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Apr 11, 2022
Oh my god, where to even start.
NOTE: I'm still trying to keep this ambiguous so as to not spoil things, but eh.
So, we start off almost right after the first season. As the series progresses, we get more and more of the same issues with a few new ones, while adding in some cool or nice changes. However, by the end of the series, the writing feels baseless and schizophrenic at best, with the majority of anything substantial coming completely out of left field as what feels like a spontaneous plot point, with no prior establishment or backing. This was a problem in season 1,
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but they've only made it worse with season 2 as they've tried evolving the story and have added in more of such content to facilitate that. "Oh, we suddenly have a history together and are engaged thanks to our parents!" "Oh, I suddenly met and became friends with the head of student council!" "Oh, now one of the main leads is overly-sensitive and caring about the social position of certain members in the club!" These kinds of spontaneous events are all that make up the story for this series, and unfortunately, a lot of said events are completely nonsensical or illogical on a basic level. There's no real foundation.
As far as the technical details, it's yet again pretty good. Animation, models, effects, dialogue and voice acting; all pretty solid and hilarious.
Now, the ending. I really want to vent here, but this has to be one of the most ass-backwards logical plotlines that I've ever seen. The main character ends up having his main plot confrontation with one of the most unexpected characters in the series, and it goes from some kind of ecchi or slice of life to full-on action anime on par with something like Parasyte, complete with the main character somehow surviving when he shouldn't have. It ends with yet another massive deflation between the two, downgrading to just friends, yet one of the main characters sees this and ends up leaving, and we end the series with the happy little theme song playing as she gets left out in the cold and leaves via what looks like a port, telling everyone to not come looking for her.
As I said in the beginning, this series had so much potential, but they fundamentally dropped the ball so hard that it's no wonder we only got two seasons. Great dialogue, great VAs, and some pretty good moments, but the writers seem to have missed one critical part about writing a series: it has to actually be a SERIES, with a backbone and some kind of foundation. Instead, it was treated like just another episodic daytime TV drama until way too late in the series, where they tried to wrap up the story with nothing backing it at all. So we end with some very oddball dialogue, relationship dynamics, and a pointless confrontation with one character being completely abandoned. It's truly sad, but at least more generic content like Infinite Stratos has a foundation, plot, and plot progression. Disappointed to say the least.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 11, 2022
There are so many things that I want to say about this and NEXT, so read both. Summary for S1: bland, non-expansive, spontaneous, and pretty plain and spineless. Despite how it made me laugh at times and how great the VAs are for this series, it's one of the most 5/10 anime's I've seen in a while.
NOTE: I'm trying to keep this ambiguous to keep it relatively spoiler-free, but maybe I'll post the full thing somewhere else.
So, I've heard about this anime for the longest time in regards to the harem/ecchi genres. I finally gave it a go along with season 2, despite season 1
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ending on a bad note. While the show itself definitely has potential, they seemingly drug their feet and used the show as an episodic scenario tester with very basic progression towards the end of the season, where said progression came out of nowhere and didn't even matter at that point. The worst part is that the main bombshell for season 1 leads to nothing at all. It was leaked in episode 4, given no real substance over the remaining 2/3's of the season, and when it's finally revealed, the main character's entire persona is just 'eh, cool'. No substance added, nothing came from it, just a deflated ending.
The technical bits are pretty solid. The art and animation is good, the VA work is surprisingly great, and the one-liners and dialogue are all good. However, having watched both seasons, I can say that people's rating for the ecchi content is wrong. Season 1 contains mainly lolicon as far as ecchi, with maybe one or two actual instances of general nudity that don't revolve around the *ahem* younger members of the cast, and said instances are pretty brief and stylishly hidden or suppressed to the point of being throw-ins. Season 2's ecchi content is a bit more dialed down, but still as prevalent as the first season. Point is, both seasons have roughly the same level of ecchi content.
Overall, while this has some great dialogue and voice acting, it's also incredibly isolated and holds very little expansion or backing, with the final reveal leading to a deflated neutrality and nothing else. It barely added any worth to the notion of a season 2. But boy oh boy, does season 2 go off the rails.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Apr 8, 2022
Literally one of the worst anime series that I've watched in the past two or three years. I had an anime binge around mid- to late-2020, to try and get back into it, right? Yeah, this show actually killed it. Over the course of around two weeks, I forced myself through about four episodes before giving up. After giving up, it practically vanished from my head for so long that I am just now posting my thoughts on it (~05/2021). It encompasses basically every bad trait about modern anime that you care to name, from a generic, shitty soundtrack to the atrocious art style and
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animation. The plot is effectively Neo-Twilight; need I say any more?
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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