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Whine more, Pinky.

I tried to give Amagami another chance, I really did. But then it had to start with the loser angsting it up all night over being turned down followed by stumbling onto her sleeping and being reduced to a quivering sack of spineless putty all over again. And that was just the first two minutes.

Impressions:

The biggest failing of this show is that I hate about 95% of the characters in it so far. That’s actually one of its biggest strengths too though, since one of them is dead by the end of the episode. Since about 80% of the episode was devoted to the corpse whining about how she hated the village for not being cool though, it’s not really clear how this is going to develop from here. I’d hope that it doesn’t focus on the kid who was happy she was dead because now he didn’t have to close his window to stop her looking at him. Good lord, talk about a terrible tagline to the end of the episode. Every other character outside of the oblivious friend got about 60 seconds of screen time, so this wasn’t a particularly compelling episode.

They did a few neat things with the direction, particularly as Megumi was dying, but for the most part, I don’t think that the pastel color scheme matches well with the show being a mystery thriller. I don’t even want to talk about the cat/dog boy. Ugh. Why? The fat dog, silly beards, and inappropriate comic relief were not highlights of the direction either. If you want to go the silly route with vampires or demon butlers, fine, but don’t think that you can sell horror and slapstick at the same time. I’m not thrilled with the writing either, particularly the fact that there’s a giant castle just laying around in the middle of Japan, waiting for people to move into it… and this is presented as mundane. Aside from that, the production was solid enough though. Nowhere near the most impressive show of the season, but good looking enough in its own right.

All in all, I wasn’t really that impressed. It seems like it could get better or worse. It’s hard to really say when the majority of the episode was spent on a character that is (probably) dead by the end of it and was thoroughly unlikeable. Thursdays aren’t shaping up all that well though, so I’ll probably give it another glance next week, but… eh.