Kobato.

Kobato.:

    Kobato is sweet and perky girl, but also extremely naive about the world around her. She has a "mission", which is to fill a mysterious bottle of hers with the suffering from people's hearts so her wish to go a certain place that she desires to go can be granted. However, she must not fall in love with a particular boy she works with and whose heart she must heal.

General Info:

Episodes; 24.

Language; Japanese with English subs. (If it had English, I would punch the dub-ers, this anime needs to be watched in Japanese).

Review:

    This anime is going to be quite hard to review because the ending completely changed my feelings about it. I cried, I will admit, and I love it when I can cry.

    Just....wow. To be quite honest, I'm sort of speechless. I don't really have much of anything to say against it in the slightest.

    There are only two things that I can think of that bothered me. One, the little clip scene where the commercial should be, the sort of half-way mark I suppose, was sort of boring and seemed overly long. The other thing would be they didn't quite explain Loryogi's situation enough to satisfy me, and maybe they didn't explain the whole various world's thing to what I might have liked. This just a tiny sliver of the Kobato cake, though.

     I know I have said it before, but I'll admit I was wrong about the others, this truly is the best anime I have ever watched. Not only is it emotion-invoking, but it foreshadows the end in little ways that seem confusing and mysterious until the end of the series. It clicks and you understand, and the little things make up a bigger part than what you originally think. I really love the relationship Kobato and Fujimoto, it's so sweet and gentle.

     I....I can't really explain how much I liked this. I loved it. I loved it. I loved it. Never have I not wanted an anime to end, never, and this is one that I definitely wanted to last forever. Despite having supernatural aspects, it seems so true to life and more than anything realistic. They don't cover up the troubles in life with sugar, but nevertheless it's sweet and warming.

     If you happen to come on this blog, and you see this review, but you are unsure about the actual show - stop right there. You better damn well watch this. I'm even leaving a link; Click me. Please.

    I do want to mention that there are no kiss scenes, but I see this as a bonus. A kiss scene would ruin the innocent sweetness of this show.

Must Watch Episodes:

    Watch them all!! Do it!! I am a good person, and I jotted down the ones that especially stood out to me. There wasn't an episode I didn't like, not one.

-Episode 10

-Episode 19

-Episode 20

-Episode 22

-Episode 23

-Episode 34

Rating:

    I would give Kobato 5 out of 5 stars. I am not kidding when I say I love this anime, Clamp always does a fantastic job, but I have to hand it to them. * * * * *