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Dec 21, 2017
Ah, Inuyashiki, a series that had the potential to be a hit, turned into a forgettable experience. I really tried to like this anime but seems like MAPPA didn't want me to. You see, Inuyashiki is an anime full of plot conveniences, asspulls and bullshit. Why? I have several reasons why, as the same way people would have their reasons to say this anime is good, so let's get started. There might be spoilers on this review, so be warned

TL;DR: Overall Section

There is absolutely no story on this anime, nothing meaningful actually happens, there is the concept of "Good and Evil" but there isn't anything worth to be called a "story". The anime itself lacks direction, first you get that some aliens crashed and "accidentally" killed both the Main Character and the "Antagonist", then the same aliens reconstruct them into some sort of automatons. That's it. An "accident", there goes the whole argument of the series, the Aliens topic is never touched again, they don't even return to get their weapons back (I mean, they could have returned with some robot pieces that aren't weapons). Let's be aware that this "accident" gave powerful weapons to 2 random people and also made them immortal, because why not. Its like activating "God mode" cheat on a sandbox game like GTA to create a low tier Michael Bay film. There you have it, Senseless gore fest with no purpose at all. It can be entertaining for a while, but it becomes old pretty fast. Same thing happened to Re:Creators with Altair, it becomes boring with some time and you are just expecting shit to be done for good but it doesn't and it drags a lot.

The pace on this anime is atrocious, the "Antagonist" changes from being a psychopath to a caretaker and back to a psychopath so freaking fast that makes it look like a joke, specially when the anime tries to make you feel bad for the "Antagonist". Having such an atrocious pace just backfires, there are better ways to portray a psychopath villain but Inuyashiki fails at it, Its pretty hard to develop good characters in 11 episodes, specially when the pace is as inconsistent as Hiro's behaviour. This anime also likes to add a lot of irrelevant characters to either show how retards they are or just for the sake of plot conveniences.

The Amount of bullshit that is thrown at your face is ridiculous, people on this anime acts like a bunch of idiots. There were several times where I could hit myself with a brick because of the stupidity of the entire population of Japan (and also the antagonist). Another thing that I found as bullshit is the way how these "alien weapons" works, At first it was a bit believable to think that Hiro's "Handgun" were an Air compressed weapon, But this is thrown away and it easily becomes an asspull, because somehow with this "Handgun" you can kill someone through a screen (Or either form a rifle with your bare hands and make it work like it is real) How convenient. 2/10

The animation on this anime is fairly decent for most of time... That's it, until we get thrown with 3D CGI scenes that pretty much lacks (and sometimes it is quite unnecessary) It looks stiff and poorly made. Even Vanishing Line has better animation than this and it doesn't entirely depends on CG to make good fighting scenes (Take in consideration that Vanishing Line is also being made by MAPPA) 5/10

Ah, the voice acting... Some people said that the voice actors are actually Live Action actors and that their role is to sound "real", but "real" isn't something I can think of when hearing their voices, it isn't entirely bad, but not that good either. The soundtrack of this anime comes in the pack of terrible writing, direction and pace, it doesn't work as intended so of course it won't hit. 5/10

I already stated before (and several times on forums) my dislike with the characters. To make it quick, Old Man Inuyashiki is WAY TOO MUCH for this anime, the entire population is way too stupid to even deserve what Inuyashiki did for them. Other than that, The characters on this anime also comes in the pack of terrible writing, pace and direction. Character development lacks when there isn't a significant concept and plot to follow. The way things happens is way to abrupt and very fast paced that the character development is trashed away easily. 2/10

And still, after all that clusterfuck of shit happening, this anime were still entertaining. It will satisfy those that doesn't care that much about these details or those that wants some senseless action. But if you can't let certain details aside, I'd recommend you to skip this anime and watch something else. 5/10


Overall 4/10 (3,6): The terrible direction, pace, and writing killed an anime that could have been a hit. Significant plot is missing, characters executed poorly, plot conveniences, asspulls and a lot of bullshit.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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