Ah, the burden of exceptionally low expectations.
Red River should’ve just finished airing (it airs super late), but I need some detox time, and it’s another shoujo historical fiction thing anyway. I’ll get to it in probably a couple hours.
Impressions:
I consider myself generally a fan of shows of disaffected spies or con artists turned local do-gooders. Your Leverage, White Collar, Burn Notice, etc. Victoria is no MacGyver. The most spy thing she does is trip a purse snatcher. There are a few bits here and there, but most are the absolute bare minimum, which is then explained. Like “That is a fake backstory that I made up to be simple and unverifiable.” “The dust is undisturbed, therefore nobody entered.” Uh, okay. Are we celebrating this? I’ll note here that the animation and production overall also falls under the minimal effort umbrella.
As for the do-gooding, again the minimum. She trips a purse snatcher. And adopts some random abandoned waif, who like all anime waifs, is the most perfect child in the world, just waiting for the attention of a doting parent to dutifully obey, follow, and adore. It’s all so utterly boringly perfect, without any obstacles in anything that she does. Nor does she want anything in particular. A normal life, she declares, but it never makes the case that anything was stopping her, and if anything, shows how effortless obtaining that was for this super woman who charms everybody and does everything. It’s not even clear to me how she was betrayed in the first place. The dude… got married to someone? She doesn’t need to be fighting rival nazi spies, but a story void of any friction at all is also one that doesn’t offer the characters any space to develop or grow.
Next Episode:
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