Dagashikashi #12 — Half-assed Fanservice for the Road

March 31st, 2016

 

I guess that's sort of going out on… something.

To head this off, I know I like to release patches on April 1st, but that's because I hate what the internet has turned it into; basically The Purge, except with being obnoxious instead of murder, and for 48 hours instead of one night. I could release a partial something, since I'm a big fan of continuous development and all it'd take is moving a couple files into a publicly accessible area, but I will not be doing that. It's still many months and a few more technical fixes away from being in what I'd call being in a good state. Maybe next year.

Semi-Impressions:

I had basically no interest watching this episode at this point so really kind of didn't. The gist is "status quo, but emotional," to the shock of absolutely nobody. It made sure it smack all its greatest hits one last time around; mistaking Hotaru's nonsense sexually, staring at Hotaru's chest, not having any jokes, etc. At least it saved the attempt to play up fondness for the show that didn't really exist for a relatively small portion instead of twenty mopey minutes of it, but as has always been this show's issue, it didn't fill that time with anything else.

New season starts tomorrow, but it's three sequels and an Okada. What fun. I'll probably only end up covering the Okada since the shortest of those sequels is already 26 tedious episodes in and let's not play pretend here.

Final Thoughts:

An okay start that focused on the candy in segments not long enough to overstay their welcome and enough surreality and wackiness to not excel, but show at least a little humor. Unfortunately, that was all it had in its tank and gave way to the same thing with a different bow on its head over and over and over again, quickly leaving any sign of creativity and life behind, getting right down into that rut, and squatting like a toad. A fat, humorless toad. The cast lacked depth, breadth, and personality. The jokes came too slowly and there was nowhere near the needed variety. Which didn't keep it from occasionally trying to wallow in emotion either, usually with the standard "will they, won't they, of course they won't do jack crap this is anime," and some particularly awful melodrama in the eleventh hour.

Whatever you're looking for in a show, you're not going to find it here. Unless it's weirdly drawn eyes, at any rate.

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3 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Dave Baranyi says:
    March 31, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    Consider this thought… this was a story about four 15-16 year olds sitting around in a very small rural town during the summer. They had nothing much to do but some half-assed part time jobs, so they spent their time shooting the shit and trying to impress each other with their knowledge of useless trivia.

    I don’t know about you – you might have spent your mid-teen summers fighting in a civil war or training for the Olympics – but what we saw here was a lot like my mid-teen years: sitting around with a few friends, shooting the shit and trying to impress each other with useless trivia.

    Does that make for an interesting anime series? No, but then maybe inherently most mid-teen summers are equally uninteresting to everyone else but the participants.

    Now, the question is – why can’t Japanese authors and anime producers understand that?

    • anise_punter says:
      March 31, 2016 at 7:20 pm

      When I was 15-16 I may or may not have had a thing for a long-haired anemic-looking blonde with a face my friends thought was pretty weird, but I’m pleading the fifth on that one it was almost 15 years ago.

    • Opulent Rag says:
      April 2, 2016 at 3:59 pm

      Because it’d stop making them mmmmmmoney~.