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Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash read as a pretty generic concept to me at first glance, but I gave it a shot because the first episode seemed promising and the watercolor backgrounds were gorgeous. It squandered its first episode potential, though, and turned into the by-the-numbers fantasy show I half-expected it to be at first. Even its beautiful background work stopped really being a boon, because the contrast between the background quality and the rapidly deteriorating character animation ends up highlighting how much the animation has fallen apart. Though it wasn't terrible, and while I did actually finish it, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, really. Mahou Shojo? Naria Girls I had high hopes for this as a fan of Tesagure, but this just felt like a cheap imitator. Which, given that this is helmed by the same director, is not great. The improv is unfunny and feels forced by the skits having specific themes in contrast to Tesagure having much broader subjects for them to goof around with. Also, the motion tracking animation system looks terrible and leads to a bunch of weird clipping. Garo: Guren no Tsuki Holy loving poo poo, this was so bad. I had a sinking feeling that this would be bad from the start when the writers were announced as noted hacks Sho Aikawa and Toshiki "loving" Inoue, but the first season was one of my favorite shows of 2015 and the other staff remained the same so I felt honor-bound to give it a fair shot. To be honest, I can't tell you exactly how many episodes of this I watched - I think four? But they were all so terrible and forgettable that they bled together. The writing is really what shone -- for lack of a better term -- here. It's a show that couldn't decide if it wanted to do a grimdark take on a period drama, or try to be lighthearted so it attempted both and failed. The serious moments evoke zero emotion and the jokes fall completely flat, so poorly written they wouldn't pass muster in a terrible show for kids. Most avoided for me would probably be Magical Girl Raising Project. Sounded like it was supposed to be 'magical girls but dark' which doesn't appeal to me at all. Special dishonorable mention for Macross Zero Simply put, I liked it too much to include it as a worst-of-2016 entry but had to mention it anyway. Loved the music, loved the first cour so much that at the end of episode 13 I was absolutely convinced that it'd easily make my top 5 of the year. And then... it didn't. The second half of the show is a parade of missed opportunities and spinning wheels, the story basically stopped. This would've been my choice for Most Disappointing, for sure.
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