The writers attempt to intimate depth out of these bland personalities through oftentimes vague or occasionally pseudo-profound lines, when we're not bombarded by non-stop exposition, as that's almost all we have time for with only 8 episodes. The characters are about as tropey and generic as you'd expect from looking at them, and their moebits are just about all that define them as characters. It's a zootopian menagerie of copypasta cuteness, and there's a little fetish content here for even the most obscure of aesthetes! All presented with the utmost seriousness, of course, yet it's hard to take this seriously, so it instead becomes laughable. If you seriously hurt anyone, you're going to get time out! And don't even get me started if you kill anyone, which better never ever happen!"Īlmost all of the characters are cute high school girls with rotated-out animal ears-panda, bunny, cat, and whatever other ears, or horns, or tails, etc. Are we dealing with actual soldiers or kids who still eat Captain Crunch and Fruit Roll-Ups? Mommy Amiya: "We do battle to help the infected, and we must stop the meanie Reunion mask people! Oh, and make sure you don't hurt them too badly, even when they're coming at you with swords or hurling magic projectiles and grenades at you. There's also ridiculous, cliched, and forced drama injected into the story because Rhodes Island is so goody two-shoes they-and their most adorable allies-pretty much don't take the lives of their Reunion foes-seemingly ever! You know those pivotal moments in fiction where a character has a mental breakdown from taking a life during a battle, even though it was the only way to stop that character from killing an ally? Meanwhile, another character sees this and will be upset and hold a grudge against said character, when they would have otherwise been allies? Yep, Arknights does this, and it's just as floppy and sloppy as the set of ears on a dog girl. Whereas Rhodes Island is like "Can't we all just get along? The non-infected should lick the infected until we're all infected, while my team of cute fox and cat girl scientists pretend to be making a cure. It doesn't really help that the infection plot line basically boils down to the bunny-eared Rhodes Island representative pointing to all governments as mean because they discriminate against the infected, while painting the Reunion baddies as the polar opposite, only meaner, and insisting anyone who sides with them is "buying into illusions and false hope," which just sounds like random people on Twitter complaining about the not-nice political party de jour. There doesn't appear to be any justification for its lopsidedness, other than it being "cool." The mix of high-tech and low-tech is not always very convincing: you have aircraft and mobile cities, but almost everyone is using swords and crossbows? Obviously, magic arts shakeup the dynamic a bit, but the core of the combat feels off and, indeed, gamey. merging of Final Fantasy 12 with Half-Life 2, meaning it's a dystopia with vague and slow trickle-down storytelling, and the main character, along with the viewers, is thrust into the immediate immersion of POV shots and amnesia. Arknights is a gacha game adaptation with a slick cinematic appeal and an ostensibly more ambitious story due to the pretensions of its ambiance and overwrought dialogue, but, in reality, there's not a whole lot there beneath the surface. In a lot of ways, we've come pretty far from the kind of abominable video game adaptations that were common in past decades, and many newer attempts at least have bigger budgets, a smoother flow, or sometimes even have a loftier vision than b-movie schlock like Masami Oobari's endless string of adaptations or live action Street Fighter or whatever. Unfortunately, the person spearheading the project-an enigmatic figure known only as the Doctor-suffers from amnesia, effectively impeding what might be the only hope for the infected to break free from their chains of despair. Rhodes Island, committed to treating the infected and uninfected as equals, is a paramilitary pharmaceutical organization believed to be the most advanced in its research for the Oripathy cure. Calling themselves Reunion, the rebel faction mercilessly destroys cities, further contributing to the already calamitous nature of Catastrophes. Because nations subject the infected to harsh discrimination, the oppressed begin a dissident movement. However, the usage of Originium comes at a price, as there is a high risk of getting infected with Oripathy-an incurable and highly contagious disease. Large veins of Originium can naturally be found at the sites of Catastrophes, various forms of natural disasters caused by the mineral itself. The discovery of a black crystalline mineral known as Originium has accelerated technological advancement in the world of Terra, with its high energy yield allowing people to demonstrate abilities akin to magic called Arts.
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