Lagrange – The Flower Of Rin-ne Episode 10 - Episode Review
Ignore that whole space opera/action side of the show, it’s time to focus on cute girls again!
What They Say:
Madoka, Lan, and Muginami spend a peaceful day at the Kamo Girls’ High Oraga Festival, enjoying all the events they helped put together.
Madoka, Lan, and Muginami spend a peaceful day at the Kamo Girls’ High Oraga Festival, enjoying all the events they helped put together.
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
After an episode that really tried my patience last time around with the girls spending time away from everything only to mildly encounter the bad guys experiencing a little Earth life, this one is set to be pretty mellow as well as it focuses on the festival at the school. As is the norm it seems, things are going the way Madoka wants it to and the other two girls just kind of go along with it. With them in their track suits, we get to see them enjoying the festival, its sweets and the overall atmosphere of it all, which is pretty packed as a lot of people are checking it out. Of course, there’s also the appeal of Madoka in the film that took place as the promotional posters definitely make her look like a major motion picture actress.
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
After an episode that really tried my patience last time around with the girls spending time away from everything only to mildly encounter the bad guys experiencing a little Earth life, this one is set to be pretty mellow as well as it focuses on the festival at the school. As is the norm it seems, things are going the way Madoka wants it to and the other two girls just kind of go along with it. With them in their track suits, we get to see them enjoying the festival, its sweets and the overall atmosphere of it all, which is pretty packed as a lot of people are checking it out. Of course, there’s also the appeal of Madoka in the film that took place as the promotional posters definitely make her look like a major motion picture actress.
That kind of material largely covers the first half of the episode and makes it filled with plenty of “cute’ character moments but little else beyond that as they go through the motions. In fact, this even goes more than halfway into the second half of the episode as well, idling it quite a lot until Madoka ends up getting news about how she’s being kept out of the loop from things from the Chairman directly, and at her order, in order to keep the city protected. It’s something that Madoka takes badly, but all she can do is to just run through the school with tears streaming down her face. Of course, things do eventually move back towards being proactive as Muginami and Lan are together waiting on Madoka so they can do what needs to be done, but it’s all just so hollow that it’s near impossible to get behind any of this.
In Summary:
Yes, the girls are cute. They have some simple but effective moments of being cute and girly. They have nice school life moments. They’re being sheltered and herded towards what they need to do by those in power that don’t want to ruin their childhoods at the same time. But the show is just so empty the majority of the time that it’s hard to really get into it. The characters haven’t been appealing as they come across so superficial in nature. What’s helped is that when the series goes for the action, it does it well because the animation is good and the overall design is spot on. The show does start to get towards the action at the end here, but it’s such a small part and such a tease when you get down to it that it only adds to the frustration. Unfortunately, shows like these are one of the reasons that science fiction based anime is in such a shoddy form these days.
Yes, the girls are cute. They have some simple but effective moments of being cute and girly. They have nice school life moments. They’re being sheltered and herded towards what they need to do by those in power that don’t want to ruin their childhoods at the same time. But the show is just so empty the majority of the time that it’s hard to really get into it. The characters haven’t been appealing as they come across so superficial in nature. What’s helped is that when the series goes for the action, it does it well because the animation is good and the overall design is spot on. The show does start to get towards the action at the end here, but it’s such a small part and such a tease when you get down to it that it only adds to the frustration. Unfortunately, shows like these are one of the reasons that science fiction based anime is in such a shoddy form these days.
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