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akasen-the-red · 7 years

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On RE Creators

It's hard to say what my initial outlook on RE Creators was. Whether I thought in the beginning if it would be a good series or not is something I don't recall anymore. All I know is that I was disappointed by this shows progression and setups on a nearly weekly basis after I started it.

The idea of a battle royale between fictional anime characters is an interesting concept. Left in my hands, I'd have written a situation where somehow characters from Cowboy Bebop, Macross, Hellsing, Berserk, Trigun, Golgo 13, Black Lagoon, DBZ, Fist of the North Star, JJBA, Full Metal Alchemist, and some assortment of Shonen Jump battle manga just all find themselves in the situation we find ourselves with RE Creators.

This might also seem like a super weird roster of characters as well, but take in stride two things: First, I named many series I know of off the top of my head that I also might like, which may show a bias as to how I like my action. Second, if you think about it there's an interesting dynamic going on here. In a lot of cases, we have relatively normal people who are skilled with guns, some degree of martial arts, and their wits fighting against people who are (1) Humanoid Aliens whose power levels exceed over 9000, (2) from a world where the ability to change the property of something to another is as simple as drawing cricles or clapping your hands, (3) All sorts of magical fuckery in a Bizzare Adventure, (4) people pilotting jets that also transform into giant robots and is well known for shooting ridiculous amounts of missiles, (5) a world where Vampires exist and Dracula is probably the most OP anime character I can think of.

I find this situation interesting if at the very least because we get this lovely "what-if" moment of having people of truly varying settings going toe to toe. Sure, I highly doubt Revvy from Black Lagoon could survive Alucard, but then it would be funny to watch Joseph Joestar somehow make a fool of Alucard.

I kind of get where Troyca was going with their decisions though. They obviously could not write what I'm thinking of exactly, and even making cheap rip offs of these characters would be just that, cheap rip offs. But the direction they still went still feels cheap. It's kind of like the fantasy worlds of Konosuba or GATE: Jieitai Kanochi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri. It's highly derivative work, but not thoroughly well thought out stuff. It uses basic archetypes for a character of these genres without doing the job of helping to further establish on the most basic level who these characters are.

While not totally flat and at the very least interesting as people on their own, the archetypes we are presented are not something to cheer or root for. I'd have been rooting for the character Blitz Talker by all means if it weren't for the fact that I wasn't really feeling it for him beyond a basic "I like this guy". The worst part is, he's basically a sort of Emiya Kiritsugu homage. This comes from the directors mouth mind you. So this particular character IS likely someone I'd have liked, but I end up feeling somewhat apathetic towards him. It could be the nature of his fights though and his general presentation.

It's just a shame that a series like this with a potentially great idea suffers, in my eyes, from just simple bits of poor writing. Maybe all these characters are clear homages to series, shows, and the like I've never seen before but have no interest in and that's why.

If Blitz was basically a derivative Kiritsugu, certainly other characters have to have a clear concept in mind for what they're a derivative of.

I can't think of any other high fantasy series with Mecha, but Escaflowne could be one (with regards to Selesia).

Meteora is just a video game character of some form.

Alicetaria befuddles me. I could maybe get the idea she's basically Saber from Fate, but I also feel like there's more. I also just think she's a pretty terrible Saber Clone and I refuse to believe that she's a Saber clone. Then again, I can accept Blitz's origins, so fuck it.

Yuya Mirokuji and his buddy I have no complaints about honestly.

Mamika is a generic magical girl. So generic, it hurts.

Then finally, Altair is Hatsune Miku. This isn't a joke, this is a serious observation. If the whole reason of her character being OP is because of the fact that she has no sort of fictional canon, Hatsune Miku, whose personality, lifestyle, and memes are all fan produced, serves as the most logical equivalent.

Altair is basically powered by memes in both the Dawkin's sense of memes and a bit of the modern internet sense of it. She is powered by the creation of information and acceptance of that information relating to her.

Thus, if I were to rewrite RE Creators, I'd have Hatsune Miku as the villain.

Mind you that as I write this, I have only watched this series once from the beginning to the end of the season, so I don't really have the best idea of the series as a whole, just the series as I recall it from weeks upon weeks of watching it. Don't take this as a review or anything, but just the ill-planned, but structured ramblings of a guy whose thoughts tend to be all over the place

Also of note, this has been sitting in a LibreOffice document for a couple days now and I just want to get it out. So asides from the fact that I rarely proofread my own thoughts, if something seems half baked, it probably is a half baked thought

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