Mekakucity Actors is animated by Shaft, and it’s glaringly obvious after watching just a few minutes of the show. As a matter of fact, I feel very safe saying that if you liked Monogatari, you’ll like this, and if you didn’t like Monogatari, you won’t like this. Even the dialogue has a similar feel to Monogatari’s.
The biggest difference would be that Mekakucity Actors isn’t half as sexual as Monogatari is, so if you’re one of those people who complained about all the fanservice, you ought to give Mekakucity Actors a try. That’s not to say there’s no fanservice (it is by Shaft), but it’s not any more than I’ve come to expect from anime these days.
I actually think this show is fairly well-suited to Shaft’s style. Watching the AI float around the screen and exist in her little computer world was cool. Then there was that scene where Kido kept disappearing, which was just fantastically done.
This third episode did feel like it had too much exposition, but the great thing about that complaint is that it rarely stays true. It’s usually a flaw that’s consigned to the first few episodes before the writer does something with the world he’s established.
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