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kubuskater
I´m a german-Youtube-anime-critic.
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Reviews
Shikong Shitu (2016)
I didn't finish this Anime... This Anime finished me.
Story: The Story of the Anime is a classic "Your-in-a-buildng-with-monsters-survival-story": The protagonists are trying to get out of the place, while solving the mystery behind it. Sounds pretty simple, huh? Well it is, and it is a big accomplishment to fail at it this hard. My biggest Problem with the Story is, that the pacing is to slow. Like Snails. In Slowmotion. The fact, that's it's very generic, and that the action is shot so lazy and so boring, makes it even worse. Another big Problem is, that the scenario is never solved. There is a truckload of plot holes (to many to list them here)and an open ending. At this point, i have to say, open endings are not particularly bad, they just have to make sense (A perfect example: "The Lorax", the book from Dr. Seuss). But here you just have a blunt cliffhanger. It seems like the makers wanted to do a second season that hard, that they forgot to make a coherent first part. The highlight was the first episode, which wasn't that bad at all. Characters: a hard one. The characters are in the best case stereotypical. They tried to do a Group based Story. just bad, that the group splits up at the beginning and just re-units at the end. They don't have a balanced screen time neither and the forced love story between two of the main characters is just outta nowhere and unauthentic. The backstories are completely irrelevant and dull. Art style: The art style is OK. not bad, not groundbreaking, just OK. It has fitting colors and not too much bad CGI. Music: average All in all the Anime is just the slowest shot in it's own leg of a Anime studio that i ever watched. It's boring and uncreative. It pays no respect to the audience has one of the worst endings imaginable.
Hand Shakers (2017)
The answer to a question that has never been asked...
Story: The story is a loveless, generic, repetitive mess. It's completely constructed and inauthentic. There's even a filler episode.
Characters: The Characters are blunt and emotionless. Sometimes they have wrong or no reactions to they're situation, which there are never reflecting or even think about. The relationships between the Characters are completely constructed and inauthentic too. The side characters are boring and do have no personality neither. Their introductions are horrible. (Koyori isn't even a Character!) Art-style: To his Credit: It has a own and remarkable art style! ...a pity that is so bad: The lighting is awkward and and the textures are low-resoluted and sometimes without shaders. The mixture between 2D-and 3D-textures is a bad idea too, because they are sometimes not synchronous (tracking shots). The coloring isn't good too: There are pointless sparkles and everything looks like clean and Chrome or clean chrome.
Music: lower average.
Setting: boring and unintelligent: through it's construction it can never be solved and so it's not possible to achieve a major plot point (like in Mirai Nikki). That's making it pointless!
The Anime is a incoherent and lazy mess. It's boring and adds noting new to the Anime market. It seems like the makers didn't even try! There's little to no effort put in this...thing. And that's perceptible IN EVERY FRAME! If you want to tell a story, you must have a story to tell! It makes so many, so elementary mistakes, that i just feel betrayed. It's like watching a mirror that is punching one in the face! Not even the title is wright: It's called "Hand Shakers" but there are HOLDING hands. Who had that idea? All in all it's a waste of time and money and it pays no respect to the audience and is just in every way insulting. The story is bad, the characters are boring and the art style is beyond awkward.