Orion on Juuden-chan, Umineko, and others

Warmed up after the metablogging, he decided to deliver some smackdowns.

I understand [Juuden-chan] really pushed the envelope in terms of what you can get away with and still be on broadcast television, what with masochism and urination in every episode. Or so I hear anyway. I couldn’t deal with the insipid plot long enough to even find out if that claim is true.

He heard wrong. Nonetheless, after a reasonably promising start, I suspended Juuden-chan without a great fanfare. The treatment of Arresta by the scriptwriters is my main complaint, so it's a manifestation of weak "Ami effect". However, I doubt that Juuden-chan can stage a toradoresque comeback out of suspension.

[Umineko] has most annoying cast of characters I’ve seen since Code Geass R2, which is saying a lot. The dialogue comes across as extremely forced, the characters are all wholly uninteresting, and most of the plot and pacing feels as though the scriptwriters just grabbed random text from the game and stitched it together slapdash.

An enthusiast of Umineko admitted at #animeblogger that the random stitching is indeed the case, but then... Beatrice.

A predictably slow tale of highschool life and budding romance, Sora no Manimani won’t knock anybody’s socks off. It does, however, manage to provide a good amount of random humor, some cool astronomy lessons, and the occasional heartwarming moment.

He forgot to mention inept animation and the little bitch of a main character, but otherwise that's about what it aims to be.

Yuri. That’s the only term that [Aoi Hana] can really be described with, and also its only “redeeming” quality.

If you’re into that you might enjoy it, but beyond that gimmick the plot doesn’t really offer anything interesting or substantive. The characters are incredibly one-dimensional, and not in a good “one-dimensional funny trope character” way. And did I mention that the one dimension is yuri?

Ouch.

By the way, Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou is inexplicably missing from the list, although Element Hunters were included (and deservingly panned).

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