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Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon 01 - Um... yeah. This show has two sides to it. FIrst, there is the backstory and world. This side of the show is extremely complicated and confusing and makes little sense. The anime just tosses you into the middle of it with a minimum of introduction -- the characters all know eachother already, and the episode is action-focused so until the end you're just following the action, basically. On that note, however, unlike the plot, the characters themselves all seem to be fairly simple stereotypes, easy to typecast. There definitely seems to be a contrast here between the complexity of the characters and that of the world and story.
Oh, the art and animation are okay, but nothing great. The art design is somewhat average, nothing bad but noting great either. The action is done well, however, of course, as you'd expect from Sunrise.
As for the episode, ignoring the difficult to comprehend backstory explanation thing during the end credits, as I said the characters were pretty easy to understand, none seem very complex. There's the ojousama-type with giant, larger-than-her-torso drill hair, the other ojousama type with as-big-as-her-head breasts, a naked pink incubus, a slime, a ninja guy, some guy in armor (or a robot? I don't know), a shy girl, their female teacher (she's a good fighter and dislikes perversion, of course), etc. As I said, predictable stuff. It's all entertaining enough, because you barely even have to know the characters to start to understand them, but it's certainly nothing deep, yet at least. In this episode, the students are all trying to catch and stop the teacher, as a challenge.
However, through most of this episode, one character is conspicuously absent -- the main character, that guy smiling smugly in the center of the promo artwork. He finally deigns to show up late in the episode. And he does not fail to disappoint... based on that artwork I was expecting him to be an irritating, smug jerk, and he pretty much is. He's otaku too -- he wasn't at (combat) class because he was away buying a newly released H-game, and he takes out the box and shows them all to prove it. Then he
So yeah, the MC is kind of odd. On the one hand, he's an unlikable, smug jerk. He's otaku too, and the MC in a show that clearly wants to appeal to harem-show watchers, based on its female character designs, even if it's not clear if it actually is one (it may not be). But on the other hand, he is actually competent at something, so he's not a complete loser -- he's the president of the class or something, and is good at fighting apparently, even if we don't see it in this episode. Or I think he is anyway. Oh, and did I mention his creepy, annoying smile? Yeah, I'm not so sure if this guy is exactly likable... but on the other hand he did some nicer things, so we'll have to see. Maybe he'll be both.
So yeah, it was entertaining and okay, but certainly nothing great or exciting. I'll watch.
However, though, that doesn't address the confusing part, the plot... but yeah, I think I'll wait on that one and hope that it explains itself better. This episode just doesn't make enough sense.
It's not exactly explained well to say the least. Oh well, though, the show is entertaining without it, or at least the first episode is. I do hope that in the future the show manages a bit better job of actually explaining itself, though. We'll see.
Um, I think you'd need to read the novels to make any sense out of this series at all...
Oh, the art and animation are okay, but nothing great. The art design is somewhat average, nothing bad but noting great either. The action is done well, however, of course, as you'd expect from Sunrise.
As for the episode, ignoring the difficult to comprehend backstory explanation thing during the end credits, as I said the characters were pretty easy to understand, none seem very complex. There's the ojousama-type with giant, larger-than-her-torso drill hair, the other ojousama type with as-big-as-her-head breasts, a naked pink incubus, a slime, a ninja guy, some guy in armor (or a robot? I don't know), a shy girl, their female teacher (she's a good fighter and dislikes perversion, of course), etc. As I said, predictable stuff. It's all entertaining enough, because you barely even have to know the characters to start to understand them, but it's certainly nothing deep, yet at least. In this episode, the students are all trying to catch and stop the teacher, as a challenge.
They all fail.
However, through most of this episode, one character is conspicuously absent -- the main character, that guy smiling smugly in the center of the promo artwork. He finally deigns to show up late in the episode. And he does not fail to disappoint... based on that artwork I was expecting him to be an irritating, smug jerk, and he pretty much is. He's otaku too -- he wasn't at (combat) class because he was away buying a newly released H-game, and he takes out the box and shows them all to prove it. Then he
wins the contest by, after showing off the H-game, touching her breasts in the surprised silence that follows his little speech. Clever, guy, if that was an intentional plot... otherwise, lucky. Either way, she then does the expected and punches him through a nearby building.
So yeah, the MC is kind of odd. On the one hand, he's an unlikable, smug jerk. He's otaku too, and the MC in a show that clearly wants to appeal to harem-show watchers, based on its female character designs, even if it's not clear if it actually is one (it may not be). But on the other hand, he is actually competent at something, so he's not a complete loser -- he's the president of the class or something, and is good at fighting apparently, even if we don't see it in this episode. Or I think he is anyway. Oh, and did I mention his creepy, annoying smile? Yeah, I'm not so sure if this guy is exactly likable... but on the other hand he did some nicer things, so we'll have to see. Maybe he'll be both.
So yeah, it was entertaining and okay, but certainly nothing great or exciting. I'll watch.
However, though, that doesn't address the confusing part, the plot... but yeah, I think I'll wait on that one and hope that it explains itself better. This episode just doesn't make enough sense.
It seems to be the future, and humanity is mostly wiped out because of wars or something. Okay. They live in floating cities, or at least these people do; maybe others live on ground somewhere, though I'm not sure if that is actually on earth, I think they're all in the sky (maybe). At the end, the MC says he is going to go into "Confession", whatever that is (it isn't explained), and say that he likes some girl who died ten years ago, apparently, named Horizon. Given that her name is in the title, I wonder how dead she is...
Then, there was something about history being wiped out or something, and them re-writing history by starting new wars, or something like that. I'm not quite sure why they feel the need to fight wars in order to write their new history, or why they're doing that in the first place.
Then, there was something about history being wiped out or something, and them re-writing history by starting new wars, or something like that. I'm not quite sure why they feel the need to fight wars in order to write their new history, or why they're doing that in the first place.
Uhm... yeah, as for those spoilers, that might be what's going on, but I really don't know either, the show was incredibly confusing. Does this really start in the middle of a random volume partway through the series? Does anyone know for sure? If it does I wouldn't be too surprised though, it's an in medias res opening for sure and makes absolutely no sense. The part that made the least sense of all is the ending credits part, which was nearly complete gibberish really, with how it throws around what seem to be made up words without ever defining what they mean, and then expects that you can somehow understand what it's saying anyway.Geneijin said:
Um, I think you'd need to read the novels to make any sense out of this series at all...
