Wow, I don't even have to do the math to get an average rating for this show. With 8 episodes rated 7/10 and 4 episodes rated 8/10, the arithmetic mean is just obvious: 7.33…
(This review was originally posted on season 1, to allow for watching any specials before updating it for posting on the series page proper, but I can't actually find specials anywhere despite the three currently listed on Trakt. So I just copied-and-pasted the review as-is.)
All right, truth time: The only reason it took me two years to finish this series was the misplaced hope that ArtClub (the fansub tag) would eventually release the last three episodes of ArtClub (the show) so I didn't have to watch Crunchyroll's subs. Despite releasing one more episode (number 10) after a seven-month hiatus, ArtClub (the fansub tag) ultimately never finished the series.
Today, twenty months after their last release, I finally gave up on ArtClub (the fansub tag) ever finishing ArtClub (the series) and just streamed the final two episodes on VRV. The completion time of 840 days isn't the highest on my list, but I was probably far more patient than I should have been in waiting for the fansubs to finish. Goodness knows the blu-ray releasers didn't wait for them (variously filling in the last two episodes from in-house translations and/or Crunchyroll's subs).
Honestly, it wasn't worth the wait. I should have just finished this show over a year ago. Since there has been no hint of a second season coming out, I'll have to read the manga if I want to continue the story… or what there is of one. And since I'm definitely far more interested in animation than in comics, that's probably never going to happen—so the anime will have failed in my case, in the sense that all anime based on manga or light-novel sources are ultimately intended to sell copies of the books.¹
The main downside of having taken so long to finish the series is: I don't really remember much about the first ten episodes. That makes it pretty much impossible to write a proper review, but I do remember enjoying the majority of the series. My episode ratings bear out that recollection, in that none of them fall below 7/10.²
So, I'll call ArtClub (the series; or Konobi, if you prefer) a solid 7/10 and just move on to more recent material.
There's also the fact that, as far as I can tell, no licensed English version of the manga exists for purchase. It's hard to sell something that isn't even available for sale, no?
I'm sure some of those sevens were rounded up from six-point-something—since Trakt still doesn't support a 100-point rating scale—but usually we have to get down into five-point-something or lower to find things I did not enjoy at least a little.
Review by dgwVIP 9BlockedParent2018-12-19T18:05:22Z
Wow, I don't even have to do the math to get an average rating for this show. With 8 episodes rated 7/10 and 4 episodes rated 8/10, the arithmetic mean is just obvious: 7.33…
(This review was originally posted on season 1, to allow for watching any specials before updating it for posting on the series page proper, but I can't actually find specials anywhere despite the three currently listed on Trakt. So I just copied-and-pasted the review as-is.)
All right, truth time: The only reason it took me two years to finish this series was the misplaced hope that ArtClub (the fansub tag) would eventually release the last three episodes of ArtClub (the show) so I didn't have to watch Crunchyroll's subs. Despite releasing one more episode (number 10) after a seven-month hiatus, ArtClub (the fansub tag) ultimately never finished the series.
Today, twenty months after their last release, I finally gave up on ArtClub (the fansub tag) ever finishing ArtClub (the series) and just streamed the final two episodes on VRV. The completion time of 840 days isn't the highest on my list, but I was probably far more patient than I should have been in waiting for the fansubs to finish. Goodness knows the blu-ray releasers didn't wait for them (variously filling in the last two episodes from in-house translations and/or Crunchyroll's subs).
Honestly, it wasn't worth the wait. I should have just finished this show over a year ago. Since there has been no hint of a second season coming out, I'll have to read the manga if I want to continue the story… or what there is of one. And since I'm definitely far more interested in animation than in comics, that's probably never going to happen—so the anime will have failed in my case, in the sense that all anime based on manga or light-novel sources are ultimately intended to sell copies of the books.¹
The main downside of having taken so long to finish the series is: I don't really remember much about the first ten episodes. That makes it pretty much impossible to write a proper review, but I do remember enjoying the majority of the series. My episode ratings bear out that recollection, in that none of them fall below 7/10.²
So, I'll call ArtClub (the series; or Konobi, if you prefer) a solid 7/10 and just move on to more recent material.