Nier Automata ver 1.1a
Adaptation of the famous videogame. I’ve never played it but I know people say the story is memorable, so I thought watching the anime would be an option, if the anime is good. That said, it seems is a story where the author uses well the fact you are playing a videogame, and it’s a key aspect from what I have read, so there are doubts of how good this adaption will be.
How now the visuals are a mix of good characters with some ugly cg :
That’s a too close cut, they should have used traditional 2d drawing!
In any case, the episode itself isn’t very interesting: fighting a big robot boss made up of cranes doesn’t make for good anime story, even if it was in the game. Only at the end there is an interesting tease, character-wise.
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess
Reincarnated in a fantasy world. Ugh, I’m totally tired of these tropes, I only watched the first episode because it seemed it had the best reviews on ANN. And well, I think I get it: it’s a well produced show, with nice character designs and animation, the protagonist has some charisma, and it ends up with a potentially interesting situation: I think the prince brother fabricated those lies not because he loves the other girl, it’s all an excuse to plan a coup d’etat and rebel against his father, sinking the fiance was a . Also, if only the nobility has access to magic, producing magical artifact that gives power to commoners seems a baaad idea, from the nobility point of view. revolution incoming?
Maybe I’m too hopeful and the story will be simpler and more centered in the yuri aspect and the villians will be 2d cutouts levels of simplicity, who knows.
Bocchi the Rock
Unlike the rest, this is a series from past season. It’s a ‘moe’ or ‘CGDCT’ series (that means, cute girls doing cute things). Which it isn’t totally my cup of tea, at all. But I was reading how it was one of the best series of the year, how it was in fact very funny in the comedy aspect, how creative it was in the use of visuals… so now that I’m watching more anime I thought: Am I letting my prejudices decide too much here? What if it’s truly good, and I didn’t watch it because I thought it was just one more stupid slice of life with 4 girls series? So I decided I should try it.
Result: No, my prejudices were fine, thank you very much. I mean, it isn’t terrible of anything, but I have to question the judgement of anyone who thinks with was the best of the year. The light slapstick comedy rarely would get a smile from me, in fact lots of times it has a stilted feel to it because you can notice how it’s adapting jokes of a 4-koma manga (4 panels, think Garfield with one more panel). The whole shtick of the series gets so repetitive in episode 3 already (90% of it is the protagonist being in shock or ‘melting’ when she tries to interact socially because she is super mega introvert), the character growth and more serious moments are… fine, nothing to write home about, and there is a lot of fluff in the episodes which ultimately is… seeing four cute girls interact idly.
