Sasaki and Peeps (light novel)
| Personally i think it was enjoyable so far, I don't understand why it got such a low rating and so few people watching it, i mean it's not groundbreaking but surely it deserved at least a 7.5 or 7.8 at max. or maybe people just don't like it that much? idk please tell me your opinion about this show Thread locked for not encouraging discussion. Anime Discussion Rules: 2.e Please refrain from creating threads that do not encourage meaningful and/or civil discussion. Examples include: e. MAL community data e.g. Questioning the score/ranking/character favorite counts e.g. Saying that series X should have a higher/lower score/count e.g. Specific reviews, moderation of data/community content/reviews, etc. Concerns about the website should be reported using the appropriate buttons or designated MyAnimeList boards. You may also use this thread if you want to talk about overrated/underrated anime. MAL has implemented a new system to take care of boosting/downvoting accounts automatically. You can read more about it here. You do not have to worry about the score being influenced by them. If it is influenced, it will be fixed after a few days. |
-DxP-Apr 28, 2024 6:26 AM
| Overall it's fine, characters are likable, story is average, dialog is elaborate, animation is average, soundtrack is decent and voice acting is pleasant. |
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| For like 4 episodes it had potential to maybe be a 7. Now it's a 5 and I can't wait for it to end. |
| Too much focus on the politic dialogues and less about the magical girls, which is the most interesting aspect about this series. The quality goes down hill too.  |
| When I was perusing the page on MAL with the list of upcoming shows for the season not long before the season started, and then several times after the season started in the first few weeks or so, I saw the poster image and read the synopsis for this series, but for some reason it didn't appeal to me at all. I guess I was just bored and kept randomly stumbling upon it or something about the fairly colorful poster caught my eye because for whatever reason, I ended up coming back to its page a few times during that time period. I think I read the synopsis four or five times. Each time I pretty much immediately thought to myself "Nah, not interested". One, because it sounded like just another new isekai (probably lying on a spectrum of somewhat to incredibly generic) and while I watch some of them, I tend to be more choosy on them and don't watch the majority, and since there's an abundance of them I typically need some kind of intriguing hook. And secondly because for whatever reason, maybe because of it having a clear male main character, my mind made some fantastical leap and I bizarrely thought this was some kind of yaoi bishounen show, which isn't really my thing. Anyway, you know how, when everything is working correctly assuming there's no bugs and glitches, the MAL system currently in place only lets reviews start to be posted and remain up for airing series after the third episode is released? Well, yeah, I checked back a short while after that (after episode three aired) and read the reviews. Some positive things, but actually more negative things I saw being said about and attributed to it piqued my interest since I was pretty sure that what turned some people off about this anime would be more likely to appeal to me (namely, different plot threads and the plot in general being all over the place). Well, nine episodes and three-fourths of the way through the series I think I can safely say by now that I'm glad I decided to watch it, it has ended up quite quickly in fact becoming one of the better series (top three, I'd say) of every new series I'm watching this season, and yet even then, it still does disappoint me and doesn't fully deliver because I think it could do a lot more with its premise, setting/settings, and characters, and the way they are used. I wish there was more and better usage and screentime for Otonari. I wish the same for Magical Pink and the Mahou Shoujo fairy subplot and tie-in involving their origin and third alternate world or dimension, I wish the clandestine government agency (the bureau overseeing psychics) and the whole conflict between government-trained loyalist psychics and rogue criminal psychics was taken a little more seriously and they went a lot more in-depth and fleshed that out more. For the secondary world (let's call it the isekai or "second" world, since it's the second world/universe depicted in the show after our Earth and before the possible third Mahou Shoujo-land), I like mostly the aesthetic of it or parts of it, and some of the concepts toyed around with in it - the trading companies, details about monetary conversion and time dilation between it and our world, Elsa as an immature and slightly bratty but aspirant to improve her house's/family's position being a fun character, subtler details like showing non-human humanoid angelfolk and beastfolk-looking characters apparently integrated and living peacefully as background characters in cities, etc., but in general I actually find this side of things the least interesting part of the show. Since the factional dispute among nobles which became something of a long-running staple subplot is nothing you can't see a more interesting and intricate version of in any historical drama involving royal courts and royal houses, and a lot of fantasy dramas too. It's okay, but time could be better spent on other things, whether inside the secondary (isekai) world or outside of it. It comes down to the fact that what I still maintain is this series' greatest strength - the willingness to incorporate and juggle multiple different plotlines and settings which blend genres and could seem like they all came from different anime shows entirely - this is exciting and fresh and creative, as I've never seen all these specific disparate elements cobbled together for one show. And yet it's also simultaneously the series' greatest weakness in the execution because I feel that even more than usual it's leading to certain things which could be fascinating rushed through or skipped over - the pacing is off in a lot of parts and reliant on verbally just summarizing what happened instead of allowing certain whole segments of the show to unfold naturally (and therefore much more slowly). And some whole subplots, as mentioned above, getting short shrift. Now, maybe that won't matter in the long run if the series goes on to have another or multiple more seasons. If it went on, hypothetically let's say, to air for years and have 200 episodes (quite unlikely, I know), then I assume there would eventually be time to more properly and adequately get to everything and those complaints wouldn't matter at all and be null and void. But I can only judge the show for what it is as a 12 episode season and series right now, and especially only on what's been released so far. Because of both the good and the bad, I'd like to be able to end up giving this series a 7/10 by the end, and who knows, maybe I will? But right now if I'm trying to be fair and honest it's more like a 6/10. |
WatchTillTandavaMar 9, 2024 10:19 PM
| It reminds me of panic cooking where you just throw whatever into a giant pot and pray that it comes out alright, that is Sasaki to Pii-chan to me. |
 "You fought to the end. You survived. That's why you're here now. I think that's something you should be more proud of." - Vladilena Milizé |
| Needs more of the yandere/10 |
| Found it kinda unique, like we don't get that many middle aged office men being MCs. But also like I'm averse to the episodes where it's too much of little girls. I personally prefer when he travels to the backward world instead of modern day Japan. Overall a 7 maybe |
| It doesn't embrace its bizarreness enough. They threw in so many ingredients, but instead of letting the madness unfolds, we're in this boring political power struggle that lack depths or any gray area that would make it interesting. |
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| Episode 2 was one of the funniest things I've seen, but I dont think it was intentional. rn, I'm still watching just cause I am, the premise is no longer interesting, if it even was to start with. |
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| It feels like the plot barely moves forward, I still don't know what the show actually is trying to do. I find his own world at least interesting but it barely got any focus, instead we got that boring fantasy world. |
| Honestly the worst of both worlds, not so interesting isekai story and barely a reverse isekai. Tries to pile on so many story elements making you think there’s potential here, but fumbles on everything. |
Reply to AniMarter
Needs more of the yandere/10
| @AniMarter Have not watched the anime yet. The neighbour will become a major character near the end of Volume 2. |
Reply to NewestPersonHere
@AniMarter
Have not watched the anime yet.
The neighbour will become a major character near the end of Volume 2.
Have not watched the anime yet.
The neighbour will become a major character near the end of Volume 2.
| @NewestPersonHere Yeah I had to read ahead to get my fill lol Although I only read the parts from her POV because I am a simp. |
| The concepts and developments in the real world are somewhat interesting but the fantasy side of the show is so generic and boring that it puts me to sleep. Couldn't care less about what happens over there. |
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