Dave Baranyi
2019-04-20 23:13:51 UTC
The Spring 2019 anime season is well underway and I am starting to winnow out the new series that I don’t want to follow. The wind is strong and the chaff is plentiful…
“Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utao Shoujo YU-NO”, episodes watched: 3, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This visual novel adaptation of an alternate dimension/time slip fantasy started out with some action and mystery, but the third episode dropped all that to set up a “situation” between the MC and his young stepmother. The visual novel fans are ecstatic; anime only watchers like me are left with nothing but the unabashed clumsiness of the writing. It’s too bad because it might have had some potential in the hands of a good writer and director.
“Fairy Gone”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This steam punk fantasy had a premise with potential but suffers badly from heavy-handed writing and repetitive direction.
“Shoumetsu Toshi”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This sci-fi game adaptation was so unremarkable that, only a few days after watching the second episode, I had to go back and look at my review of the first episode to remember what it was about. Again, it had a premise with promise but some godawful writing killed that off quickly.
“RobiHachi”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This brain-dead sci-fi pseudo-comedy was painfully unfunny. It’s a parody – that’s fine. But it is so unoriginal that there was nothing there that hasn’t been done many times before over the past 30 or 40 years.
“Sarazanmai”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. Great animation wasted on a boring and self-indulgent rehash of strained metaphors. Ikuhara has gone to the same well too many times and the well is not only dry but totally filled in with sand.
Dave Baranyi
“Kono Yo no Hate de Koi o Utao Shoujo YU-NO”, episodes watched: 3, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This visual novel adaptation of an alternate dimension/time slip fantasy started out with some action and mystery, but the third episode dropped all that to set up a “situation” between the MC and his young stepmother. The visual novel fans are ecstatic; anime only watchers like me are left with nothing but the unabashed clumsiness of the writing. It’s too bad because it might have had some potential in the hands of a good writer and director.
“Fairy Gone”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This steam punk fantasy had a premise with potential but suffers badly from heavy-handed writing and repetitive direction.
“Shoumetsu Toshi”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This sci-fi game adaptation was so unremarkable that, only a few days after watching the second episode, I had to go back and look at my review of the first episode to remember what it was about. Again, it had a premise with promise but some godawful writing killed that off quickly.
“RobiHachi”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. This brain-dead sci-fi pseudo-comedy was painfully unfunny. It’s a parody – that’s fine. But it is so unoriginal that there was nothing there that hasn’t been done many times before over the past 30 or 40 years.
“Sarazanmai”, episodes watched: 2, status: dropped, final rating: C-. Great animation wasted on a boring and self-indulgent rehash of strained metaphors. Ikuhara has gone to the same well too many times and the well is not only dry but totally filled in with sand.
Dave Baranyi