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Tenkuu Shinpan
High-Rise Invasion

It's finally done, these 12 episodes have taken more on me than just complete concentration and massive brain damage, so I hope this doesn't affect my review. High-Rise Invasion is without a doubt a record for one of the worst anime out there. And is therefore yet another proof that there are no quality controls in anime production.

Just imagine that this anime is a combination of a hentai, a trash movie, the worst comedy there is, and an Indian action flick. This is how I would describe it and I still can't shake the feeling that it was supposed to be a parody of something. However, after my search, I haven't found anything to prove it.

Tenkuu Shinpan is an anime that takes the more than hackneyed survival scene and does nothing with it. Absolutely nothing about this series makes remote sense and at the center of it, all is the protagonist. This "creature" has the worst and stupidest dialogues and monologues you can find anywhere, they are so poorly done that they should induce states of shock. And to make it worse, she always sets "new" goals and ignores the old ones. And her moral code is just incredibly disturbed. First, she doesn't want to kill anyone, but then she realizes that the masks are not her enemies and wants to defeat the real enemy. Then she says masks are innocent people. Then she kills masks, then slaughters more masks. Then she says she wants to defy the rules of the game world and not play by those sick rules. What does she do about it? She kills more masks and plays by the rules. Then she mourns the masks and kills more of them. Then she doesn't care about the masks anymore, she slaughters them like flies. Then she helps masks (because of the plot) only to slaughter masks again. And then she suddenly says she doesn't want to kill masks that have already been defeated! This girl is a witch who bends her morals depending on the situation just to fit the plot. She has ONLY lied and murdered in the whole series, but she accuses others of "evil" deeds? She even wanted to kill normal people who are not controlled (controlled too) and says right after that killing is wrong and she doesn't want to be like the criminals.

My thesis: She is the real main antagonist and has 6 different split personalities. And the rest are so hot for her they don't notice. I wasn't sure if we'd ever see an orgy here, the way everyone acts toward her.

I would love to say more on this, but then I would probably start spoiling. So do me a favor and just watch it, if you don't see any sense in life anymore.

[Story 2]

What we know of the plot so far is that people are brought to this place with a purpose, which is not just survival. And that's all, nothing else has been revealed throughout the season.

The course of the season is a sheer disaster, the characters can't decide what they want to do. They slaughter each other, then blindly trust each other only to attack another group and blindly trust them again. Even murderers become seatmates in a scene there.

Especially remarkable was the protagonist's analysis of the helicopter and her helicopter invasion plan, which made me watch the scene twice. I wasn't sure if I was just broken or if she said it. The helicopter that constantly stops at one of the places is the "weak point" of this world and the opponents showed weakness by being afraid. This is exactly what the protagonist had said during her speech.

In that sense, the whole season is really about the helicopter - helicopter, but they somehow forgot that along the way.

The fact that most of the masks were also absolute overkills and could wipe out people in seconds made it all the sadder that they always lost. The masks never really tried to kill the protagonists or become dangerous to them. And even attacks that turned everyone into a puddle of blood made them nosebleed. Because the characters are just probably as tough as a heavy truck by birth.

[Characters 1]

No, just no. There is a limit to how bad characters can be and this was blown up here. Aside from rationality in the negative, the author had no idea what he was having them do and say. It felt like there were multiple options and it was just spinning a bottle to decide what they say and do.

The protagonist Honjou Yuri, the source of all evil in this creation. Is supposed to represent a naive, dumb nut who, in contrast, is good-hearted and attracts everyone around her. Unfortunately, it resulted in everyone around her wanting to "undress" her. And that she is the biggest mass murderer and hypocrite in her universe. Nothing she ever did or said made the slightest bit of sense. Wouldn't a cheat slip have been enough to realize what her goals are?

Nise Mayuk, the ultimate Yandere lesbian almost went watery every time Yuri got within 2 meters of her. That's her personality.

Shinzaki Kaon is practically a second protagonist who is just a Sniper Mask fanatic and represents the typical good girl.

Rika, Yuri's brother has surprisingly been the smartest character in the anime but is still far from average. Still, I was glad for his presence.

Sniper Kamen/Mask is your typical badass and I was hoping he could save the anime. But no, he's just a guy in a mask literally "trying" to be cool. I don't know why, it will be explained later, but he has the urge to be cool. That's all that was behind him.

Combine all this with such bad dialogue and character interactions and you could almost cry.

[Music 4 / Animations 5]

The intro had a suitable style, but hardly any musical quality worth mentioning, as did the outro and the osts.

Animations were at least average, especially the panty shots took effort, where would we be without them?

[Conclusion 1]

Usually, when I watch poorly rated anime, I try to find the good in them as best I can. The thing is, no matter how badly an anime is portrayed, most have several strengths or moments where you just think to yourself that this was written quite well. Even a bad anime simply has its strengths. At least that's true of most of them, which is why I never mind watching them, and I'm not always on the lookout for top titles.

But with this one, even with me all enthusiasm froze and I didn't see any hope. Why? Why? Is something like this even allowed to exist? It's almost as if someone deliberately tried to make the worst anime there is to win a bet.

If I had to make an anime that was immensely bad and so stupid, my result would be shockingly similar to this anime. And that can't be their seriousness.

There was only one scene after 12 episodes that I found just okay [When Rika was interrogated] and even that, I wouldn't even call average. Other than that, there was not one scene, moment, or approach that made this anime even remotely special. And I'm not even overdramatizing it, that's the bad part.

[Enjoyment 0]