Many ppl seem to say that's cuz the show has no "boobs" "waifus" or is for more "mature audience"...
IMO this show is simply average, and if not for the fact that it is set in a mafia period, then it would not even have a single thing charming.
There are not that many shows telling a mafia story, and not every is even well done, so it appears to be more "mature" than other animes. Because mafia is so western-ish and mature and blah blah blah.
Well, I've had no expectations when I started watching this show, and from the first episode it revealed its biggest flaws to me. I somehow managed to finish it, but rather to just find out if at least the ending was worth it. Well... I hate the fact that despite being an original series and having plenty of time, almost none of the characters get developed. Well yeah, msot of them got a backstory etc. but really, in a setting where characters are the driving force, they act exactly as their characteristic's templates say. That's really saddening. Also, the story is really slowly paced, which is expected from gagster's/mafia movies, but the problem here is just that it's not slowly paced because of the structure, it's that simply nothing of interest happens in between key moments, and even when something happens - it's really streched out. Comparing it to mafia's classics such as goodfellas - in the movie we got a freaking man's whole life in a nutshell with a whole range of colorful, different characters, stories, plottwists along the way, unexpected events and most of all - action... In less than 3 hours! And this show had 12 episodes of ~20minutes of actual footge each.
And, basically, the cinematography in this one is also "average". Some of the backgrounds look like CG generated but odly matched, no thoughtful shots or composition choices. It simply shows the basics. No foreshadowing. The story plays out just as we heard from the main character dozen of times. No significant lesson or imagery was shown in the process too, which makes it all the more "average".
I, personally, just weren't that much interested. As for the "mature" story, well, the copy-paste template of an empty-shell OP with revenge intent was overdone years ago, and lack of any really disturbing things, and mafia is known for some really disturbing and sadistic things, also doesn't help. You don't even see any interaction between mafia and the rest of the population of the city. The show plays as if only the mafia existed, expec for a few cases when there was a cop or someone that opposed an immediately dismantled threat.
To me - it simply didn't deserve any hype. |