“…check out my cock.”
*smacks writers* Don’t introduce us our characters by
cutting to a still and showing their name!
It makes you look too lazy to introduce them naturally! Show, don’t tell, damn it! It’s not like P.A. Works doesn’t have enough
money to animate something! (plus, this
infodump makes it impossible for me to remember any of their names, so forgive
me if I sort of mess their names up over the course of this post). In fact, this anime has a lot of telling (and
not a whole lot of showing) in it.
Characters tell each other things they already know, you know, stuff
like that.
…besides that, the opening is really meh. It sets a sort of ‘isn’t it great to be
young?’ sort of tone, which this show seems like it’s desperately trying to
follow up on. Since I am young, and know that being young kind
of sucks sometimes (can’t rent a car, can’t run for president, have to go to
school, have to work part-time at crappy jobs), this sort of anime always
struck me as the sort of show older people watch for nostalgia reasons,
complete with the rose-tinted goggles. It’s
rather dull (dull enough that I found myself constantly wishing for something to
go horribly wrong just to liven things up a bit). I mean, so dull they have an entire
conversation about chickens, and I just don’t care. I’d prefer it if the guy did something like
kill and eat one with his bare hands over having him just stand around going
blahI’msuchanoutcastblah. I mean, they’re
chickens. My desire to be entertained is
far greater that my desire to watch chickens walk around. Maybe I’m just weird.
The dialogue isn’t written very well, either, besides the
whole ‘tell-don’t-show’ thing. The new
guy talks cryptically like every single one if his lines is meant to have a
double meaning (not exactly how a high school boy talks, I imagine), and nobody
really talks like a teenager, instead all acting (and looking) much younger. There’s nothing all that clever here, and the
show assumes that I care about the characters’ relationships even though I don’t
know thing one about any of them. To me,
its girl X likes boy Y, who likes girl Z, who randomly likes the transfer
student. No subtlety at all, just a
glance and a blush.
Actually, for a P.A. Works show, the animation here is extremely inconsistent. We get pretty fireworks and extremely
detailed glass combined with many, many
stills, some lasting for a fairly long time.
I’m watching an anime, damn it, not a picture drama! Animate
something, please! P.A. Works usually
has very nice animation, so this is kind of a surprise for me. Maybe they didn’t care about this show very
much (mirroring my own reaction) and just kind of drew what they liked the most
first and half-assed everything else.
Also, the character designs are very
standard, especially for a P.A. Works show, besides the fact that their
eyes are subtly off in a way that makes them look just a little bit creepy at
times.
Also, the comments on Crunchyroll were complaining about how
she wasn’t wearing eye protection here, so I guess that you can add ‘doesn’t
know about making glass’ to the list of this anime’s faults.
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