And I'm not talking just about the 'waifu bait' people keep bringing up, I'm talking about everything else that it represents. It's by far the most generic trash anime that I've seen in EVERY single characteristic. Sure, there's the whole part with using music as it's main theme, all music anime have some sort of ground to stand on even when they are accumulated crap within a clogged toilet, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The art... It's NOT GOOD. I'm tired of people assuming that these studios animate well, when in fact they do the bare minimum. I get it if stuff doesn't look perfect, but everything here is done in the cheapest way possible; The cut corners everywhere... They end up making triangles out of their walls. And it's not even a thing that happens rarely, it's in the DAMN opening. Art looking zoomed in for no reason, backgrounds with inconsistent lighting, Characters with missmatched framerate in the same shot, characters teleporting after 3 smear frames of them in their initial position. Nothing has bounce, or look, or style, or anything for that matter, except an abundance of trash frames -or lack of them, randomly-. It's trying to trick you into thinking it's got good animation the same way they often do. They try their hardest to make everything MOVE. More movement doesn't mean better animation! The fact that characters move from one spot to the other in singular frames 5 times in a row doesn't make a visually stunning scene, it only makes for some confusing visual trick that gave 5 frames to something that needed 20. If I can't tell what's going on during the battles, you've done a bad job as a story teller. Maybe you animate real good, but making stuff clear is the bare minimum.
The characters? the protagonist: Generic guy, looks like Joker from Persona 5 which is SUPPOSED to be generic. He lacks an arm during most of his appearances, because apparently symmetry is not a concept this anime understands.
The main girl: Silent robot girl with white hair and red highlights and she likes to eat sweets a lot. Wow, that's unexpected, her personality must be so deep!
The other main girl: She looks like a boring version of Athena Sykes, except she's even more slapped on to the story.
The only character I enjoyed was a dude named "Lenny", and mostly because I'd make fun of how his abs are designed so badly it looks like he's got four pecs.
And if the characters are bad... Do I need to tell you what the story is? Probably, but I don't feel like it.
The only thing that is kinda commendable in this show is the sound design, at least the piano recordings are human, which just means they probably got it from a stock music place, because classical music is so common, you don't even need to get new assets. I guess the 3D animation team did a great job syncing the piano sounds with the hands, but of course, that won't get any recognition because it's 3D....
I'm was bored of this show after 2 episodes, now it's been 5 and I'm just uninterested. This isn't an enjoyable show, it just banks on trying it's best to make everything seem larger or more impressive than it is. Don't be fooled by the studio names on the credits, this is a cheap product made by people who know how to make cheap products that don't look cheap.
