Looks pretty but nothing much else

Octocow

Boring and slow series with horrible pacing.

Characters don't seem to have a clue about anything, nobody's given proper motivation for doing anything and the scary Solomon organization seems to be more disorganized than kindergarten aged children's "My Little Pony" fan club. The main character seems like a melodramatic parrot, whose only offering to any conversation is repeating the last word from previous speakers sentence.

For some reason the music is happy j-pop instead of darker, more heavy metal/rock/classical which would have fitted the series better. Art and characters look pretty, but animation is actually quite lazy, with the characters just mostly sitting or standing around and maybe moving their heads a little bit.

There is no atmosphere of mystery, oppression or horror, just boredom.

score 6/10

Octocow 28 February 2012

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2573074/