Jun 9, 2017
This review exists purely for the purpose of aiding those who watched episode 9 and are wondering why you feel the need to throw up at the nearest toilet seat. So if you arrived here after watching the particular episode, or is the unfortunate soul that decided to start watching this show, you have come to the right place. Now you may be wondering what exactly happened in episode 9 to force me to create a myanimelist account and write a review for the first time in my life, but I will get to that in a moment. Before we get to my most hated
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moment in anime history, I will expand upon the rest of the show first.
Episode 1~ 8
Story : 6 Art : 8 Sound : 6 Character : 7 Enjoyment: 8 Overall : 7
Now the story is nothing to write home about. It involves our good old protagonist Aki Tomoya who decides to actually finish his ambitious game with talents that go way over his head. He messes up a lot as usual and fixes the broken parts with the classic harem protagonist appeal.
So in order to justify my enjoyment, the art and characters have to carry the rest. Art is standard most of the time, but there are unique flare moments mixed in, which enhances the show immensely. The fact that it isn't completely covered with this style is far better in the theme of this show of ordinary (= boring) developments that lead to moments of beauty (= heroine).
The characters themselves are not out of the ball park either, but they make sense and are funny at times, which I believe to be the most important feature of any show driven by the characters and their interaction. Any action a character takes must make sense in the context of the character, which is established beforehand by the various interactions that the character makes with other characters. For instance, if character A has consistently avoided character B, we establish that A probably dislikes B. Now, any action A takes that involves interacting with B must have a solid reason. It could be a misunderstanding (A only avoided B because B had a cat with him always and A is deathly afraid of cats), a specific B-achievable goal (A needs B's help to do something), or even a deux ex machina (A gets hit by a car and loses all memory. Note that this kind of plot device is often referred to as garbage, complete bullshit, etc. But it's still better than nothing, because the writer is acknowledging that it wouldn't make any sense for A and B to interact for no reason).
I have no comment to make about the sound design other than that it complements the show, but does nothing memorable.
So, ultimately, the rating resolves to overall 7, the closest it gets to my enjoyment rating while still considering other elements of the show.
Now, you may be wondering, what went wrong for my previous rating of 7 to turn into 2 over the course of one episode. That's where you would be wrong. This swift downturn happened in the course of approximately 30 seconds.
Episode 9
Story : 1 Art : 8 Sound : 6 Character : 2 Enjoyment : 2 Overall : 2
Now, for those of you who are worried about possible spoilers, don't worry about it, I won't spoil anything so you can finally understand the feeling of your stomach turning inside out.
To summarize it briefly, imagine having your entire show built around a single thing, and then smash it on the ground and make the viewers watch the remains of what was the basis of the show just get flushed down the drain by the rain. The execution of this episode was exactly like that. You could have the exact same scenario happen without the characters adding the unnecessary drama. The entire "turn" happened only to create drama, which is the antithesis of the whole show.
So yes, that is why you are disgusted with this show all of a sudden.
Should you watch this show? No. Should you feel bad about watching ep. 9? Yes.
Do yourself a favor and just drop this show right now like me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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