Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu: Finale

DGFischer Mar 15, 2024

7.7

One wonders why it took diomedea three years to determine that the Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu project needed to have some loose ends in the 'awkward rich girl in love with the shy poor boy' premise.  Finale (2012) is more a curtain call for the cast of characters developed in the two seasons which mixed up the elements of campy and risqué.  There continues the stream of panty shots and the female form in scanty dress (if that much [or less]).  Finale covers three plotlines which was percolating in the Himitsu and Purezza seasons: Shiina finally gets up the nerve to confess her love to Yuuto.  How will this affect the bond between Yuuto and Haruka? We finally learn why Haruka was keeping her otaku leanings a secret in her new school, and how her three old classmates were coerced into shunning Haruka. Finally, the status between Haruka and Yuuto forces the rich girl into an arranged marriage.  This leads to a battle-royale which involves all those girls and guys, maids and minions, all to discover how deep and abiding is the love twixt Yuuto and Haruka. In the end, all the loose ends are connected with Yuuto and Haruka happily together (despite the efforts of parents Akiho and Gentou ... heh, heh), Shiina falling for a new beau in that panty-shot tradition of hers, and all the people so down on manga, anime and Comiket vanquished. The four episodes made no improvements on the animation, still working in the steamy stuff using the pale pastel palette.  The ecchi was played up as little sister Maki's vivid imagination of what was going on behind closed doors ... never what it seems, only embarrassing situations. But Finale had all the aspects of a hastily put together run of four episodes.  So-so musical themes, predictable resolutions (yeah, yeah, the last battle episode ... so contrived it's ridiculous), and tendencies toward the lurid.  It makes one happy about the ending ... because it's the ending.

YuukiAnona Jul 1, 2021

10

this was a real nice series and they put a real awesome ending not just a half ass ending which was the most charming feature of this anime the romantic relationship development within the characters were also really cute but although I am not really into the good graces of glasses the male lead was wearing but the female lead was the most specular character ever  the female character war CUTE AWESOME INNOCENT PUREHEARTED SOFTHEARTED CARING and many more she is so going to be one of my favorite characters although the animation quality is not that great but still, I enjoyed the story a lot and really had fun while I watched it........... would definitely recommend to romcom lovers.