Allison and Lillia Episode 13 Half Season Review

I’ve been following Allison and Lillia though I haven’t reviewed it. The story is so overwhelmingly mellow that I found it difficult to work up a great deal of either enthusiasm or hate for the series.

If I had to choose a word to describe this series, it would be sweet. Not the contemporary street meaning, but the original allusion behind the word when applied to literature.

The adventures in Allison and Lillia that Wil and Allison undertake through Sou Beil and Roxche aren’t exciting enough to be magnetic entertainment, but neither are they mind numbingly dull. It’s more of a relationship anime with the events augmenting the feelings of Wil and Allison as well as Carr Benedict and Fiona. It is the characters making the story events interesting, not the other way around.

Allison and Lillia 13 knots up the first arch where Wil and Allison have had a short but sweet marriage, got separated because of what Wil “had to do,” and then reunited over the years. I think it is pretty safe to say who Major Travas is. If he isn’t who we think he is then the creators are deliberately going out of their way to kick us in the balls. Wisely, they focused on very few characters establishing and developing the nuances of their personalities, so despite the mellow tone of the rest of the series, you at least liked the cast and rooted for them.

Introduced in Allison and Lillia 13 is the progeny of Wil and Allison, Lillia. Sorry I just had to do that. The title and names have amused me for some inexplicable reason for a while now. Anyways, by the title, I am left to assume that Lillia is going to be the next main heroine for the second arch.

The sweetness of Allison and Lillia is just the feeling the characters have for each other. I got a Honey and Clover vibe from it, though it wasn’t quite that mellow. The right people fall in love with each other and everything works out, if not perfectly. No mad gabbled ending that made no sense, no stupid emo bullshit, and no overblown dramatization. I appreciate that.

The art is in a rather archaic style, or merely strange, but the animation wasn’t too shoddy when it wasn’t supposed to be.

Overall I rather liked Allison and Lillia. There isn’t anything I particularly like about it, but overall it was well constructed, well paced, with interesting drama and a decent storyline. I would recommend this to girls over guys though—it definitely leans more towards the shojo side.