| Yeah, this is one of the seasonals for the autumn 2023 season I was most looking forward to (I added it to my PTW list shortly after news of its release as an anime was first announced on MAL) and one of the only non-continuing/returning series seasonals from this season I even really knew about the existence of and researched before the series began, partly just because of the intriguing wacky premise and partly because even before learning anything about its existence, more human-transferred-into-another-animal type isekai is what I've wanted for a long time. Technically it doesn't even have to be isekai - it could even be in our world the whole time or a different high fantasy world without the isekai component. The important part is the animal body swap bit. But I do have to say the most disappointing aspect has been in the character department. I've just found the characters rather annoying. To be fair, there haven't actually been that many characters we've spent time with as main characters so far - Jess, Pig-san or Mr. Pig, now Naut, and maybe that shopkeeper who acquired Pig-san for a brief time and that other Yethma girl can be considered like supporting characters just with taking the already released episodes into account. But that's all the more reason that the few characters we do have and which occupy the overwhelming majority of the screentime should be likeable or interesting. Pig-san, the seiyuu does a good job, but I just find often annoying as the pervert-with-a-heart-of-gold type of character. Naut is just a pure archetype of a type of character I tend to hate - the kind that has a massive chip on his shoulder because of some tragic events in the past, but who refuses to actually talk and communicate about it in any reasonable way and just gets angry at everyone around him instead for no reason. Jess isn't all that interesting, but I can't say I find her annoying - she's nice, cute, and pleasantly soft-spoken, so she's definitely the best/my favorite of the small lot thus far just by virtue of being inoffensive and not totally obnoxious. In the episodes Naut was introduced and since there were indicators which seemed to heavily imply he was going to join the crew and be a major addition to the story going forward, I definitely confess to being turned off by this, since, as I said, I typically loathe these types of characters and he did nothing in his appearances so far to dispel that prejudice. But then I also remembered some other series I watched which involved a small group traveling as at least a part of the plot, and I remembered that in those instances I also wished that a new character who was introduced didn't join the main group until I became accustomed to them and such feelings melted away later on, so we'll see... |
WatchTillTandavaNov 25, 2023 2:13 AM
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