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More stuff finished from last season. It'd be nice if I could say this was the last of it but there's still three shows left to finish. At least I'm finally making decent progress again!

Angels of Death was so incredibly boring. It started really dark and atmospheric in the first episode, but it fell of a cliff fast after that. Rachel is one of the most low-energy, uninteresting characters I've ever seen in an anime. Her voice only had two tones, one where she sounded bored and another where she was still bored but was slightly louder. There was a narrative reason for it but fiction is supposed to be interesting for the viewer to watch and she wasn't. Isaac had slightly more personality, but he was mostly just annoying with his constant stupidity and yelling. All the side characters sucked too, either sounding as bored as Rachel or somehow managing to cackle mindlessly even more than Isaac. As for the story, there were several 'tense' scenes that were little more than faithful recreations of entering a video game puzzle room and slowly inspecting everything, which was a chore to sit through. Probably 50% of the sixteen episode runtime consisted of Isaac and Rachel having the same slow, boring conversation over and over again. The fact that this junk got sixteen episodes pisses me off, too. There are a lot of good 12/13 episode anime that I think could have greatly benefited from a few extra episodes to pace things out or spend more time with the characters. Angels of Death didn't deserve it at all, and in fact having those extra episodes to slow down the already glacial pacing only made it worse.

Phantom in the Twilight was slightly better, but it wasn't great either. It had a fairly strong start, especially for a show with a reverse harem setup. Ton was a strong character with a mind of her own, not just an audience self-insert who drooled over the hunky boys. I'd say the first arc of this show was fairly strong, featuring solid introductions, decent action, and a clear goal that I wanted the characters to achieve. Then the show started repeating itself rather than accomplishing anything or advancing, with most of the subsequent arcs just being slight tweaks of the first. By the end I just didn't care anymore, which is sad for something that had such a strong start.
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