Dec 12, 2021
My first time leaving a review on MAL as I had never felt compelled enough to do so before watching HSL. This show is absolute garbage. I seriously dont understand how anyone can make it through to the end, let alone feel so strongly as to give it a 9-10 star review. I love horror and edgy for the sake of it shows but HSL is so badly forced and try hard that its not even enjoyable. They just cycle through every 'horrific' plot point you can think of every episode, to the point where any character shows up on screen and its immediately obvious
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'oh their going to suddenly be revealed as a pervert/pedo/rapist/murderer' as this applies to literally every major or minor character. This makes any plot revelation or attempt at twist; while always coming of nowhere, impossible to be shocking as they just happen so often they mean nothing after the first episode. Its just. sososo bad and predictable. Theres nothing nuanced about any of it, which is fine like I said i love so-bad-its-good edgy of the sake of it shows but I dont even know what the producers of this show where going for? Its so bland and the way the story barely progresses each episode I really dont get the impression that they took this seriously and are trying to make a great piece of pysch horror media. But on the flip side the 'shock' factor and 'horrific' plot ideas (stalking, pedophilia, murder etc) are so weakly portrayed with no impact that they clearly arnt trying to make a serbian film level of fucked up piece of media either. It seems to me they just wanted to make a show where people could drum up buzz talking about it like "omg have you seen happy sugar life ? Its so fucked up X X X happens!!" but couldnt fully commit. Theres no other reason for it to exist. They dont even show anything they just introduce the possibility that something horrible *could* happen or has happened off screen. If they had committed to it this it could be a somewhat decent anime in an ironic sense. Its so weak and terrible I could get to the end, I wish I hadnt wasted hours watching as much as I had and seriously if you think this qualifies as a good show I genuinely feel very bad for you.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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