Zankyou no Terror:
*minor spoilers*
Story & Writing:
Oh for fuck's sake.
Zankyou no Terror had everything it needed to be amazing - a wonderful premise and setting, compelling characters, exciting plot and riveting mind-games. What went wrong? Fucking everything.
Offense #1:
In my experience, there's a tried and true rule of writing, and it's that retarded romance subplots ruin everything. I've seen good shows fall into this rabbit hole over and over again, alienating their audience by introducing some retarded romance subplot, complete with extra melodrama and angst that no one gives a flying fuck about. Sadly, Zankyou is an offender too. Somewhere down the line it became a tweeny and angst-ridden pile of garbage. This is not what I signed up for. This is not what I started watching for. I barely know any of these characters; you expect to give a shit about their feelings? I feel like Zankyou completely forgot its identity and purpose, and what was supposed to be a youthful and rebellious crime thriller devolved into a tweeny fanfiction written by a 12 year old girl who has just finished Death Note for the first time and who thinks that she can write a "dark and edgy" story like Death Note too.
Offense #2:
Towards the end, Zankyou shamelessly shatters the audience's suspension of disbelief. Everything went to shit after Five appeared and went to town with her dogshit antics. What happened to the battle of wits between the boys and the detective? Zankyou completely took him out of the picture, and in his place we get the shallow, third-rate Saturday cartoon villain bimbo known as Five. She is outright worst than the "terrorists" that she was brought in to capture, but no one stops her and just lets her do her thing...? Everything she does is extremely over-the-top and counter-intuitive, prioritizing her vengeance for a far-fetched grudge towards Nine and Twelve over civilian lives or efficiency. Her actions make absolutely no fucking sense, and it must have rubbed off on Nine and Twelve , because they also suddenly started to think out of their assholes and not their brains anymore, which leads me to my next point: asspulls.
Towards the end, the show was spontaneously pulling one development after another straight out of its asshole, insulting the audience's intelligence and flipping a giant middle finger to any member of the audience who has been watching it because they appreciate how believable and realistic its writing has been until then.
Also, during a certain plot development, Nine was caught in point blank vicinity of a bomb blast, but came out unscathed with a few scratches on his body? The show tried to glaze over this point but you can't fool me, bitch boy; after that blast Nine should at least have a new hole to shit out of - a hole even bigger than the plot hole that allowed him to survive. This is only one plot hole out of many, and I will refrain from writing about them to prevent more spoilers.
Art:
MAPPA did an amazing job with this show's animation. It's a shame, however, that all that effort was wasted on this trainwreck of a show.
Sound:
The OST of Zankyou is well above average - good, even. Not only are the OP and ED both pleasant to listen to, the BGM is full of adrenaline-pumping electronic tracks, extremely fitting for such a thriller-esque action show.
Enjoyment:
My enjoyment started out at a 9/10 but gradually dropped to a 6/10.
Overall:
5/10 this show bombed harder than *insert edgy 9/11 meme here*
*minor spoilers*
Story & Writing:
Oh for fuck's sake.
Zankyou no Terror had everything it needed to be amazing - a wonderful premise and setting, compelling characters, exciting plot and riveting mind-games. What went wrong? Fucking everything.
Offense #1:
In my experience, there's a tried and true rule of writing, and it's that retarded romance subplots ruin everything. I've seen good shows fall into this rabbit hole over and over again, alienating their audience by introducing some retarded romance subplot, complete with extra melodrama and angst that no one gives a flying fuck about. Sadly, Zankyou is an offender too. Somewhere down the line it became a tweeny and angst-ridden pile of garbage. This is not what I signed up for. This is not what I started watching for. I barely know any of these characters; you expect to give a shit about their feelings? I feel like Zankyou completely forgot its identity and purpose, and what was supposed to be a youthful and rebellious crime thriller devolved into a tweeny fanfiction written by a 12 year old girl who has just finished Death Note for the first time and who thinks that she can write a "dark and edgy" story like Death Note too.
Offense #2:
Towards the end, Zankyou shamelessly shatters the audience's suspension of disbelief. Everything went to shit after Five appeared and went to town with her dogshit antics. What happened to the battle of wits between the boys and the detective? Zankyou completely took him out of the picture, and in his place we get the shallow, third-rate Saturday cartoon villain bimbo known as Five. She is outright worst than the "terrorists" that she was brought in to capture, but no one stops her and just lets her do her thing...? Everything she does is extremely over-the-top and counter-intuitive, prioritizing her vengeance for a far-fetched grudge towards Nine and Twelve over civilian lives or efficiency. Her actions make absolutely no fucking sense, and it must have rubbed off on Nine and Twelve , because they also suddenly started to think out of their assholes and not their brains anymore, which leads me to my next point: asspulls.
Towards the end, the show was spontaneously pulling one development after another straight out of its asshole, insulting the audience's intelligence and flipping a giant middle finger to any member of the audience who has been watching it because they appreciate how believable and realistic its writing has been until then.
Also, during a certain plot development, Nine was caught in point blank vicinity of a bomb blast, but came out unscathed with a few scratches on his body? The show tried to glaze over this point but you can't fool me, bitch boy; after that blast Nine should at least have a new hole to shit out of - a hole even bigger than the plot hole that allowed him to survive. This is only one plot hole out of many, and I will refrain from writing about them to prevent more spoilers.
Art:
MAPPA did an amazing job with this show's animation. It's a shame, however, that all that effort was wasted on this trainwreck of a show.
Sound:
The OST of Zankyou is well above average - good, even. Not only are the OP and ED both pleasant to listen to, the BGM is full of adrenaline-pumping electronic tracks, extremely fitting for such a thriller-esque action show.
Enjoyment:
My enjoyment started out at a 9/10 but gradually dropped to a 6/10.
Overall:
5/10 this show bombed harder than *insert edgy 9/11 meme here*
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