I’ll be totally honest right here at the start – I’ve never watched a Vtuber yet. I don’t have any real antipathy towards the idea but to date that hasn’t really been part of my media sphere, following such personalities and their exploits. I’ve heard a little music and been introduced to some of their visual designs, and that’s about it.
I mention this because Kamitsubaki City Under Construction is supposed to be part of a bigger vtuber-driven or at least vtuber-centered multimedia project including original songs, a visual novel game, and of course this anime outing. But I’m coming into this show from the perspective of, essentially, a new viewer. Total sight unseen. And for the duration of this seasonal, I’ll avoid changing that even if I want to, so I can continue to assess each episode from the same anime-only perspective rather than suddenly jumping some week to “it’s no longer a blind run”
From the “first two” episodes (Episode 0 and the proper Episode 1, though I don’t know why they were cut that way), I can say at least it has my attention.
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