Astalotte’s Toy #01 — The Haze Filter
April 10th, 2011
My eyes are starting to hurt.
Impressions:
Ye gods. It was a trial to even stay awake through this. Almost the entire first eight minutes of the show was just straight exposition given in the form of an oh so exciting school lecture. I suppose that you were supposed to be able to stay interested because the entire cast was naked through it. Diomedea’s apparently taking lessons from Shana’s exposition tricks. Of course, that would work better if the entire magical world wasn’t covered in a haze plus even more haze from bath censoring. All I can really do there is make some phallus jokes about banana boats and I don’t think the first half was even worthy of that.
The second half wasn’t much better either. The show is not well produced at all. Animation is sparse and there is absolutely no energy to anything, visually, musically, directorially, dialoguely…ly. The characters were little more than cardboard cut-outs, there are close to a dozen that it split focus on through the episode, and since it moved at a snail’s pace, nothing even vaguely interesting happened either. Plus, it is absolutely impossible to buy that male lead as an adult when he sounds like he’s going off to play kickball in the sandlot after school.
So yeah. Boring, slowly paced, and did nothing to stand out except add a haze filter to almost everything. Jokes are few, far in-between, and rarely funny. Even the T&A is half-assed. Lotte can be sort of cute at times, but that’s about all the praise I’m willing to give this show.
Preview:
Something happens? No, I doubt it.
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Holy shit… only the last 5 minutes or so was acually FROM the manga… impressive… in a bad way.