[DreamSword]

Episode 24: Future

That's Luke as the new Silver Knight, and it would've been so great had there been an episode dedicated to him coming into his own as one.

I'll be upfront. I did not like this ending.

I think the best way to sum it all up is that alot of it very much feels like set up for a movie that just didn't ever happen. Sophie wanting to be an Alchemist, Luke becoming a Knight, the underused Makai Stone, Bishop still being alive...

There's so many things left unresolved or undercooked in terms of story that nothing in this ends up feeling satisfying, and that's saying nothing about how half the episode is wasted on a subplot of Sophie's' memories getting erased only to come back anyway.

Really, the entire endgame of Vanishing Line to me felt as though it needed either more focus, inwhich certain filler episodes(like the motel one) should've been cut in exchange, or that it needed to be cut down more(removing alot of the dumb stuff with Martin would've helped). Instead we get this very weirdly paced stretch of episodes that's less than the sum of its parts.

It overall leaves me with some very mixed feelings concerning the show as a whole, and I think it'll be good for me to give it a day or two of resting in the back of my head before I call final judgment on it as a whole. Certainly it has alot of good stuff going for it, but unfortunately it ended with alot of things that were much not my taste either. One thing I do know for sure though is that I personally feel it's the weakest of the GARO anime.

Really wish they'd gone for something bombastic in the end, but I guess all the budget was spent on the first Knight episode and the Mad Max-esque one. Such a shame.

Final thoughts on the show as a whole come either tomorrow or the day after depending on how busy I am.