(07/02/2013 05:41 PM)Assassinator Wrote:  Is it one of these try-to-be-deep animes, like Darker Than Black 2 for example?

I can't really compare given the fact that I dropped DTB2 after a couple eps.

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Anyhoo, I just finished watching Nekomonogatari Kuro, the prequel to the two Monogatari-series anime that have aired so far.

It didn't fail in bringing the delicious combination of animation and dialogue found in the previous titles but comparatively it didn't sit well with me.

Having seen it all-in-one (as opposed to two or four part formats) it felt overly long and - perhaps even - a little exhausted by the final third even when the plot was concluding (which is what I should have been anticipating most, of course) - so ultimately I've come off feeling a little underwhelmed even compared to the generally-considered inferior Nisemonogatari.

Perhaps it's just the format? Twenty-odd minute bites of gorgeous animation and never-ending dialogue might just be the right way to digest this kind of thing but in retrospect I'm only disagreeing with myself - I enjoyed watching its predecessor series' arcs at a time so perhaps this reveals simply a failing of having as engaging (at least to me anyway) a plot compared to anything else I've seen from the series of works so far.

Perhaps it needs a rewatch but I think I'll find myself rather hesistant compared to the first or second season of monster stories.

7/10

P.S. Not enough Shinobu. She's awesome.

P.P.S Tsubasa Cat has a lot to do with it - well particularly because it was better.

(This post was last modified: 23/03/2013 05:21 PM by S7*.)