Charlotte Episodes 11 + 12: Charlotte + Promise - Bobble Reviews

I'm sorry this review doesn't include the last, totally-final, inexplicably-thirteenth episode. But three episodes in a single post? Now That's Crazy !! Especially when these episodes alone have all these kuh-raaayzee reveals!!!!!

*stadium of gasps*

As much as I would love to joke about how there's no good, significant reason why blind ol' Shunsuke had his siblings mind-wiped so that they forgot about him, and how they're so desperate to love him anyway, I cannot because something really, really important's going on.

*nation of gasps*

The reason why teenagers have special powers is because...of a comet.

It's because it showers..."particles." And it's only affecting teenagers because they, unlike children and the elderly, are the most "sensitive." For me, that's a little more underwhelming than just saying "teens have powers for no reason that go away at adulthood, but you could maybe construe it as some kind of metaphor." But whatever...

Our hero, one-time high-school rookie chessmaster and current adequate good-guy protagonist that I will continue to dub "Light Yagami," has just saved his sister. He took his big bro's powers to travel back through time, saved her life, changed the past, and here they are today. Happy. Endings.

Except now Light knows he has the best superpower and has to be put under teenage house arrest.

I wonder if maybe somebody could have reminded him about this consequence before. No? Okay!

They bicker about how teenagers have powers and that's dangerous.

"I can help! I got a 50 in biology!"

They talk about how Shunsuke is so great that it's mega-sad that Imouto doesn't remember him.

The little sister immediately poses and makes a squeaky toy sound, forging a
powerful metaphorical statement about how little she matters.

doesnt seem like he cared too much about the OLD ones mhmhmhhmhmhmhmmmmm

And finally, they seal Light's fate, literally, within these cold and lifeless walls!

"Right? ....."

But there's trouble. You remember the constant threats of kidnapping these characters have faced, right? Don't lie. You do. It wouldn't be in this third-to-last episode if you didn't. I think you just got amnesia. If this hired helper doesn't drive our esper friend into the bad guys' lair, his family's dead!

"Butlers have lives!?"

Here's the bad guy brigade straight outta YuYu Hakusho.

Hey, dude, that dude's English gets at least a B by anime standards.

Since his only powers are to know others' powers when they awaken and to pour water on himself (yes, it is good that he goes out with only this powerless normal during sensitive times like this), Pooh gets pummeled and forced to spill secrets. He also sees that white-haired girl comatose and hanging naked by her wrists, which is nice.

I'm sure she can stop her posing anytime.

So Shunsuke and the team set up a plan. They're gonna break Light out, but only for a little so that he can save these two with his every power power. Just don't let him get upset and use his destroy everything powe

WELL MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGA

DAMMIT!

WHATEVER THAT MEANS
CHOOSE SOME NEW LAST WORDS

DYEEHHHMMMEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!

The show pretends that the white-hair girl maybe died or got seriously injured too, but, ha, not with that "me and the MC will save each other while falling through the sky" theme song you wouldn't.

Episode 12, "Promise," rolls along. Light's in the hospital with a cut eye, so he can't go back in time, and his big bro is super sad and brooding on the roof.

"I can simulate empathy to near-humanlike levels."

Then the series turns around and says, "Aw, shoot... I dunno what the heck to do now that will somehow thematically link the beginning of this series to the end!" Then it snaps its fingers and says, "Food. Food. Let's have him eat food."

It's sad to think that he started out in this show with such a bang, beat him up to the sky and gave him his painful
introduction to real psychic-ness, and yet his true legacy turns out to be "that guy who brings him food."

I mean, at least this yellow-hair person and the dead sister who possesses her get to cry about their family!

This isn't even the MC's bed, this is some restaurant review show starring Yellow-Hair Girl
and her restaurant-owning parents that he just happened to put on

Well, with reviews like that you're not getting it that good again.

They went out of business two days later.

Oh yeah, don't forget that OTHER vital and beloved character!

Literally bringing nothing new to the table!

Meanwhile, White-Hair Girl is fully recovered after her brief stint with a collapsing building.

Now it's time to get into the nitty-gritty: how to solve world problems. Like...how to get rid of these stupid psychic abilities. We can either...go into space and destroy the particle-spewing comet...make a force field around the planet...or give every single kid on the planet vaccines, which, when you think about it, is probably the hardest to accomplish. We will augment this plan by having Light Yagami become our lord and savior, roaming the world, placing his hand upon the superpowerful, and sapping their strength.

"That's quite a concept, actually. It's almost like an anime. Yes indeed that sure would be an exciting anime.
i mean it's been done before but hey at least it doesn't have another student council huh"

50% of the audience gets up and leaves.

50% gets ready for fan fiction!!!!!

Light Yagami, believing strongly in White-Hair Girl's world-saving won't-fail plan, decides to travel the world and the seven seas, find every single person below the age of 20, and put his hand on them, by hook or by crook. So we venture...toward the staaaaars.....

Or I mean...towards the thirteenth episode, which I haven't heard good things about.