Musashino!

This anime exists to market a CITY to you. Its some hot garbage, but you know what? It worked. I want to visit Urawa City in Saitama, Japan just so I can see if the people there move at the same bad frame rate and are made of horrid CGI. Yes, I do recommend it, just so you can also enjoy this mistake of an anime, and I genuinely hope this series gets a third season cause that'd be amazing. Good for a laugh but not much else.

MAL wouldn't let me post this without more words so here's the first part of the bee movie:

TL;DR:
This show is hot garbage. It... has a followable story? but every step of it is a disaster. If the road to Miami is as messy as running over chickens, crashing into a McDonalds, and leaping to your death in a lava pit, then I do not think it's a road you should sincerely take. And that's giving the show too much credit for trying to look interesting.

Also, if you need any more indication that this is a show not worth watching, look at how dead the discussions are and how I am the first legitimate review of the series a full WEEK after ... it aired. The community speaks for itself.

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"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." -Forrest Gump

...what the fuck? I mean, what in the fuck, why in the fuck did I watch this, and how in the fuck did this even get made? My dear god, where do I even begin?

The storytelling in this anime... it's pure genius. Whoever wrote this anime wasn't just high, he literally came down with a case of corporate greed asked himself "Okay, what is the worst possible storyline I can conceive in order to make my three minute anime look (keyword: look) interesting while also sponsoring these local businesses?" And that makes it sound like the writer actually had a plan. Seriously, it's so bad that it looped beyond the "so bad it's good" territory back to pure agony.

I mean, listing the plotlines of three of the most coherently sound (and entertaining) episodes, we got literally watching three minutes of trivia, a dream sequence, and retconning the entire purpose of the show. If that doesn't say anything, I don't know what will.

Not to mention that the animation in this anime is just bad. It's not Ex-Arm bad, it's just... bad. Like, there's a difference between laughing at a horrific abomination of a failed experiment integrating 2D and 3D animation, and watching an anime use a default splash animation that doesn't even align with the character's head. It's the kind of bad that you just feel awful laughing at, because you know there was 0 effort put into the product and laughing gives it more credit than it ever needed.

The literal 5 tracks in the OST was not the worst thing my ears stumbled upon I guess, which is really not saying much because the few times it legitimately annoyed me (see: season 1 using the same intro song YES THERE'S A SEASON ONE CALLED "Urawa no Usagi-chan" AND IT IS SOMEHOW MORE BORING YET BETTER THAN THIS FUCKING GARBAGE) paled in comparison to the sheer atrocities of everything else.

Look, this shit is pure garbage. If I had to guess, there was even less effort put into the production of this anime than Mars of Destruction, and that one deliberately cut corners to fit the animation budget of seven dollars. But instead of packing a boring storyline with some hilarious moments, this anime packs some of the wildest storylines with the most boring execution possible. Like, I kid you not, they put a literal advertisement in one of the episodes. A LITERAL AD. THIS ANIME IS ONLY 3 MINUTES LONG. HOW AND WHY THE FUCK?

I would compare this anime to the "if you don't share this with 10 other friends, you will die" email spam that happened many, many years ago. Because watching this alone will make you suffer horribly, but watching your friends suffer through the sheer garbage is probably the most sadistic fun I've had.

I watched the first(?) season of this anime solely because I like short animes and stupid ones but this wasn't even the so-stupid-it's-enjoyable, it was just not entertaining to me despite finishing it. I've never been to Japan and these shorts just don't even feel like much of a commercial to me even? It has the weirdest storyline and it's not that it's hard to follow, it's just not interesting.

I usually don't have much to say about the animation but I remember watching the first episode when it came out and thinking how it felt like they were moving like VTubers. No offense to ... VTubers, but when I'm watching an anime, I suppose I expect them to move like... anime characters? I don't know how to explain it but the characters' movement was just super odd to me. Completely different compared to the previous version.

I know it's hard to get to know characters in such short episodes and they did offer backstory but even then, they have so many characters in such a small show that even if they're somehow having time for backstories, sometimes characters would be gone one episode and back the next that I'd already forget who they were. I felt like you couldn't really connect with these characters at all. I wouldn't compare this show to Teekyu as they're different, but Teekyu had even shorter episodes but the characters were so much easier to actually recognize who they were and what their personalities were. There were also more seasons but even then, when you saw one of them on screen, you kinda knew what would happen based on their personality. But in Musashino, you kinda get an idea of their personality but even then, it's just not enough to connect with them or even have favorite characters in my opinion.

Overall, I just wouldn't waste your time watching this. If you're actually interested in the destination, just research yourself, it'll probably save you time or just be more enjoyable.