Well, I didn’t think we’d be getting
one of these this early on.
I’ve been reviewing anime on this blog
for over a year now, and in that time I’ve only dropped one show I reviewed
weekly: last year’s really bad adaption of the Ace Attorney games. Today I’ve decided what will be the first anime
to join it in the hall of shame, as I cannot bear to watch another second of Alice to Zorokou Episode 4.
This anime’s been on a pretty steady
decline since the pilot, and I kind of figured this was coming after last week’s
episode stuffed with filler and corporate sponsorship. While Episode 4 is
nowhere near as mind-numbingly boring as the pilot to Sagrada Reset was, it’s still enough for me to call it the last
straw.
It was just talking and talking about
things we already know about from the last three episodes. Then at one point
they try to throw a curveball where someone says Sana might not be human…which
then segues into more talking!
I was so bored that I looked at the
video’s progress bar to see how much longer I’d have to put up with it. Much to
my horror I saw that I was only seven minutes in, at which point I looked back
at the screen to see what must be the most uncomfortable moment in recent anime
history.
Sana is drugged by the evil hairy-arm wielding
agent from last week, and once she’s injected with the serum she pees all over
the floor. I find it hilarious that this show can barely animate their main
characters half the time, but when they need something gross and unnecessary happen
they make it look as good as they can. We then go into Sana’s mind where she
meets either her mother or a future version of herself or whatever. Upon
meeting this apparition, Sana, who I’m sure has plenty of questions about the
legitimacy of her humanity as we saw just a few moments earlier, makes a
comment about her breast size.
Who wrote this?
You mean to tell me that Sana, who
looks to be about eight years old at most, who’s been separated from the only
family she’s ever known, and who just
learned she might not even be human at all is making stupid and juvenile boob
jokes!?
No. I’m done.
I’m not scoring this episode either.
It doesn’t deserve the satisfaction of joining trash like Lego Worlds and the Sagrada
Reset pilot among others at the absolute bottom of the barrel stuff I’ve
reviewed on this blog. This episode just plain doesn’t care about anything, so
I won’t either.
Between the awful animation, the
inexplicable corporate sponsorship, the garbage writing, the eye-gougingly
painful CGI and the overdose of talking and exposition, I cannot stand another
second of Alice to Zorokou. If you’re
looking for a new action anime to watch this season, I beg of you, watch Re:Creators instead.
FINAL SCORE (This
Episode)
DISQUALIFIED
FINAL SCORE
(Overall)
2/10
Awful
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