{"id":108022,"date":"2025-02-24T23:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anime\/first-look-momentary-lily-the-glorio-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T23:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T23:34:54","slug":"first-look-momentary-lily-the-glorio-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=108022","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Momentary Lily | The Glorio Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"\"<\/a>Anime original by GoHands
Streaming on Crunchyroll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Premise<\/h3>\n

In a post apocalyptic world emptied by monstrous robotic invaders, a group of five girls battles them with goofy norse-themed weapons. When shy loner Renge shows up, they take her under their wing and talk a lot about cooking.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Zigg\u2019s<\/span> verdict: A Momentary Lapse of Reason<\/h3>\n

In a recent podcast I made a pretty ill-judged comment, namely that I was actually kind of interested in watching this show due to the combination of the trailer showing off wacky girls with crazy weapons combined with GoHands\u2019, er,\u00a0distinctive<\/em> animation style. Unfortunately, the thing I had forgotten when making that comment is that while the studio\u2019s visual choices are frequently goofy and unorthodox, that doesn\u2019t apply to their writing, which is universally garbage. Watching this episode was a harsh reminder of that.<\/p>\n

Really, what\u2019s most surprising about episode 1 of Momentary Lily<\/em> is the spectacular array of ways in which it is absolutely insufferable. The action is pretty visually deranged but at the same time kind of uninspired, and it\u2019s also a colossal bait and switch, as after a few minutes of opening pyrotechnics the show snaps into \u2018cute girls talk about nothing\u2019 mode where it stays firmly entrenched for the rest of the runtime. And when I say \u2018cute girls talk\u2019 I mean it \u2013 these girls do nothing but talk and talk and you\u2019ll be begging them to shut up after a few minutes. There\u2019s so much dialogue here it makes\u00a0My Dinner With Andre\u00a0<\/em>look like 2001 A Space Odyssey<\/em>, and almost all of it is inane rubbish. Each of these girls has exactly one character trait \u2013 The Gamer one! The Boobs one! The Serious one! \u2013 and all they do is hammer on that personality trait ad nauseam<\/em> even though the amount of substance each character has could be laid out in a single sentence.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That\u2019s not even getting into the flimsy world-building about how this is the cosiest apocalypse ever, with the amount of scrabbling and infodumping here reading like a 13 year old struggling to cram all their definitely thematically consistent ideas into their first fanfic. In a season that seems more swamped by shitty isekai than ever I had hoped that GoHands could at least provide a distractingly weird alternative, but this ain\u2019t it chief.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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