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In the real world, stories don’t really have defined endings very often. The plucky jockey and horse who win the Kentucky Derby out of nowhere might then go on to have a brief career without any further showings of note, retire, get separated from his horse, work on a farm to make ends meet, meet a nice girl, start a family, and die unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 52. The story of his derby run ends in victory, but it’s just part of the larger story of his life; his story entangles itself with so many others--his wife, his children, his horse, his friends--that even when he dies, his story isn’t really over. His children carry on his story without him, and their children after them, and their childrens’ children go on to become prizewinning astrophysicists or some such. It’s true that stories don’t really end so much as people just stop talking about them, but when you’re telling a fictional story, one meant to entertain, it’s kind of pretentious and unfun to go “well, this story is going to end in an anticlimax because sometimes that happens in the real world, and I’m throwing out any kind of payoff or interesting result the story could have had!” The main series of Baccano was quite a good story! It had real payoffs, real stakes, real interesting plotlines woven throughout it. But the OVAs? The story of Graham Specter? Pointless. Just pointless. There was some good character work from the other cast members, but...god, I hate Graham so much.

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And that’s...the show.

Well! That was a nice final palate cleanser, at least! I love Isaac and Miria so goddamn much. Best characters in the show by a country mile. An absolute blessing. My skin is clear. My crops are watered. Life is good with them on screen.

Graham Specter? Not so much.

Graham was aggravating, annoying, pompous, and taken more seriously by the narrative than he deserved. He’s just...lame. And at the very least I was expecting him to get a final showdown and get the shit kicked out of him, but then he goes and pulls the worst narrative move I’ve seen in fiction in a very long time and just. Shaggy Dogs his way out of the story? It was such an anticlimax! It was horrible! No payoffs, no fight, no catharsis, no satisfying conclusion, just Graham walking away and the writers using their mouthpieces to tell us how much better that is than letting us get a real climax. I hated the OVAs. They didn’t ruin the show for me, of course, they’re an entirely separate thing, but a large portion of the OVAs just straight-up sucked. Which is a shame, they could have done so much more with the characters.

Ah well.

That is it for Baccano, for good this time! Show completed! A very good show overall, and Isaac and Miria were an absolute treat every moment they were on screen. Love those two. I do recommend watching the main series at least! Though if you’re reading this you almost certainly have already yourself.

Anyways, that’s it for Baccano! That’s not it for tonight, though--I’m doing one last liveblog, finishing the first episode of School Live. See you soon for that!

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