Virtual-san Looking · review
Honestly, this anime had me thinking I was in 2018 and my friend was showing me the unfunniest vrchat video on the face of the earth, and they were thinking it was comedy gold. Now I'm not a fan of any of the vtubers featured in this, the only one I had even heard of before watching was Unity-Chan, and I think it's definitely safe to say this anime really is not made for people who do not watch vtubers. First of all, there was genuinely no story for the first half of the anime. None at all, and when they introduced just even a little glimpseof some sort of plot, not only did it not make sense in the slightest but it also felt incomplete, rushed and felt like just another one of their bits they did each episode. They also made it incredibly hard to be invested with each bit being about a minute or two since they were just jumping from bit to bit. Not to mention, each bit was not even funny- I don't think I even laughed once in the last 5 hours, and I honestly would've laughed more watching old minecraft roleplay videos from 2016.
As for the art and quality, this show genuinely looked like it was running on 5-10 FPS. A powerpoint slideshow run on my microwave would've been higher quality than this. And the art- the sad thing is, the 2d art in the opening actually looked ok, and yet it was only used in the opening. The 3d models honestly could've been alot better I feel, as the hair and arms were constantly clipping through eachother and the torso. Whilst I get these vtuber models can be hard to make and it is not as easy as it sounds, they still could've done alot better of a job.
The sound is one of the redeeming parts of this anime, as I honestly didn't have many problems with it whatsoever. The two openings were pretty catchy, and the ending was ok too. The other songs used fit the atmosphere, and the sound effects helped too, but the actual quality of the anime really just made the sound work almost unnoticeable.
And now the characters- After reading the discussion posts on this anime, it's easy to tell all the characters featured in this anime are real vtubers, and probably good ones too! But this anime does not portray them in a way that makes them interesting or in a way that makes me go "Oh, I might check out their channel!" Instead, I'm more uninterested in them than I thought could be possible. They have essentially no personality, and are all unoriginal and boring, repeating the same bits over and over again.
Overall, this is genuinely the worst anime I have ever watched. Again, it might just be because I am not a fan of vtubers! But either way, I feel if you have to be a fan of an outside source to enjoy an anime, it was never that good anyway. Spending five hours of my life just to watch this genuinely felt like torture. This anime is what they show prisoners on death row, and I would not touch whatever the creators of this anime were on with a ten foot pole.
And with that, I'm going to bed. Here's to praying those vtubers don't end up in my nightmares.