
a review by DYNASTIA

a review by DYNASTIA
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS
I don't know what to think of this somewhat pathetic return to the 90s to fill up a critical lack of inspiration. To make this horribly vulgar decade a model, we must have fallen very low and this is probably the case, which ends up making a turd like this occasionally float up to the surface.
We will say that even if it means taking models to compensate for a complete absence of creativity and a visceral lack of imagination, it is perhaps not the worst idea in the world for a TALENTED MASTER OF HIS CRAFTS to turn to the Devilmans and the Parasytes of his childhood (even something more recent like Dorohedoro), imagine that one day, we make rehashes of these damn cutlery people.... HaHaHa... can you see the nightmare from here?
What is annoying, above all, is not being able to offer anything original or aesthetically coherent in an action series. The men have ridiculous haircuts and the women are painted in vomit colors with scars on their faces, period, it's terribly embarrassing and it's not the CGI and faux POV shots that will make up for much...
The use of CGI use is cheap, and the expressions of the characters are rigid, after seeing the mediocrity of the manga's illustrations, it was perhaps complicated to adapt...
So much so that it couldn't prevent this wet firecracker from selling fewer DVDs in Japan that the new Bleach series and an umpteenth sports anime.
The Americanized, comics style this series verges towards also obviously has its fair share of ridicule with the super-powered Junkman and the ''demons'' he fights, each seedier than the other, competing in hideousness and childish attributes. And that's when you realize that everything is ruined, that the LITTLE CHAMP :) at recess has no longer just become the privileged or even unique spectator of all the cultural abomination of the twenty-first century, he draws and produces TV now, I don't really see how it could ever get better ...
Of course, this is not the case, a story of rare crudeness, a complete absence of stakes, a hero beyond dullness, a flagrant inability to tell a story, and the whole thing proves above all to be a pretext for an accumulation of disgusting creatures straight out of a diseased brain.
And this accumulation of clumsy themes... a new stupid thing is introduced with each episode, it's exhausting...
No doubt EVERYONE will identify with the mollusk of a protagonist, who starts off being an orphan monops with testicular cancer with more misfortunes than a POC in an indie film. Herbivore men everywhere will, no doubt, be inspired by his quest to touch boobs, which probably will help their self-confidence :)
This revolting proliferation will of course be described everywhere as prodigious genius or even as thunderous imagination, and so much the worse if the gratuitousness of these monstrosities is useless, so much the worse, also, if the nonsense much more often demonstrates the wretched poverty of the imagination than its deployment and that the absence of the slightest overall rigor here seems to be the golden rule.
I could have felt more Holidays warmth in my heart to give it a 3, I could have also given it a 3 to get it higher than things of bad memory like «Guilty Crown» and «Black Clover».
I could have given it three for the faint premise this anime had of being a sympathetic Shonen with a rare road trip-like premise.
But I finally won't... I'll give it the just treatment of the recycling bin.
Just like the one given to the two or three MAPPA animators who had to spend Valentine's Day keeping Makima's asscrack tight per butt shot.
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