Originally Posted by
Empire
:/ So basically the plot of "true justice" aka Saw or w/e horror vengeance movie you want to use.
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The good:
The animation was actually pretty good. It's definitely above average.
I for one liked the opening. But maybe that's because it reminds me of slice of life / Baccano!
Violence ahoy! I'm perfectly fine with violence, as long as subbers explain it. They said it was "nerves" in the subs, and it turns out that it was.......but they were still bleeding. Contradictions will not fly in this type of show.
The potential for breaking outside the norm is there.
Decent character design.
Maybe serious setting? Not sure with the opening.
The bad:
We already knew they were dead from the get-go. If you didn't know that then I applaud you for not only missing the title of the show, but the fact that this theme has been done SO many times that I can't even remember the first time I saw it because it was so long ago. Literally the first thought when the bar came up was "oh, these people must be dead already, because there is a sullen guy there talking about a quiz show". You know what would have been cool? If the bartender had an interesting conversation and they roamed the halls THEN he proposed a game to past time or something. Idk, there is just so many better ways to handle this than straight up going to the game and saying "it's betting your life".
The worse part (imo) of the episode is when they get "flashbacks". Because they aren't really telling of the past, what they are doing is trying to provoke drama and emotion by just saying "look, here is two people who loved and hated each other! Look how they originally loved each other and then grew discontent. Look at that shit, you haven't seen that before huh?". Except I have. It's every single romance story with the headline: "how did we get here? I'm not happy". Seriously, no one fucking cares at this point.
The boring:
For a first episode it really wasn't that interesting.. When I saw it was a husband and wife my first thought was:
"Well I bet they are going to betray each other. There is no other reason to have a married couple if you aren't going to show that.".
The premise of this show is utterly boring to me because it's so limited on the outcomes.
1. You get humans, they do some stupid violent game, drama, they go to heaven/hell.
2. You get some humans who are smart, they go "oh look how cunning I am".
3. The show spends the majority of the time talking about the bartender's life rather than the game itself.
Prove me wrong show. Because I don't see any other outcome than this.