Kami-sama ni natta hi

Jun Maeda hat mich nicht enttäuscht und hat genau das geliefert, was ich erwartete. Das der Anfang öde war? Wenn ich Maedos Werke kennt und was er betont, dann kommt es euch nicht vor (Falls ihr die Antwort nicht kennt, ist sie auf Wikipedia zu finden) und schlussendlich finde ich hat alles seine Logik. Ja, es war das einfachste Erlebnis der einfachen Geschichten des Autors (im Vergleich mit erwähnten Kollegen). Das die Hauptheldin nervig und hyperaktiv war? Ansichtssache, und die Hyperaktivität hatte letztlich ihren Sinn, die mit der Handlung wunderbar kontrastiert. Klar kann ich mich rechtfertigen, dass ich seit eines bestimmten magischen Index eine schwäche für Mädels in Roben habe, aber das ist doch nebensächlich... Seit bürgerlichen beginn an voller gewöhnlicher und außergewöhnlicher Dinge, kam langsam die Offenbarung, eine sehr eilige Eskalation und das erwartete Leiden mit einem bittersüßen Ende. In dem der Autor uns versucht zu erklären, worauf es hier wirklich ankommt, worum es ging. Und plötzlich gehts wieder, obwohl ich dieses Mal das Leiden nicht so sehr durchlebte (da ich es erwartete), aber die Emotionen und die endgültige Katharsis holte mich dann doch. Obwohl es wahrscheinlich der gewöhnlichste und vielleicht schwächste Maeda war, wie anfangs erwähnt, hat er mich nicht enttäuscht und auch diesmal seine Arbeit gemacht. Die Animation und Musik waren sehr schön. 8/10 (26.12.2020)

Catastrophe. Jun Maeda, known for more solid works like Kanon and Angel Beats, has vowed to make this series the saddest anime ever. He succeeded, but perhaps not in the way he intended. Not a single tear was shed, but lamenting and mourning the tragic handling of one self-proclaimed divine girl's story was on my agenda week after week. The outright mistakes and perpetual bad habits that "adorn" Maeda's work are present here, too, with an extra de-luxe helping. The contrived catastrophic scenario from the opening episode looms over the audience's heads like a sword of Damocles... only to find out that this sword is nothing but rubber, so we end up spending the first two-thirds of the running time digesting stretched out cotton candy with zero subtext over and over again! The light-hearted part not only gives us no character depth, explains nothing, and establishes no solid value or connection between us and the characters, but also evokes no (negatively sad or positively funny) emotions: zero, null, nothing, nada, zilch. One would expect to witness at least a minimal effort to build a complete picture, where each piece is at least a tiny part of a designed puzzle, but the authors said "NO!". Darling, why do we have to watch 100% irrelevant episodes about the parents of an extremely minor character? Or how we played a tournament inside out? Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to occupy the stage so often with a sleazy lawyer whose importance and presence among a bunch of kids is as appropriate as a snow cannon on the beach? There's supposedly a romantic storyline in there somewhere, but it takes a microscope and an explanation from a distant dimension called "Cowpoke" for it to make any sense. The return to a more serious part of the anime shouldn't surprise anyone, but the slightly more naive must be at least a little dismayed that even this passage is pitifully empty. Nothing, I mean nothing works: the attempts to heighten the emotion by inserting the theme music with each successive repetition were an undercurrent throughout this entire tragicomedy, the stupidity and non-existent nature of the vast majority of the characters was almost unbelievable, and it was at this point that I began to realize that this was indeed the end, the end of the ghost anime world. I didn't really care how it all ended, I just wanted it to be over already. I was in fact happy with the format, but I hadn't seen such a threadbare misery and demonstration of ineptitude in a long time. You should be ashamed of yourself, Maeda. A better 1 star (27.12.2020)