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Ai Yori Aoshi Enishi Enishi continues where the previous series left off, 2 years after the time of the previous series. The series cycles around Aoi and Kaoru, but this time takes you deeper into the thoughts of the others and the connection that they share. As the title is translated as “destiny” it refers to the bind that all of the people living in the house share, a common love for each other. As the series already dealt with the love between Aoi and Kaoru, Enishi takes a look with the other characters that were left in the shadows in the earlier series, particularly Tina. When you watch the series, it truly projects an image of a destiny binding us all, that people and things are bound by some unknown power and share something in common, be it a future or love. As deep as the thought sounds, Enishi delivers the image perfectly, showing that there might be something behind everything (personally I’d like to believe this is true, but everyone can make their own judgments). The story doesn’t change much, only the focus. The series wasn’t all about a story of epic proportions, but the thoughts of love and friendship, and Enishi continues this line. The story isn’t much, basically there isn’t a real story, but this doesn’t harm the experience once you fall into the deep thoughts they give. Even though the story’s focus shifts from Kaoru and Aoi, it still continues and follows what 2 years of living together has brought to them. The earlier series dealt with the love with a comical side to it, but Enishi discarded comedy on most parts. Still there are a few episodes that are the same style as the earlier series’ comedy, but they are few. As I liked the more mental side to the series, this was a more than welcome change as the comical moments took away the feeling off of some pretty nice moments, but now you could enjoy the series without any “interruptions”.
The story is a beautiful one, telling the way you could think of life. True friendship can last forever, and I truly believe so. People who share common interests and who’ve been together for so long must have some sort of connection, a bond that just doesn’t appear out of nowhere. The thought of Enishi, destiny, has always been a part of peoples’ thoughts in forms of soul mates and happenings, that just have to be connected. When this feeling is truly universal, there has to be some truth to it, and be it how naïve or emasculate, I’ll still believe that there has to be something like this. The story ties the characters more firmly together than the earlier series, making the whole Ai Yori Aoshi series feel like it truly was a whole. Showcasing friends having fun together and sharing deeps secrets gives the image that these people truly have something special in each other. When you reflect on life, many can see people like this in their life, be it one true friend, a brother or sister or just mom and dad, everyone has had a true friend in their life and this really brings the bond between the characters to a new level. Although the series sounds almost perfect, there were some things that have to be brought up. The story and the style hasn’t changed at all from the earlier series, thus making you feel that you’ve seen this all before. Too much repetition could bother some, but I didn’t mind that they used the totally same story type, since I liked the previous series a lot before. Some might take that the missing comedy took away the unique feeling of a different drama series, but I liked this change. Some other characters were still left in the dark, but at least they brought up more on them.
Maybe this review is tied by Enishi to me or the series, we can all but speculate… (There’s some footage of the peoples’ future with the ending credits, so remember to watch them.) [82] + A lovely story + Focuses more on the other characters... - ...But still leaves some very distant - We've seen this before? +/- Missing comedy |
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