>>518413739The way the art style depicts highschoolers making them look closer to elementary schoolers than actual teenagers is weird. Like I get this is kinda of trend in western animation but like
seriously highschooler students aren't that short, by the time I started Highschool I was already 5'9".
The humor is just kinda there for some of the parts. I really don't like the weird two-toned hair the protagonist has. I've seen edits where they make it just all black and it looks way better. I still don't really get why the whole "anime character with multi-colored hair" thing got so prevalent in
anime parodies, outside of like Yugi I can't think of any major protagonists from the time that actually due the multi-hair color thing that aren't way to obscure for gen z MLP fan animators to be regularly referencing. Who is this for exactly? Like what is the target audience? As stated before these characters looks like some Ojamajo Doremi tier characters but they swear and do violence. You could argue that it's "Moe girls doing more mature things as a twist" but it's not really "mature" enough. It's not some Magical Witch Punie-chan hyper violence parody, outside of the swearing the other elements could be from a CN or Nick show from the 2000s but it can't be trying for that age range cause the attempts at romance that's clearly there and again swearing. Who is this for?
In conclusion:
Even my transforming magical girl character Gretel was more creative and she was just a fat version of Fina from Dark Awake. Want to know why? Because the "I don't want to do it" trope is so played out, I just avoided it altogether and made it more like Yugi/Yami Yugi than Shinji from Kamen Rider Ryuki, who got watered down into Madoka who got watered down into some YouTube abridged series that then got watered down into a bluesky highlight post that got watered down into tumblr comic fanon than then watered down into Aika. (cont.)
