{"id":8388,"date":"2020-08-27T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2020-08-30T05:01:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T05:01:02","slug":"assorted-non-comedy-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/assorted-non-comedy-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"Assorted Non-Comedy Anime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fairy gone<\/a>: I can’t think of a single good reason to keep watching this series beyond the pilot episode; the characters are awful and the fairies are Persona<\/a> ripoffs.<\/p>\n

Katsute KAMI Datta KEMONO-tachi e<\/a>: This show does not make a good first impression. While it amazingly enough manages to overcome that handicap by focusing on the corruption of various characters’ personal desires, by the halfway point that effort turns out to be for naught when it goes all-in on the battle shounen angle. The (thankfully rare) bits of comedy are also uniformly terrible.<\/p>\n

Assassins Pride<\/a>: Questionable beginning aside, this briefly fooled me into thinking it was going to be a fairly standard ‘academy tournament’ or ‘rise of the underdog’ type of story… only to turn into a discordant mess of unrelated ideas instead.<\/p>\n

Granbelm<\/a>: A magical mecha battle royale series with Madoka<\/a>-like characters and an early streak of comic relief centered on the protagonist’s airhead fa\u00e7ade. The problem is that it starts when the battle has been raging for a year, so instead of exciting early eliminations you have an extended see-sawing stalemate that wears out its welcome before the series is even half over and big dramatic moments that come across as arbitrary. What’s really annoying though is that episodes 10 & 11 (which have an almost completely different theme) are pretty damn good.<\/p>\n

How disappointing. An almost complete wash, I’m wondering if I should just stick to comedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fairy gone: I can’t think of a single good reason to keep watching this series beyond the pilot episode; the characters are awful and the fairies are Persona ripoffs. Katsute KAMI Datta KEMONO-tachi e: This show does not make a good first impression. While it amazingly enough manages to overcome that handicap by focusing on the corruption of various characters’ personal desires, by the halfway point that effort turns out to be for naught when it goes all-in on the battle shounen angle. The (thankfully rare) bits of comedy are also uniformly terrible. Assassins Pride: Questionable beginning aside, this briefly fooled me into thinking it was going to be a fairly standard ‘academy tournament’ or ‘rise of the underdog’ type of story… only to turn into a discordant mess of unrelated ideas instead. Granbelm: A magical mecha battle royale series with Madoka-like characters and an early streak of comic relief centered on the protagonist’s airhead fa\u00e7ade. The problem is that it starts when the battle has been raging for a year, so instead of exciting early eliminations you have an extended see-sawing stalemate that wears out its welcome before the series is even half over and big dramatic moments that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,431,454,16],"tags":[172,203,205,174,173,193,176,178,28,184,187,334,175,181,29,412,411,30],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-autumn","category-2019-spring","category-2019-summer","category-anime-related","tag-action","tag-anime-original","tag-battle-shounen","tag-comic-adaptation","tag-comic-relief","tag-crunchyroll","tag-drama","tag-dropped","tag-fantasy","tag-finished","tag-funimation","tag-hidive","tag-incomplete-source","tag-ln-adaptation","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-series","tag-televised","tag-urban-fantasy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t