#final thoughts.

I FINALLY FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOREN!!!!!!!!!! close ups under cut!!

LATE SUNDAY MORNING in NAMHAE COUNTY with [ open starter ]

is it normal for every muscle in his body to ache after just one weekend away from his normal bed? or perhaps it's the unfamiliar physical labor demanded of the trainees as they film the show; isak may have been required to participate in dance practices for the last several years but this was a different kind of strength entirely. the last of the chores have been wrapped up or are nearly complete, too many hands already on them for isak's to be needed—thank god.

really, they're just waiting for the homeowner to return and final good byes to be said, fake tears to be shed, and the whole thing to finish up. isak knows he's still on camera, knows he's still being watched. it what keeps tiredness out of his bones for now, his mind still too alert to relax enough to doze off (like he really wants to). but there's nothing to do to pass the time except... well, he supposes small talk is better than being left with his own thoughts.

As usual, it’s way late for me to still be dropping shows after the premiere, but honestly...this one needs to take it down a few notches.

No Guns Life has a lot of advantages going in. Even today, production by Madhouse is something to take note of, and Naoyuki Itou - director of all three seasons of Overlord - was probably the right choice too, given how similar this show is in base concept. Where I ran into problems was that unlike Overlord, No Guns Life is just...deadly serious. From the get-go. Like Arifureta before it, this is a show with a laughable concept that has somehow drank all of its own Kool-Aid and just wants me to go along with a dark, heavy tone despite the utter ridiculousness of it all.

The main character has a gun for a head, and this is not even remotely comedic. How do you screw that up?

A character designer really should have looked at the production committee and declared this show unadaptable. In book form it might be easier to take seriously since you aren’t constantly looking at the main character’s unmoving gun-face, but visually, it’s right there, in every scene, constantly being cut back to, and it’s such a basic bad direction mistake that this was dead from the beginning for somebody like me who needs a show to pull him in. Not helping the fact is that halfway through the premiere, I was already bored of the bleak tone No Guns Life was going for with very few stylistic ideas behind it. This show looks good in still images, but there’s just not a lot going on animation-wise, and that’s not helping me want to pay attention.