Review of Kyousougiga

Long story short, this show could have been made into a movie with all the fluff cut out. It really does feel like Kyousou Giga is basically a person saying "well, what if we made this movie into a 12 episode show?" The story is super dragged out, long winded, and incongruous. We are told the backstory of everyone's past, as if they actually mattered to the show or story at all. It's quite fascinating how little world building there is and how much the story is about diving into the past. Plus, the characters in the show aren't exactly made with depth. You could sumup their personalities quite quickly, to be honest. So why would I care about their past? The story progresses at a pace in which they don't ever reach a point of me caring about the character and the story also never reaches a point where characters actually develop or change.

While looking at the past is somewhat important to the plot, a majority of it truly doesn't really matter, and only slows the story down significantly while adding little to no plot. Plus, you would think that figuring out the backstory of every character would make them important or relevant. In reality, this is not the case. Even more of a case to be made of how illogical the ending is.

You would also think that you would understand a character's actions being made or their line of thought once you look into their past and know more about them. False. They act completely tangent to their respective personalities to progress the plot. The fact that so much effort is put into figuring out what is going on only makes the confusing, puzzling, and cheesy ending even more off putting.

Power dynamics also do not exist. People become super strong, super weak, and are also just cast away in a moment's notice for the convenience of story. You're not relevant to the story anymore? Well, let's just forget you ever existed. Or you are powerful but this certain character needs to beat you to progress story? Well, let's make you very weak now. To be fair, I also know that the "power level" of characters aren't exactly crucial or bear a lot of meaning in terms of the story or characterization. It's not DBZ or anything. But still, it kind of irks me, and doesn't make a lot of sense, just like all of the characters.

Many characters do a lot of "mysterious" things, act completely out of character and say weird things. You would assume that gets resolved as the story unravels and the mysteries become clear, but no. Not really. It just gets shelved away in the forgotten corner and the story progresses. What you get is an unsatisfactory ending with many mysteries untouched or lazily resolved with a few words or actions.

Again, this is why I think that this would have been much better off as a movie. More fast paced story and plot would have meant that the weird things that happen or anything that doesn't get answered can be written off as "well, we didn't have enough time, or it's not relevant enough to the story." Clearly, this show doesn't like making a lot of sense, and it's style really reminds me of what a movie would do in that sense. It doesn't even try to make a whole lot of sense. It doesn't explain anything very well, and the whole approach to the story seems to operate that way, That's fine, but it contradicts itself by trying to also be a slow paced show that explains things. It doesn't do a good job, What ends up happening is a slower paced story that makes little to no sense with a little bit more characterization.

Well, let's look at the bright side. What is good about Kyousou Giga? Well, art is quite good. Not amazing, but very well made. Animation is nice, but you really wish there were more well made fight scenes. Instead, there are some nice backgrounds, but nothing breathtaking, really. Setting is also pretty nice. and the sense of mystery in the beginning is also welcome. The show really leads you on in the first few episodes.
That's about it as far as good things are concerned. Characters aren't exactly the focus of the show. It's moreso of the story, which is fine. But both end up being half baked and thus making it an unenjoyable watch.