Schwarzesmarken #02 — Oh No! Another Cut to Black!

January 17th, 2016

 

I blame Grimgar's montage for having the patience to endure this.

Impressions:

Pretty much the same as last week, only they shuffled things around so that all the extremely tedious stuff happened in the first two thirds and the effortless slaughter of the poor, oppressed BETA with sudden 'shocking' death of character nobody knows or cares about in a way that robs it of even visceral shock. But I already pulled out the OP and extracted the caps, so I guess I better write something. 

The characters continue to be a complete mess of Prissy Carebears and Growly McPermanentBitches, and the writing remains more concerned with talking up the setting through meetings than they do having actual characters populating it. And of course, the answer to every inane decision made continues to be "shut the hell up, that's why." It hasn't gotten any more convincing. At least there was somewhat less of it this week. That's… marginally something, I suppose? It's still moving at the pace of not, and the action scenes are a mess of handwaving and then effortlessly killing the BETA by the tankerload until it's drama moment time and one of them gaily leaps into the air, either to be shot down like skeet or cut to black, because it only gets more dramatic the more times they do it with random outcomes.

 

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4 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Dave Baranyi says:

    Okay – it’s now time for your wrap-up and choices for blogging… The World awaits impatiently.

    BTW – you did miss something totally hilarious by skipping Ajin – they actually started out the episode with somber organ music!

  • Athenyx says:

    This anime is still undecided for me, one hand i hate their erratic pacing but the other hand i like the drama… hm decisions.

  • The Phantom says:

    The only scary thing they have showed off so far is totalitarianism is rather scary, not the aliens, those aliens are laughing matter.

  • Longing says:

    It’s impressive when a show can be so random yet this boring at the same time. I did like when blond pony tail girl said they should work together and then got the crap kicked out of her for it. I guess that counts as establishing their one dimensional character trait.

    The real question this show should focus on: How can anyone take conversations seriously when everyone wears these dumb skin tight outfits that show off their tits and abs.