01.27
Something bust out!
This season has been about as bypolar as they come, fluctuating from dizzying highs (Rolling Girls, Yatterman Night, and Death Parade) to soul crushing lows (World Break, Fafnir, Absolute Duo, Testament of Sister New Devil, ETC ETC ETC) with very little in between. Happily though we’re all done with this season and won’t have to do another Clusterfuck article for another three months right? WRONG! Debuting three weeks late is ISUCA, a show based off a manga nobody cares about and made by everybody’s favorite provider of horrid cheesecake ARMS. Oh god, this is already looking bad and I haven’t talked about the show yet have I?
Well lets start off by discussing this show’s incredible sense of originality!
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Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah ISUCA is literally 20 other shows. I should know, I counted! In this episode, a normal guy gets dragged into a war involving evil demon beasts by a bitchy tsundere who shoots human centipedes with a bow and arrow. Eventually they meet a twintailed fox girl and the major female characters both have their clothes explode of their chests revealing nice shiny white censorbars. The plot is already so threadbare and cliche that one wonders how the hell would the writers stretch it to 24 minutes. The answer… ripoffs. Lots and lots of ripoffs. The episode starts like the most blatant clone of Parasyte I’ve ever seen, before mutating into a bizarre mashup of Raildex and Fate/Stay Night, then finally showing its truest and most repulsive form. ISUCA is literally just a reskinning of everybody’s favorite early 200os anime…Inuyasha. Annoying characters, weird mythology monsters, things that get shot with arrows, it’s all here, back again to remind you why the original show was so horrible in the first place. The only difference is its a fox girl instead of a dog boy, but hell the creators of this show even bind her to a tree with an arrow. THEY ARE LITTERALY NOT TRYING TO BE SUBTLE WITH THIS HACKNEYED CHICANERY OF THEIRS!
In a season that has already made me wanna vomit so many times, ISUCA isn’t just the bottom of the barrel, its so far beneath the barrel that it exists closer to the Earth’s core. Recommended only to two year olds, and they’d probably be bored by it. -123456789/decimal points — Lord Dalek
Second Opinion!
Charlie Craplin
Isuca. Isuca…Isuca………Isuca.
For the first time in my time watching anime, I’m speechless. I don’t think it is humanly possible to put into coherent speech patterns just how bad this is, but let me try anyway. As our good Lord Dalek-dono said, this season as some of the lowest lows yet. And under the bottom of the barrel, snuggled next to garbage, is Isuca. Isucka successfully passes all the criteria on the industry-approved Horrible Anime Cliches (H.A.C.) check list. The is a by-the-numbers rip off, combining demon hunting and haremtastic high school “shennigans”. Our fearless hero has literally no personality: he’s just there to (often lewdly) stumble upon supernatural situations and get the shit beat out of him. That’s all I remember about him. Our fearless heroine doesn’t fair much better. Not only is she the subject of some of the most face palm worthy “”fanservise””* to ever grace Nippon airwaves, her personality is basically just “Kagome McBitchpants”. McBitchpants doesn’t have much going for her either, and I can’t remember anything about these characters. I don’t remember any interesting scenes or shots. I don’t remember any important plot points. This show manages to be so excruciatingly boring, and yet so horrifically bad, simultaneous, that breaks new ground in just how bad something can be. If Rolling Girls represents everything the Japanese animation industry has done right these last few years, then Isuca is everything wrong with it rolled into one three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich, with arsenic sauce. — TheShadowGentleman
* Extra quotations added for emphases.