![]() As such, there’s no strong emotional core to what I’m watching. And if anything, it seems to me that those hallucinations would come to life and attack us physically the way they already afflict their victims mentally.īut unless KyoAni trolls the audience, the show seems destined for a very light-hearted feel. Like what, you ask? I mean, I don’t want to sit here and list all the atrocities that might just be happening right next door. After all, there’s no limit to human pain and suffering. If our hallucinations can come to life, then you would expect to see some fucked up shit, right? People who are going through some tough times would spawn phantoms that are unbelievably scary. So who’s to say that the ugly wall isn’t just the same thing but in a more subtler way that makes the audience question whether or not it’s a mistake on KyoAni’s part?īut crucially, I’m still bored. They say phantoms are hallucinations from the brain, and it would kinda make sense that for these young kids, video games or anything that references them would be on the brain. But there’s a layer of artificiality in the setting of Musaigen no Phantom World. People often like to take the simplest explanation, and leave it at that. But is this really an oversight by a studio like KyoAni? Who knows. It looks even worse in motion it looks like something out of a video game. We made sure to keep that the same.Īnd check out the wall next to the main character in this screenshot: It’s just that her name is Mai now, but don’t worry about her bust size. You want more Isuzu Sento? Have some more Isuzu Sento. Tonally, it feels more in line with some of their more fanservice-y, harem-y forays in recent history, so I’m kind of predisposed to disliking the show already. The bigger issue, rather, is that this is not one of KyoAni’s more ambitious projects. It depends on your point of view, I suppose. Is it a good thing or a bad thing to have a signature look to your anime? I dunno. One look at this girl, and you can just tell that this is a KyoAni production: It’s also interesting how easy it is to tell who does what. ![]() ![]() “For example,” the main character explains, “entities thought fictitious till now could appear before us in our reality.” Ah, hm, interesting. I just didn’t really care anymore, and the characters are too flat to keep my interest. It was at this point that the mystery lost its grip on me. The other protagonist, some cherubic-looking french horn player, insists on leaving the ominous musical notes up, because golly gee, Batman, it might be a cipher! But c’mon, just take a picture on your cell and move on. And the female protagonist really annoys me with her, “I want to be a girly girl now! Stop reminding me that I used to be a tomboy as a kid!” I’m sure these identity crises are commonplace among young teenagers, and they are just trying to find themselves in the turbulent years of high school, but it doesn’t interest me whatsoever. At this point, I was about to say “Next!” and move onto the next show, but then we have these bloody musical notes scrawled onto a blackboard? Who ever animated this pretty much dipped her in a bath of lacquer. Wow, that is one glossy-looking character. Oh damn it, it’s a show about yet another dying school club. ![]() Also, they throw in some half-parkour at the end of the first episode… and… and… and there’s always that cute female character who wants to be the club manager, because she just admires X, which is now running, and… I’m fucking bored already. Let me look in the thesaurus for a cool, sexy word. B…but wait, of all the sports clubs out there, X is the one he doesn’t want to join! Why not? Is it because of a painful past? GOD WHY CANT HE JUST ACCEPT HIS FATE?Īnyway, X this time happens to be running. The first episode is a retread of what I’m sure any typical anime viewer has probably seen countless of times before: X Club is all but forgotten, but a couple of our plucky protagonists can save it! Oh yes, they can! All they have to do is recruit that super talented dude who was no doubt born to do X. Let’s start off by taking a quick look at a few of them… This means I’ll have to pare down the list of this season’s shows by quite a bit. I really don’t want to bite off more than I can chew, so I’m aiming to blog maybe just 7 to 10 shows this season.
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