It's a 4.
Ok, look. The action scenes are pretty great! I can see why this gained a cult following. Everything is snappy and nice to look at. It's just cool. The art has some decent style!
However.
Every other aspect of this show is lacking. The writing, the characters, the worldbuilding. All of it is very bad. At first I thought it was a parody and it does seem to poke fun at the concept in noncommittal, unintelligent, transient ways. All of the ways in which it is a parody is played off as "Haha look this helmet is kinda funny right? LOL" and then it ends.
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Nov 25, 2024
Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo.
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I wanted to like this show. The topic is interesting, but usually poorly done and this was no exception. Almost all the characters behave unrealistically, despite the show trying to portray realistic emotions. Not in a unpredictable teenager kind of way, but in a no-one-would-ever-behave-like-that kind of way. When confronted by problems the cast comes off as easily brushing them aside, incredibly dumb, or malicious for no reason. The build up is very poor and a lot of the drama comes on too fast or seemingly without cause. Without spoilers I will say the ending was super forced and everything wraps up immediately. The complicated
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Sep 9, 2024
Wonder Egg Priority
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Pretty bad. I went in hoping for a show that would tug on the heartstrings and left irritated.
The series introduces a lot of themes that have the POTENTIAL to be deep, but it only ever skims the surface and acts profound. That or it handles the topic very very poorly. There were a lot of scenes that had me scratching my head thinking, "Is that really what you wanted to tell the audience???" This would be forgivable save for the fact that the subject matter is SUICIDE and very often SEXUAL ASSAULT. In fact, the series brings up and deals with sexual assault flippantly, never ... |