donderdag 22 juni 2023

(Average) The Tale of the Outcasts

NOTE: Stopped watching after episode 7.

Series in one sentence:
Bland Beauty and the Boring Beast.

Series in more sentences:
A child with the gift to see demons is sent to a human trafficking organisation, disguised as an orphanage, where she meets up with a friendly beast every night.
When she gets sold to a sinister buyer, he decides to save her and they promise to forever spend their days together.

But
there's not yet a peaceful life waiting for them, and many battles are brewing in the country.


I was hoping for something simpler, that Wisteria would get adopted by Marbas, not all this sudden war crap. It wasn't the story I expected when I clicked on this, I just didn't care for anything that was going on, though I tried.
I'm almost wondering if the girl wasn't better off staying in that shit orphanage, because the moment she steps outside, both she and Marbas enters crazy conflicts they were blissfully unaware of 5 seconds prior.

The anime doesn't spend much time on anything.
Wisteria gets her brother back moments after she laments having lost him, and instead of reuniting with her only family, she chooses the cat man she's only known for a month, who watched her ass get beaten up every night and settled on letting her get raped by a grown man. The only thing that changed his mind was the news the dude wasn't going to make her his child bride, but his torture toy. Okey, what's the difference? Lol, fuck this guy.
But well, that's a detail Wisteria doesn't know, so of course, she thinks she's got a real saviour on her hands and gives up her eyesight for him.

Her becoming blind was an interesting turn of events, but the show doesn't really do anything with it. She's still her happy self and always looks people straight in the face when she opens her eyes.
Wisteria herself is
your typical little girl character, bland, with the only interesting detail being her blindness. I don't buy Marbas' affection for her, because there's nothing to love. If I were a bored immortal demon, meeting her would only make me more suicidal.

Speaking of Marbas, his demon design is distractingly lame. I've seen Deviantart furries more appealing than that thing, and him saying he won't turn human because women otherwise keep falling in love with him was such a throwaway line, because that literally didn't happen once in the series.
I begged the anime to make him discard that stupid cat form and stay human, but I guess Makoto Hoshino was really proud of that drawing he made when he was 7.

So boring, couldn't finish this, but I suppose it's not impossible someone else could.


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