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BEEP BEEP BEEP UU BEEP UU UU BEEP UU BEEP BEEP

New Season Disclaimer:

I try to watch at least the first episode of every new show in a season. However, do not expect anything I say to be fair or balanced. I value my own entertainment above all else and there are some genres or methods of presentation that I just plain do not like and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. I’ll attempt to at least make a cursory explaination of what did and did not please me about each show, but it’s just a simple fact of life that my tastes are mine alone. Feel free to express your own opinions in the comments, just keep it under control. This is just television after all.

Impressions:

Let us begin by remembering that if Deen did a perfectly accurate adaptation of this show, the first month or so would be painfully boring. If Deen did their usual job at making shows, it’d be boring and ugly. Imagine my surprise then, when this episode just turned out to be… well… only moderately boring punctuated with some hilarious censorship reducing about five seconds to nothing but a serious of bleeps. Well, and my growing urge to throw Maria into a fire. Thank god Rosa slapped the crap out of her, although that just made the Uu Uuing even worse. Good lord, I realize that you’re supposed to be trying to be irritating, Horie, but put a goddamned sock in it. It was making my brain itch.

Granted, after completely half quarter-assing the lion’s share of Higurashi Rei, my expectations for Deen here are rather low. I’m still not totally convinced that it looks good either, as they seem to have found their image editor’s ‘glare’ button and went to town. Or maybe the Ushiromiyas all secrete a thin layer of oil that makes them extra shiny… and probably a lot of fun on water beds. I think Deen realized that this part was a bit boring too and tried to liven it up by highlighting the balconies of every single female. Oftentimes, it looks like someone put a pair of buoys in a dress and then stuck a women inside of it to make the damn thing mobile… and then bleeped it when it talked. 1986 bras were apparently amazing.

I’m really not entirely certain what anybody expected to hear though. If you’re familiar with the VNs, then you know that it’s going to be at least a month before the story actually kicks in, and meanwhile, Deen seems to be content to play up the boobs. At least for the outright weakest portion of the story to date, it’s still very much watchable, so I think most people will be pleased since it’s got absolutely nowhere to go but up and even if the most entertaining parts of the episode were the runaway censoring and well-deserved child abuse, it wasn’t the most boring show I’ve watched today so far though, which I guess is all that really counts.

Umineko OP