The Fall 2022 Preview Guide
The Human Crazy University
How would you rate episode 1 of
The Human Crazy University ?
Community score: 2.3
What is this?
What happens to people when they are pushed to their very limits and driven into a corner like bugs? The Human Crazy University depicts these situations from the perspectives of various characters.
The Human Crazy University is based on the Human Bug Daigaku_Yami no Manga YouTube manga and streams on Crunchyroll on Wednesdays.
How was the first episode?
Nicholas Dupree
Rating:
What can I say about this premiere? I watched it, for one. Sat through the whole thing uninterrupted. I found a few of the random facts it brought up interesting, in a “oh I should look that up on wikipedia later” kind of way. I was very confused for a while about why this somber story of a death row inmate's execution was animated like a Newgrounds video from 2004. And I suppose in the abstract I can appreciate that this is a unique series in the TV anime landscape. So I can say that for The Human Crazy University. I just can't say I liked any of it.
It really comes down to the presentation. This is based on a series of voice comics that's been releasing on Youtube for a few years, and somewhere along the way they decided the best way to translate that to a full-length TV anime was to make it look cheaper and worse than the original manga art, and also not animate any more than absolutely necessary. Characters do not walk, their models are simply moved up and down while a background image scrolls behind them. 90% of the shots are two characters standing or sitting next to eachother as they share random facts about executions they read off of the world's most morbid Snapple caps. It's all about one step above just listening to a podcast about execution trivia, and filtered through a barely coherent story of a death row inmate who's apparently impossible to kill that barely gets expanded upon.
That particular wrinkle is perhaps the only thing that might get somebody interested in this. At the very least it's something unique that you can't get from a slew of true crime and history podcasts/books/documentaries, but it's not enough to make this half-baked edutainment set-up to be, y'know, entertaining.
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