Having just sat through five episodes of the 2023 Japanese Anime "Undead Girl Murder Farce", I must say that I was expecting quite something else than what it turned out to be.
Sure, the premise of the Anime tells of a disembodied head working as a supernatural detective traveling the work looking for her lost body. And that sounded interesting enough to make me sit down and watch it.
But spending four episodes on solving a murder of vampire, just hardly constitutes proper storytelling in my book. It was too slow paced, monotonous and downright boring. And after having suffered through the fifth episode as well, I am calling it quits on "Undead Girl Murder Farce", never returning to watch this again.
Luckily I sat down to watch the episodes in their original Japanese language. I loathe English dubbed Anime, no doubt about that. However, it was strange why everyone in the series spoke Japanese, even the Englishmen in episode five. That was just downright stupid.
The art style in "Undead Girl Murder Farce" was good, I definitely liked that. And the animation was good as well. But it was hardly enough to alleviate for the shortcomings of the narrative.
I have to admit that I was sorely disappointed with the outcome of "Undead Girl Murder Farce", because it had such an interesting foundation to build something good on.
My rating of "Undead Girl Murder Farce" lands on a three out of ten stars.
Sure, the premise of the Anime tells of a disembodied head working as a supernatural detective traveling the work looking for her lost body. And that sounded interesting enough to make me sit down and watch it.
But spending four episodes on solving a murder of vampire, just hardly constitutes proper storytelling in my book. It was too slow paced, monotonous and downright boring. And after having suffered through the fifth episode as well, I am calling it quits on "Undead Girl Murder Farce", never returning to watch this again.
Luckily I sat down to watch the episodes in their original Japanese language. I loathe English dubbed Anime, no doubt about that. However, it was strange why everyone in the series spoke Japanese, even the Englishmen in episode five. That was just downright stupid.
The art style in "Undead Girl Murder Farce" was good, I definitely liked that. And the animation was good as well. But it was hardly enough to alleviate for the shortcomings of the narrative.
I have to admit that I was sorely disappointed with the outcome of "Undead Girl Murder Farce", because it had such an interesting foundation to build something good on.
My rating of "Undead Girl Murder Farce" lands on a three out of ten stars.