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... Wednesdays. ⏎ How was the first episode? ⏎Caitlin Moore ⏎ Rating: 1 ⏎ That might have just been the most uncomfortable half-hour of television I've ever put myself through. I'm just sitting here on my couch, frowning at my TV with a barely touched document open on my laptop, trying to think of what in the world to say about this… this… project? My friend who writes for another site described themself as having spent all day recovering. I didn't get what they meant at the time but now I do. ⏎ Like… what exactly is this series trying to do? Is it a comedy that doesn't have any jokes? Edutainment that badly whiffs the -tainment part with its interminably long lectures delivered by what amounts to low-budget video game sprites? For that matter, how did they get big name voice actors like Tomokazu Sugita, Hikaru Midorikawa, and Takehito Koyasu to work on an anime that looks like it was made so cheaply that even the classic “budget of a ham sandwich” joke would be understating it? I have so many questions and I want the answer to exactly none of them. ⏎ In a weird way, I can see the discomfort inherent to the experience of watching Human Crazy University appealing to some people. There's a lot of incongruity going on. Satake is a horrible man who abused and murdered his fiancée, but he's polite and friendly with the guard because people are multifaceted. It's outright confrontational in how it depicts the death penalty as he begins to sob and beg for his life as the noose slips around his neck, performed to horrendous effect by Sugita. It's not fun to watch and I didn't enjoy spending time with Satake, but it makes a statement, that's for damn sure. The latter half, on the other hand, was a long, long infodump in a white room that wasn't interesting in any way, so blah. ⏎ Human Crazy University was… challenging. I mean that in every sense of the word. It's a challenge I'm not up for, so this will be a hard, hard . ⏎ James Beckett ⏎ Rating: 1.5 ⏎ I...