_SHORT POINTS:
+Somewhat interesting, but mostly only at the beginning
- Repeatable plot
- Heavily unlogical supernatural staff
- Generic characters
- Characters make questionable actions
- Somewhat abrupt ending ("go watch the movie" i guess)
- Not really about bunny girls (not necessary a bad thing - but that title and poster look like a weird lie)
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_LONG REVIEW: (minor, non-direct spoilers may be present, nothing important)
I like good dramas and romance. Also deep, touching, emotional shows. Those only have effect if their intimate essence feels realistic. In this show, almost everything feels fake and hollow, it only tryes to lure with its shell.
First few episodes were interesting: kinda good main hero, interesting girl and her big problem. Everything starts falling apart after this first big problem was solved.
_STORY_ and world setting: 3
Main flaw of this anime is its very weak plot. Show uses Supernatural things in order to shape all directions of the plot, and this seems to be quite dumb. Why? It feels like magic is responsible for most of the stuff happening. Like some kind of god sends curses and punishement on some characters, and than just uplifts them when those characters do something "rightful", what god expects them to do. That's how story feels through the entire anime
In their core, supernatural things here are just heavy versions of psychological traumas. Those happen constantly to a girls around the main hero, this happens a bit to main hero himself and... seems like noone else is affected, or ever was (there are small "rumors" in the internet about this, that's all).
Of course adults or doctors don't believe in any supernatural staff. Show itself calls this "puberty syndrome" and if you think into it at least a little - this spooky things that happen to main cast should be happening EVERYWHERE - as there are a lot of teenagers with emotional problems around. This makes show extremely unrealistic, when talking about world setting - as everything only happens around main hero, like he is the chosen one.
Characters, however, always try to explain those supernatural phenomena with realistic logic and science terminology (here goes Schrödinger's cat, again). Most of the time, this feels unnecesary and cringe (this staff can't be really explained like that, better to not even try)
Basic scheme for plot in this anime:
1) Supernatural staff happens to a character
2) It appears this character has some sort of psychological problem.
3) Main hero helps with fixing those psychological problems
4) After some sort of catharsis - supernatural staff dissapears.
This makes it so that Supernatural things only exist to make more cheap drama. Psychological problems are the main point of this show - and they are weirdly adressed as a result.
Another big reason on whats wrong with the plot:
Supernatural dramas take a large chunk of this show's suspense. As most of them feel fake - there is not much more left in this show without them
Also, characters sometimes do useless\dumb actions. Or do nothing when they clearly should.
The icing on the cake is how supernatural drama forcefully moves plot in planned direction. First girl ended up speaking with main hero just because of his magical uniqueness, and her psychological problem ended up having positive outcome just because of supernatural staff happening in a good way
IN SHORT: plot feels forced, characters do what they must and supernatural phenomena corrects all the bumps on the way.
_ART_: 7
Art was nice, but nothing special.
_SOUND_: 6
I mostly didn't noticed music, but somehow disliked both opening and ending tracks. This is a rare case when i clearly dislike opening...
_CHARACTERS_: 4
Characters there aren't too bad, but they also aren't good. They are boring(
At start of the show i liked most, but with each episode i started to dislike them more and more.
1) Main hero - Sakuta - at the end of the day, he feels like typical perfect character. Compared to shonens where such characters usually are superstrong, Sakuta is only a bit more simple: he is unemotional on the outside (which makes him cool and masculine), but is very good (rushes to help everyone), and, apparently, very smart. He often walks without shirt near girls. The more show went on - the more perfect he became. I know some people like such characters, but for me he turned out to be boring and robotic, and none of his perverted jokes helped this(
2) Main girl - Mai - i'm not really sure what to think about her. She constantly appears on the screen, but outside of arcs where she was the main problem - she wasn't really all that useful. You constantly expect her to burst with anger because of Sakuta running who knows where - but it never happens. She ends up being just supportive and chearing girl, without actually looking like one. Weird.
I must note that Senjougahara from Bakemonogatari has practically same energy as this Mai - but feels much more convincing and better executed.
3) Smart girl - Futaba. She is the one who helps main hero with brainy staff and she is the one who tries to find logical explanation of whats happening. She has nice calm temper and... i guess that's all i can say about her. She never really does something on her own (outside of "her" arc). A walking wikipedia character
Rest of the characters are even more bland and generic. I have hard time remembering anything nice or interesting about them, outside of their "puberty syndrome".
_ENJOYMENT_: 5
I somewhat enjoyed it. Supernatural things lead to some suspence after all, even if they are stupid. Start can be rated higher, but I quickly got tired later
_OVERALL_: 4 or 5
Show with cheap dramas, based on unlogical supernatural phenomena. Generic characters, whose personality can completely be described with few words. Looping plot, which basically repeats its scheme every 2-3 episodes. All this quickly bores you later or, as there are no real surprises anymore.
Also may note abrupt ending - final dramas wan't properly finished and few questions, which dragged along almost entire show - left unanswered. (but there is a sequel film, so there is hope)
Apparently, show must trigger me hard to force to write such a big review like this. I hope it wouldn't hurt eyes of english-native readers, if there would be any)
Oh, i forgot one self-questioning thing: how this anime ended up being so high in ratings? This is something i don't understand at all. Even if you ignore all the logic - it is still kinda boring and repeatable. Hmm.
Last suggestion: Bakemonogatari is pretty much the same stuff but better. Yes, it's not perfect too, it has a lot of fanservice, and i didn't like how empty that world feels, but compared to this it is much, MUCH better
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