Mekaku City Actors | Episode 1 | TFP Review
Buckeye: That was just weird, but I expect nothing less from Shaft. I feel like I’m watching Sasami-san@Ganbarani again, but this time with a Miku-like AI to interact with. Anyway, this show looks pretty good, and I will give it an extended look.
27CansOfTuna: The opening discussion to pull us in, internal Shintaro dialogue with the visible genjutsus present all throughout his room to make us envious of it, and even Ene’s witty commentary always, just really surprisingly entertaining.
Second half with the colouring employed for the key scenes, Kano’s voice actor having a mighty fun time and even kano the character himself just being all around lovable and hilarious with his comments and looks, with Seto chiming in too, kind of got to me to rewatch it a second time.
GingaDaiuchuu: Another Shaft show on Saturdays! I just watched that third Madoka movie, too.
Mostly interested in the history of the franchise and loving all the different musical creators working together for the music in the series. And of course the Shaft animation is always nice. Hopefully the story catches my attention more in the rest of the series.
Library-chan: And we get more Kana Asumi. As soon as Ene started talking (like Nyarko), I knew it had to be Asumi. And she’s play some Miku like avatar? Isn’t this anime based on some Miku Hatsune song?
stardf29: Ah, yes. It’s been a while since I got to say this about a SHAFT show, but…
…what the heck just happened?
Oh, and there was a lot of SHAFT-ness in the animation. Plus a random Hidamari-style wideface shot of the Kana Asumi character.
Gildor: Well, I’ll have to figure out just what the heck is going on with this show before I can tell whether I like it or not.
bctaris: Yeah. The stubborn concept of a group of disparate people coming together with a particular power (their eyes, apparently, going off the story premise, and as indicated in this first ep), who will, I’m sure, try to shape something–society, the world, thought itself–into something else more obnoxious than its original. Or it could be good. Suppose I owe a contemporary Shaft show a couple more episodes.
The introduction of the art/design style in the beginning borders on pretentiousness. Akiyuki Simbo’s influence, well defined as it is, begins to repeat itself at certain times with a career as long as his is; feels at times like it’s just motifs from Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko being endlessly re-imagined. And, oddly, given the premise, I was reminded more of Gonzo’s production for Welcome to the NHK here. Will have to wait until the good citizen translators fill out the Encyclopedia entry, but I’ll be curious to see who’s actually responsible for animation and art design.
