Re:creators

one of the hardest anime i had to watch til the end, it just simply has too many casts that only do 1 thing and just got killed. it's egregious watching that you notice "oh there are new characters" that got introduced well past the middle of the anime, like literally what's the point?

Only watch if you like Inori Minase doing long expositions

The premise itself is fucking shit. It would work if it is a comedy and not cereal, but no, they want to be super cereal

No. Back then retarded youtubers hyped this garbage like the second coming of jesus because having meta elements makes it a masterpiece apparently, but even them quickly realized how bad it was and pretended it never existed.

Shark got away with EVERYTHING

It had a Hiroyuki Sawano soundtrack, had a lot of big names voice actors, was produced by Aniplex in it's Saturday 12 AM slot, and was billed as yet another one of it's cutting edge anime originals. Of course it was popular when it was still coming out, but that hardly means anything in the long wrong, they all are. Darling in the Frankxx was popular when it was still coming out and hailed as a revolution in the mecha genre. Aldnoah Zero was popular when people still thought Urobuchi was writing it and hailed as a revolution in the mecha genre. SAO was super popular when it was first coming out and hailed as a revolution in the sci-fi genre. Guilty Crown was popular when it was force coming out and hailed by it's own staff as a revolutionary show all around. I think that's enough examples.

It's always interesting seeing people trying to watch these ages after it's aired and the hype marketing cycle and social media blithering has long since died down and wondering what the fuck the big deal was ever supposed to be because these shows can't really exist in a vacuum and be considered good without it being during the season when everybody was hyping it up. I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be a large part of the experiences of these types of shows and the only way to watch them and get anything out of them.

I mean fuck man they always do that for shows by specific producers and either these youtubers are literally being paid by the industry to talk certain shows up (some of them literally are) so that it doesn't just get disregarded as straight PR or they have the most consistently awful taste imaginable.

It's obviously the former though without even needing to see the hard evidence that people like The Anime Man and Gigguk are employed by a subsidiary Kadokawa Shoten's marketing department and are just glorified industry PR guys masquerading as independent youtubers whose opinions you can totally trust. I don't even know where the Western anime scene would be without the youtuber shilling other than probably insisting a whole lot less that mediocre shows are absolutely fucking amazing.

Any hype it had died after the episode where they spent the entirety of it in a room with Meteora expositing her 100% correct hypothesis about how the rules work .

The show was trying to work the whole subversive meta commentary thing that was super popular at the time in the wake of Gen Urobuchi shows that were trendy back then, but like most of his stuff even kind of fumbles the ball and has a lot of really stupidly written characters and frankly far too much of them and doesn't seem to know what it's trying to say or do with any of it. It's also kind of like Darling in The Frankxx in that you can tell that the only reason it had so many characters is so that they could reference as many popular genre tropes as possible with them and so that the producers could work as many popular VA's into the show as possible even if it didn't really have much of a part for them in story.

Frankly the whole thing just came across as a celebratory waifu power fantasy on the one character as the ultimate all powerful genre character above all others. Like they really seemed to think the audience was just going to latch on to that character hard and to be honest I'm kind of actually surprised they didn't given how the average anime fan is nowadays. It doesn't really explain well why this is the case or how its universes rules even work, but that's pretty standard for Aniplex original hype shows.

Mazinger Zero did a similar idea a hell of a lot better as well I should say.

I think they just literally forgot to resolve that characters plot line at all because they were too busy figuring they'd nailed it with the penultimate episode and the one character just coming out and comically just negating the powers of the military princess antagonist character that basically had the power of just being able to do whatever she wanted because reasons. That show also feels like it aired a lot longer ago than it actually did for some reason. I think it's because all the Aniplex original shows have kind of started to blend together in my mind over the years.

>it fleshes everyone
No, it doesn't. It just talks about basic motivations, which every single anime does. Alicetoria (was that her name?) literally dies because she's uncapable of doing anything other than hitting her enemies.

I don't know I kind of like my stories to have something resembling coherent world building and at least some level of internal consistency with how all the anime bullshit powers work. This one clearly was trying to draw influence from Fate type series without actually having to adapt a Fate story with how it handled the structure and rules of it's setting and characters. Just lots of hype and subversion stuff, lots of characters even had attacks clearly based on ones from the Fate franchise, and also did I mention not a lot of consistency and coherency. They even had the thing where one character just does not shut the fuck up with the endless expositional dialogue 90% of which isn't even going to matter worth shit in the long run anyway.

A lot of shows don't really feel like they fit with a Sawanodrop soundtrack, but this one kind of deserved it honestly and felt like it couldn't have been anyone else doing it. Like fuck a lot of crazy action stuff happened that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and characters are shouting edgy dialogue at each other. People might start asking questions, drop the beat. FUCKING DROP IIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!

Cant say I blame you. I get mixed up with what happened in which Aniplex original show that aired in it's time slot and whether it was from Re:Creators or one of the other ones quite regularly. Madoka Magica was clearly the template for just about every one of these that they've done since, but literally none of them has achieved anywhere close to it's success, which I hope is because at least the TV show for that one made consistent sense with itself before the movie just kind of said nah anything goes now.

As far as I can tell they just seem to have decided that constantly subverting genre stuff without anything to actually say about it or stopping to consider if the show made any sense in doing so was the answer, provided that you also had a trendy music composer, well known writer, and reasonably good production values for the project. That's kind of my only explanation for why so many of these shows are all over the fucking place and I can't even tell what they're supposed to be about or why I should care about the characters and what's happening in them. It seems to work well enough though because whenever these are airing people always seem to think they are watching gods gift to the anime scene.

One of the interesting things about shows like this and Darling in The Frankxx is that I don't even think people are aware of just how little a fuck Japan seemed to give about most of them in comparison and that the vast majority of them have a really bad reputation over there as series that were made for the American audience that likes any flashy and with Sawano music in it in mind. They basically label them gaijin anime. I also remember this series really underperforming in blu-ray sales as well which is pretty rare for an Aniplex title.