shonen

ujimoto hopes we’ll take the series as serious Shonen, shoehorning deep emotional beats. Amid the awkward teenage groping, we experience brutal carnage and gore, moments of pure hopelessness, death, and loss. Unfortunately, most of the characters are too hysterical or unbelievable for the audience to ever find a surrogate for the loss. Bad things happen, but you have a hard time feeling bad — because most of the characters don’t either.