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            Original Run:            January 8, 2019 - March 26, 2019            Number of Episodes:            12            Genre:            Activeness, Comedy            Based on the Video Game:Pastel Memories          

***Alert, the following may contain spoilers for Pastel Memories. Reader discretion is brash.***

Series Synopsis

A long fourth dimension agone, there was a identify where dice-hard fans of anime, manga, and video games could gloat their shared passions – the fabled Akihabara. Now, the one time-celebrated Holy State of nerd culture has turned into yet another boilerplate, no thrills metropolis. The last refuges of the celebrity days are slowly dying out, but in that location is 1 tiny store that refuses to let go.

If you want to re-live the serial of yesterday, so you lot are always welcomed at the small Rabbit Shed Shop café.

However, amid the cozy atmosphere and comfort foods, this institution serves equally the habitation base for a far more critical mission. For you see, Akihabara hasn't faded away because of the public's lack of interest. Instead, a mysterious virus has infected the stories people have always held beloved. It is, therefore, the job of the Rabbit Shed Store to save the books and games before they are forgotten forever.

To do this, Rabbit Shed Shop's elite otaku warriors venture into the very tales they are trying to save. Each member of this team will not residue until everyone's precious memories are finally safe and sound.

Series Positives

I do intend for the main meat of this post to be quick and to the point. However, before getting to that, I tin't finish myself. Due to pure happenstance, Pastel Memories and the series review direct preceding it, Grimms Notes The Animation (Grimms Notes), could not take been more costless. The similarities between these two shows were something I did not wait. This was, in no style, planned ahead of time.

If yous have not yet read my thoughts on Grimms Notes, I would strongly encourage you to requite it a quick look to understand the full context of what we are about to discuss. But, if you are not inclined to do that, all yous need to know is:

I did non care for Grimms Notes, a.g.a., I thought it was absolute garbage.

Grimms Notes told the story of a group of heroes who traveled to the worlds of many classic novels, fairy tales, and legends, which were at risk of falling into consummate chaos. Pastel Memories told the story of a group of heroes who traveled to the worlds of popular anime, manga, and games that were at take a chance of falling into consummate anarchy.

Now, to brand this as clear as I mayhap tin: Pastel Memories wasn't a good series. It had a ton of flaws and missteps, which prevented it from becoming anything worthwhile. Nevertheless, it was immensely more enjoyable and incredibly more watchable than Grimms Notes ever was.

If nothing else, Pastel Memories was far more willing to have fun.

This series never pretended that what information technology was doing was anything serious or profound. The mission of the main group of characters – the girls of the Rabbit Shed Shop café – was clear. They protected the shows, stories, and games that had created unforgettable memories for the people who watched, read, or played them. At that place was no forced attempt at a moral dilemma; the villain of Pastel Memories was but trying to pause things and crusade as much destruction as possible.

Was this testify high-brow, intelligent, or well-written? Non in the slightest. If anything, Pastel Memories couldn't accept been any simpler. The reason I am not utterly laying into this serial is that I had just seen something far worse earlier it.

That said, I do want to give Pastel Memories the credit it has earned. Mainly, this show had a pretty practiced thought of how to use its large cast of characters.

Twelve girls worked at the Rabbit Shed Shop, and this was only a twelve-episode series. Yous don't need to be a math magician to see that combination doesn't permit for a lot of jerk room. Nevertheless, Pastel Memories was surprisingly varied and diverse. Each mission consisted of a team of three girls, and no ii teams ever had the same makeup.

Information technology was almost as if the Rabbit Shed Shop operated every bit a single unit of measurement and non a drove of cliques. What a concept, I know.

Along with that, Pastel Memories was a decent parody series. I am not referring to one-act, even though a few jokes here and there got a laugh out of me. Instead, this show knew plenty about the anime information technology was spoofing to make it feel as though the characters were entering a story's ain, singled-out world.

Granted, I have not seen all the serial Pastel Memories referred to, but it wasn't hard to figure out what the source materials were. And unless I am mistaken, I counted 11 different anime – and I am arguing that episode eleven and twelve were parodies on both Neon Genesis Evangelion AND Gundam. Of those xi shows, I tin can vouch that half dozen of them were respectively accurate.

Additionally, I want to make sure I acknowledge that Pastel Memories' episode five, Can Fighters Brand Lots of Money, was quite practiced.

To end this section, I want to remind you lot that I do non think Pastel Memories was annihilation special. It just so happens that every bit I am writing this review, I can recollect a far worse bear witness from my very, very, VERY recent past. Had this not been the case, I suspect this mail would have been far more cynical.

Simply since it did happen this way: Although I won't ignore what Pastel Memories got wrong, I volition admit the circumstances which immune this serial to get a personal guilty pleasure of mine.

Series Negatives

Pastel Memories' choices of anime to spoof was certainly interesting. What confused me, though, was why this bear witness didn't only call the series what they were?

I'chiliad sure copyright and trademark laws came into event somewhere, but then over again, there was never no mistaking what Pastel Memories tried to practice.

For example, Welcome to the Rabbit Café was a popular series set in a European-styled hamlet that served as the home for a quaint rabbit-theme coffee shop. I of the employees at that store was a small, silvery-haired girl with a fluffy white bunny sitting on pinnacle of her head.

(For those of you who don't know, that is one-hundred percent the plot of Gochuumon was Usagi Desu ka)

At that place's subtle, and so in that location'due south handing me a tin can of Koka-Cola.

Also, it's pretty damn presumptuous of you, bear witness, to say that Mini Basket and Shogi King's Big Task (parodies on Ryo-Kyu-Bu and Ryuo no Oshigoto respectively) were popular series loved by droves of people. I'm certain that is based on fact, and it has nothing to practise with Pastel Memories, Ryo-Kyu-Bu, and Ryuo no Oshigoto (a show which came out simply last year) being from the same animation studio, Projection No. 9.

That level of blatantness shoots well beyond the point of badgerer and lands squarely inside the realm of hilarity.

Getting past that, there were ii elements of Pastel Memories which sank this series like a rock.

The first was its formulaic storytelling.

On the 1 mitt, it was a little impressive that this series developed a consistent catamenia inside the span of about two episodes. Yet, doing that ensured this prove would never be worth caring almost.

Here was how Pastel Memories always played out:

• One of the girls would call up an anime, manga, or game they liked
• A virus would affect that specific title
• The girl and two friends would enter that world
• The team would swing their weapons around for about five minutes
• They would win
• End credits

By the final few episodes, I will non deny my lack of attention to what was going on. Still, never once did I feel lost or dislocated. There was no challenge attached to this show.

The second big problem was Pastel Memories' characters.

Earlier, I said this bear witness knew how to use its cast in various ways. That didn't mean I knew their names or was always bothered to larn them. There is a reason why I haven't yet chosen anyone out directly throughout this entire review.

To make up for that, hither is the total list of the Rabbit Shed Shop girls:

• Pink haired big boobed girl (voiced past Hiyori Nitta)
• Russian big boobed daughter (voiced by Yumi Uchiyama)
• Spectacles big boobed girl (voiced by Mariko Toribe)
• Cat-ears large boobed girl (voiced by Rie Murakawa)
• Inventor big boobed girl (voiced by Kotori Koiwai)
• Other blonde big boobed girl (voiced by Megumi Toda)
• Long black haired big boobed girl (voiced past Yukiyo Fujii)
• Long brunet large boobed girl (voiced past Ai Yamamoto)
• Brusque orange-haired big boobed girl (voiced by Yurika Kubo)
• Short blue haired big boobed girl (voiced past Yumiri Hanamori)
• Long haired loli (voiced by Naomi Oozora)
• Curt-haired loli (voiced past Yui Ogura)

Were y'all noticing a design?

I retrieve information technology is off-white to say Pastel Memories had its priorities. And once you know what those priorities are, so you know precisely whether or not this is the kind of show for you.

Terminal Thoughts

I was only nice to this prove because I just so happened to watch it after having sat through a significantly more atrocious one. Had fates been reversed, this would take been an entirely different review.

As such, despite me getting a boot out of this series, I never had any intention of ignoring how bottom of the barrel it was.

A lot was going on. The cast was way besides large to justify a lack of personality. The jokes were corny. There was no tension. By the third episode, y'all knew everything that was going to happen. There was never a reason to pay attention or intendance.

Yes, things could take been worse. Withal, Pastel Memories won't exist getting a recommendation from me.

Simply these are merely my thoughts. What are yours? Have you lot seen this show? What would be your communication concerning Pastel Memories? Get out a annotate downwards beneath because I would dear to hear what you have to say.

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