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(Two episodes watched): 'Ah, I get it' I said to myself near the end of episode one. 'It was trying to be funny!'. Up 'til then I had been perplexed about what the concept behind this show was meant to be. This is partly a comedy, with Shu being continually embarassed on monetary matters despite the deadly serious work he does. Needless to say, I was not laughing a whole lot, but it takes more to make me laugh that it takes for the average person. It had all seemed sort of creepy-funny to me, what with lines like 'It's time for us to take some medicine and head over to heaven'. At least the premise was sort of interesting: he enters a sort of virtual reality meeting where bounty hunters are informed of rouge Demons, or 'D-hazards', and make bids on what they would charge to kill or capture it. At first I had thought that this hunting also took place in virtual reality, and maybe Shu was a sort of professional competing video gamer, but no, it seems to happen in the real world. What exactly Demons are is left for a later episode, but if Kisara is one then it could be inferred that they are not necessarily evil. The big fight was fairly wild but as is often the case magic plays a major part which means there's no telling what's possible and what isn't, which makes it hard to tell what's really going on and how much danger the characters are in. And what was the Demon doing while Shu, Kisara and Ayano devised a new strategy? In the end no one but the Demon gets seriously hurt, despite it being much stronger than the hunters had expected. And Kisara needs to undergo 'The Ritual', which involves a kiss (if not more) from Shu in order to power up to full strength. Since I didn't find this to be terribly funny the plot will need to be good, but it is too soon to say if it will. I will watch some more. So, Bayron City is sold to the public as idyllic, when in fact it has a demon problem. The city's success seems to be tied to 'Orgonium', some amazing energy producing substance, which I'd be willing to bet is also somehow the cause of the demon infestation. Episode two ran much like episode one for me--most of the jokes fell flat, and I hardly even noticed that an attempt had been made to make me laugh. One (relatively) big joke at the climax reminded me that humor was supposed to be a major factor whereas I had been concentrating on the plot and drama. That does not bode well for the show as a whole, but I remained fairly curious about how this Orgonium/demon business will play out. Also, how did Kisuna wind up fighting against her fellow demons? Is a 'demon' actually a human who has been harmed by exposure to orgonium? But my interest in the show as a whole fell off and I did not watch any more. Last updated Thursday, September 29 2022. Created Sunday, July 03 2022. | ||||||||
