Your review of my review has quite a few flaws too, my friend.
"as this anime isn't harem at all"- I was alluding to the fact that this anime gave me the FEELING that it was LIKE a harem anime. Girls everywhere + one lame-ass MC who seems to be attracting the attention of most, if not all, of the female characters because of some special pheromone or some other stupid bullshit reason (i.e. "He's the MC"). "Other important male characters". Like Puck? Nah, he's the mascot, doesn't count. Gay magician dude? Really? Knight who appears for one episode and then runs off to do something else? Please.
Yes, the main points aren't in those "happy, comedic sections", but alas that wasn't my point. My point was that those sections are so frequent and, I suppose, "extreme", that they detract from the more serious parts of the show. If a class clown who joked around everyday one day decides to tell someone that a wolf is coming to town, would they believe him? That's what it felt like to me. The comedic and serious parts of the show were so drastically different that they did NOT mesh well together at all, and to me the show seemed to be having an identity crisis. "Am I a funny lighthearted romance? Or am I a dark serious mystery? How about a harem? You know what, fuck it all I'm gonna be all of them at once."
I've already mentioned examples of anime that incorporate lighthearted scenes well, such as Steins;gate. The lightheartedness is not SO overwhelming that it overpowers the more serious scenes. That's the problem that Re:zero has.
"when in reality, he does" - And that's your opinion. In MY opinion, he does not form any "meaningful" relationships. First, you have to take into account the questions "Who is Subaru? What is he doing here? What is his purpose?". He's a random MC self-insert who appears for no apparent reason in a random world. He helps people because he's....a helpful guy? Okay sure. I suppose you could say that as a horny teen, it was only natural for him to develop romantic feelings for the elf girl, so okay he has a reason for wanting to "save" her. But I became skeptical about his reasons for wanting to "save" people when it came to the twin maid girls. He spent at MOST a month or two, repeating time and attempting to not die and/or fuck up. He knew a little of their backstories, a little bit of their personalities and whatnot. So why go through the trouble of dying over and over again to save a couple of girls that he hardly knew well? Martyr complex? Hero complex? It's not explained at all. You can say that knowing people for a month or so is enough to form a "significant" relationship with them; I beg to differ.
7 episodes was enough to know that this anime is shit. I don't think I could torture myself and watch any more stupidity.
"you wrote this review subjectively, not objectively" - All reviews are subjective. There is no such thing as a truly "objective" review, especially considering mediums of art like animation, storytelling, etc.
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"as this anime isn't harem at all"- I was alluding to the fact that this anime gave me the FEELING that it was LIKE a harem anime. Girls everywhere + one lame-ass MC who seems to be attracting the attention of most, if not all, of the female characters because of some special pheromone or some other stupid bullshit reason (i.e. "He's the MC"). "Other important male characters". Like Puck? Nah, he's the mascot, doesn't count. Gay magician dude? Really? Knight who appears for one episode and then runs off to do something else? Please.
Yes, the main points aren't in those "happy, comedic sections", but alas that wasn't my point. My point was that those sections are so frequent and, I suppose, "extreme", that they detract from the more serious parts of the show. If a class clown who joked around everyday one day decides to tell someone that a wolf is coming to town, would they believe him? That's what it felt like to me. The comedic and serious parts of the show were so drastically different that they did NOT mesh well together at all, and to me the show seemed to be having an identity crisis. "Am I a funny lighthearted romance? Or am I a dark serious mystery? How about a harem? You know what, fuck it all I'm gonna be all of them at once."
I've already mentioned examples of anime that incorporate lighthearted scenes well, such as Steins;gate. The lightheartedness is not SO overwhelming that it overpowers the more serious scenes. That's the problem that Re:zero has.
"when in reality, he does" - And that's your opinion. In MY opinion, he does not form any "meaningful" relationships. First, you have to take into account the questions "Who is Subaru? What is he doing here? What is his purpose?". He's a random MC self-insert who appears for no apparent reason in a random world. He helps people because he's....a helpful guy? Okay sure. I suppose you could say that as a horny teen, it was only natural for him to develop romantic feelings for the elf girl, so okay he has a reason for wanting to "save" her. But I became skeptical about his reasons for wanting to "save" people when it came to the twin maid girls. He spent at MOST a month or two, repeating time and attempting to not die and/or fuck up. He knew a little of their backstories, a little bit of their personalities and whatnot. So why go through the trouble of dying over and over again to save a couple of girls that he hardly knew well? Martyr complex? Hero complex? It's not explained at all. You can say that knowing people for a month or so is enough to form a "significant" relationship with them; I beg to differ.
7 episodes was enough to know that this anime is shit. I don't think I could torture myself and watch any more stupidity.
"you wrote this review subjectively, not objectively" - All reviews are subjective. There is no such thing as a truly "objective" review, especially considering mediums of art like animation, storytelling, etc.