Have you watched Psycho-Pass or Steins;Gate?
Yes, on Psycho-Pass but I hated it.
Oh, there we go:
found my old post.
I also tried Psycho Pass because I've heard so much raving about and, other than a few of the characters, I hated it for the most part. Most of all the gross treatment of women in this series. It has nothing to do with trying to tell a mature or adult story, which tends to be the excuse I see for it. I can watch a story with rape or death in it and even the exploding heads and whatnot, but the presentation here was done with a sense of indulgence that I immediately picked up on and was able to follow into other episodes. Like the rape in the first ep. And the Yuki death scene. Let's get women in their pantsu and harm them while they cry. Totally gross.
Haven't tried Steins;Gate. SG just has this look to it that immediately puts me off. Like, Google image-searching it, even the characters look bored by it.
I watched some clips of Servamp and wasn't impressed by what I saw. The vampire that turns into a cat (Sleepy Ash) is the only character in the entire thing that remotely interests me. I like that lax, tired-vibe he gives because it's something different. BUT... the actual MC is actually the bland-looking dude that finds him. Bleh. A bunch of the other characters look straight from a 90's fanfiction. I swear all of the beady-eyed dudes in this pic look like the same guy. I know, I know, anime is very same-facey to begin with. But this is a particularly bad case of it imo.
I watched Umineko no Naku Koro ni. About half of it. What a clusterfuck. I had to read dozens of pages of analysis to even know what the fuck was going on and I'm still confused. The concept in general is fantastic when you think about it, because it's a rejiggered version of "Then There Were None."
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but it's several years old already so, who cares, I guess
but I'm leaving courtesy space
just in case someone hasn't seen it and wants to tackle it cold...
You're led to think the scenario is "Eighteen people trapped on an island but a mysterious nineteenth person is the killer. Most of the characters either believe or misrepresent that a witch did it but there's a human, non-magic solution." This is all really cool in theory and having the MC Battler (Whew, what a name) solve it by figuring out the human means had the potential to be awesome. The solution is basically that there were never eighteen people on the island, there are more than nineteen by perception, but there are actually seventeen people on the island with the killer acting as two of the eighteen. That's super fucking clever. But this shit completely falls apart in execution. Even with the anime only adapting approximately half of the visual novel it's based on, it still fails at being half of something.
Instead of doing this as a straight up murder mystery, it completely runs wild with this witch stuff. There are multiple "layers" and scenarios that the viewer goes through with the witches playing some sort of game. The story itself is an unreliable narrator. For example, we are seeing interactions that are impossible (like people who are already dead or don't exist having conversations with the living) and magic that's actually all in the killer's mind. Even with the killer, their story, their motives, their accomplices... all of it put together (without any magic involved) comes off super contrived.
What's worse, I watched a few clips of this show and at times, it looks like Battler's going to be a Detective Conan type deducing the solutions in order to deny Beatrice's (the witch's) existence. Which seemed cool. But he's not a detective by any stretch of imagination. He doesn't really succeed at shit and quickly gives up. In fact, he turns out to be part of the reason this whole murder-thing got set off in the first place.
Apparently, I should watch Higurashi no Naku Koro ni but I hate the artwork I prefer to watch things with more adult primary characters. And they share universes or something supposedly? Fuck that. I didn't even finish this one.
And "umineko" is a seagull? umi = sea, neko = cat?
