***Light spoilers ahead, not like any of it matters***
Let's start with the animation studio, "Seven." ... Their profile: Ousama Game, I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying, aaaaand literally 100% of everything else they made is hentai. Soooo yeahhhh the production is already fucked.
The animation is awful to say the least. There is never anything technically difficult to animate in this show; all of the characters' actions are pretty basic. Yet they still somehow managed to screw up basic character animations. In a moment when one girl is terrified, she throws her phone on the ground >> this is done in approximately 3 key frames, and the action looks completely pathetic given the situation. In another scene, some dude gets pissed at another guy pushes him down on the ground >> the animation looks like nothing more than a playful shove, but still manages to throw him to the ground; the camera moves a bit to make up for the lack of impact animation, but no, sorry, it didn't work well. Scene with characters running >> looks janky as hell.
The #1 problem I have with this show is the method of story telling. The main premise for the MC is the fact that he has already survived the ousama game once, and this is his second time playing, so he knows more than everyone else. Okay, that's fine, that's an acceptable cliche to have in an anime. But then the MC starts telling stories of what happened in the "previous" ousama game. Okay, flashbacks are kinda okay too. But the "flashback" to the previous game takes up the entire episode. There is more video footage screen time of the previous game than of the current ousama game. It would've been somewhat better if the story was told in order in separate arcs, or at least have the story on one timeline.
Another fatal flaw of this series is the lack of weight to the characters. The viewer is given zero reasons to care or have any interest in the characters. Mayoiga had this exact same problem, so I won't go into too much detail. The only characters that have any viewer investment whatsoever are the MC's two friends, who are from the "previous game." And there are zero characters in the "current game" that anyone cares about.
***More spoilers below***
Ousama Game-- a game where you are required to follow an anonymous King's orders, or else be punished/killed-- at least the premise of the story sounds marginally entertaining, right? No. Not even the Game part of this show was interesting. Day 1 - 10 of 30 students are killed the instant the game starts simply because they were asleep when the King sent the texts. Day 2 - another 10 students are killed for similarly meaningless reasons. At least in the flashbacks of the "previous game" they show how the students attempted to carry out the King's orders, and are only punished when they fail or are killed by another student. In the "current game" -- nooope, everyone just dies for no reason, because fuck you plot.
And just who is this mysterious omnipotent King who is moderating this game? It's A. FUCKING. VIRUS. THAT CAUSES HYPNOSIS. AND IS TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE FUCKING INTERNET.
N-no. Just.... no. I'm done. I can't even. I'm done typing now. Fuck this. Goodbye.
