the author puts forth a lot of good general ideas and concepts. a shounen battle series with exorcists hunting demons who are more like a mixture between machines and former human souls, created by some generic evil fat guy who claims to hate god.
this sort of setting has a lot of potential, so where did it all go wrong? execution. especially the pacing is completely FUBAR. this author may have interesting ideas but has no idea how to express them in an adequate way.
take the first 50 something episodes for instance, more like 50 shades of boredom. literally zero to nothing happens in the main story and the purpose of those 50 episodes was to introduce the viewer to a handful of new one dimenshional characters. we are introduced to the noah as well early on but we don't get to know anything about them and for some reason the earl tries to attain this "heart innocence" in the most ineffective way possible instead of sending his OP noahs to smash everything to bits.
so that's a summary of the first fifty something episodes, i was bored to tears. i asked someone on reddit if i should keep going and if it was going to get better. he told me that it would take a 180 degree turn around the 50+ mark. and in some ways it did, but it only went from painfully boring to mildly amusing and the pace was still fucked up. they latched on to the most trivial and boring stuff and stretched it out as long as possible but when things start to happen they cut it extremely short.
or when a certain suspense manages to build up and they ruin it with lame jokes. from 50+ onward i just kept going because i wanted to write an angry review so here it is.
i know there is a new season incoming but i will probably not watch it unless the author has realized his/her shortcomings and teamed up with someone who can actually structure this show in an interesting way.
