Clione no Akari

I know that for most people when they see a show with a sub 6 rating on MAL they instantly must think that it is a terrible show that should only be viewed to see what terrible shows are like. But that's not true. I've seen several good or decent shows with really low ratings.

However, this show is not one of them. In fact, this show is exactly the show that someone thinks of when they see that low MAL score.

Everything about the show is bad. Characters, story, art, sound. It's like critiquing a drawing made while drunk with one's hands behind their back. Yes, ... it's terrible. Yes everyone can tell it's terrible. There is nothing good about it. There's really nothing nice that can be said about it. Not only are the ways that they set up the stupid scenarios the most forced and hamfisted ways, the animations sheer lack of quality makes it that much more hilarious. It's hard to make bullying funny, but when a show misses as bad as Clione no Akari does, it makes it a whole lot easier. It's also very hard when it's clear the characters are just a poorly designed vehicle to push that message.

The story likes to wander around in weird ways. It took a long time just to get anywhere in the story and it keeps on trying to inject filler so it doesn't have to get to the point. Furthermore, their ordering of events is really weird and can be quite confusing. It shouldn't be that hard to follow but Clione no Akari likes to leave out important points and focus on filling up time.

This show is bad in every way. I don't think I can think of one good thing this show is. If you value your own time at all don't watch this show. There's nothing to get from it.

Dramatic tragedies are a genre that I love in anime. Shows like WorldEnd, Planetarian, and Your Lie in April tear me up. So what would it take for me to give a tragedy a low score? Is it even possible? Or is the genre immune, similar to slice-of-life? Flying Witch two years ago proved that I could hate a mundane slice-of-life show.

Lights of the Clione is very simple. It's about a perpetually sick girl who gets bullied all the time because she is constantly absent from school. Two classmates befriend her before her time is up, while everyone else is guilt-ridden. The animation looks like ... something out of the early 2000s. With plenty of introspective monologue, the friendship between the sick girl and the two classmates is heartwarming. Then tragedy strikes.

It's difficult for me to score this show so low. This show did finish its story, after all, and I don't want the score to suggest that I condone bullying in any form. But because anime is such a great medium for drama, there are countless other shows that do a dramatic tragedy better.

Long story short, This show is very boring and the show literally made itself end earlier but proceeds to put in fillers at the last 2 episodes. Do not watch this show unless you need some sleep during your anime marathons

The starting Plot for the anime was decent. As it progressed it started to wear out its potential and slowly but surely drys out. The art was pretty okay for such and anime but the characters were very plain. The story feels a little rush due to this being a half ep length anime hence it gets dry quickly. I do not know why i ... continued to watch this even after knowing that its getting more and more boring but i low key hoped that it would get better but nope i was wrong.

This show is not one that i would recommend to any of my friends or anyone at all as i am very sure that they will not enjoy it and will probably drop it after the 1st or 2nd episode.

I hope that this anime had a longer air time (24 mins) then it would probably be able to be better in my opinion

Finally I fully regret spending my time watching this boring show and hope that anyone who plans to watch this to think twice or like i mentioned above use this anime to get some sleep in your marathon.