’t know one another.  I’d have watched another six episodes of these girls easily.  It’s good that the series ended where it did, of course, it was an excellent narrative choice, but man, this was a fun time.

If I have a complaint about the characters it’s I think that Mari becomes something of a side character once they actually get to Antarctica--she’s important to the group’s cohesion as the point they all rallied around, but she doesn’t really get any focus.  That’s a shame.  The parts that did focus on her were awesome, though.

Well!  That’s that.  Thank you so much for picking this show, Oro.  It’s so good.

Speaking of Oro, now that I’m finished with A Place Further Than the Universe, Oro is continuing to be my patron, but instead of picking one show to jump right into he’s having me watch the first episode of a handful of shows to see how I like them.  Immediately replacing A Place Further in my lineup will be the first episode of Princess Principal, so that will be interesting.

Up next more immediately, though, I’ll be starting the first episode of Kino’s Journey!  That’s the show replacing Amphibia in the patron picks list.  I’ll be starting that in a little bit, so stay tuned for that!

I also now have  a store!   You can buy shirts, hoodies, stickers, mugs, and more there in two  designs–Bullshit Space Magic and the King of Frogs!  I hope you guys  like what you see there!

As always, thank you so much to my 59 patrons for making it so I can do this for a living, and thank you again to all the people who have donated to help me survive the last six months of my shattered mental health.  You guys make my life so much richer.  I’ll see you guys in a little bit for Kino’s Journey!