Feb 26, 2019
(may include minor episode 1 spoilers)
How do you squeeze magical girls, fanservice, terrorism, blood, gore, and teddy bear monsters all in one anime? Answer: you don't.
Story. Well, "story". Terrorists are attacking humanity with special chemical weapons dressed up as teddy bears. The world depends on the Magical Girls to defeat these terrorists. That's it really. They try to make it passable by adding lots of - frankly unnecessary - gore, however, this falls quite flat since the rest of the show is magical girls fighting teddy bears.
Art. Since I'm no artist myself, I'm not one to quickly spot obvious flaws in art direction. However, even
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for me this anime is next to unwatchable. Eyes are all over the place and change locations every scene (it looks like they just paste an image of an eye on a random spot on their head, and flip another eye to put somewhere else. Sometimes they're small, sometimes they're larger). Body proportions aren't much better. You'd think the fanservice scenes would be appealing, but I'm not into monstrocities. All the characters look like .png images or cardboard cutouts pasted on a background. This whole anime looks like a side project of 3 DeviantArt artists that failed art class but still wanted to make show, and only had a month to do it all. Also, did I mention bad CG crowds?
Sound. It's there but not very noticable. More EDM-y than usual. Not much else to say.
Characters. They're typical characters. Shy girl with glasses, energetic sporty lesbian (like the one in Monogatori), confused but strong protagonist and a (not so) secret admirer. That's the main cast from what I've seen so far. The anti-terrorist side characters are all musculair men with no personality. On the terrorist side we got: a self-proclaimed evil boss that does not like clothes (seriously, any villain that calls themselves "evil" is not a good villain), another admirer (of course lesbian for fanservice) couple of copy pasted musculair men and a bunch of weird looking teddy bear monsters.
(before people get angry, I'm all for LGBTQ+ characters in anime, but not if the only purpose for their gender is fanservice)
Enjoyment. Minimal. If you enjoy bad anime, you may like this. If not, you won't.
TLDR; there are better alternatives for everything this show tries to do. Squeezing as many genres into one 12 episode show makes everything incredibly mediocre. The show tries to cover some deep subjects like post-war trauma and loss of loved ones, but it fails completely in any of this because of, well, everything I mentioned before. Even the fanservice is underwhelming, and I'm not sure how you can mess that up. Don't bother with this show unless you like to suffer like the characters in the show.
If I decide to sit through more of this horror I may rereview this series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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