dinsdag 28 mei 2024

(Average+) Sasaki and Peeps

Series in one sentence:
When you can't think what plot to settle for, so you do all of them.

Series in more sentences:
An average salaryman with little to spend decides to cut the knot and look for a cute pet to share his solitary life with, but the bird immediately starts speaking to him and reveals to be a reincarnated magical being from another world.

Through him, Sasaki obtains magical powers as well and is introduced to the bird's true place of residence. He makes a fair living selling them products the more simple folk have never seen before, meanwhile, people from his own world take notice of his supernatural abilities and a secret organization of psychics wish to recruit him.

It started alright, but why does it involve a talking, reincarnated, magic bird and getting isekai'd and getting recruited as a "psychic policeman" back home and the existence of "magical girls" and lizardmen?
The series lost more focus with every episode that passed and at the very end, just started throwing random shit at you.

This could've been a great slice of life story about a simple man finding joy in the only company he's probably had, even if it's not the cat or dog he wanted. Let the drama come from the girl next door, who he always finds sitting late at night, waiting for her negligent mother to arrive home or open the door. I'm surprise Sasaki never invited her inside his house to wait, though considering this young girl has an weird crush on him, perhaps calling the police would be a better step. Why this hasn't already happened and this otherwise kind man allows for this obvious abuse to continue, is beyond me.

There were alot of teenage girls in this show fawning over the guy, while he's 39, and I think he's a nice guy too, but, like, I'm not 16 years old and blushing over it. This had to be the most unrealistic thing to happen in this fictional fantasy story.

The psychic organization part of the series is the least interesting and necessary, nor particularly well done, since its workers are really not that strong and their incompetence shows itself whenever they're in public as well. Like, why would you carelessly talk about another employee and his magic abilities when you know there's a regular human girl being interviewed in a police car just a few steps away? What a sloppy way to force a big reveal onto another character.
And with unrecruited psychics out causing harm or destruction, how is it possible that the secret of their existence hasn't come out yet, especially in this modern world of cameras? An airplane is blown out of the sky by an emotional high schooler, and not only have I not seen any effort from the organization to save those passengers, it's only the three bullies directly standing next to them who are taken care of. How, I don't know and the show doesn't bother to explain. This organisation is a joke.

Speaking of joke, what the fork is wrong with episode 9? I saw some of the weirdest editing and animation goofs in there. Then episode 11, where it throws you into a situation without explaining anything, and funny music plays during fight scenes that could've actually been really threatening and cool.

This show wants too much and it doesn't make for a great package. I think that if the series was about a lonely man trying to connect with the bird he had to adopt instead of the cat he's always wanted, while dealing with his neighbour and her abusive family, we'd have a better story.

I'll give this a meagre "Average+", though that might be too generous of a rating.



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