天下制覇

Forgotten, strangled, and lured into a dark place by an alien. Good start?

Impressions:

Blue Drop oozes pretension in a way that only yuri anime seems able. A girl nearly kills you, you have a flashback to your childhood, throw flowers at her, and then go and throw rocks in a lake while thinking about it. This kind of progression of events is only possible when your writers are sitting on high, looking down on the world and wondering how they can make things as deep as possible instead of following any sort of logic.

Now that I’m done mocking its overblown attempt at art, it is an extremely pretty show and had a very strong musical track backing everything up aside from the little catfight towards the end which was just embarrassing. 

The problem is with the content. Everything seems pulled straight out of Mary Sue fanfiction, with the angry girl who feels that nobody understands her becoming the roomate to a mysterious girl with glowing blue eyes and delving into the mysteries within. Characters who are rebellious and emotional are fine, but so far, the amnesiac Mari was grumpy and pissy just for the sake of being grumpy and pissy… except for when the script called for her to instead go being meloncholic at a lake. Other things also contributed, the long drive up to the girl surrounded by birds, slapping eachother with flowers… all steadfast imagery in your standard yuri anime that seemed to be in there just to be there. I know that if somebody had just tried to kill me, I’d be reaching for something a lot more deadly than a handful of flowers and would certainly not just go mope about it afterwards. Police are there for a reason.

At any rate, Blue Drop did little to threaten uprooting the current leader in my Tuesday sweepstakes, Night Wizard. It’s just entirely too close to bad 10th grade fanfiction for my tastes. It’s all wrapped up very nicely and is great to look at and listen to, but I just can’t bring myself to sympathize with either of the main characters and I’m pretty sure that I won’t be able to step back far enough away from the writing to immerse myself in it.

No summaries for the first episodes. I write as I watch, and I don’t know if I’ll care about a show until after the first episode.