Apr 25, 2020
There are spoilers but it doesn't even matter. You shouldn't watch this anyway.
Maybe this is just because I'm not within the target audience of young adult Japanese females, but this is awful.
To start off, the first few minutes of the show are "OK". However, all the gags are just about the dinos reaction. It doesn't even make a sound. From what I see, the girl taking care of it doesn't even seem to care about it. From parading it around and showing it off to friends. To drawing on it, forgetting its even there, stepping on him and choking him. Other than that, its basically
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just this girl shopping, talking to some boy and gossiping with friends.
Thats honestly it for the anime part. Yeah, you read right. The animation is done. After those first 5 minutes or so, you get a little padding of what can only be called "stop motion CG" (as if CG couldn't get any lazier) of some other silent gag for another minute or two that does nothing more than show how silly this creature is. Not by doing anything extravagant. Just regular old things with super over the top reactions to every little thing. It sits and watches TV fine. Dinosaur sees moving pictures on a screen? Meh. But waking up on Christmas morning to find a glittering rock wrapped up in a box? HEY EVERYBODY WAKE UP YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS ROCK (said silently only through actions). Totally weird.
After that its all live action. Yeah.
They got somebody to go out on the streets in a costume that looks like the dino and some admittedly kind of cute girl to walk around talking to what might as well be air. She does a good job trying to be authentic about it at least. I found it kind of amusing how one scene they were outside in the shopping district buying stuff and they actually got a shop owner involved in the scene. Maybe he was just another actor and they paid the stall for a few minutes of filming who knows. Lots of people in the background were clearly giving a few glances at what could possibly be going on. Plenty of them wearing masks too. Not that its strange considering the pandemic, but a little surreal to see in what tries to call itself a comedy.
In episode 4 during the live action majority segment, they had some comedian stand there and kind of just... danced? Moved all wacky, shook his beer belly, wore some gag glasses and tried making jokes. In the context of the show it was really embarrassing to watch. However it was hilarious to think somebody actually thought this was a good idea and OK'd this.
Overall it feels like some kind of rejected Disney show. There's no real substance or backbone into what is actually going on. And this is from somebody who loves the slice of life genre. It's really sad that anime has reached this point and will only get lower. (I'm looking at you netflix).
Just stay away from this.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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