Musasi-no むさしの！
Synopsis
Musashino starts in the happy-go-lucky daily campus lives of eight high school girls: Usagi, Tokiwa, Minami, Sakura, Midori, Kojika, Saiko, and Misono, in the Urawa-ku, Saitama Prefecture.
Review
TL;DR:
This show is hot garbage. It… has a followable story? but every step of it is a disaster. If the road to Miami is as messy as running over chickens, crashing into a McDonalds, and leaping to your death in a lava pit, then I do not think it’s a road you should sincerely take. And that’s giving the show too much credit for trying to look interesting.
Also, if you need any more indication that this is a show not worth watching, look at how dead the discussions are and how I am the first legitimate review of the series a full WEEK after it aired. The community speaks for itself.
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.” -Forrest Gump
…what the fuck? I mean, what in the fuck, why in the fuck did I watch this, and how in the fuck did this even get made? My dear god, where do I even begin?
The storytelling in this anime… it’s pure genius. Whoever wrote this anime wasn’t just high, he literally came down with a case of corporate greed asked himself “Okay, what is the worst possible storyline I can conceive in order to make my three minute anime look (keyword: look) interesting while also sponsoring these local businesses?” And that makes it sound like the writer actually had a plan. Seriously, it’s so bad that it looped beyond the “so bad it’s good” territory back to pure agony.
I mean, listing the plotlines of three of the most coherently sound (and entertaining) episodes, we got literally watching three minutes of trivia, a dream sequence, and retconning the entire purpose of the show. If that doesn’t say anything, I don’t know what will.
Not to mention that the animation in this anime is just bad. It’s not Ex-Arm bad, it’s just… bad. Like, there’s a difference between laughing at a horrific abomination of a failed experiment integrating 2D and 3D animation, and watching an anime use a default splash animation that doesn’t even align with the character’s head. It’s the kind of bad that you just feel awful laughing at, because you know there was 0 effort put into the product and laughing gives it more credit than it ever needed.
The literal 5 tracks in the OST was not the worst thing my ears stumbled upon I guess, which is really not saying much because the few times it legitimately annoyed me (see: season 1 using the same intro song YES THERE’S A SEASON ONE CALLED “Urawa no Usagi-chan” AND IT IS SOMEHOW MORE BORING YET BETTER THAN THIS FUCKING GARBAGE) paled in comparison to the sheer atrocities of everything else.
Look, this shit is pure garbage. If I had to guess, there was even less effort put into the production of this anime than Mars of Destruction, and that one deliberately cut corners to fit the animation budget of seven dollars. But instead of packing a boring storyline with some hilarious moments, this anime packs some of the wildest storylines with the most boring execution possible. Like, I kid you not, they put a literal advertisement in one of the episodes.
I would compare this anime to the “if you don’t share this with 10 other friends, you will die” email spam that happened many, many years ago. Because watching this alone will make you suffer horribly, but watching your friends suffer through the sheer garbage is probably the most sadistic fun I’ve had.
