The opening scene, in which a search party of villagers find in the woods the body of one of their own, a young girl, sets the tone for the 22-episode funeral that is Shiki. In terms of narrative, it breaks no new ground; a remote village is infested by vampires (not romanticized here as has been the trend in recent years, but portrayed once more as malevolent predators with whom the living cannot coexist) who kill the villagers one by one and replace them with their own kind.
It works through its cold-blooded commitment to its moribund atmosphere, existing in a perpetual state of grief for
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Jul 13, 2012
Steins;Gate
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In a nutshell, the least successful amalgam of comedy and drama that I have ever seen.
As a comedy, Steins;Gate ranges tolerable to entertaining, but as a drama, it falls apart completely. Its characters are mostly comical and unbelievable, yet it expects you to take their plights seriously. The grim tale of fighting the inevitable that begins around the midway point is predicated on half a series of the main characters engaging in the kind of stupid and thoughtless behavior that is only acceptable within the context of comedy. It operates on a kind of dating sim logic where almost all the pivotal characters (themselves shallow dating ... |
