So I thought I'd finish up Spice and Wolf before getting started on Sakura Wars. Now I remember why I put this down. I love the idea of an anime about economics and trading, but goddamn, it's like they made this show to be intentionally difficult to watch.
Nobody talks like a real person, every conversation is this grandiose exchange of quips and verbosity; Structured in such a way that it's deliberately hard to follow what the fuck everyone is talking about. It's so bad that the non-human character, who stylizes herself to be intentionally vague and mysterious, is more, well, HUMAN than the actual human characters, and she's still pretty bad.
And I know this is meant to be a little slower than your average show, but goddamnit is it SLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW. SOMETHING HAPPEN ALREADY! I know I just put down Black Lagoon, which had gunfights and whizbangexplosions in every single episode bar-none, but after a story arc it shouldn't take this long to get the newest plot on the rails and for shit to start happening again. Because, believe it or not, but listening to Lawrence's self-aggrandizing smugness, and Horo's holy-than-thou goddamn-smugness and the contrived sexual tension between the two, does not make for good entertainment.
It would seem if I want to cross this off my list, I'll have to endure this tortuous slog of intellectual depravity.