Litchi
De Hikari Club/ライチ
DE
光クラブ:
A short, comical anime adaptation of the
psychological-horror manga, LitchiHikari Club. The story is about
nine boys who are members of the Hikari Club and their self-made AI
robot, Litchi. They are lead by their leader Zera, and keep a
kidnapped girl named Kanon. (Source: MAL)
As
someone who has read the original Lychee Light Club manga by Furuya
Usamaru which this new anime is based on, a quick question to
Kachidoki Studio: the hell is this? They've taken one of the most
demented, psychologically screwed-up manga I've ever read and turned
it into a gag-based farce on the same level as Nyanpire or Poyopoyo -
but unlike those two series, this comical shortened format for Lychee
Light Club does not work at all.
The
first episode is rather forgettable, as it is just a vehicle in which
to introduce the main cast. The only characters that stand up so far
are the leader Zera, their robot Litchi, and the girl Kanon. I can
barely remember the names of the other boys in the Light Club. None
of them really made a solid impression on me, which isn't surprising
given how little time each boy gets on screen.
The
humor itself is flat, almost non-existent. This show is trying so
hard to be funny, it's on the verge of straight telling the audience
that a line of dialogue or goofy graphic is part of a joke and that
they should be laughing. The so-called 'punchline' of the episode
with Kanon's answer to Zera's question is just the last gasp of an
over-extended bad joke gone sour.
So far, there's nothing visually
stunning or funny about Lychee Light Club - but the episodes are so
short, I'll probably end up watching it for another couple of weeks
before I decide to drop it or not. Perhaps it will get better sooner
than later - or keep to its low-brow 'humor' and awkward art.
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