RE:Creators

 Another anime series from the recent years that seems to have a good potential to make it big but somehow didn't make any buzz once its season passed. Co-written by Black Lagoon's author, RE:Creators showcases what happen if various characters from differing fiction genres came into life and go fight some battle royale. So basically you have characters from popular anime genre like Fantasy, Sci-fi, Mecha, Slice of Life and somewhere in between duke it out in Smash Brawl fashion but then RE:Creators tried to bring something more out of it.

 RE:Creators offers a glimpse of Japanese Pop-culture industry though it kinda overstay at this part as i feel that the authors of the fiction works in the series dubbed as the Creators are the main focus instead of their more vibrant fictional creations. Whether intentional or not, when the stunning visual and music of RE:Creators are dissected apart, what appears to be an Ultimate Anime fandom Battle Royal becomes more like an overglorified slice of life of anime industry employees. While this gesture seems good to pander people who aspire to join the industry, this circlejerking behavior definitely does not sit well if an anime want to appeal the general audience which is why i think RE:Creators ends up in whimper instead of a bang.

 In terms of production value, RE:Creators actually had a very high one with each fictional characters suitably represent their archetype of their respective genres, Heck even the mechas are very cool looking even if they are no the main focus! With such promising array of casts, RE:Creators had the potential to make it big like Fate series and one may wonder how the series could have gone wrong.

 In RE:Creators, the main character who is a betafag and the main antagonist dubbed "Military Uniform Princess" who is basically Mary-Sue expy of Black Rock Shooter served as the anchor for the series. The story of RE:Creators basically started with the Main Antagonist hell bent on destroying the world because her Creator committed suicide due to Plagiarism accuse, which kinda remind me of Yunomi-P scandal in Vocaloid fandom. With such contrasting quality of character occupy the main focus for the series, there are not much room for the rest of the fiction casts who are basically rendered irrelevant before the Mary Sue antagonist. With such issues, this makes it rather difficult for viewers to get attached with any of the main casts.

However what puts me off the most is that Altair, most overpowered Mary Sue is a creation of a 16 year old teen. It is hard to digest that a Fanfiction-tier character trumps over the works of veterans of industry who worth their salt. No matter how the gesture is intended to empower upstart artist in the industry this move is just absurd.

 Hayao Miyazaki once stated that the anime industry are saturated by Otakus who can't deal with people which is same cause for RE:Creators downfall. To be honest RE:Creators could have achieved
something as it tried something different with a fresh formula. It probably could have fared better if it didn't try to do too many things at once but at very least RE:Creators is still not a trainwreck like Guilty Crown. If RE:Creators is given another second opportunity, i would prefer that it handles one thing at a time for instance the Main Character need to solve issues in each fictional world with limited power which probably end up to be another SAO clone.