The show even goes as far as to explain what a trojan horse is, as if we know absolutely nothing about the world and have been sitting on our mommy's lap sucking our thumb since the day we were born. It does not need to be explained to us for the umpteenth time in anime. It uses-you guessed it- Schrodinger's Cat in a vain attempt to seem more philosophical and meaningful than it actually is. Phantom World regularly treats its audience like it is a mass of buffoons who have never been to school. It is also quite pathetic how the show attempts to make us care for her suddenly, the protagonist stretching his hand out towards the sky and screaming! Tears! Drama! Give me a break. Her small size is quite fitting, being little more than a fly buzzing around in the protagonist's and the viewer's faces. Unlike, say, Tamako Market's Dera-chan, who was actually a unique and amusing character, the little fairy here is nothing but an annoyance. Ruru, the show's mascot character, clearly exists only to sell merchandise and figures. Not only is he a waste of space like just about every character in this show, but it is real tiring seeing all these pseudo-harem anime incapable of making a second male character who is actually a competent person and not just background fodder or some dumb, running gag. Phantom World has another one of those 'dumb male friend' characters, similar to Ishiki from Chuu2, but manages to do so little with him that you forget he even exists. Minase? I had to look through the character listing to even remember her name. She acts remarkably her age her seiyuu even goes as far as to stutter and poorly enunciate her words, as a girl in primary school would. Kurumi is the only one who actually feels like a person and not just an assortment of tropes slapped together ('cool', 'big boobs', 'tsundere'). There is not a character within the show who is developed in any meaningful way, and only one-Kurumi- is even worth a damn, and that's not just because I love twintails and wish to be surrounded by twintailed beauties for the rest of my days. KyoAni seems to have forgotten what made previous titles like K-ON and Haruhi so successful: characters. If all they are now capable of is drawing cute characters and flashy OPs and EDs, then perhaps they should leave anime and go work on manga and TV commercials instead? I am also getting tired of forgiving their shows' terrible plots and characters just because they happen to look pretty. Anyone who has seen even a single KyoAni anime knows exactly what they're getting here. It is not even worth the time to discuss the art of Phantom World. They stayed KyoAni on the outside, but on the inside they are merely a shallow, rotting husk of what they used to be. There is nothing you have not seen here before, and nothing to inspire a viewing aside from the fact that it 'looks and sounds nice'. It is your typical, uninspired rom-com that we get in the dozens every single year. If not for the KyoAni name-now worthless- nobody would have cared about what Phantom World has to And now, several more mediocre series later, we have Musaigen no Phantom World, a title so vapid and effortless that I believe KyoAni has finally reached the point of being irredeemable. Then came Kyoukai no Kanata, an absolute disaster of writing, and the creaking of KyoAni's creative efforts could start to be heard. First came Chuu2, a middling but otherwise inoffensive rom-com. Over the past few years, I have been a witness to the rapid decline of KyoAni.
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