FIF#90-Revisions

When they children, Daisuke Dojima and his four best friends were given a warning by a beautiful woman named Melos: a disaster would soon befall them and Daisuke would be the only one who can save them.  Since then, Daisuke has been ever diligent, preparing himself for the calamity to come, a calamity that has remained a mystery…until now.  In a matter of seconds, the center of Shibuya is transported 300 years into the future and Daisuke’s school is immediately attacked by a creature known as a “Revision”.  Melos returns, granting Daisuke and his friends the weapons they need to combat these monstrosities and take back their city.  Destiny has arrived and Daisuke is determined to embrace and begin his long awaited mission.

So this is the second week in a row I’m doing a First Impression on an Anime from Netflix and only now am I realizing…yeesh this service seems to want to be the one that gives all CG Anime series and movies a chance.  Knights of Sidonia, ULTRAMAN, the Godzilla Trilogy, Ingress: The Animation.  If it weren’t for certain titles like Kakegurui and Little Witch Academia, I’d assume Netflix was going for a CG only selection for it’s “Original Anime Series.”  Which brings us to Revisions.  Man this show has promise with some cool looking mecha and a Zero Two style heroine in a sexy cybersuit who can kick ass…too bad the lead character basically derails any and all interest I might have.

Main character Daisuke is barely on screen rambling about being the savior of everything for five minutes when it suddenly dawned on me…HOLY CRAP, THIS KID IS IRON FIST!!!  To clarify, im talking about the Netflix Marvel iteration of the character…to further clarify, im talking about Season One.  Danny Rand spends the bulk of that terrible first season rambling on about how he’s going to save New York simply because “I’m the Immortal Iron Fist.”  Everytime, it gets the same reaction you’d expect trying to tell any normal person those exact words, “Huh?” or “What?”  Daisuke is seriously no different.  The second some cute pink haired girl tells him he’s meant to be a world protector, specifically of his closest friends, Daisuke immediately tries to become Superman when he’s actually an angsty Bruce Wayne who comes off as a pure Danny Rand.  There’s a flashback to when some random guy asked one of his lady friends for directions and Daisuke almost tore the guys arm off.  He’s so overprotective it’s both laughable and irritating.  I’m with his “friend” Gai when he calls Daisuke out on his superheroism BS when whatever terrible destiny is supposedly coming might not even show.  But it does show and then Daisuke’s “I’m the best hero ever” bravado evaporates quickly because what exactly can he do against a really neat looking evil robot without a mecha of his own.  What’s worse is Daisuke goes on and on about his hero complex and dark destiny rants everytime he opens his mouth.  There’s hardly anything new that he spouts off.  And as you can imagine, that gets old, really, really fast.

Is there anything to like about the first episode of Revisions?  Besides the aforementioned pink haired bad ass Melos and the mecha monsters, there really isn’t much that grabbed me on the first episode.  The CG Animation kind of bothered me a bit.  Maybe im just not meant to like this specific Anime style in the long run and from past reviews and other first impressions, I really haven’t.  The rest of the cast isn’t given much time to stand out because Daisuke is almost trying to protect them from stealing his “heroic” spotlight and getting any character establishment.  Honestly, if this is the group that’s going to save the world, then im probably better off just staying away from this one unless Daisuke gets killed in the second episode and Milo takes over as the main character for the rest of this series.  At least Ingress, despite its own uneven animation, had an interesting premise and unique takes on familiar ideas.  Revisions feels like another generic CG Mecha Anime that really isn’t grabbing my attention…at the very least it’s the main characters fault this time more than the animation itself.