I watched the first ep of "Buzzer Beater" which I can't pull my mind away from being a masturbation pun, is also an anime about intergalactic basketball versus demon-looking aliens. Reading the synopsis, my first thought is "I so badly want this to be Space Jam: The Anime."
First episode is... not promising at all. It seems that the plot is that a guy is pulling together the Earth's best athletes in order to beat the Gorans, a just plain superior race of aliens that are better and bigger at everything than us slow, dumb, and small humans. Now, by "Best Athletes" he means atleast two highschool students, an indifferent playboy, some dude with a monster cowlick haircut, and a guy always wearing a swimming cap. Noone is introduced besides our apparent protagonst: Snotty-ass blue haired highschool brat Hideyoshi. "I'm a professional!" Is one of the first things he says, as he proceeds to be completely unprofessional by picking fights with his teammates, then pouting about it afterwards with his friend who looks SUSPICIOUSLY like Naruto. Like, he just needs the headband and whiskers and it's a perfect 1 to 1. Even more weirdly is that his art style and body dimensions keep changing from scene to scene, so he's a stubby chibified runt in one scene, then TRANSMOGRIFIES into a almost human looking character, then back again, as he plays B-ball.
Moreover, apparently the first episode doesn't start at the beginning of the story? There's a huge recap of the events that actually transpired so far, which includes the actual formation of the team, the challenging of the aliens, their first four successive victories, and their close defeat against the alien champs... all this in the first minute of the first episode, and all this so we can speed to the ACTUAL first episode which is just all the team members being frustrated by the defeat that we didn't get to SEE. So yeah, what the actual fuck storyboard guys? Did you think we wouldn't want to see all that cool shit that happened?
The actual animation while they're playing B-ball is actually pretty smooth and cool, but it looks like the actual basketball hoop was imported from the Commander Keen educational games. It's so glaringly out of place that all the B-ball happening in the foreground can't wrest my eyes from this cartoony as hell looking hoop sitting in the background.
I probably won't continue with it, but the reason I tried it is that I got my nose into a bunch of sports-related animes, since I'm feeling that that's where alot of the shonen gold is at since I got finished watching YowaPedal. Fingers crossed on the next one.
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