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(364.9KB, 1420x1080) I just watched Key the Metal Idol on mostly random whim.
Creepy cute robot girl tries to become a real human before her battery runs out by making 30k friends/becoming an idol at the cryptic behest of her dying grandfather. I expected this would be another Nuku Nuku, mostly because of the cover art, but ended up with something a lot less actiony. My big takeaway was the jarring moments of violence, lulled into by that seeming lack of action at first, and the sort of 'shit happens, oh well' sort of mentality the characters seem to have, or at least the lack of dwelling on the deaths albeit usually because there's something still pressing going on or the scene just progresses to something different, as the story moves forward while I'm still recoiling at the blood and guts. It isn't excessive gore, I'm just a faggot I guess and I didn't know what I was getting into. While death happens semi-frequently and isn't really built on for the most part, there's a twist to that death formula, that i'm still angry about, down the line that puts you into one of those thinking moods, but overall the themes were kind of blah and not as deep as other 90s shit, even the main thing of Key's quest which is the whole 'humanity' thing just felt a little shallow when it resolves. I'll just say it was 'different'. Show answers most questions it raises although it didn't really do it well, but that pacing issue isn't apparent until basically the end though. There's some scant few tits, but it's overshadowed by staring at D's man ass for 50 episodes.
I'll probably watch it again at some point, was pretty good.