Aug 17, 2011
When I began to watch the first episode I had no clue as to what I should expect from Fractale. When I started I was willing to give it a chance, and I actually became fully interested by the end of the first episode when a decent plot started to form. By the time I came to the end of the series, however, I was sorely disappointed in the lack of story.
The story for Fractale started out so well but by the 3rd episode the story becomes so fragmented. It felt too much like the writers could not decide on which story
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path to pursue so they just went with whatever they felt like at the time. As if they put all their ideas up on a wall, and then threw darts at it to see what ideas the darts landed on. In short for the story, many elements that should be explained are not, but we have to stumble around in confusion as to why they are important. As further insult to injury parts of the story that really are not very important are concentrated on too hard. You can pretty much toss two or three episodes worth of content into the dumpster, it serves no other purpose. On this same point you have some really interesting characters, but they are not as interesting as they should be because of poor story writing.
I will give credit to the voice actors, and the people who did the music. The actors did a great job bringing out their characters despite the poor story. The music does really set the mood fantastically too. I thought the artwork was very good as well, and it did create this very beautiful world. That is if you don't count the majority of the "Dopples". I thought someone was on drugs when they were drawing those things, they were just too goofy looking to take seriously. It was a relief to see believable, human looking dopples, but then again it's hard to be worse than water-cooler dad, and pink lampshade mom.
All in all Fractale did have the potential to be really good, but the poor story telling only serves to be a hindrance, and brings down the rest of the elements. This probably would have been better as a three, or four part OVA. For an eleven episode series it's not bad if you are not really watching anything else at the time, but you can otherwise pass on this one.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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