Rant
Same old goblin slayer. You know, there’s something about these fantasy shows that makes it so difficult to take them seriously. The reason why I can’t take this seriously is the same reason why I couldn’t take Re:Zero seriously. As much as it seemed cool, whenever there’s some moe moe main character, my suspension of disbelief breaks like a hammer through a window. It’s hard for me to take it seriously when I see stuff like that. Same thing with Goblin Slayer and the bring back to life using a virgin shit. Like come on! When you spread plot armour that thickly how am i supposed to imagine that these characters are really in danger? They all might as well die and the next episode will revive them.
This is what bumped me with Space Dandy too. Like they had that Zombie episode and the whole universe pretty much turned into zombies. Then the next episode is like, nah, that shit never happened. How am I supposed to believe that? Gimme at least a hint of an explanation. This is the type of storytelling that really bums me out. I’m not saying that it’s bad, but it’s just not for me. I want my stories to at least explain or consider the consequences. I want them to evolve use past sequences and build on top of them. Not act as if they don’t exist.
This is the reason why I love Hinamatsuri so much. Usually, comedies just don’t care about continuation. It makes sense considering how easy it is to write over-the-top gags that leave things in such a mess that it’s hard to recover from it. But Hina, it takes a different approach. It takes the hard route. It uses those plot points to weave different ones, and this is where its emotional impact lies as well.