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Quick Final Thoughts – Caligula

I don’t understand, I really don’t.

I mean that in all sorts of ways, primarily the fact that the cast seem to frequently forget that the story is happening. I don’t understand how we go from trying to escape brainwashed imprisonment to “let’s go to a theme park opening” in the span of a single episode. I don’t understand how a show with this opening features exactly one action scene in the first five episodes, and it’s right at the beginning.

And I don’t understand how this came from the mind behind Persona 1 and 2.

This might actually be a more inept video game adaptation than Persona 5, because that might at least be interesting and make sense if you haven’t played the game, Caligula is a tonal disaster that sets up an interesting idea and then gets bored of itself.

It also still looks terrible, up to and including the boring, generic character designs. This show has absolutely no sense of consistent style.

I honestly hoped this would go somewhere cool, and it led to me watching more of it than I needed to.

3/10, dropped after five episodes.

Quick First Impressions – Caligula

Already shaping up to be a great Megaten impression.

The idea of Truman-show style reality bending is always fascinating to explore, and if you can get through the slow first half, you’ll probably find yourself drawn into this total mind-trip of a premiere, featuring teenagers becoming monsters.

The only problem is that most of it looks terrible.

It’s not quite as bad as Libra, but the color palette here is boring and samey, and the artists seem to have no clue how to proportion characters if they aren’t facing the camera. Seriously, check out the group shot at the 4:00 mark and you’ll see what I mean, with two of the girls in the shot having the builds of tall bodybuilders under their uniforms, and it doesn’t seem intentional.

But honestly, the plot is cool enough that I might be able to look past it. I was bored to tears for the first ten minutes or so, but once the static noises started, I was pretty instantly hooked.