Spring 2014: "I finally won't be out of town" season
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Re: Spring 2014: "I finally won't be out of town" season
Tekkaman Calamity wrote:You are already dead.
Black Bullet in review:
Ahem, BB did not have good pacing. Fights ended incredibly quickly and we just pretty much went from one scene to the next. Also some tragedies lacked impact because well... we didn't spend enough time with them! Other scenes kinda dragged on for awhile with no real point.
It did not have good character writing. A lot of the characters are poorly developed. Most evil characters kinda got off on being evil and didn't exhibit much thinking. Others didn't get any writing at all. WTH was the deal with sunglasses other than just being a body to make their final unit a nice odd number?
It did not have good budgeting.
Yet despite all of these flaws, I loved this show half to death and counted down each week.
I dunno, the whole loli cuteness one moment and then loli abuse the next kept me hooked for more. Also themes of prejudice, revenge, and existentialism. I thought these things were pretty well explored, though they kinda went overboard with the prejudice at times, and there were plenty of times the show drove me into a rage and actually kind of made me care about the main cast.
7/10 would watch a season 2
So I didn't have much to say, and then the last episode happened, now I do.
For the most part I agree with your review. While the show did some questionable decisions and made me question WTF? sometimes, I have to note that it also touched on things that most other animes just throw to the curb, for instance instead of Kisara just being a "girl who's always been sickly" we are told that she has to go in for Dialysis for a failing Liver. These are all source-material issues though.
On the subject of the pacing, I actually think the first two arcs (Kagetane being bad-guy arc, and Tina's arc) were done relatively well, but yes some fights ended far too quickly. I think I relate this to Freezing in that using the monsters that they have to fight against and the mysteries surrounding them are well used as a pretense for the plot, but as soon as you focus on them the show starts to suffer. I would have rather seen Black Bullet continue with enemies and conflicts revolving around world political issues and backstory revelations (like Kagetane and Rentaro being a part of the mecha-human project thing). Once the
On the subject of characterizations, I agree that the characters were all static throughout the show, with the exception of Tina switching sides and LAST EPISODE EVIL-KISARA I KNOW YOU LOVED THE SHIT OUT OF THAT THAHN. That being said, I liked the characters; Rentaro was a likable brotag, the lolis were all great, Kisara and Ojou-sama's rivalry was awesome, and Seitenshi was the white knight lady that would put Harvey Dent to shame.
Aside from the specifics, yes, the prejudice theme was well done and the setting was created pretty well. Also loli island was hilarious in the first episode's end.
All in all, BB brought to light a lot of good usable backstory and decided to ignore it for 8 episodes, but this ending suggests more in the future, and I'll be eagerly waiting.
9/10 (effective 8 on my list)
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