Preliminary Review
I'm going to be optimistic on this one, I won't exactly say this show started off perfect but from where it's heading I would say this could be a very interesting watch. I know I know it's not very usual of me to give a preliminary review an 8 but come on, this season is awful. From the shows I'm watching now, The God of Highschool sucks, Rent-a-Girlfriend does not look promising and Uzaki-Chan is straight-up bad. This season of anime is truly the dump. But there's this, Deca-Dence, a show that actually I was looking forward to from the trailer.
I'm going to be frank, the first episode was not really good. The pacing was off, emotions were off, a ton of things that weren't what I expected. An example, we have the first few scenes of our main character, Natsume, father just got killed and her losing her arm. That was a lot to intake. What came after was better, it just showed for a rushed introduction which I can get pass, definitely wouldn't have liked if they dragged the introduction of Deca-Dence too long but I felt it could have been done slightly better.
The second episode is an introduction to our other main character, Kaburagi. Here's where things got different... So apparently this show takes place in a simulation. Wow. Not what I expected but it's a cool concept. Humanity has died but technology has risen so much that simulations can be made of real-life for enjoyment. Sounds very realistic. We also got to know that Kabu (for short) is one of the fortunate people to be the participants in this "simulation".
But everything changes when DIO appeared! My oh my did Dio get me again, every time I hear his voice it's always a surprise. Fast forward pass episode 3 which is mainly about Hatsume learning how to fight, we get to episode 4. From what Kaburagi said is really interesting. He seems like he wants to overthrow this simulation system they are currently living in. Which is honestly quite interesting, a surprise to be sure but a pleasant one. From this point onwards I have a good feeling this show will do good.
-SCORES- (for now)
Character- 7/10: While there are the occasional jerk-ass cliche characters, the rest is pretty good. Most of them feel human, act human and react like a human. All with a twist of being anime. Hatsume honestly is quite a decent character, she probably the most ideal and basic outlooking and positive main character one can predict but apart from that she's pretty likeable. Same goes with Kaburagi, with the context of his background it's interesting how he acts in the so-called simulation world.
Art- 8/10: NUT. The parts where Kaburagi is in his main form (not the human one) it gets kinda weird. It feels like a super cartoony kids show. I'm guessing it's just to balance out the production budget but hey, if they get to make the fight scenes look smooth as hell why not?
Writing- 7/10: I see potential, a lot more than the other titles I'm currently watching. I'm interested in how this will turn out.
Sound- 7/10: Not too much, not outstanding but certainly not out of place. The intro is like every anime intros ever, outro's fine.
Overall, please be a good show, I don't want to suffer through this season without any good things to look forward too every week.
Strong 7 to a Light 8
