Art 1/10:
There's like 5 or more art “styles” in this anime. If that isn't enough to send a cluster of red flags for your brain, then I'd also mention the naturally terrible mix of these art styles. Perhaps it's bad directing or just plain incompetent decisions. Aside from the notably sloppy "fight scenes", everything really is horribly static for a show that is supposedly financed significantly. Normally, I tend to be more forgiving for animation in this form (I was fine with Fairy Gone for example). But there are way more options to keep the lesser furnished aspects to a minimum or at least not obvious. Also, perhaps each art style could have worked a lot better if any of those were given singular focus. What happened to the budget allocations for this thing, just thrown around for whatever? I'm absolutely horrified how this was even given a pass.
Characters 1/10:
The characters were SO STIFF. Granted, it's not the first show to have an Gen X meets Modern Generation concept, but Gibiate handles this terribly. Very awkward character dynamics. Some jump in dialogues were excessively slow, like it felt like the camera would painfully teeter to one character to tell the viewer that "Hey, this guy is speaking now!!" Please. And what's to like in a set of either boring, annoying or wonderfully predictable characters! Also, ignoring the fact that there is supposed to be a HUGE language and technological barrier within the cast! Either be respectful with incorporating any era's concept or be flexible with it. And the awful hints of "romance" or affection! My goodness, what is this horrible cast!!
People. Don’t. Talk. The. Way. Gibiate. Shows. It.
Plot 1/10:
Gibiate's story sounds like a fanfic writer's wet dream. I would know because I was one of those. I absolutely know I would have loved to write this idea for a fanfiction with characters from a famous series. The time travel concept was just a chef's kiss after everything. See, the progression and the arc setups were severely irritating. You got all this wonderful potential from Japanese history, but it ended up feeling like a child's story drawn from Mommy's bedtime stories mixed with Grandpa's war stories, all taken by the child to form a ridiculous story that will only ever be grand and have any small amount of coherence for a that child alone. Wow! What an interesting idea, let's take it. Wow! Another premise I can use. Maybe we can use it for a different project? NO, SLAM THEM ALL TOGETHER!
What's also horrible was when the anime explains things happening as if the viewer is but a child. Maybe I missed a memo on that regard, but it was quite insulting in that regard. "He died because he got bit by the monster!" as if it was something meant to be a shocking reveal. "Oh no, things are bad! I must proceed to say it to make sure the viewer knows things are bad, by also narrating the situation as if the group of people with me aren't adults." We get barely an episodic length of character backstories, so yeah, things somehow managed to feel rushed despite the excruciatingly slow pacing of the character interactions. "You see how this character is actually good?! Now, feel bad and empathize!"
Gibiate did all the bad things wonderfully.
Sound Design 4/10:
The only aspect I'm willing to accept as actually okay. It gets annoying, but it's mostly because of all the bad elements already mixed in. The worst of all is some action scenes are supposed to be exciting or suspenseful, but the general atmosphere of all the clustered aspects just made things feel pretentious.
Final Notes 1/10:
Basically, the anime tried so hard to incorporate various moods, eras, and genres. It obviously failed. Just no. Please keep yourself away from this actual monstrosity of an anime. So many other anime deserves the kind of financial or social backing that this anime got. I am so angry that this anime exists.
I know a good number of 90's anime that are way more interesting with actually better animated and more entertaining fight scenes.
Man, I will forgive ANY type of unoriginal fanservice anime full of breasts and such. At least, that kind of anime is true to their audience and intentions. Excuse my language, but I have to do it for the rest of the review. What the fuck is this abomination of an anime?! WHAT THE FUCK happened here?! What a FUCKING bad anime! My eyes! FUCK!! God, I wanted to give this anime a fucking ZERO. FUCK IT! STAY AWAY! FUCKING SAVE YOUR SANITY FROM THIS SHITSHOW!
