I watched this series in my youth. I'm not an anime artist, but I tried to know what the Japs were up to. If I watched the anime, I tried to choose something more serious, dramatic, usually immediately full-length, so that there was no garbage. This series made a good impression at the beginning, it was something bookish, in moderation Gothic, similar to Lovecraft's ravings. Something with a good quality bar, in the spirit of its time. Like Sailormun and Naruta, only more serious and gloomy, in places similar to Hellsing, and in places even Evangelion.
But I began to notice that the series literally with each episode becomes worse and the pop soviet, all the bookliness of it leaked, became more and more dull urine, some left-handed buffooned characters, there was a clogging of timekeeping with long repetitive tedious battles, unfunny jokes, fake dialogue. In the end, I watched 12 episodes, got some fun... and dropped. Because it turned out that this is not some short series, which will now say that he wanted, and beautifully leave – no, there is a stopover series! It was noticeable that at some stage it was planned to be shorter and more meaningful, and after 12 episodes there is a sense of the end of the season ... but there was marketing! Watch a whole Santa Barbara about doll and clown fetishes? I simply did not agree with such a feat. It wasn't worth it!
Then my then girlfriend watched the series without me, and from her retellings I understood how right I had done: there was a very overloaded lore, and at the same time the story was no longer about where it began, and it happened with the wrong characters. That is, right on the move, the viewer was replaced by the series. If you take a 50th episode and watch it next to the 1st, there’s no telling it’s the same thing.
Years later, to have a more complete view, I watched a review of the series. The reviewer told it all through laughter and tears. I made sure I didn’t miss anything worthwhile there. Or rather, the retelling shows that there are some points of power tension, but between them everything is packed with a selective "cool".
Well, on the items.
- Although the series is mowing under something serious, and the monsters of the day look high-quality and cool, the main villain himself is absolutely NEEP. This fat devil could be from some TV show about ponies, from a cartoon for 6-year-olds. How did he get here? That Ladybug could fight him. Winx or something. But it’s a show about exorcists, Gothic... and the main villain is a fat clown. No words.
- Why are the Nojevics villains? I'm an atheist, but even I think it's too much. In the Bible, all living people are descendants of Noah.
- The lion's share of the plot is built on the awesome reception "And here others have come." It's with kids in the yard, when one team hit another, and they don't want to lose, they come up with more characters and try to continue. In this case, the plot tramples on the spot, back and forth, from empty to empty.
- The most annoying thing is that the authors on the move invented a completely random lore: “acuma of the 4th level, crystal exorcist, crowned clown.” They're clowns themselves. Each monster must be defeated 3-4 times, because he is resurrected and reborn, the energies are dragged there, the energies are dragged here and they are not enough, not enough, we need more lightning, we need to build a ziggurat, we need to smash the ass into sacks to win... And the fat Karabas in the clouds flies and laughs. You just get tired of watching. Such bullshit.
Overall, it could be a good series. But to do that, you need to cut out all the moments like "Wah-ha-ha, you underwhelmed me." And extra characters. And cut about 75% of the series.