High Guardian Spice

I won't go into the controversy surrounding this series during its earlier stage of production. As far as anyone should be concerned, we just have a new series on an anime streaming service. It will be judged as such.

The issue here is a lack of true innovation, or at the very least innovation that seems natural. Characters are one note or adhere to traits already used in other shows, the plot is just as flat and basic, the animation... I'm not gonna complain about a western cartoon being featured on an anime service, but this animation is pretty subpar.

Basic movement, mediocre art direction, often lazy backgrounds.

The writing suggests the writers are out of touch with the world or have no grasp on natural progression or presentation. It feels more like meeting a quota than providing true representation. Not all LGBTQ+ individuals have garish hairstyles or a punk look, it's a borderline caricature.

It's less "A lesbian character" and more. "Look, it's a lesbian character, are you satisfied?" I'm all for representation, but I fear it will always be handled in the worst possible way.

If these characters are based on the writers, then it's less about representation and more of a warped interpretation of it.

Either the wrong people are representing diversity, or this is just a poorly written show that was not worth the delays and vague initial details, plagued with cliches, bland characters and stories and low quality animation.

Both. It's both.

The artists are so lazy. Didn't anyone see how they blatantly copied and pasted textures onto light posts and breads? The voice acting sounds like a group of teens recorded themselves on the phone, not to mention, they don't fit the characters very well. And don't get me started with the script. What are they? Tumblrinas?

You can tell the people who created this nonsense had no passion put into this whatsoever. The animation is God awful, diluted and awkward. The voice acting is even more awkward. The character designs are bland and uninteresting. The theme song is annoying and sounds like a stereotypical song from a barbie movie. Trying to target a certain audience by putting gay characters in the show. I wouldn't be against that, except for the fact that they're totally doing this to just get more people to watch which is just sad.

I give this a 2. I would rate it lower but I want to give at least one thing. It is bright and colorful. Other than that a complete fail. I don't recommend watching this, it has zero substance.

Like the voice acting is definitely not the best, there is use of water marked stick images and overall there just isn't any plot. Now I could sit here and go into detail for each one of the aforementioned problems but like must problems there are literally thousands of videos on youtube discussing all the problems with the show.

Just really cringe. Bad product. Everything around it stinks. Bad dialogue. Mediocre Animation. Horrible backgrounds. Cringe story.

The story its just bad, boring and stupid. The dialogue its funny if taken out of context, you're drunk and have a poor sense of humor. From the start of production to the finish it had a bad mindset around it that was enhanced by the criticism that came with the original announcement. It probably could have been better if it didnt received so much hate from the start but even without it the quality of the anime wouldnt be great. Just a little bit less horrible.

You can see very clearly that the creators were in a bubble. Didnt understand the world around it and therefore their audience. After the release i hope it popped.