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(Three episodes watched): Kind of odd and curious; don't ask me where this is going, because I have little idea. It looks like the four mentioned characters will form a sort of adventuring team. Sally sometimes goes into a sort of a trance and can be deadly afterwards. The story got kind of violent as Sett, a walrus ogre(!) made mincemeat of a city guard then got a taste of his own medicine. This show is supposed to be based on the Peach Boy myth, but it has a distinct dark side to it, which only leaves me more confused. I really wish Frau had been given a more detailed face rather than the super-superdeformed one she has; it is so simple that it's hard to take her seriously. But I was left curious where this would go and decided to watch episode two. It looks like an ogre girl who has been stripped of her ogre powers by Mikoto will be a member of this odd team. Will it continue searching for Mikoto, since Sally wants to be reunited with her? The main conflict of this show remains unclear. I see something here which annoys me in numerous anime: the video game-like 'ranking' of characters by their powers. There are high ranking players who can do incredible things, and anybody else shouldn't even joke about daring to face off with them. It's not cleverness or courage or even luck so much as whatever skills and abilities a character has happened to acquire that determine their status. That is frankly boring and demoralizing; it's basically a sort of 'might makes right' philosophy. But again, this is by no means the only show guilty of this. I had figured that the search for Mikoto (who, it turns out, is a boy, despite his long hair) would be ongoing but no, Sally already finds him in episode three. Again, I was having a hard time making sense of just what the thrust of this show would be. A conflict between humans and ogres, perhaps? Ogres can be anything from hideous hulking beasts to outwardly indistinguishable from humans. A few feel the two races can live in peace, and Sally flirts with this philosophy, while Mikoto's attitude is to just kill them all. I don't feel much of an effort to teach us any sort of lesson about good, evil, persecution or tolerance, however. I frankly became bored with this show and decided to drop it. Last updated Friday, October 01 2021. Created Friday, July 02 2021. | ||||||||
