Recommended Avoidance: Avenger December 17
Avenger chalks up as my least favourite anime that I’ve ever been able to fully sit through. At times I considered why I was watching it, why I was wasting disk space on it, and why I couldn’t bring myself to hit the delete key and empty my recycle bin. Now that I’ve finished it, I still wonder and will never receive an answer, because even after viewing everything it has to offer, I have nothing positive to say about it.
Avenger begins with a bleak outlooking Mars. You soon realize that there are only character archetypes in this series, with each character being identical to several others. You’ve got: the old warriors who talk about destinies that are meant to occur and can be overcome (sentences later they realize that everything they’ve ever done was futile,) a mysterious woman who talks about the fate of the planet, rowdy teens who strike out a living in strange occupations, from Doll Breeder to Barbaroi fighter to farmer, and the nameless townsfolk who seem to have no idea what they’re doing in society and just end up complaining to the featured characters.
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