the visuals are obviously the star of the show and worth the price of admission alone. maybe the most ambitious art-style ever put to tv anime and executed with perfect consistency.
it almost feels like every color and shape ever conceived are on the screen at all times and yet every arc has it's own unique look.
but, on some level, the art-style also works against the atmosphere of the show. it simply looks too bright and detached from any realism for a true feeling of tension or dread to ever build in me.
can't deny that the show felt like a bit of a chore to get through.
can't exactly pinpoint why. i'm not really usually bothered by slow pacing either.
i guess some arcs simply restate information way too much (how often did we need to see the "get me more sake" scene, followed by the wife staring out the window, in the Nopperabou arc? five, six times? it felt like a million) or otherwise take too long to get to the point, after you've already figured it out.
regardless, it's still a good enough show that i watched it twice all the way through and clearly i'm the odd one out thinking it's only "good", so whatever, watch it.
also, Medicine Seller big sexy.
