This anime embodies what I hate the most about anime, which is anime that do not know what to be, where it belongs, what it wants to portray or tell the viewer. This is a prime example of this and the fault lies entirely with the producers, because they need to deliver what fanboys want, they do not want to make good anime.
The result is something like this, and of course many others, but since this is a review, or perhaps a bit of a... mm... discussional block of text(?) I will confine myself to this production known as Seitokai no Ichizon. An anime about a student council and their daily antics (like that's never been done before eh?).
But for the sake of argument; fine. It's about a student council. I was, like always, very sceptical about this anime, but I thought hey let's give it a chance, atleast for one episode. The first episode did not suck as much I thought it would, which is a good start for any anime when it encounters me as its viewer.
Soon enough though, the problems start piling up. First of all, as my initial paragraph states, this anime does not know what it wants to portray. Parody? Sure, it had parody, it has spoofs and it tries to keep a lighthearted slice of life-ish approach to everything, but it can't stick with it. It floats around too much, it feels the need to introduce character development which in this anime should have been kept far, far, far, far away. Who the hell introduces character development in a slice of life, school parody in the 11th and 12th episode when the entire anime is 12 episodes long? It felt so misplaced I was about to drop this anime both on episode 11 and 12, but I don't like dropping anime so I kept on watching this all too predictable anime til the end and I saw a conclusion that anyone with a typewriter and normal IQ could have written.
Like I said initially, I truly hate when anime don't know what it wants to say which basically means it; briefly passes over 10 different genres and never stays at any single one long enough to even give some small depth which in turn turns into entertainment value. This, of course, causes it to decline in quality very rapidly which is why I was going to give this anime a 3, but then I remembered a certain scene fairly early in the anime that had to do with a spoof on yaoi and I decided it was worthy of a 4.
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