I mentioned previously that it's conclusively proven that reinventing with improvement could be done in anime again and again (and not just in successful remakes like Kanon), but it does not suggest that it's impossible to reinvent poorly or fail to reinvent. Rinne no Lagrange is a show that steals bits and pieces from everywhere without any regard at to if they actually work here.

On paper, all these elements made sense. For example, Minugami's personal attachment is Feito, clearly. Who can say no to that? Honestly, I do not understand why all these good things completely fail to engage in Lagrange. Sure, I really wanted her to jump into the abyss after her mother, but the story was compelling, there.

I get the impression that Tatsuo Saito had something else in mind when he planned to make Shinji the main character, merely genderswapped and in a jersy. But he only oversaw the production. Mouretsu, the series that he actually directed, was bad in entirely different way. Its story bored me and made me uncomfortable (which I did not find matching its light purpose), but it oozed a professional sense or aura. Not this.

So it was a bad show generally. But the annoying fanservice did it in for me. Unfortunately, I do not remember who was the blogger complaining about the skinny-dip scene, but I survived that. The convenient excuse for me to drop occured when Array apparead as a maid.