Review of Midnight Occult Civil Servants
I'd be interested in reading the source material that this hot garbage came from. This show was the poor man's Natsume Yuujinchou, completely lacking in all emotion and quality all around. *Sound: terrible. Every time the "Anothers" speak, it's in this weird double voice that makes them exceedingly difficult to listen to. Plus they speak so closely to human nuances that the whole point of the anime is thrown off. *Art: Although the art style is a bit different from typical stuff, the way flying characters just hover with no movement to hair and no realistic movement bothers me. It also bothers me that whena character is looking "thoughtful," they just stare. There is no soul in ANY of the characters' eyes.
*Story: I like the idea. Dude has an ability that allows him to communicate with spirits, but they're not friendly ghosts (except that most love him anyway). He helps people by communicating where they can't, and has a tie to them thanks to an ancestor whom everyone mistakes him for. Sound familiar? It's already been done, and done SO much better!
*Character: So the Ears of Sand main character can hear "Anothers." You have a former host, an androgynous scientist, a tech guy? with no personality, and a whole slew of one dimensional single shot characters. I suppose if the anime stretched multiple seasons they might get development like in Natsume, but as it stands they're awful. Then there's the fact that the "Anothers" are supposed to be so far removed from human understanding that we just can't get along, but by the end of the first few episodes the main character has an Another cat living with him and acting like a cat as well as a supposedly terrifying trickster god from Aztec culture.
*Enjoyment: None. I kept waiting for it to pick a theme that wasn't so heavy handed, but it's really all there is.