It occasionally lurches in the direction of plot advancement, but a lot of momentum is devoured by sideways motion. The compromise made to reconcile the two results in a winding story with no real focus. Gakuen Alice’s plot is not the most sophisticated, and finds itself occupying an uncomfortable middle ground between an encompassing, coherent storyline and a series of random misadventures. It’s debatable whether I could have chosen any better.įor the sake of balance, it behooves me to begin with the negatives. For the purpose, I selected Gakuen Alice - a light-hearted and cute shoujo romp. While I didn’t expect to be able to remove the sordid memories of the last show I reviewed, I was hoping to at least find enough of a claming influence to dispel my fury and perhaps even convince the judge that the psychotic rampage was merely an environmentally-induced episode and not at all indicative of my true nature. Having finally recovered from reviewing a succession of average to utterly dire anime at the cruel behest of others, I decided to take my destiny into my own hands, and publish my thoughts on an altogether more acceptable anime.
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