Chaos;HEAD #01 — She Drives Me Crazy
October 9th, 2008 by Aroduc
No, Takumi, you’re already a raving lunatic to begin with.
Impressions:
So… the thing about thrillers is that you generally hope that people aren’t rooting for the killer. When you start out with someone who is obviously clearly hallucinating up a storm, that kind of takes the edge off of any further descent into madness. Above and beyond that, Takumi is a pathetic waste of a human, anti-social, hiding in a shed on a roof, and afraid of his own shadow. I’m already hoping and praying that he ends up dead by the commercial break of the second episode. The gimmick in the game was that you could control his hallucinations and make them either positive and silly, or mental traumatizing. I don’t know how well it worked there, but I’m not really a fan here because they really just come out of nowhere, are extremely jarring, and didn’t really served a purpose this episode except to show that somebody who hallucinates about an anime character is… you guessed it… crazy. Well, and maybe some fanservice. I think if they had tightened those up a bit more and maybe not been so obvious that he was just being crazy, they’d have had a bit more of an impact since at least the audience wouldn’t know for certain that he’s loopier than a box of slinkies.
As expected from anything with Imagin as a headliner studio, the production values were middling at best. They get something of a free bye because hallucinations mean that you don’t need to pay too much attention to consistent art, but they still did absolutely nothing particularly impressive or unusual through the entire episode. I did find the music during the classroom scene to be pretty irritating, but otherwise, no major complaints on that front.
What it really boils down to here for me, is that I don’t like a single character in this show. I wish great bodily harm to befall Takumi, and only whoever the hell it is with the pink hair vaguely intrigues me in the slightest. That may even change if/when she’s revealed to be his long lost adoring childhood friend that he promised to marry or some such nonsense. The sister got the death knoll the moment she pulled out those damn frogs. Every other character should be chucked into an incinerator which will be thrown into the sun which will be thrown into another larger sun. I realize that Takumi’s trying to trivialize the situation into some kind of abhorrent dating game in his interactions with them, but just because he’s a repellant human being doesn’t mean that the rest of them have to be too… not that I’m certain 22 minutes of Takumi would be worth 5-10 minutes of somebody likeable.
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October 9th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Hmm, I was just about to watch this on Veoh. Then I saw your post and decided to go do something else. Thanks for saving me 20 minutes.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
I hate this kind of main character who indulges himself in the 2d world with an imaginary STUPID idol girl and has a face that looks like someone who is about to die because of malnutrition, in addition to living in a dump.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:00 am
I think we have a new contender for worse anime protagonist (aka. fucker that needs to die). Haven’t wished someone dead this bad or fast since Itou Makoto from School Days.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:12 am
watch till the end if you have time for it, apparently takumi gets gar
October 10th, 2008 at 2:15 am
He, i wish to see in a pool of blood the guy from linebarrles. Yhis one can sink depper before diying
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I miss Gaou and miharu. I like better gay characters than this kind of assholes
October 10th, 2008 at 4:19 am
If they follow the game, he sould turn into a badass by the end
October 10th, 2008 at 4:49 am
Ugh, his pants made me go ugh…
October 10th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Lol looks like the main character is a lunatic LOL.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:45 am
wait this was made from a game??? damn they either run out of ideas oorrr they must be high on drugs to make this into a anime
October 10th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
From the screenshots it looks like Clannad on crack.
I’m actually gonna watch this, I downloaded it last night but you know Pangya takes precedence etc..
October 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Trust me, the game is a lot better in execution. However, the initial Takumi (the first 90% or so) is beyond tolerable.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I hope this get better since this was one of the series I was looking forward to watching. So this episode was disappointing.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
You’re supposed to hate Taku… but yeah he gets “better” near the end
October 10th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
I don’t think that’s quite the case. From my perspective, the original story is as much a self-deprecating celebration of Takumi’s lifestyle as it is a jab at him. So while the writers present a caricature fans can jeer at, they also intend for simultaneous understanding and identification (somewhat comparable to say, the Leisure Suit Larry series, which depicts a sex-obsessed loser. Gamers are supposed to laugh and make fun of him, while also sympathizing and cheering for him). The ending is the obligatory payoff.
In light of the target audience, the idea is for readers to feel some kind of pride as they progress.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
If you hate Takumi now, the story is doing its job correctly. :)
October 12th, 2008 at 2:16 am
That pink haired chara looks like a bastardized version of Lala from To-LOVE-Ru O_o
October 12th, 2008 at 5:40 am
But yes, you SHOULD hate him right now. That is the whole point. He was MADE to be hated.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Well… then I guess they can call this introductory episode a success, since in one episode, they’ve managed to make me hate the guy with a passion.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
I like this show already - lead dude reminds me of a friend of mine who prefers 2D girls to trying to get a 3D one.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Something must be wrong with me… I almost fell in love with Takumi…
November 1st, 2008 at 6:17 am
I’ve recently just completed route A of the Visual Novel, after that, watching the anime made my eyes hurt the artwork is horrible!
I’ve decided not to watch the anime and to play through the visual novel instead!