This is who you get to root for if you watch this anime. Still want to continue? Like Kimi to Boku, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon decides against providing any compelling reason regarding its plot to keep us watching. Instead of snooze-inducing boys, however, we have breasts in all shapes and sizes — each pair seemingly equipped with a speaker to emit a stock boing sound when a female character so much as breathes. Of course, the episode ends with an exposition dump to end all dumps, but it nevertheless fails to get to the heart of the matter. Someone or something is oppressing people so we gotta, uh, stop that. ‘Cause oppression is bad, man. *tokes*
Whereas Kimi to Boku follows four boring “friends” around at a pace that even an octogenarian could outrun, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon opts for chaotic energy just for the sake of having things move quickly onscreen. And, of course, by “things,” I mean boobs, and by “move quickly,” I mean poorly animated characters surrounded by action lines. Our very first episode has a hot babe of a sensei (where does Japan find all these sexy teachers to employ?) challenge her students to some combat training: they have to land attacks on her before she reaches some destination. Yeah, that’s pretty much the first episode’s “plot.” Of course, even before things got started, the characters just stood around talking about God knows what.
And if we can’t design compelling, interesting characters, we’ll just have eight billion of them instead. Yep, eight billion cast members with each one being more boring than the last. Sunrise has a penchant lately for insensitive caricatures. One of the students is a stereotypical Indian guy right down to the very fact that his weapon is a dish of curry. C’mon, Fire Emblem wasn’t embarrassing enough? In any case, the students all take turns attacking the sensei one-by-one, and predictably enough, they all fail. Finally, the wunderkind from the first screenshot above, who also happens to be a student, shows up and gropes his sensei. Good times, good times.
Gone are the days when we’d see a truly captivating villain wreck shit up at the start of a story. This would then be followed by the introduction of a naive, wholesome kid — someone who seems far too green and untrained to ever challenge said villain. As a result, we watch; we watch to see how someone so inexperienced and pure could ever grow up and change enough to the point that he or she can take down the evil empire and its fearsome emperor. Well, we’ll have none of that anymore. Our boy hero is just some smug-looking, lecherous bastard who sexually molests women while bragging about how he skipped class to buy eroge.
Tiger & Bunny proves Sunrise can still produce a decent original series once in a blue moon so what on Earth are they doing with shitty adaptations of even shittier source material? Considering T&B‘s massive success, Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon is nothing but a waste of time. Even the breasts on the female characters don’t look natural and thus aesthetically pleasing. And if you can’t get fanservice right, what’s the point?
That was one of the things I found so bizarre about Horizon – the breasts just were so large that they didn’t even look at all alluring. In that scene you capped the last shot from, it just looked like she was holding two volleyballs in her arms to me. They don’t seem to be connected to the characters somehow, just these orbs that happen to be there, hovering maybe. I have a hard time perceiving them as breasts at all.
To be fair, isn’t this just art imitating life?
Yeah, probably overdoing it a bit.
This must be T&B’s prequel, T&A.
I never was much for mechas, but the current trend seems to be to replace them with young girls in skintight suits and having them fight. It’s certainly preferable to have an enormous Megadeus being powerful, heavy and slow than to have some loli flying around half naked.
Glad to see the girls manage to have giant hairs without it getting in the way, though.
The hair implies diversity, man. Anime will gladly objectify women of all culture and ethnicity.
I heard this was based on a series of novels that was said to be near impossible to adapt and the story was so long and complex. Each novel was made of like 800-900 pages! Oh my! I mean, you can see it in the very first episode! Full of bouncing boobs and wacky shenanigans! I see a beautiful story waiting to unfold, a true epic to be loved by generations to come…
Yes, I also heard that. A masterpiece and impossible to adapt.
My ass?
Is your ass 900 pages?
No, but it is a masterpiece.
Ah, a Catcher in the Rye.
that ass better be a damn good knight to have 900 pages
If you can gain a following by chasing windmills, why not!
;-;
Well it seems we all like your ass!
Well, the exposition at the end was full of… “they rewrote history… but it sucked so they rewrote history again!” That’s, like, sorta complicated, man.
sunrise’s balls, for kids. kay, forget that…
but still, i think this is targeted towards 14 yo’s who need the same thing in weird different packaging every season. if i was 14 right now, i’d love this show.
just sayin’. i know you can still criticise it and all…
I was a gamer at 14 so I can’t really say what I would have liked back then.
final fantasy series & mega man series
you know you regret it, i dont because i never played mega man.
Is it just me or is the art utter shit here too?
I’d agree, but C3 recently redefined my classification of “utter shit” to such a level that this looks rather serviceable by comparison.
Yeah, what he said. C3 still has the worst animation this season.