❚ Fall 2023
Leaves, Pumpkins and Skeletons mark a new variety of shows that I watched this season.
Kamierabi GOD.app (カミエラビ GOD.app)
"A bunch of kids who go battle royale to become the next god."
The red and black key illustration for it caught my attention while browsing the entire season's chart for October, and became hella more curious after finding out Jin works on part of the writing, as in, the vocaloid producer Shizen no Teki-P ... that Jin, I MEAN MEKAKU CITY ACTORS JIN
Goro is the good boy who tries to stand out for the good things but is weak and also a hormonal teen who stereotypically fights back loneliness with liking Idols and other run of mill traits that truly don't matter to the story, he gets an app in his phone that offers him to fulfill a wish in exchange for "something", he fucks around only to find out he got a power and now he gotta battle people for survival, and so, everyone who he is becoming acquainted has some weird power just like him and because he is a good boy he can't quite kill them OR WILL HE?.
It felt like a chore watching this show but it wasn't trash truly, it finished with the kiddo making the biggest sacrifice for the wellbeing of everyone else like I expected, and hinted that became a politician to mend the ways of japanese society with this fate changing powers I guess (that's what I got from the ending which was like one scene of a dude on a podium talking about changing things, and that looked like a matured adult ver. of the protagonist kiddo).
Hametsu no Oukoku (破滅的王國)
"Good god they did my boy Kaito dirty again by shoving him into some low budget edgy show again."
Oh boy, if I didn't cringe and suffer by watching Kaito voice a wreck of a badly written character in Raise of the Shield Hero I'M CRINGING NOW WITH THIS ONE, god it was so awful I had to drop it, no shame on myself but only the people who is not finding good roles for his award winning voice.
We are in a world where witches help the humans but humans wanna nuke all the witches because big powers scawy and "we should be the forger of our destiny on our own, not the witches" and whatever, our main protagonist is a sweet kid who is the apprentice of a survivor witch and they enjoy each other's company, it's nice, it looks wholesome and they're trying their best to lead a life of comfort outside the raging war against witches OH SHIT OH FUCK THEY KILLED THE WITCH LADY ALREADY, and the poor human kid has been banished to a very weird iron maiden shaped cell until the pink-haired girl that you see in the key-art sets him free.
And oh boy he's trying to kill everyone and make everyone atone for
their sins but the pink-haired girl is here to tell him to calm the
fuck down and he gets all sad because he gets scolded for trying to
kill the humans that killed their witch friend and at that point I
said FUCK IT when she tells him "We can rebuild her, we have the
technology magic", what??, the narrative element that sets
everything in motion is being undone for what?, unless their deliver
some gruesome story where bringing back this lady witch turns out to
be some massive conspiracy to use her and kill humans back and the
guy has been bambozled into doing that would be awesome but I wasn't
gonna wait 12+ eps to see that, no way.