• MeanyMellow@ani.socialEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I still feel like I’m watching a slow-motion car wreck with this one. It feels like it really wants to be profound, but ends up treating its subject matter so childishly. I think the idea of a different type of relationship emerging in a post-apocalyptic show could be interesting, but this show has yet to make it work in a way that actually makes it believable and not just a trope harem.

    • wjs018@ani.socialMEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Yeah, I think that’s the thing that kills me about this pivot to a romance story. The romantic chemistry just isn’t there. The Towa/Akira relationship was by far the most compelling romantic plot they have had so far, everything else just isn’t satisfying and it just makes you want to push Akira to find Towa faster. You know…instead of getting sidetracked constantly.

  • wjs018@ani.socialMEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    This show is becoming more and more of a romance series first, anything else second. I think the main issue is that the leads just don’t have great romance chemistry. Akira is constantly telling them and everybody else that will listen that he doesn’t want to be in a romantic relationship with them. Meanwhile, Yugure basically just ignores him while demanding they get married…but then gets super shy if anything actually happens with Akira. Then Amoru acts like and is treated like a child that is a younger sister of Akira.

    Like…what kind of romance are they even trying to build between these characters? Episode 0 had a much more compelling romance narrative than anything they have put together since. At this point, my expectations for this show have basically evaporated into nothing. It has basically become a better animated version of My Wife Has No Emotion in a different setting.