Please Twins: Twins Forever, Volume 4 - Review
Studio Summary
Love Alliance Rule #1: One will not make any advances toward Maiku until they know who the real sister is. But Karen has discovered who is really related to Maiku and now she can express her true feelings to Maiku. But when the truth is revealed, will the real sister still fulfill Rule #3 and support the other girl’s relationship with Maiku? In the end, the only rule that will really matter is Rule #5: They will always stay by Maiku’s side.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English Subtitles.
Age Rating: 16+
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Grades
Story: B
Dub/Sub/Translation: A-
Video: A+
Audio: A-
Theme Song/soundtrack: B+
Overall: A-
Review
In my review of Please Twins: Only For You, Volume 3, I said that Please Twins was a better comedy than a drama. That's not the case in Please Twins: Twins Forever, Volume 4. The dramatic elements are much better in this disc than the comedic ones, and that includes the final bonus episode.
Go figure.
I'll try to keep this low on the spoiler table, not easy for the final disc in a series - but I'll give it a shot.
In the opening moments of the DVD, Karen makes a startling discovery. Tucked away in a rundown house across the street, Karen finds a diary that reveals who is the sibling and who is the stranger in the house of Maiku. How she deals with this information brings about some of the best sequences in the series. She battles with all of the rules of the love alliance, and ultimately makes her choice.
Faced with the truth, Maiku is determined that things will not change between the three of them. The stranger, however, has other ideas. Fleeing to a friends house, the stranger tries to sort out her feelings while Maiku and his newfound sister try to figure out how to pull the three of them back together. Things continue to spiral out of control until it appears they may all lose each other forever.
A great end to the series, Episodes 11 and 12 close things out in a very satisfying way, wrapping up many of the loose ends in the series. The sister is revealed, the stranger is revealed, and the ties that bind the three together are revealed. Maiku has really grown on me as he developed over the course of the series, and his actions at the end make him a very memorable character.
Like Please Teacher before, the final episode in the series serves as an epilogue for the whole show. But whereas Please Teacher's epilogue was one of the funniest episodes in that series, Please Twin's falls a little short.
Maiku is trying to reconcile his feelings between his new sister and potential girlfriend. The problem is, his sister is getting in the way of his work and any chance of alone time. Turning to his sempai for help, he gets set up in a tent not too far from his house that allows him to work in seclusion. Things get a little crazy, however, when the student council decides to throw a retreat at the same location. President Morino strikes again.
What makes matters worse, the sibling seems to have forgotten all about Love Alliance Rule #3, that the sister will support the other girl's relationship with Maiku - and that is what bothers me most about this episode. It's supposed to be funny that the sibling wants to keep Maiku to herself, but it is a bit jarring to see the "twin" girls in competition where they were so supportive of each other before. There are some fun sequences on the beach with bouncing balls and bouncing girls, but the episode was a little short of laugh-out-loud moments.
I hate to leave such a great show on a slight downer, but one thing I have found in all my years of watching anime ... it's rare that a show ends in the exact way you want it to. In the end, Please Twins is a great follow-up to Please Teacher, and a strong show in its own right. I don't think that it is quite as even or well paced as Please Teacher, but it is more believable and, at times, funnier than its predecessor.
All-in-all Please Twins is a welcome addition to my Anime romantic comedy Top 5 along with Please Teacher and is a must-see for fans of the genre.
Reviewed by Johaan
Love Alliance Rule #1: One will not make any advances toward Maiku until they know who the real sister is. But Karen has discovered who is really related to Maiku and now she can express her true feelings to Maiku. But when the truth is revealed, will the real sister still fulfill Rule #3 and support the other girl’s relationship with Maiku? In the end, the only rule that will really matter is Rule #5: They will always stay by Maiku’s side.Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English Subtitles.
Age Rating: 16+
Buy Please Twins: Twins Forever, Volume 4 in our online store today!
Grades
Story: B
Dub/Sub/Translation: A-
Video: A+
Audio: A-
Theme Song/soundtrack: B+
Overall: A-
Review
In my review of Please Twins: Only For You, Volume 3, I said that Please Twins was a better comedy than a drama. That's not the case in Please Twins: Twins Forever, Volume 4. The dramatic elements are much better in this disc than the comedic ones, and that includes the final bonus episode.
Go figure.
I'll try to keep this low on the spoiler table, not easy for the final disc in a series - but I'll give it a shot.
In the opening moments of the DVD, Karen makes a startling discovery. Tucked away in a rundown house across the street, Karen finds a diary that reveals who is the sibling and who is the stranger in the house of Maiku. How she deals with this information brings about some of the best sequences in the series. She battles with all of the rules of the love alliance, and ultimately makes her choice.
Faced with the truth, Maiku is determined that things will not change between the three of them. The stranger, however, has other ideas. Fleeing to a friends house, the stranger tries to sort out her feelings while Maiku and his newfound sister try to figure out how to pull the three of them back together. Things continue to spiral out of control until it appears they may all lose each other forever.
A great end to the series, Episodes 11 and 12 close things out in a very satisfying way, wrapping up many of the loose ends in the series. The sister is revealed, the stranger is revealed, and the ties that bind the three together are revealed. Maiku has really grown on me as he developed over the course of the series, and his actions at the end make him a very memorable character.
Like Please Teacher before, the final episode in the series serves as an epilogue for the whole show. But whereas Please Teacher's epilogue was one of the funniest episodes in that series, Please Twin's falls a little short.
Maiku is trying to reconcile his feelings between his new sister and potential girlfriend. The problem is, his sister is getting in the way of his work and any chance of alone time. Turning to his sempai for help, he gets set up in a tent not too far from his house that allows him to work in seclusion. Things get a little crazy, however, when the student council decides to throw a retreat at the same location. President Morino strikes again.
What makes matters worse, the sibling seems to have forgotten all about Love Alliance Rule #3, that the sister will support the other girl's relationship with Maiku - and that is what bothers me most about this episode. It's supposed to be funny that the sibling wants to keep Maiku to herself, but it is a bit jarring to see the "twin" girls in competition where they were so supportive of each other before. There are some fun sequences on the beach with bouncing balls and bouncing girls, but the episode was a little short of laugh-out-loud moments.
I hate to leave such a great show on a slight downer, but one thing I have found in all my years of watching anime ... it's rare that a show ends in the exact way you want it to. In the end, Please Twins is a great follow-up to Please Teacher, and a strong show in its own right. I don't think that it is quite as even or well paced as Please Teacher, but it is more believable and, at times, funnier than its predecessor.
All-in-all Please Twins is a welcome addition to my Anime romantic comedy Top 5 along with Please Teacher and is a must-see for fans of the genre.
Reviewed by Johaan
