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The twin tail girl is obnoxious and serves no purpose, she poses no threat to Hanabi, let alone Akane, where Mugi is concerned and she has nothing to teach either main character about themselves. They generally range from boring to deplorable, and not deplorable in the fun if dark sense employed by Youjo Senki, but deplorable as in people I really don’t like for their shallow or twisted values.
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It’s like watching filler if filler looked decent and was low key. There’s too much going on that never goes anywhere meaningful. Characters have random sexual encounters and some make deliberate moves on other people but a lot of the time they just seem to be listless and directionless. But what exacerbates the problem is that feels like the show isn’t going anywhere. I appreciate the desire to just cut to the scene you really want to show, but if I thought that was good enough I’d have finished a fucking book by now. As a man who struggles with getting from point A to point B in a story despite having really well defined points in his own narratives, or rather attempted narratives, I feel this in particular is a weakness. The passage of time is largely unclear, for example I had no idea Mugi and Hanabi hadn’t seen each for months because until Hanabi said so in a random cafe scene, there were no details establishing that at all, and it’s common for episodes to suddenly cut to dramatic or emotional moments out of nowhere without always explaining how the characters got to that point.
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Kuzu no Honkai is kind of balls at pacing. That’s enough ranting for now, let’s get technical. At least she actually likes a good person, that’s a step up from Mugi. Kanai is abysmal, he’s a bland boring fuck who can be boiled down to generic good guy A, and the fact he serves as a big brother figure to Hanabi makes the whole thing one step removed from the incest romances popularized by OreImo, and fuck that garbage. Likewise I sort of like Hanabi and vaguely want to root for her but the love of her life is totally boring. I’m not just disconnected from Mugi’s desires, they actively turn me off in a big way. But loving broken, weak and manipulative girls, loving someone even more after see how they cynically use their assets to fulfill their shallow lifestyle? Get the fuck out of here. I don’t get him at all, his only characterization that I have any connection with at all is how he doesn’t want to fuck the blonde girl with twintails who wants his D because they’re childhood friends and he doesn’t want to ruin her purity or special-ness, for lack of a better term.
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Ostensibly I should be projecting myself on Mugi but fuck that guy. Ecchan has my allegiance more than anyone but she’s hardly given the time needed for to be really interesting as a person instead of just being the hottest girl and also a lesbian, making her best girl by default. Even disregarding any technical problems it has I have a hard time rooting for anyone in the twisted love tree filling out the series. But before I dig into that I want address certain me-specific complaints have nothing to do with technical skill in writing or animation, because context is important despite what morons on the internet may think. But honestly I’m bored with whatever narrative Kuzu no Honkai was trying to tell, and given the aimless rambling of the show overall I’m not sure it ever had much vision or direction to begin with. For this the show still has my attention and I do hope other romances learn from Kuzu no Honkai and get some couples in bed. Kuzu no Honkai had two major selling points, it disregarded all the usual anime romance baggage and skipped straight to the bedroom, and it returned to the bedroom with surprising frequency, and most of the main characters were either terrible people or in the midst of very self destructive behavior. There will be spoilers, you’ve been warned. It’s not all that negative either, mind, but compared to before it’s a downgrade. I still maintain my earlier statements about the show, namely that’s the most interesting romance anime I’ve seen in years, but that interest is no longer particularly positive. You know I usually like to wait for an anime to finish before I review it, but the latest episode of Kuzu no Honkai has convinced me it’s not worth the wait.