Anything that I can say in this review is not harsh enough, the amount of laziness and carelessness is just beyond the shamelessness of the medium, to the point that I could imagine them laughing at every single preventable error, thinking about the crappy quality of their product, and I wouldn’t blame them, I would laugh too. The main offender of this whole train wreck is the animation, which is a complete waste of electric energy and any natural resource used to create this, and I mean human resources too. I could understand that some innocent mind would say “Dude, this anime doesn’t need a big bucks animation”, and I gently agree, but I’m not talking about big flashy bangs cumload highlight reel animation, I’m talking about basic human decency animation, I’m talking about not doing a terrorist attack to the fundamentals of art. To exemplify this, I would go to the most pathetic example (Spoilers ahead), the fight between Jahy and the Mahou Shoujo. The fight between Jahy and the Mahou Shoujo featured a background with some random ass stairs, those random ass stairs, that didn’t even play a role in the whole scene, had a different size and inclination at each single take, fisting any sort of theory about perspective, could that be a joke that played with the absolute ass quality of the fight? Is the trashiness warping the time-space? I don’t know, but it was jarring to see, to the point that it is obvious that they noticed and didn’t even care about fixing it (And I’m talking about a static background, take it for granted that the figures of the characters are just cardboard shapes). Such fight is not an isolated case, the concept of perspective just doesn’t exist in the strange world of Jahy-sama, we get random texts that are supposedly attached to doors floating in space because they didn’t even rotate them accordingly to place them correctly, we get characters being three times their supposed size because they just copy-pasted them, is this a consequence about the destruction of the Dark Realm? I hope it is, but these preventable errors are just a sample of how negligent about anything this anime is.
Sadly, the negligence affects the comedy too. In this case I just don’t know about how the manga treats the comedy, but I suppose that the composition of it would make the experience bearable because you can fast-forward through it without dragging the intended joke, drawing your attention correctly between the panels or whatnot. Sadly, this doesn’t work in anime, you need to guide the viewer through an established time to present the punchline in a precise moment, giving them enough time to elaborate the narrative but not enough time to decipher the whole scheme. For sure, this anime gives you enough time to understand the narration, you can make a tea, do a marathon, play some Wii Sports inspired by the blatant copy of the soundtrack, 56, 24, 36, and the punchline is still waiting to be delivered. It is just unbelievable. The anime drags every single punchline to the point that I’m sure that the people who directed this are just comedy talibans, in a mission of destroying every single ounce of fun that can be generated through the apparently set of worthful ideas. Is this a consequence of the animation? I would say it is, if you drag the punchline to mental asylum levels you can play more with still frames that brings absolutely nothing to the joke, incorporate less scenery, cutting every single corner. This works sometimes because it adds suspense, or because the joke benefits from being dragged a bit longer, but most of the time the joke is the fact that we are supposed to laugh at something that can be seen from the ISS
The agonizing dumpster fire of the execution of this anime can just be saved by the interactions between the characters, which brings some remarkable points, portraying ideas about how we perceive themselves in relation to the others, how we define what is important to us, how we define the expectations of the others over us, or a simple innocent misunderstanding that allows us to perceive a touch of sincerity, with the envelope of enjoying the journey and accepting each other. Can that redeem the efforts of the talibans? No, of course not, the anime is supposed to be a comedy, the anime presents itself as a comedy, the energy is the one of a comedy, and the comedy is car bombed by the production. This anime just doesn’t work unless you want to see a loli transforming into a succubus and some random girls with huge milkers that can serve as your company before sleep. At such point of audiovisual mediocrity, why would you watch this instead of reading some quality hentai? I have some numbers, just DM
