Welcome to my review of Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen! This review contains minor spoilers!!
The story is the biggest problem in my opinion! It has an awful start and just keeps failing as it moves along!!
Motosu Urano is a Librarian and writes books for children. She lives in a distant world and she loves books in all their forms! Fiction to mathematics philosophy and everything in between. She is the definition of a bookworm and literature is her love in life! And she surrounded herself with books! But the books was not happy at all!! They were angry and took their revenge on the tyrant who imprison them!!! What? Really? Well, all the fucking information I got here is " But then" followed by an ugly animation of falling books!! Then the text " On the verge of death I uttered a silent prayer" ... Thank you for all the details!! We are not even 3 minutes in and already in the shit creek without a paddle!!
As I said the story has big problems and overall is confusing and contradicts itself constantly!! And make no sense at all!! Even the beginning is weird and fails with the logic!! The head priest is holding a stick and saying "Myne is the only one who has used this to tie her hair!!" It's a hairpin you idiot!! People have been using them for a long time!! For, well, tying their hair!! But you can also take it and stick it up you damn ass if you wish!! You fucking imbecile! Then the head priest transfers Myne to another world!!! By giving her some vine!!! That scene made me feel really uncomfortable to be honest!! She is transferred to the body of the young girl Myne! Who lives with a poor family around the middle ages!!!
This anime more the less revolves around Myne's hunt for more literature. But her search for those precious books comes to a screeching halt because of her family's low social status! Books were a luxury item back then!! Made for kings and nobles, not for the common folks or simple guardsmen who can't even read!! She needs to find other means and decides to try to make books herself! Which is not an easy task!! And she struggles to find a way to solve her problems.
It tries so hard to be realistic but fails miserably!! It's like a history lesson that tries to teach you about the medieval period, but it has no knowledge about how things worked back then!! Like when the poor hungry street children are learning how to read - they should be sent to the coal mine where they belong!! YURI-CRUSADER!!! What are you saying?? Those are children!!!!! Well yes!! But still, they call it the dark ages for a fucking reason!! Nobles and rich people learned how to read not the common folk! They send them to the mines where their stupid poor asses belong!! And commoners marrying rich people? It's all over the place!! Please choose a tone and stick with it!!!
When you think you have passed the worst bit, the animation hits you in the face like a shovel!! It's ugly as hell!! It's dull grey and so boring!! It's so lifeless and unattractive!! The food the characters everything looks tasteless!! I eat with my eyes and love anime because of how tasty and delicious it looks but this is unappetizing foulness! Even the females are boring and uninteresting!! They look like zombies!! Usually, I go nuts for anime girls!! I collect waifus and going to catch them all!! But here they are just a grey lifeless mess!!!
The sound is actually ok the voice actors do a decent job. No bigger problem here! Nothing to remember fondly, but in this hellhole it's the only positive aspect!!
The characters are as exacting as the animation!! The Father is overly jealous annoying and loud!! The mother is dull and so are the rest of the characters!! They are very shallow no form of development in any meaning!! The street children don't add much either! Like the rest, it's just a waste of time!! Nothing to love or cherish here!!
Also, the character's behavior is weird. Lutz who is 5 behaves like he is 40. Gunther (the father) who is 40 behaves like he is 5. It's like they had a mind swapped. Maybe the anime forgot to tell us because it was busy nagging about fucking baskets or how to dry clay! Their behavior is unrealistic and doesn't fit their age.
The is no enjoyment to be found, only boredom! Everything from the story to the characters!! It takes more time to explain how to make a fucking basket than to go into details about the main character!! The lack of information makes the ordeal very confusing!! But the non-important aspect gets a lot of time!!! Everything to goddamn fucking baskets, how to dry clay!! And for god's sake, it sure takes its time to explain how to make wooden panels!!! And the rest of the time goes to Myne being displeased, angry or crying!! Well, I was crying too and wondering what the fuck I'm doing with my life!!!
I have no problem with slow anime. The problem is not the lack of action. It's more how it tells the story and how the characters are being portrayed. I watch plenty of anime with no violence or action, but they are warm and comfortable with lovable characters!! This is a grey lump of emptiness. A void!! And gives about as much as staring at an empty concrete wall!! It has no soul!!
So the big question here is, Do YOU wanna watch this anime? No, You don't!! Take my advice and run and never look back!! Or better go and read a fucking book about how to make a basket!! That is way more productive than wasting your life by watching this filth!!
But thank you for reading!!!