>>12144963>>12145216>>12145990>>12146006>>12146011This anime reminds me of an art-house film. One very specific art-house film - Garden State. The one about which a classic said, “If cancer were pretentious, it would be Garden State.” Wonder Egg Priority with its bumbling attempts to be profound invokes the same familiar feeling of a student movie way over its head.
“The MC’s name is Ohto Ai because she has an Odd Eye, did you get it?”
“What could this giant close-up of a lily flower possibly mean in an anime about teen girls, wink, wink?”
“These monsters that look like faceless schoolgirls that throw axes at another schoolgirl and scribble ‘die’ on her locker are actually a subtle metaphor for school bullying.”
“And now the MC that pretended to not notice the above-mentioned bullying is being chased by monsters called Seenoevils, what amazing symbolism!”
And that’s only from the first five minutes of the first episode! Wonder Egg Priority? More like Wonder Eggs and Ham Priority, amirite? Because of how *ham-fisted* this molestation of the concept of symbolism is, get it? I, too, am a master of symbology.
I don’t mean to imply that this show is all bad. At least it does a very good job of predicting what kind of an audience would be impressed by this metaphor fiesta, and how much spoon-feeding that audience would need in order to understand what is even going on (hint: all of it). There is not a single metaphor that isn’t helpfully explained by an exposition dump. How do we know that those monsters are called Seenoevils? A character spells it out. How do we know that the MC was pretending to not notice the bullying? A character spells it out. How do we know that the whole sequence happens in a dream? A character spells it out.
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