I am 11 episodes into the series and I do not understand what the big fuss is about this series. To describe my feelings towards this series in the simplest way; its boring.
When I first decided to watch this series I sort of forgot that this was a show by Gonzo and when I recalled this fact once more, I started to somewhat understand why I am not liking this anime. I have never been much of a fan of Gonzo productions because they are always very boring and even if they might give you thousands of action scenes throughout they almost always do not know how to portray these scenes in an entertaining way. And they use these dull action scenes to cover up the fact that they do not really have much of a plot behind their episodes.
From a friend I learned that the character designs are by Murata who has a very peculiar look to his designs, but actually make them very beautiful. The character designs are probably the best part of the series, but just as Gonzo loves to do, there is still a lot of CG animation being used very frequently. This CG is also by no means seamless and instead gives the show an uglier look than it could have been. I at least like the opening in all this, just because I actually like the song and it manages to give off the expectation that this series could have been good.
In terms of the characters, I once again wander in the bin of boring. Lavie should be interesting, but every time she shows more than one side to her they just prevent it from further being discussed and she drops that attitude behind to go back to her figurative one dimensional self. An example of this is when she was showing tons of dislike and jealousy towards Al and just wanted to go home, but one episode later all was forgiven and her real home was not even a thought on her mind. Al is adorable so I do not mind too much whatever she does and from what I can tell at the end of episode 11, she is finally going to become more interesting. Claus is just the true definition of boring, he means nothing to me and I can never feel much sympathy for him. The only character I actually really like is Dio, who is by far the most entertaining and funniest aspect of this series. I approve of him at least.
I am going to finish this series because I feel like it is only right this far in and with episode 11 showing some sort of promise towards the plot, the show may become better from now till the end. I still do not see why so many love this series, so to the fans I hope you can explain to me what I am missing out on while watching this.
