What do you get when a comedy anime doesn't know how to make a joke? A bad show and also The Vampire Dies in No Time.
The beginning of a review is where I would usually put a plot synopsis, but in trying to summarize the plot, I realized that The Vampire Dies in No Time doesn't really have one. Well, it does... in the way that Captain Planet has a story, but it's one that loses all importance after the first episode. Think of the story as more of a vessel to get the characters into silly situations than one to be thematically plotted. And
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hey, that's fine. It is a gag show first and foremost, so if the story isn't the main focus, they must make up for it with the gags. You can't have a comedy show without gags, right?
Well, if you find boob jokes and screaming loudly funny well then hoo boy are you in luck. I can sometimes find crass jokes funny, I'm not a stick in the mud all the time. Where it goes wrong, for me at least, is the fact that the author is so preoccupied with telling the same joke a million times over, that he doesn't have time (or should I say, can't be bothered) to come up with any new material. Repetition is the word of the day folks. When that man said The Vampire Dies in No Time, he meant The Vampire Dies in No Time. No exaggeration, the show repeats the same "Draluc dies at the smallest inconvenience" bit about 20 times per episode and it never gets any funnier than it was at the beginning, which wasn't all that funny to begin with. There's a reason that most comedies employ the rule of three. You're supposed to STOP at three. But alas, it's four minutes into the episode and Draluc has turned to ash for the 5th time this scene because he stubbed his toe on the wall or some stupid shit, and then I have to wait for the characters to make their exaggerated reactions and scream at the top of their lungs as my eyes glaze over and my pulse slows down to a crawl. It reads more like an annoying child who in making the class laugh once, has resorted to telling the same 3 jokes over and over again hoping it'll be as funny as it was the first time. Spoiler alert, it isn't and never was, and the only reason people laughed at his joke in the first place was because they thought he had a developmental issue but now it's snowballed into something unstoppable. He's made a career out of it. I get that it's supposed to be a gimmick, its the title for gods sake, but when your gimmick is actively ruining my enjoyment of the show, you have a problem on your hands. It's worsened by how lazy it all is. Disregard the repetitiveness for one moment, but the joke itself, the joke they based their entire show on, hasn't changed or been subverted once throughput the course of all 12 episodes. Most of the time, it doesn't even have a proper setup to lead into it. And the screaming too. Oh my god, don't even get me started on the screaming. Why is every second line delivered like the seiyuus are being stabbed in the recording booth? It's my number one pet peeve in comedies, because only unfunny people think screaming is funny. I'm sorry that's the truth. Go watch a YouTube video instead. I could've gotten the same enjoyment watching Kwebbelkop. I know comedy is subjective and I also know I just spent an entire paragraph shitting on it, but to those people who find this show funny, and I mean genuinely funny, don't ever make a joke around me.
The issues continue. Take the characters for example, who are all incredibly shallow. Almost every character reacts the same to every situation. It's like they have these loose personalities, in that they have the vaguest groundwork as to what their personalities should be, but the author is allowed to change it at any given moment to make, what he thinks, is a funny joke. Every character is the straight man and the funny man simultaneously. It leads to the characters having one homogeneous ill-defined personality. Here's a question, what's the difference between any character apart from their appearance? That one guy likes armpit hair? Is that the extent of their characters? It comes to a point where the character specifically written to be boring and emotionless ends up being my favorite just by the fact that he, unlike everyone else, doesn't scream every line. Another fan favorite is John, who by all means, is incapable of being ruined by the author because he's an Armadillo who can't talk.
The animation was... decent? Disappointing for such a big-name studio but expected. It wasn't terrible, everyone stayed on model but I wouldn't say there were any stand out moments. Well, apart from the opening and weirdly, the previews. Yeah, at the end of each episode, they would show these mock previews to get people excited for the next episode, and that's when the budget would kick in. On the part that's advertising the next episode, and the part most people would skip. What a baffling decision. Feels like even the executives didnt have confidence in this show. I genuinely hope Madhouse or whoever commissioned this show lost money for it.
The music of the show is so forgettable that I'm not sure they even played music during the show. Shout out to the voice actors tho. Although they made my ears bleed with their shrill screams, they gave it their all, and it's a shame that they weren't in something better. Absolutely none of my unjustified vitriol goes to them. They are victims as much as me, but at least they got a bag.
4. 4 times. I fell asleep a total of 4 times watching this. Like, I wasn't even watching the show late or anything, it would be 4:00 pm, I did nothing all day and I would still fall asleep. Not even their constant screaming could keep me awake. At a certain point, it just became white noise. There was nothing to keep my attention, not the lazy jokes, not the lazy animation, not even the borderline non-existent characters. If this were my first foray into comedy anime, I'd steer clear of all the others. I wouldn't recommend anyone watch The Vampire Dies in No Time. No, it doesnt even belong in the so-bad-its-good category because it's just boring. And the 4 hours and something minutes I watched the show for, I will never get back, and I will have to live with that for the rest of my life. Go watch 4-nin wa Sorezore Uso wo Tsuku instead.
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Dec 25, 2021
Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu
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What do you get when a comedy anime doesn't know how to make a joke? A bad show and also The Vampire Dies in No Time.
The beginning of a review is where I would usually put a plot synopsis, but in trying to summarize the plot, I realized that The Vampire Dies in No Time doesn't really have one. Well, it does... in the way that Captain Planet has a story, but it's one that loses all importance after the first episode. Think of the story as more of a vessel to get the characters into silly situations than one to be thematically plotted. And ... |
