Review of A Place Further Than The Universe

Sora yori mo Tooi Basho/A Place Further Than The Universe is a slice-of-life anime pretending to be a good anime. The characters are good but...that's all it has going for it. It may just be the worst anime I've ever seen. Yes, worse than Prisma Illya, which though it commits many terrible crimes (sexualizing child characters, mostly) actually has an interesting plot most of the time. Yes, worse than Magical Girl Site, Wonder Egg Priority and Spec-Ops Asuka, horrible magical girl shows that at least have some interesting ideas behind them. Yes, worse than Assault Lily Bouquet, which may have been a nothing show but, again,at least it had some interesting ideas. APFTTU has NOTHING. All it is, is four characters and some mildly pretty backgrounds. Which wouldn't be so bad if it didn't pretend to be more. The premise of the first half is patently absurd (the show wants you to think that there's no way you can visit Antarctica as a minor, which is blatantly false, you can get passage to the Peninsula easily enough - it's British territory, admittedly, but all the characters have passports anyway so that doesn't matter much, not that Antarctic territory claims are even legal anymore). Throughout its run it references a mystery that the show has no interest in solving, nor even treating as a mystery in the first place! Rather, it just lurks in the background as unrelated shit happens, until the very last moment where it goes decidedly unsolved (but the writers think it is).

TL;DR: I want to take these four characters and lift them into a much better show. Even RWBY, hellish zone of terrible writing that it is, would be a better place for them.