Should I watch Re:Creators?
note: Im LA
Creation is a unique process of the ability of us humans to be able to make something out of nothing, from huge fictional worlds and even more human-like characters if need be. Re:Creators sees what happens if creations created for various sorts of media interacted with our real world.
To be completely honest here, LA was hooked onto Re:Creators from the very first episode, from the mere concept of having anime or game characters interact with the real world was fascinating and as a sorta reverse "transported into fantasy world" concept that was refreshing to say the very least, what's more is that LA loves meta-narratives and this anime is all about it!
But before you take this review like LA is an outright fanboy of this anime, LA does see what some detractors see from this anime though not completely.
For one, LA gets that Re:Creators can be an extremely dialogue exposition heavy story for people to get behind, with episodes DEDICATED to explaining the concept of a certain rules by our exposition fairy Meteora Österreich voiced by Inori Minase (who is actually the tutorial guide character so that makes sense, it's in her nature to explain) for the new anime/game characters living in the real world and this can easily detract people wanting more action instead. To this flaw's defence and LA agrees with this to a certain degree but LA thinks this had to be done intentionally as to place rules for this anime (and not but that a bit later...) so that this anime itself wouldn't lose it's plot and go into chaotic writing it would have gotten into.
Next are certain characters flaws that would have irritated some people. The biggest one being Sota, our main narrative focus protagonist. Sota voiced by Saiki Yamashita is your ordinary high school student however he subtly has links to our main villain of this anime Gunpuku no Himegami. The problem with Sota is that although he has baggage and guilt that doesn't allow him to act through the majority of this anime, he comes off as a coward running away from his problems (and nearly getting people killed in the process) however LA does sees that his guilt and baggage to be interesting for a main character and how he interlaces into the plot (albeit rather late in the game). Next is Gunpuku no Himegami voiced by Aki Toyosaki, who is an almost GOD TIER villain considering her powers and her goal is a rather typical one (one of world destruction through elaborate means). However be it LA's bias that LA LOVED this mysterious main villain of the series not only for her badassness and overpowered nature but her mysteriousness is what kept LA's interest, HOWEVER with the finale did downplay her though LA would talk about that later.
Now for probably one of the most important flaw LA would need to talk about and that is the notion of characters being stereotypical characters from certain animes, such as Selesia Upitiria voiced by Mikako Komatsu as the tsundere-ish character you see in light novels to Yuuya Mirokuji voiced by Kenichi Suzumura as the typical rival character with a loose temper, Mamika Kirameki voiced by Rie Murakawa as the typical magical girl and Alicetaria February voiced by Yoko Hisaka as the tragic hero you see in dark fantasy manga's. However with the "rules" of this anime, the "stereotypical" notion of most of these characters are largely changed by the end of it and they become their own person outside of their anime/game origin.
So about placing rules into this anime then not, that comes in the form of Magane Chikujouin voiced by Maaya Sakamoto who utilizes lies as her powers thus able to "contradict" certain rules of this anime at times, she being unpredictable and wanting to cause chaos in the world "because she wants to" makes her also interesting though by the second half of the anime, it's entirely focused on taking down Gunpuku no Himegami makes her limelight dim significantly (though the times she did appear, she DID cause a HEAP of chaos, internally to the majority of the characters and to Sota even), in essence, she's Meteora's order to her chaos. Now does LA think that just having a character that is able to contradict certain rules of this anime make it a pass?...well no, she's not a god....Gunpuku no Himegami is, LA can see her get away with some situations especially when it concerned the chaos of internal relations of certain characters (Alicetaria to Meteora especially) but also the final climax but she too is restricted by some rules in comparison to Gunpuku no Himegami...she's a secondary villain and she KNOWS it.
The animation by TROYCA was done great, sure sometimes the animation dipped at times but when they needed to bring their all (as in fight scenes) it was greatly done. However the more dialogue heavy scenes had sometimes dip in quality...still consistent for the majority of the time. LA loved the exotic character designs and yes for the many fight scenes they did great in animating it (LA just wished some of the fights lasted longer which could be a flaw in itself but LA thinks the anime intentionally went with the Fate/Zero plot formatting for cool down periods for the animation).
Voice acting was actually decent, from Inori Minase's deadpanned yet slightly inflected tone (which gets snarkier down the line) to Yoko Hikasa voicing a badass character with a tragic backstory (she Hitome Nabatame now?) but what caught LA offguard was Sora Amamiya voicing Rui Kanoya the MALE mecha guy of the series. As for LA's favourite voice actor in this anime, it would go quite easily to Aki Toyosaki as Gunpuku no Himegami, sure it's her playing against the type character let alone voicing an outright villainous character but this role clearly showed that Aki can go crazy with villain roles and DO THEM GREAT (albeit the tactical badass villain more or less). Overall, this voice cast is great with what LA presumes that the voice cast was intentional in both stereotyping and playing against the type for a reason.
So on speaking of Gunpuku no Himegami, the finale. ALOT of people would be saying it's an anticlimax and yes LA agrees with this, however considering the MANY implications with anime has with the rules of this anime AS well as Gunpuku no Himegami having reality warping god like powers and FATE going against her, LA presents the question of "what other way was there?", yes the finale downplays Gunpuku no Himegami though develops her in the process of what she TRULY was suppose to be but at the cost of a good climax to this anime finale, but again "what other path could she have done to save the situation?". This finale may be anticlimactic, however considering that before that we had a HUGE fight and the "fighting" wasn't the point but Gunpuku no Himegami herself (and by extension Sota)...LA can let this anticlimax go and accept it as in.
Due to how seeped in nature Re:Creators is in it's meta-narrative and LA just loving this concept, Re:Creators likes to play with this concept from the aforementioned notion of stereotypical characters changing while they are in the real world, genre savviness from certain characters to how audience acceptance is not just feedback for the in-universe creators but works into the anime in differing ways to shape the final arc of Re:Creators and even a recap episode where Meteora is VERY tongue and cheek, snarky as hell and uhhh "reimagining" recapping the events halfway through the anime. The meta-narrative does go deeper when it comes to Gunpuku no Himegami where her mere existence is due to this and the preparations towards beating her is essentially a crossover in-universe fight against her within the narrative to the in-universe audience that their watching a Special Anime Crossover.
Re:Creators' theming of creation does come up alot (it's in the name of course it would), complimenting the fact of the process of creation no matter what it is, meaning that having the passion and the drive to create stories, characters and heck LA might lump reviews in there can be for the better not just for yourself, but to other people who see your creations and them in turn get inspired to do the same.
Re:Creators isn't a perfect show, far from it, it has it's multitude of problems from plot progression and character flaws, but concept-wise was an interesting look and a refreshing take as to what happens when anime and game characters interact with the real world and the implications it has. This even being an original anime directed by Ei Aoki (of Fate/Zero and Aldnoah.Zero fame) and Rei Hirose (of Black Lagoon fame) being the original creator and character designer of Re:Creators and even Hiroyuki Sawano doing the music composition for this anime tells alot of what they wanted to do with this anime...
Make Last Action Hero: The Anime.
Joking aside, Re:Creators was a blast to watch even in it's slowest and low moments and with it's concept of anime characters living in the real world was a refreshing take on the "transported to another world" setting that's over-saturating the genre. Re:Creators may have it's flaws but what anime doesn't have flaws? Having a Creation being perfect defeats the point, the creation having flaws gives room for them to grow to be an even better Creations as such in the case of Re:Creators.
note: Im LA
Creation is a unique process of the ability of us humans to be able to make something out of nothing, from huge fictional worlds and even more human-like characters if need be. Re:Creators sees what happens if creations created for various sorts of media interacted with our real world.
To be completely honest here, LA was hooked onto Re:Creators from the very first episode, from the mere concept of having anime or game characters interact with the real world was fascinating and as a sorta reverse "transported into fantasy world" concept that was refreshing to say the very least, what's more is that LA loves meta-narratives and this anime is all about it!
But before you take this review like LA is an outright fanboy of this anime, LA does see what some detractors see from this anime though not completely.
For one, LA gets that Re:Creators can be an extremely dialogue exposition heavy story for people to get behind, with episodes DEDICATED to explaining the concept of a certain rules by our exposition fairy Meteora Österreich voiced by Inori Minase (who is actually the tutorial guide character so that makes sense, it's in her nature to explain) for the new anime/game characters living in the real world and this can easily detract people wanting more action instead. To this flaw's defence and LA agrees with this to a certain degree but LA thinks this had to be done intentionally as to place rules for this anime (and not but that a bit later...) so that this anime itself wouldn't lose it's plot and go into chaotic writing it would have gotten into.
Next are certain characters flaws that would have irritated some people. The biggest one being Sota, our main narrative focus protagonist. Sota voiced by Saiki Yamashita is your ordinary high school student however he subtly has links to our main villain of this anime Gunpuku no Himegami. The problem with Sota is that although he has baggage and guilt that doesn't allow him to act through the majority of this anime, he comes off as a coward running away from his problems (and nearly getting people killed in the process) however LA does sees that his guilt and baggage to be interesting for a main character and how he interlaces into the plot (albeit rather late in the game). Next is Gunpuku no Himegami voiced by Aki Toyosaki, who is an almost GOD TIER villain considering her powers and her goal is a rather typical one (one of world destruction through elaborate means). However be it LA's bias that LA LOVED this mysterious main villain of the series not only for her badassness and overpowered nature but her mysteriousness is what kept LA's interest, HOWEVER with the finale did downplay her though LA would talk about that later.
Now for probably one of the most important flaw LA would need to talk about and that is the notion of characters being stereotypical characters from certain animes, such as Selesia Upitiria voiced by Mikako Komatsu as the tsundere-ish character you see in light novels to Yuuya Mirokuji voiced by Kenichi Suzumura as the typical rival character with a loose temper, Mamika Kirameki voiced by Rie Murakawa as the typical magical girl and Alicetaria February voiced by Yoko Hisaka as the tragic hero you see in dark fantasy manga's. However with the "rules" of this anime, the "stereotypical" notion of most of these characters are largely changed by the end of it and they become their own person outside of their anime/game origin.
So about placing rules into this anime then not, that comes in the form of Magane Chikujouin voiced by Maaya Sakamoto who utilizes lies as her powers thus able to "contradict" certain rules of this anime at times, she being unpredictable and wanting to cause chaos in the world "because she wants to" makes her also interesting though by the second half of the anime, it's entirely focused on taking down Gunpuku no Himegami makes her limelight dim significantly (though the times she did appear, she DID cause a HEAP of chaos, internally to the majority of the characters and to Sota even), in essence, she's Meteora's order to her chaos. Now does LA think that just having a character that is able to contradict certain rules of this anime make it a pass?...well no, she's not a god....Gunpuku no Himegami is, LA can see her get away with some situations especially when it concerned the chaos of internal relations of certain characters (Alicetaria to Meteora especially) but also the final climax but she too is restricted by some rules in comparison to Gunpuku no Himegami...she's a secondary villain and she KNOWS it.
The animation by TROYCA was done great, sure sometimes the animation dipped at times but when they needed to bring their all (as in fight scenes) it was greatly done. However the more dialogue heavy scenes had sometimes dip in quality...still consistent for the majority of the time. LA loved the exotic character designs and yes for the many fight scenes they did great in animating it (LA just wished some of the fights lasted longer which could be a flaw in itself but LA thinks the anime intentionally went with the Fate/Zero plot formatting for cool down periods for the animation).
Voice acting was actually decent, from Inori Minase's deadpanned yet slightly inflected tone (which gets snarkier down the line) to Yoko Hikasa voicing a badass character with a tragic backstory (she Hitome Nabatame now?) but what caught LA offguard was Sora Amamiya voicing Rui Kanoya the MALE mecha guy of the series. As for LA's favourite voice actor in this anime, it would go quite easily to Aki Toyosaki as Gunpuku no Himegami, sure it's her playing against the type character let alone voicing an outright villainous character but this role clearly showed that Aki can go crazy with villain roles and DO THEM GREAT (albeit the tactical badass villain more or less). Overall, this voice cast is great with what LA presumes that the voice cast was intentional in both stereotyping and playing against the type for a reason.
So on speaking of Gunpuku no Himegami, the finale. ALOT of people would be saying it's an anticlimax and yes LA agrees with this, however considering the MANY implications with anime has with the rules of this anime AS well as Gunpuku no Himegami having reality warping god like powers and FATE going against her, LA presents the question of "what other way was there?", yes the finale downplays Gunpuku no Himegami though develops her in the process of what she TRULY was suppose to be but at the cost of a good climax to this anime finale, but again "what other path could she have done to save the situation?". This finale may be anticlimactic, however considering that before that we had a HUGE fight and the "fighting" wasn't the point but Gunpuku no Himegami herself (and by extension Sota)...LA can let this anticlimax go and accept it as in.
Due to how seeped in nature Re:Creators is in it's meta-narrative and LA just loving this concept, Re:Creators likes to play with this concept from the aforementioned notion of stereotypical characters changing while they are in the real world, genre savviness from certain characters to how audience acceptance is not just feedback for the in-universe creators but works into the anime in differing ways to shape the final arc of Re:Creators and even a recap episode where Meteora is VERY tongue and cheek, snarky as hell and uhhh "reimagining" recapping the events halfway through the anime. The meta-narrative does go deeper when it comes to Gunpuku no Himegami where her mere existence is due to this and the preparations towards beating her is essentially a crossover in-universe fight against her within the narrative to the in-universe audience that their watching a Special Anime Crossover.
Re:Creators' theming of creation does come up alot (it's in the name of course it would), complimenting the fact of the process of creation no matter what it is, meaning that having the passion and the drive to create stories, characters and heck LA might lump reviews in there can be for the better not just for yourself, but to other people who see your creations and them in turn get inspired to do the same.
Re:Creators isn't a perfect show, far from it, it has it's multitude of problems from plot progression and character flaws, but concept-wise was an interesting look and a refreshing take as to what happens when anime and game characters interact with the real world and the implications it has. This even being an original anime directed by Ei Aoki (of Fate/Zero and Aldnoah.Zero fame) and Rei Hirose (of Black Lagoon fame) being the original creator and character designer of Re:Creators and even Hiroyuki Sawano doing the music composition for this anime tells alot of what they wanted to do with this anime...
Make Last Action Hero: The Anime.
Joking aside, Re:Creators was a blast to watch even in it's slowest and low moments and with it's concept of anime characters living in the real world was a refreshing take on the "transported to another world" setting that's over-saturating the genre. Re:Creators may have it's flaws but what anime doesn't have flaws? Having a Creation being perfect defeats the point, the creation having flaws gives room for them to grow to be an even better Creations as such in the case of Re:Creators.
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