K 01:
I busted out laughing when I saw these guys. Specifically, at the realization that I was supposed to take them seriously.
In a world still reeling from the aftereffects of the unspeakable Lisa Frank Disaster, a cute little wisp of a high school boy gets caught in the middle of a war between the Not-Shinsengumi and a roving gang of magical douchebags clad in the most punchable assortment of hoodies, beanies, and fur-lined coats imaginable. With the help of a naked ghost girl that transforms into a kitten, he must confront a bloody past that he doesn't even remember and put to rest any notion that his show's laughably overwrought attempts at creating a hip urban sensibility will achieve anything better than abject failure.
GoHands has created an anti-miracle. The combination of negative factors influencing the creation of this project is beyond belief, and yet it exists.
K was already almost certainly doomed from the start due to its gimmick of tasking an (until recently) anonymous internet collective of LN authors with its writing, but no one could have expected this final product, even with the past few months' worth of quasi-pretentious PVs whose kitchen sink barrage of ambiguous elements portended convolution. This Mardock filter, though--that on top of everything else is just sublimely awful, and to think that the GoHands staff who first unleashed this horror on the world in
Mardock Scramble have such a boner for their hideous rainbow smears that it's now a
standard point of art design for the studio and believe it will
increase the marketability of what they produce........I don't know what to say.
K's "potential" is off the charts.
The truly funny thing is that the show is desperate to be "artistic" and yet fails at some of the simplest things. One scene involving a bento randomly uses actual photographs of food for some of its contents even though this effect is never used anywhere else in the episode--urban architecture and people wearing crazy-ass clothing are easy to draw, but a chikuwa is just TOO HARD. Perhaps most egregious, though, was GoHands' continuing tradition of having the worst CG cars in anime. Just.......this:
And if that isn't enough to arouse your disgust, get this--the wheels on the car don't move. It just statically glides across the screen and hopes you won't notice. And no, it's not a hover-car. It's the physical representation of laziness. Please don't watch
K.
