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After spending one night and one morning, I have finally caught up with the latest episode of Melodies, episode 8. I can only describe the anime with one word, Painful. But I need to state out that this anime is beautiful, in a sense of its plot and the progression of the episodes. Although the plot tends to be messy and over exaggerated, it does bring an emotional feel to it hence being called a psychological anime. Melodies prove to be more emotional than Memories. The fact that there are 2 Otowas made the anime unique. Memories looked at 2 arcs, namely Miyako and Chihiro’s, where Chihiro’s arc took place in Australia’s Otowa while Miyako’s arc took place in Japan’s Otowa. Both of them look exactly the same, except for the seasons. Currently in Melodies, Mizuki visits Renji in Australia and meets Kuze there. So Yuu is also in Australia whereas Yuuko is in Japan. After knowing about this, you can finally make the ends meet. I have personally finished playing the game and thought it was a bitter sweet ending. I am thinking that the anime will not go according to the ending of the game.

Yuu and Yuuko’s arc is certainly very depressing since it all happened in the past. Kuze in the present told Yuu to settle things, this tells me that Yuu and Yuuko had not met yet given that they are in different places. One guess is that Yuuko isn’t human, since she disappeared in a flutter of feathers every time she gives people advice. My guess is that they will finally meet and settle things once again. Though I hope for a good ending, I dont think there will be.

Mizuki and Kuze wise, I also feel that it will end badly, given the terminal illness of Kuze. It will take a miracle for him not to die, but rather, I feel that Kuze will accept his condition and not to be afraid handling things. Kuze has been avoiding things he cant accomplish, and hence when met with something that cannot be accomplish, and cannot be escaped from, he breaks down. As for Yuu, he is running away and does not settle things.

I will no longer wait for menclave to finish ef since they are putting their effort on Gundam instead. Let’s keep this short, I will continue this anime from episode 4 where menclave left off. I have already long decided that I will watch this anime in a brave manner where I have already prepared myself for the worst possible ending. Note that preparing yourself is an important thing, this is so as a bad ending which you do not expect will hurt you deeper than you know. This is from experience and I myself found it hard to contain those emotions. Melodies is a very tragic anime as everything must come to an end, when there is a beginning(memories), there will be an end.