When did travel montages become such a pervasive anime thing?
Quasi-Impressions:
I gave up on Bye Bye Earth early this season because the break had made its baffling writing go from sort of amusing in a trainwreck or awful improv way to just tedious. Plus a number of shows this season had strong starts which they’ve proceeded to squander, so gawking at the car crash seemed unnecessary. Clearly my mistake there. But it did end a few weeks back, and I was curious about it, and boy howdy, buckle up.
Or maybe not, because the final reveal kind of dwarfs everything. You see, the entire thing was taking place in Disney World. Disney World on the moon. Belle was left behind after humanity fled some plague or something into space, and the Disney World robot AI decided to create the perfect world for her, so it put her in stasis and set about playing god, evolving new life, etc. After a few millenia, it got tired of that, woke her up, and needed her to kill it because it was really tired of this. So she does, thus freeing everybody from the invisible AI that held their puppet strings and giving the entire world freedom. Shine on, you unwatchable, insane diamond.
What, Apocalypse Hotel’s episode? Yachiyo is forced to take a vacation, so she goes on a 15 minute montage until a random alien horse flies her home. Totally different from the time she wandered outside the hotel because they needed fish, or when they were scavenging things, or when she became a road warrior. This one had dramatic music. And went on for three quarters of the episode, because I guess they wanted to give the script writers the week off. There are at least five tourism shows that are just this in this season alone. You have robots, aliens, and the ruins of humanity. And instead you’re doing childish slapstick and travel montages.
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