Fractale

The beginning looked promising. A new world. Cute artwork. A main character who is ordinary for the time being, but not especially annoying. And then the others showed up. These, unfortunately, were obvious archetypes at first glance. But it didn't matter; the artwork was still nice, there was still something to look at. And then suddenly there wasn’t. Suddenly the art lost its charm and just wasn't that interesting. The main character was transformed into yet another archetype, and started being annoying with some of the decisions he made. As for Phryne, her decisions were annoying from the start and always the same, over and over again. Maybe the cheery and carefree Nessa could have saved it for a while with her presence. But unfortunately, she didn’t. The other characters were just added baggage who somehow here and there took the main characters somewhere, kidnapped them, slapped them around, or chatted them up. The only thing that didn’t let me down about this series was the ending. I don't know, I guess I started to like the Japanese pronunciation of English. You can hear a different perspective on it by Subjectiv, for example. A weak 3 stars. (04/04/2011)