thymrman

2/10

Shironeko Project ZERO CHRONICLE, what a bloody terrible show this ended up being. And after 12 episodes I don’t think I can find a single redeeming thing about this show, and I see no reason why I could ever recommend somebody actually watch it. But, if for whatever reason you want to know some about the show. The worst part of this show by far is the pacing, or lack of it that is. You get a sudden opening that throws you in with no build up at all. The Main Character, Yami no Ouji, suddenly meets an old man who makes him into a Prince. Which lets Yami meet the various other members of the Darkness group. But suddenly throughout this process you get thrown in with the Light side with the Queen of Light, Hikari no Ou Iris. With more sudden battles and characters being introduced. This flip-flopping keeps happening over and over again the entire show, so better get used to it. During the middle section of the show things actually improved. The two sides are in the same spot and working together. They have some surprising decent character building and some world building. Don’t have many unexpected fights, it turns into a generic slice-of-life show. Which is a better outcome than the actual show thus far. Then it all comes crashing down, when the show leaves the decent slice-of-life stuff for the final arc. Once again, the two sides are separated so the flip-flopping begins again. And because they spent too long on slice-of-life stuff, the story goes into complete overdrive mode. Blasting through content at a ridiculous pace that just leaves you confused as to what is happening. Suddenly the final battle is starting for some reason, and then people die and the world ends. I was completely confused between episodes, because you are suddenly in a different spot with different characters at a different time. And they are for some reason progressing down a path they weren’t even close to the last time you saw them, they just kinda teleported ahead to keep pace with the story. These various battles that occur also are some of the worst things I’ve watched this season. The animation is incredibly poor and low budget. Visually it doesn’t look impressive or interesting. And overall, it has no redeeming qualities. If I had to describe it, I would say it is a low budget generic animation style you have seen hundreds of times within the past couple years. The characters suffer so much from the terrible pacing. I didn’t learn a single character’s name until I looked it up for the review. They don’t really have any standout qualities. Overall, they are just super generic boring cardboard cutouts of characters. These people are heroes, those are villains, got some love triangle stuff, good guy turning bad, sudden betrayal. Just the stuff that you have seen hundreds of times in shows and games and books and did nothing interesting. Going along with the love triangle, the romance existed but was essentially nonexistent. It was foreshadowed obviously based on the OP and ED, so the triangle was pointless, but it just didn’t get enough time to develop to actually become an interesting romance. Almost done, but suddenly remembered that I did like something from this show. The music was actually pretty decent, and I do recommend tracking it down on Spotify or YouTube. Completely unexpected given how bad the rest of it was. Overall, this is a show that you can easily skip and loose nothing at all. It has no redeeming qualities for me that would make me recommend watching it at all.