Aka Akasaka, the author of the original manga, has already established himself as an unusual screenwriter. The man's credibility is earned quickly and in a single work. That's a lot better than most one-day mangaka who draw one work and either milk it for years or end their career with it.
Having finished his first work, "Kaguya, in love as in war," the mangaka decided to switch from a strange romantic romcom to a detective thriller drama, "Star Child," and it turned out to be, to put it mildly.... Evocative. The grotesque style, strange plot and frequent deception of expectations made the manga popular.
There's comedy, drama, thriller, detective, romance and out of that well made approx. Nothing? Or rather to say that the script throws from genre to genre without much cohesion using the most banal tropes going into some uninteresting thrashak. A detective for 2 minutes, and then a couple of jokes, maybe with romantic overtones, and if you're lucky for a thriller look, at worst the characters will just talk about anything.
The anime has some big problems with the story. The main one is that there is essentially no story. One twin is an actor and the other twin is an idol and the anime tells the story of how the characters are just doing work and other school stuff, and the things stated in the synopsis are only episodic in nature and at best we only get to see the development of the characters' romantic interest or the development of their career as an actor or singer.
The second important problem is the lack of risk and the viewer's lack of understanding of why a given character does a certain action. For an example, let's take the main character-Akwa. He is looking for the murderer of his mother. The family's residential address was given to the killer by one of his mother's acquaintances, who is connected with the show business. That's actually why Aqua went into acting, to find both the traitor from his mother's friends and the murderer... so what? The guy obviously can't put the murderer away, since he has no proof. Maybe Aqua wants to beat him up? That makes even less sense. For personal interest? No either, Aqua has seen the killer through his personal eyes, as a viewer we know the killer is a father of children and just a crazy up fan.
And that's just how it is with everything in the anime, the contrived problems are just there and in some places they are even addressed, but they are addressed in the most cartoonish and bad way possible.
The third major problem is, like I said, it's a bunch of malarkey from genres and ideas. In the first series at least something adequate is traced, but about this later, but beyond that..... The detective is forgotten at once and as described above just doesn't make sense. But the psychological thriller is played relatively well, here and Jung's ideas can be noticed, but teenage maximalism with stupid characters kill the thriller at all. And if you think about it, the problems of the characters are just far-fetched and are solved as simply as possible. For example, a few episodes stand on the fact that one of the secondary characters is hated on the Internet because of which she decides to commit suicide, nothing works out and then she gives out a phrase like "I was so weak, but my friends saved me, it's too early for me to give up". There's no character development here, and these actions launch a silly arc about stopping the internet hating. This is an example of a minor character, what about the major ones?
Characters.
Ai Hoshino is a mother of two, as well as an idol. One of the most interesting characters in Theory. She's been pretending to be an actor her whole life and never opens up to people because of her job. Aydol on the other hand, they have to be perfect and not commit any contradictory actions or else all the fans will turn away from them and end their career. Ai has a quest of maximum difficulty, she has to hide two children and still be a good mother. Ai is an actor and follows all the producer's commands, and there was no command to love children, but Ai really wants to be a good mother and is trying.... I guess. In theory it's an interesting character, with its own drama, here the problem is that Ai dies too quickly and the character line built up just goes nowhere, and everything I've listed before is just the character's story told. The key rule of screenwriting is to show, not tell, well the makers have even successfully missed this point. At the moment of her death, Ai sits and talks for five minutes about how she would like to learn to love and so on, because of which the drama doesn't come out, and the contrast of events against the background of such a long death went nowhere.
Aqua is the protagonist of most of the anime. He is an adequate protagonist, cold, secretive and reasonable, and does not hesitate to manipulate other people if it is profitable for him. Here we have a full set of interesting protagonist, but there is nothing to do in the series. As I said, there is no plot in the series and these character traits just get in the way, and the author abolishes it to the usual sociobofa with complexes building a comedy on it. In places yes, it is an interesting character, giving out interesting thoughts
Ruby Hosokwa is the protagonist's twin sister. It's hard to call her a protagonist at all, or at least a main character. Part of the anime she is absent. It is difficult to say anything about her character. It is a typical cheerful and purposeful girl. She's also a reborn. Except that she is already about 30 years old along with her past life and new one such a silly character clearly doesn't suit her. But on the contrast of the general background of the characters she does not stand out.
I can also note that all the characters are just perfect for the world. They are all talented from birth. It's just not interesting to watch.
Conclusion: This anime product deserves its low rating, there is no animation at all, everything is drawn as cheaply as possible, the plot and motives of the characters are as bland as food a week before Uraza Bayram. From the very beginning I was perplexed by the maximally amateurish novel monologues of the characters.
The anime has suchscore because of the shock scenes, previous work of the author and sensitive children with no taste.
Having finished his first work, "Kaguya, in love as in war," the mangaka decided to switch from a strange romantic romcom to a detective thriller drama, "Star Child," and it turned out to be, to put it mildly.... Evocative. The grotesque style, strange plot and frequent deception of expectations made the manga popular.
There's comedy, drama, thriller, detective, romance and out of that well made approx. Nothing? Or rather to say that the script throws from genre to genre without much cohesion using the most banal tropes going into some uninteresting thrashak. A detective for 2 minutes, and then a couple of jokes, maybe with romantic overtones, and if you're lucky for a thriller look, at worst the characters will just talk about anything.
The anime has some big problems with the story. The main one is that there is essentially no story. One twin is an actor and the other twin is an idol and the anime tells the story of how the characters are just doing work and other school stuff, and the things stated in the synopsis are only episodic in nature and at best we only get to see the development of the characters' romantic interest or the development of their career as an actor or singer.
The second important problem is the lack of risk and the viewer's lack of understanding of why a given character does a certain action. For an example, let's take the main character-Akwa. He is looking for the murderer of his mother. The family's residential address was given to the killer by one of his mother's acquaintances, who is connected with the show business. That's actually why Aqua went into acting, to find both the traitor from his mother's friends and the murderer... so what? The guy obviously can't put the murderer away, since he has no proof. Maybe Aqua wants to beat him up? That makes even less sense. For personal interest? No either, Aqua has seen the killer through his personal eyes, as a viewer we know the killer is a father of children and just a crazy up fan.
And that's just how it is with everything in the anime, the contrived problems are just there and in some places they are even addressed, but they are addressed in the most cartoonish and bad way possible.
The third major problem is, like I said, it's a bunch of malarkey from genres and ideas. In the first series at least something adequate is traced, but about this later, but beyond that..... The detective is forgotten at once and as described above just doesn't make sense. But the psychological thriller is played relatively well, here and Jung's ideas can be noticed, but teenage maximalism with stupid characters kill the thriller at all. And if you think about it, the problems of the characters are just far-fetched and are solved as simply as possible. For example, a few episodes stand on the fact that one of the secondary characters is hated on the Internet because of which she decides to commit suicide, nothing works out and then she gives out a phrase like "I was so weak, but my friends saved me, it's too early for me to give up". There's no character development here, and these actions launch a silly arc about stopping the internet hating. This is an example of a minor character, what about the major ones?
Characters.
Ai Hoshino is a mother of two, as well as an idol. One of the most interesting characters in Theory. She's been pretending to be an actor her whole life and never opens up to people because of her job. Aydol on the other hand, they have to be perfect and not commit any contradictory actions or else all the fans will turn away from them and end their career. Ai has a quest of maximum difficulty, she has to hide two children and still be a good mother. Ai is an actor and follows all the producer's commands, and there was no command to love children, but Ai really wants to be a good mother and is trying.... I guess. In theory it's an interesting character, with its own drama, here the problem is that Ai dies too quickly and the character line built up just goes nowhere, and everything I've listed before is just the character's story told. The key rule of screenwriting is to show, not tell, well the makers have even successfully missed this point. At the moment of her death, Ai sits and talks for five minutes about how she would like to learn to love and so on, because of which the drama doesn't come out, and the contrast of events against the background of such a long death went nowhere.
Aqua is the protagonist of most of the anime. He is an adequate protagonist, cold, secretive and reasonable, and does not hesitate to manipulate other people if it is profitable for him. Here we have a full set of interesting protagonist, but there is nothing to do in the series. As I said, there is no plot in the series and these character traits just get in the way, and the author abolishes it to the usual sociobofa with complexes building a comedy on it. In places yes, it is an interesting character, giving out interesting thoughts
Ruby Hosokwa is the protagonist's twin sister. It's hard to call her a protagonist at all, or at least a main character. Part of the anime she is absent. It is difficult to say anything about her character. It is a typical cheerful and purposeful girl. She's also a reborn. Except that she is already about 30 years old along with her past life and new one such a silly character clearly doesn't suit her. But on the contrast of the general background of the characters she does not stand out.
I can also note that all the characters are just perfect for the world. They are all talented from birth. It's just not interesting to watch.
Conclusion: This anime product deserves its low rating, there is no animation at all, everything is drawn as cheaply as possible, the plot and motives of the characters are as bland as food a week before Uraza Bayram. From the very beginning I was perplexed by the maximally amateurish novel monologues of the characters.
The anime has suchscore because of the shock scenes, previous work of the author and sensitive children with no taste.