Val the Moofia Boss
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Scrapped Princess - 4/10 (Bad)
The first few episodes were fun. The show was made after the transistion to digital but the aesthetic was still good. Backgrounds and production quality was overall higher than most shows airing within the last 10 years. The show had that good adventure feel as the characters were travelling through a wide open and dangerous world. You felt there was a lot of possibility. If I were only rating those episodes then I'd give the show a 7/10. Then around episode 10, the protagonists get roped into a formulaic "save the world from the evil corrupt Church and their god-monsters" JRPG plot, and I started tuning out. The show also has some backwards monologues on how morals should dictate religion. The "good" Church guy fighting alongside the protagonists didn't even believe in the faith, so you're left with the impression that he only joined the Church as a machiavellian means to an end, and that was before the reveal. The speechifying how man's hope will overcome anything in the last episode was terrible. So overall I found the show to be bad. One thing I did find refreshing was how the antagonists were killed off. Within a couple seconds, they make a mistake, the heroes capitalize it. Boom, they're dead, just like that.
English dub was good.
Oh, and then there’s the semi-incestuous attraction she has to her adoptive brother Shannon, but fortunately he insisted on telling her off every time she brought it up.
Really? I thought that the "I love you big brother" whisper in the second episode was intended as a joke, as if she was trying to provoke a response since she was bored sitting on the wagon. Modern anime sure likes to play with incest attractions but I didn't get that from here. I thought that the show was leaning towards shipping her with the novice knight-errant.
Sing Yesterday For Me - 6/10 (Fine)
The show spent more time showing the romance between the MC and the false lead than it did showing time between the MC and the girl who wins in the end. Very strange. The show didn't convince me that the MC loved the winning girl than he loved the childhood friend.
In one of the latter episodes, there is a scene where they go to the supermarket and talk, and the backgrounds are literally just pictures of a real life supermarket, not drawn at all. Production value failure.
SSSS.Dynazenon - 7/10 (Good)
The characters reacting very nonchalantly was refreshing, though the little girl getting her own dragon to fly on but not being awed by that escapist fantasy was a stretch. Episode 10 annoyed me with how it tried to hard to be a serious, artsy psychological story. Overall good.
The mechas and kaiju are 3D CGI, which is a shame.