I was at least going in with expectations that it'll be a fun and stupid ride like Another was, but ended up being thoroughly disappointed.īeing a good psychological series is practically impossible when every single character in your cast is borderline insane and / or delusional with very few exceptions. There is a single 'death' to start the show off but other than that, it fails to deliver. At least that's an efficient way to cut down a considerable portion of the cast, right? To my great disappointment, I was completely wrong. With the premise and setting giving out so many horror vibes, as well as it having the same production crew that worked on Another, I had obviously jumped to the conclusion that this is a horror series. 90% of them don't even get a backstory, and those who do get a 5 minute exaggeration of something terrible that happened in their lives. You can only imagine how much the story as well as the characters suffer from this. Short series usually have trouble with fleshing out the handful of people that make the main cast, but Mayoiga decided to take it to an entire new level like it was no big deal. So being the bright little crew they are, our cast makes an ingenious idea to organize a bus tour in order to leave their previous lives behind and start anew!įirst and foremost, who thought it would be a good idea to have a cast of 30 characters within a 12 episode anime? That is literally spelling out disaster, no matter the execution. Mayoiga is a story about 30 social misfits and takes place in Nanakimura village, a village rumored to be a safe haven from society, where people who want to escape from reality go to. The most important factor here is the execution and you can probably guess that it's not so great. It's cliché as hell but doesn't seem like something that can ruin a series all on its own. The story isn't actually that bad on paper.

itself looks ridiculous and ends up being a mess, its' genres do not change by default as well. What people seem to be missing is that when a show makes Mayoiga is a show that had some of the worst writing I've ever seen and it seems to have picked up on that fact, albeit a little bit too late. So why is this show so intentionally unintentionally funny? It isn't. This is of course a very special show, often described as being 'intentionally unintentionally funny' by the people who know fuckall about what they are talking about.

In the midst of all of the decent shows that have come out this season, a peculiar one has piqued my interest.

The lost village a novel