The first episode of the series was very promising.
The story only keeps getting more confusing after that.
You know how there's always a short synopsis of a series to let you know what the story is going to be about and help you decide whether it's something that might interest you? It's usually something spoilerless and quick just to give you a couple of ideas about the setting and the main protagonists.
It's also something that you would tell your friends about a particular anime when you want them to start watching it. But the more you watch an anime, the better your description of it will become.
However, it doesn't work like that with Metallic Rouge. It's been 6 episodes, and the only thing that we can tell about the series is that there are two girls, one android and one probably human, who are on a mission to exterminate a bunch of Neans.
Promising beginning
The anime had a great start with an outstanding mecha fight, characters who looked curious and a taste of drama, of course. Metallic Rouge looked fresh and promising. The dynamic between Rouge and Naomi felt like it would be one of the most interesting this anime season, and the story gave us hints at peculiar mysteries needed to be solved.
But episodes kept coming, new characters and mysteries got introduced, and the entire thing was gradually becoming more and more confusing. New questions keep appearing, and very few of them are getting answered.
Lack of development
On top of that, Rouge and Naomi's dynamic is hardly explored, and a lot of fans admit to having zero character attachment to anyone in the series. They don't see the stakes, since Rouge is going to come out a victor out of every encounter anyway. The series fails at making you care about its characters and their fates, and lacks development.
Fans are really unsatisfied with the way Metallic Rouge handles its story. It's too disjointed and too confusing, and a lot of moments make you feel like you've skipped a couple of episodes and aren't watching the right one.
That's why so many people think it'll be better to watch Metallic Rouge when it's fully out. This way there won't be weeks between episodes, and you won't be forgetting things as fast.
While this advice makes a lot of sense, it also raises even more questions. Why is Metallic Rouge released weekly then? Why not release the entire season like a lot of Netflix series do?
We think this strategy would have been much better for Metallic Rouge. There's still hope that the future episodes will finally give us all the answers and improve fans' impression of the anime. But the sad thing is that so many viewers won't give it a chance to do so, since they're already not enjoying it.
It's easy to sit through something for a night just to finish it, but staying committed to a series that you're not so fond of for months feels like a pointless thing to do.
The first episode of the series was very promising.
The story only keeps getting more confusing after that.
You know how there's always a short synopsis of a series to let you know what the story is going to be about and help you decide whether it's something that might interest you? It's usually something spoilerless and quick just to give you a couple of ideas about the setting and the main protagonists.
It's also something that you would tell your friends about a particular anime when you want them to start watching it. But the more you watch an anime, the better your description of it will become.
However, it doesn't work like that with Metallic Rouge. It's been 6 episodes, and the only thing that we can tell about the series is that there are two girls, one android and one probably human, who are on a mission to exterminate a bunch of Neans.
Promising beginning
The anime had a great start with an outstanding mecha fight, characters who looked curious and a taste of drama, of course. Metallic Rouge looked fresh and promising. The dynamic between Rouge and Naomi felt like it would be one of the most interesting this anime season, and the story gave us hints at peculiar mysteries needed to be solved.
But episodes kept coming, new characters and mysteries got introduced, and the entire thing was gradually becoming more and more confusing. New questions keep appearing, and very few of them are getting answered.
Lack of development
On top of that, Rouge and Naomi's dynamic is hardly explored, and a lot of fans admit to having zero character attachment to anyone in the series. They don't see the stakes, since Rouge is going to come out a victor out of every encounter anyway. The series fails at making you care about its characters and their fates, and lacks development.
Fans are really unsatisfied with the way Metallic Rouge handles its story. It's too disjointed and too confusing, and a lot of moments make you feel like you've skipped a couple of episodes and aren't watching the right one.
That's why so many people think it'll be better to watch Metallic Rouge when it's fully out. This way there won't be weeks between episodes, and you won't be forgetting things as fast.
While this advice makes a lot of sense, it also raises even more questions. Why is Metallic Rouge released weekly then? Why not release the entire season like a lot of Netflix series do?
We think this strategy would have been much better for Metallic Rouge. There's still hope that the future episodes will finally give us all the answers and improve fans' impression of the anime. But the sad thing is that so many viewers won't give it a chance to do so, since they're already not enjoying it.
It's easy to sit through something for a night just to finish it, but staying committed to a series that you're not so fond of for months feels like a pointless thing to do.
