Nov 23, 2019
First of all, I'm gonna say what I like about this garbage adaptation, and that's the sound effects,bgm played during the fights, the gunfire and clashing of metal is amazing and convinced me that they can do good war anime IF THEY TRIED. The voice acting is superb and is just like how I hear it in the game. The opening is also amazing, makes me feel like a commander but its completely wasted on this show.
Now here comes my rant. The story is hot garbage, I know I just watched 7 episodes but I can pretty much tell they wont improve it at all
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in the remaining 5 episodes. There is way too many plot points mashed together that makes it difficult to focus while watching, kinda like how Zack Snyder mashed multiple comic books to make that horrible batman V superman movie. The director stated on twitter he plans to do different sub stories for each episode which is a joke. Thats now how you write a story, cant believe this is the same guy that made Girisaia no Kaijutsu. The pacing is also very bad, at times it feels slow and then we have a dumb forced action battle without any reasoning or motivation. The characters are also nothing like the game and also doesn't act like them which removes their unique charm. There is zero world-building and explanations for whats going on, its like the director is just making shit up as he goes along and cannot justify it properly. I also don't feel anything for the characters or the plot, I felt more emotions playing the game's limited time events. The show is also missing an extremely important character, you all know who that is, and that character helps keep all in balance.
The animation is also horrendous, feels like I'm watching an anime from 2006 with all the poor proportions that's noticeable in multiple frames, the fight scenes in first 3 episodes and 7th episode was decent but not the remaining episodes, also the 7th episode is truly one of the worst episode I have seen so far because it betrays the lore and is just painful to watch. People should stop giving the typhoon excuse, every studio managed to get by that this season, it would have been better to just delay the show if it were such a huge obstacle.
I don't mind the fan-service but although it does feel extremely forced at times, like episode 6, and even then the fan-service wasn't very good. I think the director should have watched kantai collection before making this, that show isn't also that good but at least it gets the points I rambled about right, such as characters, KC's characters had more unique charm than this abomination. Also really hate how this show has inspired one of the most worst "ship" between two main characters, just ugh.
Overall rating: 2/10. Just give it the full metal alchemist brotherhood treatment and this time make it exactly like the game, this original crap just does it not work for me
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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