I watched this anime since it has the "Shoujo Ai" listed in its genres because I love Shoujo Ai and it is one of my favorite genres and I expected somewhat romance but I didn't get it, even though I felt it. Urasekai Picnic is an anime about traveling to an alternate world called "Otherside" where they fight off weird creatures while searching for their friend. There is so much the creator can do around with fantasies and can make it as "crazy" as possible. If I wanted a show that airs on Monday night made by Lidenfilms starring Kayano Ai and Hanamori Yumiri as the mains with the former playing a more confident foil to the latter's lack-of-self esteem character and both being in a romantic relationship.I have Tatoeba Dungeon.įantasy animes in my opinion are crazy. If I wanted comedy, I have Higurashi GOU. If I wanted something with weird monsters, I have that Yuuki Aoi Spider Anime. If I wanted yuri hijinks, I have World Witches. If I wanted horror-mystery, I have Gekidol. Thing is, in this relatively packed season, there is nothing Urasekai Picinic does that isn't already better accomplished by a different show. The end of episode skits where Toriko and Sorawo goof around in a bar is the sole good anime original thing. Watching this and Tatoeba Dungeon and contrasting the mains is hilarious.Ĥ. The anime introduced me to the (far) superior novel and manga, of which I am currently enjoying.ģ. The reason I'm being generous with my score is becauseĢ. Not because the performances are particularly groundbreaking or anything, it's a thoroughly average performance from your usual gamut of A-list seiyuu, but it's because you can now imagine in your head how the girls would sound like when reading the novel or manga. If there's anything that's salvageable in this mess, it's the voice acting. Especially since they've added a few anime original chapters to compensate (?) for the gaps in between. Very odd choices like rearranging chapters beyond their intended order, which results in many plot holes as well as strange lapses in character development and pacing, really make this such a mess. I honestly don't know what production troubles the studio was under (perhaps doing 4 different shows in the same season counted towards it), but some of the creative choices can't be blamed on a rigid production schedule alone. The monsters are all janky, but not in a creepy sorta way, more in an ugly PS2-era CG kind of way. (Even Higurashi has some generic pop OP now) The animation is subpar at best. Maybe a bit too cheerful for my liking, but the days of having an actually scary OP for your horror anime has long past. Music placement is also baffling at times, not that the score is any bad, but the placement truly leaves much to be desired with the BGM sometimes starting too early or too late, or ending too early or too late. I think I get they want to do a creepy vibe, but even that doesn't work and most of the time the whole experience ends up being uncomfortable, like having loud sound effects drown out important dialogue or background noise overriding the whole scene. I gotta start with the first thing that came to mind when I started watching the adaptation: Audio. Still, I tried to convince myself that it's just a bad PV, surely the actual show would be at least decent right? From the moment the first PV dropped I should have been alarmed, the audio mixing was completely messed up, and the animation quality was subpar at best. For whatever reason, the anime adaptation of Urasekai Picnic is plagued with issues through and through. Urasekai Picnic is proof that attaching a competent director to good source material doesn't necessarily result in a good adaptation.
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