Wasted potential

redpanda_42 said:
Shows like this make me more upset than genuine awful crap like smartphone isekai. At least that one is honest and doesn't try to pretend to be more than it is. But ones like this that dip their toe into greatness and give me just a tiny peak into something special but refuse to actually commit really get my goat. I keep watching hoping against hope that that diamond hiding in the shit will somehow shine bright enough to make it worth it but it almost never does.
The unique things about this show aren't played to their strengths and instead are mostly brushed aside for awful animation and awful pacing. Maybe it was a fault of the source material I don't know, maybe there wasn't actually any depth to build from to begin with. The first half of the first season hooked me and I hoped it would go a different way but instead it just sat down in the middle of the road and refused to do anything.
I was honestly shocked when the short haired girl used her sword in the last episode I didn't think we would see any actual character progression at all. Have to give the show credit, didn't think I would see a show where the characters are fundamentally no better from the first to last episode but somehow this one did it.