And so here’s my new slot for OASG!
….okay so it’s pretty much the same as my normal one…a little…
…and so I chose a P.A Works show. A summer season P.A Works show. The last time I chose that (Glasslip), the results were catastrophic. Oh well.
- So what was I meant to make of episode #1? Well to be perfectly honest, it left no real mark in me at all. No real immediate grab, unlike the immediate grab that Angel Beats! gave me. Being a kid with a supernatural power is something, sure, but being a douchebag kid with a supernatural power is something else. Yuu is not likable in any way whatsoever; he chooses to torture others for his own gain, blags his way into high school with top marks, plays out a spectacular car crash to save someone he wants to bag as a girlfriend, etc. However, in a lot of shows with MCs that live in their own protective bubble, it can be amusing when they come crashing down to earth, kind of. Even with her merciless cunning, main girl Nao has proven the better character of those three so far…
- …even if we know so little about her or her megane-boy companion who have the same sort of supernatural powers that Yuu has. But choosing out of the three powers, her vanishing act is definitely cooler; possession for 5 seconds and random teleportation just doesn’t cut it for me.
- I wasn’t sure if it’s me or not (as from what I’ve seen so far, people are liking this show a lot so far), but I just see something missing. Perhaps it’s because I’m used to the long 24-26 episode adaptations like Kanon and Clannad. It’s been a while since I saw Angel Beats! but still a decent amount of content was still covered (about the main characters and their school environment) in the first episode. Here it’s as if they’ve left us hanging, so they can show us a massive amount later. Am I coming across as pessimistic? Probably, but so far we have a highly obnoxious main boy, two mysterious kids from another school (the school the show will be set at from now on), and the imouto who pretty much steals this episode with her cutesy middle-school airheadedness and passion for the stars (a common trait in Studio Key shows/games). Are we meant to be on the edge of our seats for next week? I mean we haven’t even been given any real idea on what these supernatural kids will actually be doing. It could be anything from becoming an X-men/Avengers/Justice League group to right wrongs within the academy, to simply forming a tiny club who just read books and drink tea. Well Studio Key don’t do slice-of-life, and I don’t see either of those three using their powers to aid anyone except for themselves. And as the original PV and synopsis we were all given gave us next to nothing, Charlotte could be anything. And yes, the hype train hit me again; I should make it a given just to do hype-train shows in this new slot of mine.
- This is not the Studio Key show I was expecting so far. Fantasy makes up a ginormous part in anything from that studio, whether it be Makoto from Kanon to Kanade from Angel Beats!, from Mio from Little Busters! to pretty much the entirety of Air. Having said that, of course supernatural powers counts as fantasy, so where exactly could this lead us? Not quite down the path of what Angel Beats! was like; this seems (so far) to be set in real-life. This being only the first episode, we could of course see a huge harem of girls for Yuu to take advantage of…the same kind of huge harem in any Studio Key show really. Usually one has the massive crush, one is a loner who reads books, one is a hyperactive little brat, and another being a massive lone wolf girl with a hidden past. Not saying that this won’t be one of them; I mean said studio doesn’t usually stray away from what they do best (which is making gamers/viewers cry uncontrollably when something tragic happens), and they’ve done extremely well with that format so far. I guess only time can tell, and I will have to wait until next week to see how this new academy of his turns out to be. I am, though, not as gripped like I was in any other of their shows.
- I’m normally a patient person, though. Although half of me wants to know more, and the other half has already fallen asleep. Is this already the first sign of the P.A Works summer show curse!?