May 4, 2020
I'm willing to bet that most of the people that picked this show up, did it because of either the amazingly-animated fight or because of the tasteless fanservice that accomodates most of Clair's screentime. For me it was both, and while the bad rating had me on guard, I honestly did not expect it to be this bad. If I had to find one phrase to describe this it would be "A waste of good production". That fight was the only thing this show had going for it and that's exactly why it makes me so sad...
Story/Characters:
Awful. Horrible. Disgusting. I can't even find the courage
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to describe this abomination to which I am subjected every week. It honestly pisses me off to think that someone got paid for writing this and yet... Our main character is your run-of-the mill loser that has the power to transform into a big teddy dog thing, along with a great smell ability, in a sense making him closer to a non-teddy dog thing. Most of his character so far revolves around his perpetual mental breakdown over "losing his humanity" even though he can freely transform back to his normal self as he wishes. The other main character is a sadistic bitch that's seemingly written as to be as hated by the viewers as much as possible and then the writer tries to make us sympathize with her or whatever. Long story short, the plot is all over the place, the characters are soulless and the epitome of bad writing, their interactions shallow and cringeworthy and generally this whole thing is akin more to a crappy fanfic than a professional manga that deserves an anime adaptation.
Art/Animation:
This is the part that's the saddest about this show. The animation is good. The character designs are well-done, backgrounds are good albeit nothing too special, but the fight choreography and animation clarity is so good, it wouldn't be a stretch to say it's the best out of all this season's shows. Pine Jam is a literally who studio that has made only a handful more, borderline relevant shows, none of which had been action shows (they were actually pretty average), so I really must wonder what they would put had they worked with proper good source material. Well I guess their work does put a positive dent into this atrocity.
Enjoyment:
I'm not someone that desperately seeks for "deep" shows with intricate plots and complex characters. Sure I definitely appreciate those but I believe myself to be just as capable of putting my brain to sleep and enjoying a chill feel-good show or a show with good action. However even as I try to do just that with Gleipnir, my brain is rudely awakened every few moments to scream "What ?!" or "Why ?!". This show is not something uninteresting, it's something bad. It gets unbelievably cringy at times and briefly siphons away the smidgen of enjoyment that it managed to build up.
I get sad even thinking what kind of good manga was sentenced to not receive an anime adaptation just so that this obscenity could.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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