Review Shouwa Ahozoushi Akanuke Ichiban
It's a superpower romcom, but mostly comedy. Characters do not change, romance barely develops, and the episodes generally follow the same formula even if the premise changes. It's love triangle comedy broken up with a few dokidoki moments.
The comedy is loud and mostly slapstick, along with verbal misunderstandings and constant gags (like UY). Most of these can be pretty funny, but binging is not recommended as the form of the jokes is repetitive.
The characters are charismatic and the premise is unique enough to make it work. The MC acts on the trope of country hick, although he is more broadly a dumb pervert trope character. The voice actor who plays him puts 100% into the exaggerated emotion, silliness, and heroic aspects of the role. Similarly, the other voice actors are all well in tune with their characters.
One downside is that some episodes lack a driving plot. Each episode usually involves a central problem and the resolution being a climax near the end of the episode. When this premise is lacking the entire episode can move like a slug. For example, the stories centered around the Jariten character are fine, until they repeat and it's the same plot of him following the girl he likes or messing something up involving his planet.
When the premise is decent enough, the episodes are fine to great. The non narrative aspects of the show are generally top tier. The direction and storyboarding is well done, with shots flowing into each other with seamless transitions that introduce the subject of the following shot into the scene usually with music being employed to signal or ease one scene into the next. However, even good direction isn't enough to carry a boring or unoriginal plot, which is why I mention these aspects after mentioning plot.
Other minor downsides include there being sometimes excessive sound effects when the animation/cutting should be doing the talking and there sometimes being too many jokes that aren't tied into the plot. I get slapstick comedy involves abrupt jokes, but when there are so many that aren't ever acknowledged by the character or plot, they begin to feel like unnecessary pauses that make the narrative less engrossing. Generally these aren't always the case which is why these are minor nitpicks.
Other aspects that are done well include the art, animation, and music. Light and bright colors, with a lot of detail
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