Anime: Angel Tales
View Status: Completed
Number of Episodes: 13
Main Character: Goro Mutsumi
The Story: I seem to keep attracting these weird animes. I mean I kind of guessed that it would be a weird one but… I should probably explain. Mutsumi Goro is really unlucky. You know the guy that gets splashed with water when a car drives by the sidewalk? Well that would be him. Anyway back to the story. He meets a fortune teller on the street who predicts that his luck will change. She leaves him with this statement, and he walks home takes a bath and when he comes out, there are three girls sitting in his living room. Slightly freaked out by all of this, obviously, and not quite understanding what’s going on, who would right? As it turns out these three are his guardian angels and former pets. Every episode more are added on until episode five when the final four are summoned by the previous eight. Yes all of them are girls, ranging from I assume ages 5 to 18, actually the snake seems a bit older now that I think about it, although I can’t really be sure. In the first few episodes some strange people try to kill him, you later find out who these ‘people’ are and why they are trying to kill him.
The Review: Not entirely sure what audience they were aiming this anime at. There are several parts of this anime I would consider to be good, but the story is just too strange, and I am not exactly sure what the moral or message were supposed to be… Actually, I think it’s, ‘be kind to animals’. The drawings are nothing extraordinary, but they are not bad, quite ‘standard’ I guess. For me the weirdest part of all was hearing them call him ‘Master’ the entire time, one more word of Japanese that I will never forget. There is always a half romance going on which is slightly weird, like the cross between how you love and want to protect your siblings and well ‘true love’. This combination confuses the hell out of me, both in anime and in real life. The main story ends at about episode 11 so I assume they only made the final few episodes to make it into a proper half season. The problem with reviewing this anime is that I have no idea what it was trying to achieve, I’m not even sure if the creators themselves knew what they were doing. In any case this anime is not what I can consider bad, seeing as I was able to watch it without injuring myself, yet the terms good or at least interesting cannot be used either. It was mediocre at best, due mostly to the confusing storyline and the incredibly large number of main characters, of which, yes, only one has been listed. The one thing this has affected is my rating system as I am forced to add a new rating which I am calling ‘Meh’.
Side Note: Greetings new rating, you were unexpected, yet you are refreshingly welcome.
Lex Out
