![]() ![]() ![]() Hope the background characters get a bit more work, the ones in the pub felt a bit scrappy in terms of design and animation. The backgrounds are pretty interesting, specially the ones in the forest landscape. Hearing Inori Minase voicing the young main lead does give me hope for the long run. Pretty good atmospheric fantasy title to start the new year. I realise I've spent much of this post criticising it, but I did enjoy it (the main characters are certainly likable and it's very easy - too easy - to grow attached to them), just less than I had hoped for and considerably less than I did the series that was aired just before it. Will I continue with this series? I guess it depends what I feel like when it airs. At the very least that would have given me an idea of how much this was an introductory scene-setting episode and how much it actually continues like this, but I didn't and thus can only comment on what I watched. It probably would have been better if I had watched the second episode as well. Nor does this episode, in itself, actually show them doing what they claim to be doing - searching for humans. Nor is there any mystery of what happened to the people - it's very clearly laid out (from the perspective of the monsters) in this first episode. Thus this is not the relaxing journey type series. And the girl, at least in this first episode, is both very evocative of parental instincts and such a carefree spirit - usually something I'd be fine with or even see as a plus point but in the setting of this first episode it just put me on edge with worry for her. I suppose I should have expected it based on the synopsis, but this goes way beyond persecution - to the point where basically every living thing would want to eat her if they know what she was. Not to say it's bad - the visuals are stunning and the setting an interesting one.īut the whole "pretending to be something else" thing is not something I'm particularly fond of in stories. Of the two pre-airings (the other being Kyokou Suiri), this was the one I was most looking forward to, but ended up being the one I enjoyed less of the two. (This episode was watched at the pre-airing by Crunchyroll at London MCM Comic Con on 25th October 2019 - episode 2 was also aired but I had a train to catch so had to leave after the first one) DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ![]()
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