“Space Probe’s (Space Pilot’s) Song”
What They Say:
Bouida Haruto is a hardcore otaku who has no interest in 3D (real) girls. One day, he bought a figure of his favorite anime heroine, Nona, but then suddenly, Nona started to move! The frenzied married life between one otaku and one robot (?) is about to start!
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
Amazing Stranger is probably the show that runs the longest that I’m watching at the moment that I feel like there’s the least to say. It holds to some familiar tropes for obvious reasons but it’s not saying much of anything with them. It’s running longer than I think it should be with each episode as the back half tends to be less interesting and the result is a show that drags from early on. I’ve liked the cast as it’s grown but they’re mostly not memorable and more just standard cliches walking on stage for a while.
So I did like that this episode has Nona trying to figure out events a bit more by watching the last episode of Planetary Explorer Girl in order to try and grasp what she was doing. Coming across herself within that story makes things a bit more complicated in a show that really doesn’t need it, but it’s amusing to see the similarities and differences between the two different Nona’s because of their upbringing on different worlds. Amusingly, the alt-Nona reveals that they’re not ambassador’s of peace from their worlds but rather competitors that are set to fight. Not that it means much since they know each other’s moves and thoughts, from fighting to board games, but mostly it just cops out here and we get some nonsense about them actually being research problems of sorts and that they should be friends. It’s just so all over the map that it never really seemed to matter what anything was.
In Summary:
The late back half brings in Kanmuri and the whole thing just kind of exists with things happening, such as a press conference with the girls asking questions. It’s just so unsatisfying and nonsensical that it doesn’t come together well at all. There are some nicely animated sequences in the first half with the action between the two Nona characters that we get, but once they start getting into the philosophical side, it just becomes a stretch of boringness.
Grade: D+
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
