Mar 18, 2022
Young Black Jack
(Anime)
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Underdeveloped, uninteresting animation and characters. Stock sound design and passable voice work. The scenarios lack either the satisfaction of solving a difficult problem with the information you've been given (like a mystery novel) or the enjoyment of watching a master at work in their craft; our doctor just says what he's going to do and then does it, sometimes with unique animations. This is generally after 10–15 minutes of set-up or exposition that's just painfully slow and inefficient. It's nice that these characters exist in a broader world or context, but none of them left much of an impact on me. I didn't find it
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Apr 7, 2020
Being somewhat familiar with the God Eater game franchise, I was interested in watching the anime when I saw it was streaming. I didn't get my hopes up too high after the first episode, which turned out to be a good thing, because just about everything ended up being rather middling or striking me the wrong way, except for the art.
For the first few episodes, I actually thought the art was ugly. The animation itself was OK, that is, fluid. But the characters seemed very low polygon, and the backgrounds felt like they were from a video game that could only display a few objects ... |