I'm sure I've said it before, but the last few weeks have been a mess in anime and manga terms. So, no post for Pandora Hearts 23 and 24. More drama, chain invasion, and the characters' thoughts and exploration of their minds and objectives was what mostly consisted those two episodes. Roughly speaking.
Pandora Hearts inevitably proceeded down the road of failed anime adaptations: straying from the manga's history. There have been anime that despite straying from the original story, managed to be very good, like the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime, and I really hoped the quality of the anime would not wane. Unfortunatly, it seems fate was not on its side.
In the anime episode 25, we are revealed the shocking truth of Oz's father being with the Baskervilles and having casted Oz into the Abyss with Griffin before they decide to head to Sabrie. Oz's state of mind, and self-doubt in this episode is not very anticlimatic, and is a good contribution to the growth of the character. However, the "final" confrontation with the Baskervilles was very undewhelming, and it simply consisted of Alice and Oz overthrowing Griffin using their combined power. No tension between Zai and Oz, nothing that would've made the scene more epic. It didn't even last a full minute. It really filled me with pity as I saw a once great anime turn into just another common work. The 25 episodes were not enough to answer all of the piled up questions the viewers might've had. I really would've liked if they had made more episodes, since I can't find the translated manga from chapter 50 onwards (i don't know if it's the translators' fault or if there are no new chapters), and if the anime kept incorporating the events crucial to the story without changing much it would have an increased importance to me over the manga.
Despite all that, the final scene with Oz and Alice was amongst the lines of what I would call "touching". I did like the anime, I really did, but it had potential for much more.
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"Otakus are basically islamic extremists that traded
religion by an unhealthy passion of anime and manga. Well, otakus don't blow up towers, so they're a bit different."
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