>>281161437You could have gotten rid of the early scenes showing that talking to Marina was impossible and made things worse. These were good scenes though. Taking them out wouldn’t fix the show, but it would at least make it less insulting because the ending hadn’t been tried before and wouldn’t have been a paradox asspull.
Or you could’ve stuck to the broken camera timeline and gone for an ending where there’s no way to save Shizuka, and try to extract some sort of bittersweet resolution from the despair.
Ending this in a satisfying way is hard, but I think anything that sticks more to the simple idea of not using magic to escape problems is better since that was what they were hinting at the whole show. I also have alternate timeline fatigue and was hoping this would deviate. I’m ok with the constant resets early on because it was clear that wasn’t solving anything, I’m even ok with “one final reset” ending even if it’s cheap, but the retained memory thing is eye-rolling.
Disappointing ending doesn’t ruin the show for me, but it’s a shame.