The production meetings for this show must be interesting. Impressions: You know, a pretty solid twist on that corny-ass opening segment would have been revealing that it was all AI and the actual characters hated it for how utterly generic, overproduced, and lazy it was. Alas, no. That is the magic of music, and meant to …
Just handing out super powers to whatever idiot yells at you, huh? Impressions: Look on the bright side. No CGI concert or idol schtick this episode. Well, until the ED at least, but that’s fairly expected and was still pretty stylized. On the flip side, there wasn’t much of anything else. Which is also …
I think they forgot to give the animators any direction. Impressions: Well, there’s certainly a lot more going on with the visuals than I expected for a war drama, but I don’t think most of it was too effective. There’s both quite a bit of rotoscoping and the framerate is all over the place, …
I legitimately almost fell asleep. I did flip through Agents of the Seasons’s second episode, but other than having about 30 seconds of fighting some random thugs, it was the same as the first, just focused on the winter dude and his moody bodyguard instead. But they were both doing the same thing, lamenting …
Emphasis on loud. Impressions: The whole schtick of her orgasming, screaming, or orgasm screaming, had run its course about five minutes into the episode, so it was up to the dude to carry the humor, which he wasn’t half bad at, surprisingly. There aren’t many dudes in anime who are simultaneously horny, respectful, deadpan, …
Why am I reminded of Blood-C? Impressions: The awkwardness of the setting isn’t improved much by the animation. Maybe the pacing of having it go from magical medieval village to everybody over five minutes instead of five pages helps a little bit, but you’re still jumping right from gossipping about dragons to literally everybody …
