I ... uh ...
If you haven't watched this, I
highly recommend it. Not because it's good, but because it's
hilarious. I especially recommend watching it while live chatting with a friend who shares a love for terrible but bonkers TV.
The tone of the entire series, episode to episode, scene to scene, is non-stop DRUMS! CHOIR! PRIMAL SCREAM!
I watched it expecting something like Castlevania because it's done by the same animation studio, but it has absolutely no subtlety or self-restraint. Castlevania could be entertainingly extra too, but it also had things like
characterization and
storytelling. They both have a penchant for "edginess" but Castlevania's edgy moments are more earned.
I think it could have been an actual
good show if it was longer. There was simply no time at all to make us care about the characters and their conflicts. As it was, it was just crammed full of:
(a) exposition
(b) more exposition
(c) seriously is the exposition over
(d) tragic backstories (told though more exposition)
(e) the female gaze
(f) tropes turned up to 11
( In case you don't want to be spoiled for the, uh, plot, I'm putting my favorite moments behind a cut. They're not super-spoilery, because I'm keeping details vague, but I dunno you. )I actually hope there will be fanfiction for this series. The thing is, we know almost nothing about most of the characters. We see very, very little of their lives and their relationships outside of the (very compressed) events in the series. There's a lot of room for for fun.
P.S. Hermes looks like a penis.
