Sora Kake Girl: One of the worst first episodes I have ever seen, and I really do mean that

First off, the anim­a­tion. When I saw the promo pic­tures I thought the char­ac­ter designs looked gen­eric. I’ve changed my mind about that, gen­eric sug­gests that people are stick­ing to a design that’s worked in the past. These char­ac­ters look ugly. There were plenty of char­ac­ters to see and they all looked just plain ugly. Seem­ingly every char­ac­ter was voiced by the exact same squeaky girl, except they had plastered some ran­dom col­our on their head. The CGI looked awful and the fanser­vice was mis­placed in a series that seemed like it’s aimed at 8 year old girls.

The story leaps around like a cricket on speed, except in a bad way. While some shows use hyper­activ­ity to make it funny, here it just serves to make the show dis­join­ted and retarded. A con­ver­sa­tion will change without reason, it’s like listen­ing to sev­eral Excaliburs chat­ting. Except Excalibur is bet­ter anim­ated and has a nicer hat. Then there was the mis­placed sud­den heart-felt inspir­a­tional speech that just made the whole thing even more ridiculous.

Oh dear god, this feck­ing creature desu. Within 30 seconds of it’s appear­ance I hated it’s guts desu. That is, if it has guts desu. I spent most of the epis­ode look­ing to see what new plot twist could pos­sibly mean that this thing gets crushed/blown up/deactivated/disemboweled desu. My ini­tial reac­tion to the appear­ance of the giant eye thing  was ‘oh great, maybe he can use some giant tea-cannon to des­troy that feck­ing creature’ desu. At least the desu char­ac­ter in Gun­dam doesn’t say a whole lot, this feck­ing creature seems to be attached to that main char­ac­ter so there’s no chance it’s ever going to go away.…desu.

I’ve watched a hand­ful of pretty awful shows in my time, but this one really goes a step bey­ond (or behind?) most of the crap. Only Lucky Star sticks in my mind as hav­ing a worse first epis­ode (but that’s a dif­fer­ent story alto­gether). So Sun­rise, my respect for you has plummeted. This is one of the most awful anime I have ever seen, and I really do mean that