Holy fuck kinda first EP was that. How is this show rated so low!? That’s a 10/10 ep.
This show doesn’t know how to capitalize on emotion. There are so many emotional things happening all around but it’s just considered as background noise and not important. Like when the chief of the mountain village died, we didn’t even know for a fact that the guy died. He just went down and the shows there acting as if it never happened. I mean, I understand if the show is trying to convey something like, people die so? now move on, kinda vibe. But come the fuck on. That’s not what was portrayed.
A very interesting premise brought down by the execution. Same tale as The Executioner and Her Way of Life. There’s a lot going on but the writers just didn’t know how to capitalize on that. The world-building is fascinating, but the way each part of it interacts with each other is severely overlooked. The characters had a lot of development going for them, but only in the first two or three episodes, and then they stopped being developed at all, except for Kumi. What I’m trying to say is that this show did a lot of things right, especially in the fantasy department, while also doing a lot of things wrong. It feels as if they came up with the world first then the story. I hate how things just keep fucking happening out of nowhere just to keep the plot going. There’s no natural sense of progression, everyone just goes wherever direction their head points to.
I’m just disappointed by the wasted potential. I suppose that’s why people rated this so low. Not because it’s bad, but because of how good it could’ve been. This had the potential to be another Trigun if it didn’t fumble on the basics.