Often times, the story meanders for large segments of time before commencing the next exhilarating battle. This would not preclude the viewer from enjoying the show if the battles themselves delivered a worthwhile experience. Yet the various scuffles seem like a blurred, unimaginative mishmash of gore and randomness. No demon/monster did anything worth remembering, making each episode seem
trivial. Furthermore, numerous fights had inconsequential dialogue or cut away scenes that dragged out the proceedings unnecessarily — making the pacing quite unbearable.
Hyakkimaru, the focal point of the series, was primarily used to fight demons to reclaim his stolen body parts. Because of his unfortunate disposition, his development as a character was restricted. As a consequence,
was intended to bridge the gap by showing compassion to the various villagers the two came
contact with, and provide comedic relief from the grim adventures they engaged in. That being said, Dororo’s childish antics were far from hilarious, and more often than not, were quite irksome. He also served as a male, ‘damsel in distress’ for Hyakkimaru to save/protect on several occasions; except when Dororo got his arm stuck under some rocks in episode 20, and Hyakkimaru — unable to dislodge Dororo’s arm — proceeded to bash his head against said rocks in rage. Perhaps Hyakkimaru thought the magical force of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (permanent brain damage) would propel the rocks
else.
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Reviews Write review 83 Recommended 17 Mixed Feelings 16 Not Recommended All reviews (116) Mar 27, 2015 HaXXspetten Recommended Here's a show with an interesting theme
About an otaku with a dream:
To create a new game
That puts all else to shame
And produced by the girls from his team
One day he met a girl dressed in white
It was a case of love at first sight
Except instead of love
It was rather kind of
. Like he wanted her soul's copyright
She would model for the female lead
For the game; he made sure she agreed
But despite interests joint
To just get to that point
There was one more thing that they would need
So he then asked with all of his heart
If his tsundere friend could take part
Since under a fake name
She'd gotten tons of fame
For her professional hentai art
Lastly the top student of his grade
With the plotline, he asked for her aid
But as he came to see
What she wrote up was the
Most ridiculous script ever made
So at last the circle was created
Which made the protag oh so elated
However although he
Did not care 'bout 3D
All the girls thought of him as their fated
So they did everything that they could
To ensure that the game would be good
And when there was a chance
At him they'd steal a glance
Whilst pretending to work as they should
Overall it was touching and cute
But there's more where that came from to boot
If you thought that was it
Please calm down for a bit
That was still just the very first route!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Saekano; quite possibly the most positively surprising show of the season.
First of all I would like to say that despite the ecchi tag; the fanservice in this show is very
light (other than episode 00). In reality, Saekano is much more similar to shows like Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai, OreImo and Outbreak Company as it has a character cast mainly consisting of otakus, and it consistently parodies and makes fun of today's anime industry as well as the eroge market as a whole.
In case that wasn't clear, the story is about your typical high-school otaku named Tomoya who has a dream of creating "the ultimate galge" that can touch the hearts and souls of everyone playing it. In order to do so he seeks the help of his tsundere childhood friend Eriri who secretly works as a hentai doujinshi artist on her spare time, as well as the so-called "smartest girl in school" Utaha who is a famous romance light novel author. Together they form a doujin circle and seek to create a homemade galge in order to fulfill Tomoya's dream. As the icing on the cake however, Tomoya also recruits his completely plain and
emotionless classmate Megumi to join the circle, with the intention of "training" her into becoming the model for the game's main heroine.
