This is such a formulaic production that it almost feels like a parody of anime. Sadly, it's being played absolutely straight.
The script, characterisation and dialogue feel like they've s written by a teenage boy, and not one from the top of the class. There's nothing strictly wrong with it, it's just absolutely basic "now my son inherits my magical powers and robot suit" exposition, with no flair, passion or self awareness to it.
The voice talent is also strictly workmanlike. They all voice their parts exactly as the genre expects. The best that you can say is that the quality is internally consistent - everybody is phoning it in.
That might be excusable if the animation was outstanding, but stylistically it's a real mess, being entirely CGI that can't seem to decide whether it's trying to emulate cell drawing or not. The colours are flat and untextured, but with complex lighting and soft graduated shadows that come closer to realism.
The animation also appears to be a mash up of some motion captured or hand animated scenes but is mostly a library of stock algorithmic animations like the NPCs in a B-grade console game, with a distracting amount of random swaying around added on top. It looks like it was done by a computer because most of it was.
The result is neither fish nor fowl, and regularly wanders into the uncanny valley.
If you like your anime old school, in the sense of primitive and trite, it might be worth a shot. But we're in a post One Punch Man world now, and really we deserve and should expect better.
The script, characterisation and dialogue feel like they've s written by a teenage boy, and not one from the top of the class. There's nothing strictly wrong with it, it's just absolutely basic "now my son inherits my magical powers and robot suit" exposition, with no flair, passion or self awareness to it.
The voice talent is also strictly workmanlike. They all voice their parts exactly as the genre expects. The best that you can say is that the quality is internally consistent - everybody is phoning it in.
That might be excusable if the animation was outstanding, but stylistically it's a real mess, being entirely CGI that can't seem to decide whether it's trying to emulate cell drawing or not. The colours are flat and untextured, but with complex lighting and soft graduated shadows that come closer to realism.
The animation also appears to be a mash up of some motion captured or hand animated scenes but is mostly a library of stock algorithmic animations like the NPCs in a B-grade console game, with a distracting amount of random swaying around added on top. It looks like it was done by a computer because most of it was.
The result is neither fish nor fowl, and regularly wanders into the uncanny valley.
If you like your anime old school, in the sense of primitive and trite, it might be worth a shot. But we're in a post One Punch Man world now, and really we deserve and should expect better.