The main character, Angelise, is the beloved princess of a magical utopia whose only problem is the presence of magic-negating mutants called (hilariously) “Normas”. That turns out to be in the future, however, and we flashback to see how they got there. The first scene gives us girls in elaborate transforming robot armor, battling lightning-shooting dragons that emerge from a rift in space. This one felt like a bit of bait-and-switch to me. When fighting dragons and monsters, it’s important to dress … practically. But it’s bad enough that I’m going to hold off on watching this one until an uncensored version becomes available, which CrunchyRoll has promised will happen at some point in the future. No one seems quite clear on why since the show isn’t that gory, relatively speaking it may be a timeslot issue. This time it appears to be gore that’s the problem, and some scenes are almost entirely blacked out.
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Censorship happens occasionally in anime - Japanese law about what can be shown on TV at which time are strict and complex - but it’s usually a sexy scene that goes a bit too far that draws the censor’s ire. More problematic, though, the censorship of the show is so heavy as to make it nearly unwatchable. (For example, the captain recruits our protagonist from an underground pit-fighting ring where he’s punching it out with a bear.) We don’t get a lot of character in the first episode, though some hints are intriguing. As a straight action-adventure show, it’s a bit over-the-top, so much so that it has touches of parody to it. I’m really not sure what to make of this one, for several reasons. The villainous cockroaches, hurling … something? It doesn’t help that the cockroaches remind me of The Tick. Lots of gore and body horror here, naturally, so those that don’t care for such things should steer clear. The show seems to be doing well with the premise - we have minimal high school geekery, and they’re getting down to alien fighting by the end of the first episode. I read this manga, long ago, and remember enjoying it quite a bit. The aliens can sense one another, so Shinichi finds himself targeted, and is forced to work with his new “passenger” to survive. Lots of other alien also landed, and when they succeed in taking over the brain of a human that person becomes a fully alien monster and goes on a killing spree.
That kind of sounds like the setup for a raunchy comedy, actually, but this is closer to horror. It talks to him (with a slightly disturbing-looking mouth) and can move more or less on its own. He manages to keep it from getting to his head, so it settles for his right arm, which he discovers has been replaced by a stretchy, shape-changing monster that is now permanently attached. Izumi Shinichi is a nerdy high school student who wakes up one night to find himself under attack by a worm-like alien.
This alien monster looks scary, but it’s actually in constant danger of biting its own eyeballs off.
Definitely a strong contender for best show of the season to date, though those who want action and combat should look elsewhere this is a cute, humorous character drama.
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The side characters are still being filled in, but there’s already been some great moments with the park’s hard-drinking fairy “mascots”, led by Moffle, who is a dead ringer for Bonta-kun from Full Metal Panic Fumoffu and is always up for a brawl.Īll in all, I’m really happy so far, and hoping for great things. Seiya is an interesting character, more self-centered and narcissistic than your typical blank, put-upon protagonist and therefore somehow more deserving of the weird stuff that happens to him. It’s a great example of economical story-telling: we start with Seiya being dragged to the park, with no long exposition about how normal his life is or his everyday worries in school. Their oracle predicted that Seiya might save them if he was made park manager. Unfortunately, they’re doing badly enough that if they don’t get another 250,000 visitors in the next couple of months, the developers will close the park. The park, it seems, is actually the habitation of a gang of magical creatures exiled from their homeland, who need the adulation of humans to survive. She gives him a tour of a run-down amusement park, and then reveals her true motives. Seiya, a smart but self-absorbed high school student, gets essentially kidnapped and taken on a “date” by a girl named Isuzu. This derpy crocodile is VERY upset about the park closing.
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