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Boku no Daemon (2023)
Not a masterpiece, far from it
I don't know what I was expecting.
This anime has a strange atmosphere. I don't know who the target audience is, for a start. There are gory and brutal images (exploding heads, nuclear bombs, disgusting daemons, etc.) and at the same time, it "talks" to us as if we were 5-year-olds!
But 5-year-olds don't watch children being beaten to death...
I appreciate that the creatures aren't cute, but then I can't help laughing when they say their names, like in pokemon... It's so stupid. It took me out of the story a few times.
The main character is a child, yes, but he's frustrating. He starts loving his "cute" daemon as soon as he sees it, with no explanation of why he's facinated by daemons (the character has no past), he keeps calling it affectionate names throughout the series, and there's no progression to his character. Nothing makes him change his mind. From the beginning to the end, he has the same values, the same goals, and he's always right (I'm not the one saying it, it's the way he's shown in the series).
Everything the other characters say is either very cliché (I thought this show was a parody, for a moment), or very direct. The series explains rather than shows. For example, no big spoilers: there's a girl who is SHOWN to have a certain personality. Then she orally EXPLAINS her goals, even though we could have guessed them. It's as if she hasn't internalized her motivations, as if she doesn't even believe in them (and she could, given how low-rent her motivations are). To top it all off, she repeats her motivations at least twice in the oral. In short, this is level 0 writing.
And what's the moral of this series, you might ask? Well, it's simple: Daemons are good and humans are bad, so they should try to understand Daemons, instead of enslaving them! It's so... so deep I can't even get my head around it! (ironic)
That's all there is to it. That, the beauty of the world, and accepting death, among other things. That's all they managed to say in 13 episodes. And they said it in the dumbest way possible.
Finally: each character (there are too many of them) has their own purpose and their own past, which is shown in just a few minutes (or IN THE ORAL). But this doesn't give them any depth, since it's never exploited (not in the long term, anyway). It may serve to characterize them. But since there are too many characters, this characterization is totally useless. They never really interact with the main character in any meaningful way. They always end up separate, with no impact on the main character... The secondary characters are just gravel on the path of the 8-year-old hero (I really don't know), who is already perfect anyway.
In short: don't watch this series, you'll be wasting precious time.