Santa Company: Manatsu no Merry Christmas

The real litter was the friends we made along the way.
Shout outs to Google Mail.

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Congratulations MAL for getting the honour to host this.

Character design was alright I guess. Moon Santa was terrifying.
Why did this air so late after Christmas.
What did this have to do with Christmas.
... Save the whales. Pick up your bottles kids.
I'm really desperately trying to reach the minimum character count here, does it show.
Um.
Also a bootleg Ghostbusters believe it or not.
Apparently there's more to this series but whether or not you know of it I don't think matters cos this was it's own thing.

Well... That was bad.

The story was a rushed mess. I guess the main point is to advertise against littering, but mixing it with the story of becoming a tonttu makes it a mess (even though as a Finn, I enjoyed hearing them say the word tonttu). Adding the part about the littering felt really forced. I can understand that someone might start cleaning the beach when seeing litter on it, but the way he talked about littering was not natural. No one talks like that, that was just very badly made "Insert our agenda here" moment.

The artstyle looks nice, I liked it. Maybe a bit ... weird at some points and I'm not sure if it fit the theme of story, but it still looked nice.

Nothing special to say about sounds.

Characters were mostly very plain, of course we are talking about a half an hour long anime, so there's not much time to develop characters. I found Mint very annoying and I hated her from the moment she opened her mouth.

Overall I didn't really enjoy this.

***SPOILER AHEAD***


Supposed to be educational but instead of focusing on the real life impacts it has (it does touch on this briefly but VERY briefly- probably less than a minute in total), it instead focuses on a monster that appears because of trash which of course not being real, is not going to make people change because it's FICTIONAL.

The main protagonist is also possibly one of the most infuriating characters I've ever met. She's idiotic, blames everything that goes wrong or isn't in her favour on others, and basically just straight up bullies Trevor. She's the epitome of a terrible person yet she saves the ... day. What kind of picture do you think that paints especially to kids?

Story in general is dull. Only redeeming feature about this is that their intentions to bring about awareness to the problem is a good one. And the ending song rocks.