Oct 26, 2021
The show looks good at first but when you take a look and try to analyze what is going on you aren't really left with much substance or reason.
Mieruko sees ghosts is the basic idea of the show and that is fine but the problem is that this is also the part where it stops. There is no idea for developement, no concepts to explain whats going and everything just happens because it does.
When the main character gets into a situation where she sees a ghost it usually happens in the same order every time.
She sees a ghost > The ghost tries to get her
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to react > she ignores the ghost. This can be applied for almost every single encounter. There is no suspense, no threat, nothing. It just happens and then it says "ok cool, lets move on" which makes the encounters repetitive and honestly kind of pointless after the first few times.
And the EXACT same applies to the comedy. When she sees a ghost she tries to act natural while being nervous. Don't get me wrong this can be funny but if that is the only type of comedy there is it just gets boring after the 5th time. There is no other comedy elements. The one where she looks on her phone in the cafe was pretty good but it becomes a lot weaker since the same concept of the joke happened at least 10 times before.
The characters so far are mainly there to drive the narrative and don't really have that much going outside of them so far( up to Ep.4). You don't have to have fleshed out characters after such a short amount of time, however most characters with a solid amount of screentime have done nothing to make them somewhat memorable and not just blank slates for the "story" which there is none to tell.
The horror aspect kinf of falls flat since that genre is pretty hard to do in animation but I think they still did a good job so far. I like the design of a lot of the ghosts and the sounds they make can weird you out.The main issue comes from the ghosts being completely powerless. How are you supposed to be scared of something that you know can do nothing against you?
There are a few good scenes like her dad or the one with the cat. If they expanded more on the stories of the ghosts it could be a lot more solid. Even then those scenes are VERY basic and me bringing them up as good shows just how low the standard is.
There is also absolutely no need for fanservice in the show like this but its there I guess? It adds nothing and basically confirms that there is no direction here. So might as well put it in to garner a certain group of watchers.
I wish I could give it a higher rating but so far there is just nothing that justifies a rating higher than maximum of 5/10. The fanservice leads to it getting a 3/10 from me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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