This one is weird. In pretty much every way.
To be clear, I’m not dropping it because it’s weird. I’m dropping it because it did exactly what I was hoping it wouldn’t do and seems pretty much exclusively about this young boy saving helpless women. But after the second episode, in which he straight up kills someone he was supposed to be helping for a woman he’d literally just met five minutes before, I have no idea what I’m supposed to be thinking while watching this. Granted, victim guy was a total scumbag and he was basically taking revenge for the girl, but I saw no foreshadowing of this, and the moment doesn’t even really get to land before we move on, and given that this is an episodic story, I doubt it’s gonna be brought up again.
I liked the concept here but the execution is just awful and wasteful, not to mention that Studio Gonzo simply doesn’t have the resources to pull it off. Maybe a studio with better post processing (like KyoAni or A-1) could have made it work, but as it stands, this is just plain bad, and not in a way that would make me want to keep watching.
3/10, dropped after two episodes.
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