君のいる町

Watched 2 episodes 2 days ago, 1 episode today. I may or may not skip the recap episode (11). How nostalgic that last year at exactly this time, I was catching up with Macross Frontier. At that time, I was really ecited about Macross Frontier especially with the love triangle between Sheryl Nome, Ranka Lee and Alto Saotome. I rooted for Ranka but many thought otherwise. In the end, that is end of september, all became clear that the ending was open, much to my disappointment. It was one of the best Macross shows in a while but the open ending lowered my opinion of it.

Now, 1 year later, exactly the same situation but this time round, with Requiem for the Phantom Instead. This is based off an old visual novel by Nitroplus. As the name suggests, Nitroplus is notorious for it’s killing eroge visual novels. Bad endings are nearly that of Type Moon, albeit, Type Moon has a good feel to it. Sad to say, there was a 3 episode OVA of Phantom, titled Phantom the Animation. The ending is bad because it shows Reiji returning to becoming a phantom in the end. Although it can be debated that Elen did not die, she and Reiji are bound to kill each other if they cross each other’s path. I don’t like the ending at all. I was wondering if the producers made this 2009 remake to reshow this tragic scene. If you played the visual novel, Phantom has many endings. Let’s just hope that the producers won’t be so cruel to make another such ending, give me the true ending of Ein (Elen).

Anyway, this 4 episodes reveal a whole lot of the plot with Zwei finding out his identity as Reiji. He tries to run away with Ein who he names Elen but failed after she is still attached to Scythe master. However, we can tell that Reiji and Elen’s relationship is deepening, from a cold apathetic girl, Ein becomes one with some personality. This is romance definitely.

Episode 10 is the turning point where Elen shielded the bullet from Reiji targetted at the Scythe master. Elen then falls into the sea believed to be dead. Reiji becomes extremely distraughted and was shot by the Scythe master. The episode ends showing Reiji being washed ashore. After this, from what I heard, Reiji meets a young girl called Cal who engaged Reiji as an assassin. Soon she falls in love with Reiji and was even roped into being a phantom for the inferno as well. It then talks about how Reiji protects Cal and sparks fly, I suppose.

I asked many people who followed Phantom week after week , they felt more empathy for Cal and many seemed to have gotten over Elen. A couple actually supported Cal and Reiji as a couple. In response to this, i’m extremely sad. I will once again pray, like that in Macross Frontier, that the one I support ends in a good ending. Not many animes have the desired ending that I want, for instance Macross Frontier. Hopefully they will grant my wish…