Review of Astra Lost in Space

Kanata no Astra is pure garbage, but it's the garbage everyone talks about. The way the show started, I was thinking this was going to be something of "Star Trek the Anime", which in a way that's how the first half of the show was supposed to turn out. Eventually, as with all bad sci-fi shows, it turns out into this weird primordial soup of just too many different sci-fi concepts. It tried too hard and honestly just fell really flat on its face. The writing is boring, art is static and not even Japanese voice acting could save this show. Story - 3 Prepare yourself for acringefest of the most idiotic characters spouting the cheesiest lines about teamwork and friendship. I actually feel embarassed that I had to listen to it more than how the VA's must have felt reading it. I think from a conceptual perspective, the story wasn't too bad, but the execution (mainly the dialogue) was just pitiful. You could have actually hired a highschooler to write the script for you and it would have turned out better.

Art - 1
If you're someone with a brain, you might notice how incredibly static and non-moving everything is in the show. If you're thinking that's bad, it's actually worse, because not only is everything static, everything looks like it's made out of MS Paint and the animators just fill-colored every scene. Actually even saying that would be too kind for this show because someone who used fill-color would actually have time to put things like proper shading and good color tones to at least make things look decent. I wouldn't be surprised if you told me this was drawn by amateurs, in fact I would be more surprised if it wasn't the case.

Sound - 4
I wasn't really paying attention to the music that well but nothing really stood out to me as a good theme or even remotely exciting. At the very least it has music so I guess it's better than nothing...

Character - 3
The characters are generic and bland. Essentially every character is some literary plot device to be used and thrown away. That's all characters are in this show, overused napkins to cover up the messy plot the writers of this show came up with. And unfortunately they don't even do a good job of cleaning up, the show still turns out to be a steaming hot pile of stinking trash.

Enjoyment - 5
The story is a child's creation of a teenage highschool drama set in space. The art is a lazy attempt to pass off half-worked drawings as decent animation. The characters are plot devices which have no other purpose in the show aside from existing to continue the story. Everything is just so wrong that it's a miracle this even exists.

But as weird as it sounds the show being this bad is probably the one thing it has going for it. Kanata no Astra is like that one fat kid everyone can bully or make fun of. People love talking trash, and I'm no exception. It's that show that people can discuss and criticize with others and oddly enough, you can because it's one of the more popular anime airing this season. And I guess it's because despite being terrible, it does have unique parts of its story which are cliche, but not too common in relation to other airing anime. Being the only one of its genre airing also gives it an edge in popularity strangely enough.

In the end I guess even a show as terrible as Kanata no Astra is preferred over watching an overgeneric isekai.

Overall - 4
Would not recommend, EVER! But if they ever make a sequel, I hope it's as bad as the first one!