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You know, I feel like the word underrated is overused. The term gets slugged around too much and has lost its meaning in the process. Scissor Seven, however, is not just underrated, it's a hidden gem. It's the biggest strength by far is its creativity. It goes for everything. Ranging from the vast array of characters, and the absurd story, the unique animation, abrasive dialogue, or the beautiful action sequences. I promise you this is not a gimmick to garner views solely off of shock value, or this "random = funny" approach. It's as if the creative minds behind this received these blank cells, canvases, andscripts unaccompanied by restrictions and censorship. The show felt and looked like a passion project that was done by professionals. The story, more specifically, the story progression, is phenomenal. It's not hard to figure out the key twists, and it's not because of bad storytelling. It seems like the producers wanted us to at least get a lead on our main character, leaving us to wait for Seven to catch up with the audience, waiting for that climactic "aha" moment. The show does an excellent job of throwing bones and keeping you entertained in between. If you didn't find a particular technicality superb, the show still managed to do a decent job. What do I mean, you ask? The character development is a bit lackluster, specifically for the side characters. However, I do appreciate the callbacks, and every character has at least has a decent, entertaining backstory. To the defense of the show, you can only do so much with the limitation Scissor Seven has, being this quasi-episodic show. The voice acting is a maze, for me at least. The show was dubbed initially in Mandarin, and I'm used to watching in Japanese (which there is a dub for), but the English dub kind of lands the slapstick comedy the best. Albeit quite arduous and time-consuming, I often switched from English to Japanese, especially during the sakuga fight fests. We need more shows like this. Call me childish, but it's pretty refreshing to hear the word "fuck" used so nonchalantly.

This show has got to be out of my age range but I'll still give my pretty exact POV of it. First and foremost I'm just going to say it, I thought the show was boring as hell all the way until maybe the last two episodes where I guess something actually... happens? The wait for the climax was excruciatingly long and I could only have made it this far because the episodes were short. Why did I think it was boring though? Well it pretty much got overhyped for me when I was seeing bits of it (mostly action) on my socials and I wassurprised to find out the show was from China after wondering where the Japanese sub was (which I will touch upon later). Anyways yeah basically I got disappointed at the lack of action and the amount of what was basically a version of Peppa pig to get near the end. Secondly, I'll just straight up say it, I'm Chinese and through some experience cannot bear any Chinese voice acting in some snippets of Chinese cartoons I've seen, so instead I had to bear the English dub. I had to bear it, because damn the MC's English dub was just straight ASS (a nicer way of saying it would be "unfitting"), I HATED it, I could bear every other character's voice except this dude's. If I'm going to describe it, I'm going to first take a big guess and say the VA's got to be Asian and probably most specifically Chinese but also sounds specifically like an Asian 14-year-old kid who probably listens to JuiceWRLD, Eminem and "Sunflower" by Post Malone if they said they listened to rap (the sunflower part was intentional) and since it's 2024, maybe even "Not like us" (Please don't get offended if this describes you). Now I know I just sound like a straight hater but that's because it's true, there could have been any other individual that could have sounded good for this role but I guess maybe they were trying to go for a more comedic route to have picked this dude? Idk, but it just sounds goofy but in an unfunny way and a Johnny Bravo/Heroic sounding guy would have probably been more bearable for me, which brings me to my third thought. It's probably unfair to say this considering the show's probably targeting kids out of my range but the comedic part of the show was just not hitting AT ALL, I could only laugh at any corny moment I saw but that was about it, literally the parts that weren't meant to be funny at all, and this is coming from someone who laughs at ANYTHING. To be honest, I wasn't looking for a lot of comedy, mostly action, but not much of that was there either so I would just be hit with blanks of comedic attempts that just weren't for me. And going back to the subject of dub, on the website that I watched this on, the dub and sub were pretty different, idk if it was a cultural difference or because it was like the ghost stories situation where the actors had absolutely no idea what the characters were originally saying, or final theory is that the dub tried to convert the best out of what was being said for the Chinese audiences, to something that every other audience could get a handle of. I'm just saying that the dub was probably more fun than the sub if you're reading this. To conclude, I'll just say the only reason I don't like this show is probably because it's just not my thing and has humour in a medium that doesn't move me at all. The things I liked were the minuscule amounts of action scenes that basically only showed up at the end and Thirteen. And though I expressed my hatred, I am still willing to at least try another season in the hopes that there is more action.

Fun story you should watch, available in many different languages The art style is unique, and quite fluid during battle scenes The characters are cute, yet has a badass vibe to them My only complains are the sound effects, and the details to fights. If added a tad bit more dramatism (preferably more bass boosted, or maybe just something that makes the punches more alive), the audience would be more immersed in the show and I would give it a 8-9 overall. What I mean is that the punches feels weak in the show, and the fights has like no impacts to it's surroundings (ground breaking, walls crumbling),that it made it feel a little dull. Other than that, it's a good show, well done China.

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