Rinne of the Boundary #01 — I’m a Ritalin Hero

April 4th, 2015

  

Didn’t even have the budget for a second expression.

Impressions:

I would say that Rumiko’s really phoning it in, but it’s not like Inuyasha was blowing things out of the water either. The characters here are just so bloody dull, female lead especially. I’m not sure her expression ever changes, or she does anything other than announce the things in front of her face. The titular male wasn’t a lot better. He’s somewhat sullen. And that’s it. I guess that means he’s supposed to be a bad boy or something? I guess at least some of the jokes were more understated, but so much so and so weak that I’m sure I missed some entirely as I dozed in and out of the episode. Screaming irritates me, but this was the dull annoyance of being insistently rubbed with saltines. No highs, no lows. Just the same dull tempo start to finish.

It’s not winning any awards on the plot front either and it’s as cliche as the “unassuming girl sees spirits and meets spirit boy” thing comes. They go through a case of the week (two, really), but neither had any twists, turns, or anything actually happening besides wandering from place A to place B to hear exposition C. 19 minutes in, ghost and dog fused together to form the monster of the week, but that was not what one would call particularly animated, least of which when it paused for the narrator to explain things. The rest is… even less animated. 

I really don’t see anything at all here that they might think is going to hook people and make them want to watch more. Probably saying “Rumiko is involved, and you guys like Inuyasha, right? Right!?” No.

Next Episode:

Carrots.

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6 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Germanguy says:
    April 4, 2015 at 11:03 am

    Ranma-chan is that you again? :)

  • jingoi says:
    April 4, 2015 at 12:56 pm

    Does the Rinne female MC punish the male MC for any minor reason like kagome?

    • SinsI says:
      April 6, 2015 at 4:04 am

      No. While she is present during all the action, she acts like a piece of furniture – she plays almost no active role at all.

  • The Phantom says:
    April 4, 2015 at 6:05 pm

    Female lead looks like Ranma, male lead looks like Inuyasha with short hair, heck even there is a mascot with a different color, which is identical to the fox thing whatever in Inuyasha just different color, the friend rival or whatever looks like a mix of Ryoga and Miroku and the differences dont end there the plot itself is a mix of both shows plus ghosts.

    So yes she phoned it in. Sad that she has nothing new to add, Ranma was probably the best show she ever did and yea the plot was ridiculous but everything was hell funny back then, here female lead is dull and male lead is angsty, what an awful pairing indeed.

  • Anonymous says:
    April 6, 2015 at 6:16 pm

    Actually, Takahashi has been recycling the same characters since Urusei Yatsura, some 35 years ago.

  • ElGoopo says:
    April 8, 2015 at 9:11 pm

    It’s no less rehashed than 99% of anime out there, so I’m not sure that argument really matters. What’s more important is that it doesn’t bring much to the table. No one in the target age demo will know the mangaka, so there goes its only feasible selling point.

    At least other anime actively pander to the demographic they’ve painstakingly pandered to for years, so doing the same shit over and over makes sense. But this is so niche that I’m surprised it actually got an anime.

    It’s a fun enough manga, in a nostalgic way, but as an anime I suspect it will be middle of the road throughout.