Sasaki and Peeps

Watching Sasaki and Peeps had to have been the biggest waste of time I have ever experienced while watching anime. The first two or three episodes were excusable under the pretense of exposition. We learn of Sasaki, Peeps, and the Fantasy World among other concepts. In this review I will be criticizing the plot, pacing, characters, and ost.

The plot is something that can be described as unique. The different worlds, power systems, origins of power could have been one of the more interesting animes of this season/genre. However, there is such thing as too much, too fast. Being hit rapid fire with three different systems of "magic" with no explanation on how these systems work. Along side these systems are their respective groups. For the overworld you have psychics who work for the company along with an anonymous group that fights with the company, in the Fantasy World you have magicians, and a completely unrelated world/group of "Magical Girls" who just randomly appear with no rhyme or reason in the plot besides their hatred for psychics. These four groups interact with each other constantly without any explanation on why they are interfering with the other besides mutual hate and or destruction. Next is what the story is trying to sell you.

In the beginning Sasaki adopts Peeps and learns about the Fantasy World through him. He then learns of being able to transport between the two worlds and begins a life of being a merchant, learning magic, and getting hired by the overworld company for a cool double-life type story. However soon after they introduce these things, Sasaki gets whisked away on trying to help some schmuck who got caught up in a political scene for over half the episodes. What could have been a nice little side story turned out to be the most boring part of the anime. Back and forth dialogue with nothing being said of importance. You could skip minutes at a time of these scenes only for the camera angle to be the exact same and the exact same words being said. During these episodes the entire plot (if there even was any to begin with) gets completely put on hold. From the point of imprisonment, the characters completely stop progressing as people. They are a concept of either a world, magical system, or group. They have no depth, no expansion to who they are and what they want to do, and to top it off all their dialogue is dry and repetitive.

There isn't a single character I could name besides Sasaki and Peeps and that is probably due to it being the damn title of the show. Lastly is the music. When it was actually playing, it was not that bad, for the first few episodes. Once episode four comes around you realize they no longer have anymore ost to play, so they start and stop it abruptly during dialogue or scene transitions only to start the exact same track again. This anime is just a disappointment and waste of your time. The only thing that could be complimented is the animation itself, while its not MAPPA levels of good, it was at least serviceable and wasn't grating to look at.

TL:DR There is no plot, the pacing is horrid, the characters start off as interesting then just get stale and boring, and the music is ok when it actually plays.

Story : 1/10
Characters : 1/10
Visuals : 6/10
Audio : 4/10
Enjoyment : 0/10

Overall : 2/10