Made in Abyss #01 — Your Random Bit of Trivia For the Minute Is…

July 7th, 2017

 

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Six shows to get through this afternoon. I may very well need a break in between them at some point.

Impressions:

I feel like this episode is done in by a thousand little cuts. And also the big ones where it just stops giving a rat's ass entirely and lingers on shots of scenery. Mostly though, it's all the random bits of trivia that it spits out for little reason, purpose, or occasionally even relevance, and then just proceeds right along, especially through the second half. "You are all orphans." "This room is full of torture equipment." "I have a penis." The worst abuse was when she was called out for getting into trouble. The teacher dude reviewed what happened, told her she was acting suspiciously, she reviewed what happened, repeated that she was acting suspiciously, and then… they just dropped it. If you were trying to waste my time, then fantastic work. I suspect it's because these things occurred in two different chapters of the source, and the writers are just too lazy to not adapt something despite it being a recap of what happened three minutes prior. No matter the case, it doesn't speak well.

And since this purports to be about wonder and adventure… at length… by narrator no less… that would be an issue. The characters aren't particularly interesting, and the story consists of "Hey, there's this dungeon, and a robot boy with amnesia." If this is it putting its best foot forward on those fronts, then it's at best distracted and meandering. Perhaps not quite as obtrusive or obnoxious about the 'world-building' infodumps (he says with spite) as some shows may be, but no less eager to tell us about random minutia in lieu of putting in actual content. 

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  • elior1 says:

    not bad but not good as well