Dawnleaf Watches Fantasista Doll: Episode 1 – Tuxedo Mask’s Long Lost Brother?

I would totally buy it if they said he was Tuxedo Mask’s brother.  He even makes an entrance by throwing a bouquet of flowers to the heroine.  Can we make this anime about him?

Oh wait, we need to have cute girls all over the place with little to no male presence.  With a few exceptions, all of the anime this season seem to be all-guys (Free, Makai Ouji) or all-girls (KINOMZA!, Day Break Illusion, Hyperdimension Neptunia, Going Home Club).  Can’t we have more mixed-gender shows?  Hearing all these high-pitched moe girl voices gets on my nerves after a while.

Honestly, this show is so… well, it just really doesn’t have anything to like about it.  There’s nothing really terrible in it, but… why should I watch this?

I mean, the first scene in this anime is really dark and has scary doll-thingies, but then we smash cut to cute girls and the creepy tone is not followed up on at all.  I wish it did, because what we got was just kind of milquetoast and lame, as opposed to what may of happened if this was instead a horror story about freaky dolls causing the apocalypse.  Hmmm... *scribbles on notepad*

Basically, the plot of this series is, apparently, the girl in red a few pictures up finds this card-reading thing in her backpack, and finds that she can use this to summon five girls of varying stereotypes.  And they can fight, for some reason. 

She initially figures this out because she was being chased by another girl, and she yelled for help, and one of the card-girls offers to help her.

The girl who’s chasing her has another card-girl, but the main character’s card girl beats her and the enemy card-girl reverts back into a card, and the main character takes her.  So, in this show, girls literally are to be collected like Pokémon cards, I guess.  And they call the main character 'master'. Sounds like a male otaku's dream come true.  

Then she gets home, learns that she has to take care of four additional colorful girls, and they all (yes, all six of them) take a bath together.  Because of course.  Tuxedo Mask Mark II shows up.  The end.

I'm sorry if this post seems rather rushed, but that’s because there’s nothing I have to say about it.  Fantasista Doll’s just kind of there.

The animation/music aren't great, the battle’s not great, the main character isn't interesting, the Fantasista Dolls are glorified Pokémon (fight in proxy battles, can be summoned at will from small, compact object) and aren’t even really dolls to begin with and seem to be stereotypes, there really isn’t any sort of overarching plot (besides “You could be a great Pokémon Master!”), and the tonal shift at the beginning is really odd.

There’s nothing actually terrible in here, but it just all feels half-assed, like it was written by going down a checklist, with no real passion put into it.  And I don’t need any more shows whose main draw is having a lot of pretty girls.  Those shows hold absolutely no appeal to me.  Dropped.