Review of Kyousougiga

God. I really wanted to like this anime, I really did, but I just couldn't. The interesting, colorful art, cute character designs, and comparisons to some of my favorite anime was what led me to watch this. Sadly, I can't say the greatest things about this anime. The first episode is just one huge info dump then the next episode stuff just starts happening and they present the story, which intrigued me at first, in the least enjoyable way possible. It was just hard to follow. Here's what watching this anime feels like. There's this book with an amazing, intriguing story, but someone spilled their water allover the book. Now the words all melted into each other and the book is a sopping wet mess, so you wait for the book to dry off and then go to read it. Oh no! The words all bled together. They're still legible, but barely. Now instead of enjoying the story, you're just trying to figure out what the hell the book even says. And now you have a headache.

The concept is so intriguing to me but it feels like almost NOTHING happens in this show. Except things are happening. The way they present it is so long-winded and nonsensical that it feels like nothing is happening. You have to sit through a bunch of boring stuff to get to the good parts. The first 5 episodes were a snore-fest and yeah, sometimes you gotta get through some boring episode to get to the good part, but not when the show was only ten episodes and not when they're honestly just wasting time. This story would've worked a lot better as a movie.

The way the show is presented is really colorful and vibrant, yet bland at the same time, which makes it hard to pay attention to because it's so boring, which then makes it hard to comprehend what's happening. When I finished the show I thought "What the fuck just happened". I was so confused I had to go read summaries of the episodes and when I did? I thought what was being described was really interesting and seemed like something I would love. The thing is that the plot would've worked better as a 1 and a half to 2-hour long movie. Instead, they made it a ten-episode series, making it twice as long as it needed to be. Maybe one day I'll give Kyousougiga another shot and try to pay more attention instead of staring at the scream like a zombie, but as of now, I couldn't get into it. It had such an interesting story but managed to execute it in the least interesting way possible.