Scarlet Fragments #01 — Where the Wild CG Roams

March 5th, 2012

 

At least it’s one less first episode to cover next month.

Impressions:

As you might surmise from the watermark, this doesn’t actually start until April 2nd, but the ever so compelling first episode aired early. It also began with a giant CG bus and then CG leaves before getting to the first animated thing that wasn’t part of the background, which was soon followed by CG goo beasts menacing the heroine by… sitting there… so you know Deen put every single bit of their effort into this one. That is being a little mean. Animation’s barely there but at least the art’s pretty consistent and the backgrounds are nice. Music’s completely forgettable, but I can’t recall it bothering me either.

All the rest was about as boringly generic and stereotypical as you can get. There’s spikey gruff red-haired bishie, hot head bishie, quiet bishie, glasses bishie, all centralized around milquetoast female lead whose two jobs are to stare in doe-eyed surprise at everything and have the rest of the cast dote on her hand and foot. This time, they’re also joined by Exposition Grandmatm, here to tell you all about what you just saw. Even the magic spell was the usual generic nonsense. Why can’t they bust out something like "Try this Western Spell, ‘Hokusu Pocusu!’" instead of the blood paragraphs about gods of the east, west, north, south, south by south west, north by south east, etc… repeated multiple times while CG goo monsters sit there… sitting there. Or at least use a Dragon Slave chant.

I’ve lost track of this post at this point, but that should tell you just how much of an impression that this show leaves. Think of it like the damp reverse harem noodle slapping against the fridge. You’ll probably just leave it, hoping that the dog will eat it, but even he knows that he’s just getting some uncooked and bland starch that can be approximated by leaving a saltine in water for 10 minutes. Again, I’ve forgotten if this metaphor was going anywhere. Maybe I’m hungry for pasta.

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6 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • sage says:

    No bishie joke? I am disappointed.

  • Jack says:

    Crunchyroll has this up as well for anyone looking for a subbed version.

    The only thing I liked about it were the backgrounds. The editing was horrible. The pace was poor. Jarring at times. The script was somewhat “mean” or had an angry disposition to it. I don’t know anything of the source material, but everyone acted like they had been abused for years.

    I’ll give it another couple episodes as long as we don’t see that fucking bus again.

    • Nan says:

      > everyone acted like they had been abused for years.

      Oh, so you’re familiar with the genre.

    • Melina says:

      If the story follows the game, the interesting part of the story (at least for me) starts from the middle, not from the beginning.

      • Jack says:

        If the story follows the game, the interesting part of the story (at least for me) starts from the middle, not from the beginning.

        Cool deal. Thanks for the info. I’ll make sure to stick with it long enough to see the mid section. I like the “concept” here, but so far, with one episode in the bag, the execution is rough. Hopefully they’ll hire a new editor for the remainder of the show.

  • Kitsu says:

    But Aroduc, this is probably better than others show you do