
Just as with its key visuals, it seems the K-Project certainly didn’t take long to topple as this second episode is inconsistent in everything except bare bodied exposure courtesy of its service character.
There nearly isn’t even enough plot to bother mentioning the word, nor its brother in arms, “story” – as rather than feel like a progressive addition to the foundation of episode one, this chapter is simply as if someone pulled a brick they weren’t supposed to, causing all to fall in a collapse of many directions.
To give an idea of the rate of this series’ descent into sheer self-destruction, one need merely imagine a simple image of a rocket heading from the stratosphere towards the ground at several levels of mach speed. As visuals are perceived as one of the stronger aspects of this series, it’s worth initiating judgement with them solely to prove how they’re turning out quite weak – nearly betraying themselves.
Indeed, in respect to still imagery, the K-Project has generally magnificent artwork – however in practice, the visuals are a five-man band trying to perform a quartet. One aspect for instance, noticed with the first episode, is that the series seems much too enthusiastic about its own aesthetics – thereby often panning the camera around aimlessly with no purpose other than to boast the overly extravagant settings. It was excessive in the initial episode – yet one could tolerate it since it was a debuting start, now however, this is little more than a flaw.
An attitude a bit too zealous when it comes to artwork of the surrounding stages is resulting in an interrupted mood – a sudden irrelevance, and time plainly wasted. Yet of course, there’s more issues that merely those few – in particular, everything about the dialogue. Every character speaks not unless it is something stereotypical to X genre, or Y appearance – and regardless of that, their statements are nearly always absent of value and unintelligible.
The whining of the white haired kid, for instance, isn’t in anyone’s favor – and neither is a single phrase the service girl says. Incidents such as the imouto deathbed lying are also cut and paste tropes rehashed in animation since cats chased after mice – yet that’s not nearly as awful as how moronic and unoriginal it was to see the imbecile swordsman, “Kurogami”, actually fall for it without a second doubt.
Now of course, this all negatively misaligns the axis of story – not much development is made on the frontier of plot, although that which is granted clearance to move forward is horrific. The fact there’s a hunt for the white-haired kid, as well as how that kid suddenly gains a bishoujo from nowhere, alongside a new friend, it’s all simply the pure embodiment of creativity – merely not the K-Project’s own creativity.
Essentially, the seeming main difference between an average generic story and the K-Project’s own is that the latter combines a whole collective of pre-cooked tales into one ginormous slop. With the execution and concept being all-around mediocre – the visuals are left with far too much horsepower, and don’t beneficially contribute to the series whatsoever so long as it remains traveling at this rate.
Similarly, this current pace will ruin the series if left unchecked – although it doesn’t look that we’ll see otherwise sadly.




























Oct 12, 2012 @ 22:35 CDT
add oppai, get higher ratings
well sad that the anime industry has to resort to fan service to save it. but eh its still early
Oct 12, 2012 @ 22:51 CDT
The fan service wasn’t played in your typical moe fashion and every anime has fan service to some degree, looking into it to much will hinder your ability to enjoy anime.
Either way this ep turned out different then i expected, though i think ive figured out what’s going mostly anyways.
Oct 12, 2012 @ 23:08 CDT
I don’t know about you, but looking at anything that’s green or blue (especially the background and trees) just hurts my eyes. It’s almost as if somebody went crazy with the ‘dodge’ tool on Photoshop and made a layer of color that ‘dodges’ the original colors. I do appreciate and acknowledge that the studio is trying something different, but I just cannot watch this series without straining my eyes.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 0:11 CDT
I read somewhere that GoRa is made up of 7 light novel authors.
But it’s like they are throwing the worst clichés in Light novels to ‘K’.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 1:08 CDT
Haha, logically it may look like this series is going downhill, but anime fans are not logical creatures. I know many a blogger who’s opinion of this show has gone up thanks to the fan service. Judging by what’s been popular lately (Moe blob, K-on, etc) I guess K knows it’s fanbase.
Though this is a rare example of an anime with excellent visuals but lackluster other areas. Of course I’m an average anime fan not a logical one, so I’m quiet satisfied with what I see so far. Although this show could use a good helping of plot and story.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 1:14 CDT
“Although this show could use a good helping of plot and story.’”
the hope of good plot and story is why i watched this in the first place, sure hope it has it next episode
Oct 13, 2012 @ 11:38 CDT
It depends what you are defining as “visuals” – because they do have horrible flaws in terms of focus, and collective composition.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 1:11 CDT
one thing that was idiotic here, is that how can you let yourself as to be so distracted from your goal, as to wait to eat food served by a man, who you are supposed to kill after? and why not kill him with all the opportunities? Kurogami is so idiotic(not to mention possibly gay)
also that chase scene, how the hell did they end up back at his room?
Oct 13, 2012 @ 1:40 CDT
First what does him being possibly gay have to do with anything?
Second they had been running around since the last afternoon and even if he were to keep at his goal the neko girl would get in the way.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 1:55 CDT
May i ask you this, will a CIA agent let a naked girl get in the way in killing a wanted terrorist? i don’t think so, that moment was just plain stupid in that he has the guts to eat with them despite the fact that he tried to kill him
Secondly, would you like to watch Yaoi?
Oct 13, 2012 @ 4:58 CDT
I don’t see a problem if its yaoi or not
and if that girl can bend reality at will and makes it pretty much impossible to get your target then yes.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 6:20 CDT
Fujoshi, but still doesn’t change the fact that he could have just retreated and reported to HQ instead of eating with them carelessly
Oct 13, 2012 @ 16:27 CDT
He obviously doesn’t have one and is only acting on a request from someone he knows personally and fujoshi? yeah no not letting something as small as two dudes kissing makes me a fujoshi yep totally.
Oct 14, 2012 @ 1:38 CDT
it’s so obvious he works with the guys with megane
Oct 13, 2012 @ 1:21 CDT
well, the oppai was the only good thing in this anime so far
Oct 13, 2012 @ 2:09 CDT
We all knew that Neko was gonna be the fanservice character so why get mad.
We also knew that this was gonna happen sooner or later, so better sooner than later.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 2:32 CDT
well, yeah, but i just hope that they won’t keep this up
Oct 13, 2012 @ 4:59 CDT
-sigh-
People see a censored pair of tits and their heads melt,it wasn’t even that big of a deal.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 11:44 CDT
I don’t know who you are referencing when you say “people”, although the general problem I mentioned, as well as what others on this site seem to convey, is that these “censored pair of tits” are titblocking valid plot – no one cares about the “tits” by themselves.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 11:40 CDT
What we didn’t know was that the series would ruin the story over the service character.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 2:39 CDT
Fan service didn’t bother me, as I was expecting it. If this turns to Shounen-ai(due to several hints), Neko seemed to have this role; “Guys don’t leave yet, we got service for you too”.
I love details on the background but a little too blue and bright. The animation itself looks good, specially close up shots, but seems to degrade at movement and at long distance. The action scene were an exception, it didn’t degrade but was way too short. I felt exited and hyped up, when the BGM started playing, but to my displeasure it ended in a moment.
The main characters are not really to my liking(the 3 people or was 2 people and 1 cat? The one’s who ran around the episode). The supporting cast however has gotten my interest, specially the shizuo look alike.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 11:42 CDT
I similarly am disliking the main characters, but liking everyone else for the most past.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 9:50 CDT
Most anime nowadays have fanservice, so meeh not suprised at all.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 11:50 CDT
Fanservice aside, I am interested in what exactly the cats power is.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 11:54 CDT
stopping this show into going full blown fujoshi magnet
Oct 13, 2012 @ 12:12 CDT
More likely, to keep male viewers. Nothings going to stop fujoshis, from ravaging anything with a cast full of bishounens. Not the genre, plot or the personality of the character……..
Oct 13, 2012 @ 23:52 CDT
This guy knows.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 12:38 CDT
Episode two is a complete insult to the injury compared to the first one. Instead of focusing about what’s going on, they ruin it with Neko’s oppai and sexual nonsense. I wish the main characters are so likeable as the story progresses if they want to heal the major flaws behind the plot, but if it’s ruined, then it’s a strikeout.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 23:52 CDT
I don’t foresee any of the main characters becoming likable.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 13:08 CDT
So far, I still think Btooom! is worse than this show.
Oct 13, 2012 @ 23:49 CDT
Good thing BTOOOM! has nothing to do with this series.