I thought I’d mix it up a little and review Godzilla Singular Point, Netflix’s new anime. I’ll add the caveat that I used to watch a bunch of anime in the 90s/00s, but I really don’t like much of it anymore. Mostly because of how many common tropes and pitfalls just ruin the genre for me. Singular Point definitely employs a lot of them, but there’s some fun stuff and it will be good to knock this one out while it’s still on Netflix. The series is definitely too long for its own good, and suffers from chronic cases of Cutesy Bullshit and Pretentious Exposition. It would have been better if they had boiled the plot into 4-6 episodes like the first season of Castlevania, but the animation has a unique style, and the monster action is pretty cool. Godzilla himself seems to be following the Shin concept of evolving forms, the final two are good looking if criminally underused. Be patient while watching this series, dear viewers. For a series built around Godzilla, he’s barely in it.

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