#their dynamic is so much more compelling than all the random forced het romances sprinkled throughout

[crehador]

brother crab's winter 2024 parting thoughts: synduality noir s2

bitch how did you survive both seasons. your death flags were enormous. congrats i suppose

anyway

this was fiiine i guess. it's not bad, but it is the only thing worse than bad: it's boring. it plays it very safe so it's not remarkably bad in any particular ways, but it isn't special in any particular ways either (except one, which i'll get to)

as a video game adaptation (well not even an adaptation... more like an ad i guess lol) i think of takt and god eater, and i'd say synnoir is more on the same tier as takt for me. takt is prettier (synnoir isn't ugly by any means, but its animation, character designs, mech designs, etc were all more standard and not quite as striking as what we got in takt) but both are just eh in terms of story to me

funnily enough out of this trio i personally enjoyed god eater the most. it has the sort of cgi that i imagine a lot of people dislike but ultimately the story wound up being more compelling to me

the exception in synnoir! is the ciel and noir side arc!! god there is something very beautiful and tragic about that, and i really wish we'd gotten more of that story. it compels me, it feels unique to me, it is the one bright star in this otherwise very... beige show

tl;dr fine but unremarkable, did not really spark any interest in the game for me