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Oct 27, 2018
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (4/12 eps)
I had very high expectations on Release the Spyce. I expected it to be the animated version of the "release the kraken" meme. Huge-ass cage opens up and this lil anime girl walks out and kills everyone. Every required ingredient for a masterpiece, I thought. Words cannot even begin to describe my disappointment. I shall try, nevertheless.

Story:

Anime ninja girls are doing some serious super spy level shit while guards be like "huh, must be the wind." and all of this happens while altered version of Mission Impossible theme song is playing At this point, I was still totally thrilled. Only a matter of time until the kraken gets out. But no, of course it had to disappoint by becoming "so fucking anime" and relying on western industry cliches that always occur under these settings. Hacking in progress, asspulled agent-widgets do all the job and apparently that's the whole point of this thing: to take every shitty spy movie ever and just turn it into an anime, and then further insert the damn thing inside school settings. The reason doesn't really save anyone from the outcome.

Characters:

They were all pretty interesting until they took off their clothes, which is pretty much the opposite I would typically say, but this time they just turned out to be generic animu gurls who are the easiest to tell apart by just looking at their hair color. We have the black long, blue, kinda purple and the "anime-orange" many canon pairing girls favor and main character who also has similar colored shirt. Judging from their side profile, despite their different height, they all have the exact same sized boobs, so that pretty much tells how much planning was put into their design.

In terms of personalities, our characters are teenage girls who still go to school, and they appear about as normal as they come under school settings, so there is also that. This side of the story is also boring to follow because it is just lil girls being half awkward and half polite all senpai this senpai that. The industry rarely takes risks and this is yet one situation where risk -- or at least some sort of effort -- would have been better idea than this type serial production characterization.

Production:

I don't really have anything to complain about outside the anime girl design. Things like this didn't bother me at all in Princess Principal, for example, because the personalities pretty much were enough to carry the thing anyway despite the very "anime" character models inside settings that normally wouldn't contain this level of "anime". The side character villains all look pretty badass. The animation and darkness during "missions" favor the idea, but are not good enough to carry the entire thing, that's pretty much it. The music is great, tho. Wobs and memes, exactly what light action would/could need, lots of music is used and that's really making the action scenes entertaining to watch.

As a conclusion: this thing could have easily been several times better and among the best shows from its season.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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