This season I’m going to blog six new series, the first of which is Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita. the biggest reason for this is its creativity, and in terms of that, this second episode also did not disappoint. The fairies in this show are already one thing, but what this episode did with skinned chickens was just outstanding as a dark satire.
Now, this series has two types of humour: the first is its jokes that depend on the chemistry between the characters. Now, to be honest, I don’t find this to be that funny. Its uses of anti-climaxes feels rather forced as well and a lot of the other jokes fall flat, and I feel that their delivery could be better. It feels like the characters are forcing themselves to be funny, which doesn’t really work.
The second type of humour in this series is its pitch-black absurdist humour, like with the bread in the first episode, or how this episode featured skinned chickens that went suicidal from from a video o camera. Now, these jokes are really good and well delivered that I just can’t help but laugh at them, especially when the soundtrack turns to Ave Maria as well.
Now, this series will only be 1 cour long. Is that enough tie for a premise such as this?
Rating: * (Good)
The length of the season shouldn’t be a problem. From the LN spoilers/previews I read each novel seems to be more or less self-contained story without any real overarching plot which would require high episode count.
But anyway this was the surprise hit of the season for me, been a long time since I got proper laughs from this kind of dark/absurd comedy.
The jokes really do feel mixed, but I laughed plenty int his ep, I really like the strangeness of this series and the ED was fun to watch, the op is fun to watch too, hopefully the time is used well. The darkness is fun, and I’ve noticed what you meant about voices, everyone seems a little bit too “happy” so to speak, but with a series this strange it almost fits.
I want to like this one, I really do, because its trying to be creative and I applaud that. However currently it all seems just a bit too pointless. Its not that its a bad show, but its the same with the reason I don’t watch a lot of shows I feel will just be mediocre. I have to justify time spent watching them, as I have little of it to spare.
This one currently falls into the category of random crazy shit, for random crazy shit’s sake.
So im dropping this and will probably only pick it up if it turns out to be a real winner!
It’s not crazy shit just for the sake of it, go read some of the various anime blogs which analysis of the first two episodes and the reader comments that follow which even go further in-depth with the analysis (over-analyzing things sometimes), sadly it seems that lots of the dark satire, metaphors and subtext criticizing humanity will fly over some people’s heads and they will only see it as 100% random shit … IT ISN’T.
I really enjoyed this. It has a very odd sense of humour that appeals to me somehow. I couldn’t help but laugh at the scene where the translation glasses were translating the swearwords literally. It was almost like they were taking the piss out of english fansubs 🙂 I also like the sardonic side of the lead.
Humanity Has Declined is rather episodic and theme-driven. Is there a reason for worrying about it being one season? It doesn’t seem to have an intricate plot or massive cast of characters.
You mentioned Tari Tari likely not meeting your expectations either, due to it being one season long.
What a mean, bizarre and dark fairy tale, I love it. Can’t help to admire how much personality Watashi has (but I agree the rest of the character sometimes lack in this department). The God hand (god=kami=hair)joke was also really clever.
One more thing I really find attractive beside the above comments is the MC’s monologues. I really really love them and their sarcasm. xD
Ah yeah, psgels. Did you watch the part after the ending song? There’s another funny scene (there’s no preview)
last episode left me with a kinda confused feel. but this time i watched it expecting it to be dark comedy. and surprisingly i fell in love with it!
of course, it will need to eventually surpass itself to not dissapoint me in the end. but as of now i’m loving this.
I am actually a big fan of the anti-climatic comedy, it does make me laugh