12.26
Normally when a series follows conventional story cliches, it just comes across as boring or mediocre. After all, when you’re checking off points on a list rather then going out of your way to add bad plot elements, you’re going to end up with a serving as bland as ham on wheat bread. But oh, does Isuca deliver.
Isuca is in fact a fascinating case study on current Japanese animation. It’s the descendant of years of inbreeding within the industry, and Isuca is so imbed it might as well have blue skin and eat deep fried squirrel. I’d have an easier time counting the cliches Icuca doesn’t abuse. Harem for the hungry protagonist, pointless fanservice battle damage, flat-chested tsudere, more pointless fanservice battle damage, rats eating naked chicks, etc. etc. You get the idea. But with someone with an iron constitution like me, none of this would raise an eyebrow. Yet through a miracle of writing, it actually producing emotion from me. Anger. Resentment. Confusion. While many anime released this year can be catorgized as “so bad it’s good”, Isuca is just plain bad to the bone. The ugly art and frustrating main female protaginist, combined with the atrocious fanservise, make this show downright unwatchable.
This, ladies and gentleman, is what the anime industry has come to.