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Glasslip – A Metaphorical Final Review

April 16, 2015 by Chikorita157 7 Comments

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Just last summer, I shared my thoughts on why Glasslip was a complete failure. Since I already explained why it was so bad, I may as well make a final review mocking the whole show.

So, what is the story of Glasslip? It involves a life of a girl named Fukami Touko who works at her family’s glass making workshop. She has a young sister named Hina, who seems to be attracted to Yuki for his athletic abilities. Touko spends her free time with her friends. Basically, she had a good life, until Okikura Kakeru came along, who apparently goes by the name of “David.”

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It seems that nobody likes Kakeru.

When Touko met Kakeru for the first time, her life changed for the worst. Somehow, he managed to convince her to lift the no dating rule. Shortly after, Sacchi became very protective of Touko. To make matters worse, we also have Yanagi and Yuki punching Kakeru because he is the reason why she can’t get Yuki to recognize her feelings. This comes at no surprise since most PA Works treats male characters like they are punching bags.

I have to admit that watching Touko get embarrassed into thinking her friends is Kakeru is cute.
I have to admit that watching Touko get embarrassed into thinking her friends is Kakeru is cute.

It’s also apparent that Kakeru is a psychopath. Besides the fact that he talk to multiple copies of himself that does not exist in real life, he convinces Touko that she possesses special powers to see glimpses of the future. However, she never understood the reason behind these visions, aside from the fact that she is drifting away from her friends as they slowly forget about her.

Admit it, this show is all about the chickens.
Admit it, this show is all about the chickens.

Obviously, this is the part of his scheme and by inviting her and her family to his house to have them watch his mother’s piano playing, he can finally have Touko all to himself before he disappears. In fact, his evil plan was a huge success that she completely forgets about her friends when summer vacation ended..

In the end, Touko ends up being forever alone after being betrayed by Kakeru's sudden disappearance.
In the end, Touko ends up being forever alone after being betrayed by Kakeru’s sudden disappearance.

Since then, Touko lived a relatively lonely life until graduation and she wondered to herself if things would be better if she never met the boy she forgot his name of. The only thing she remembers him by is the pet chicken named Jonathan, who keeps her company besides the others in the coup at her school along with her little sister.

Aside from my metaphorical take on the whole story of Glasslip, everyone has to admit that it was a complete failure. The animation despite being pretty is like putting lipstick on a pig. The pig is the story because nothing ever got explained. Not only that, things just happened without any explanation. The characters were underdeveloped and the fragments of the future still remain a complete mystery.

Overall, this is by far the worst show I watched thus far, aside from Suzumiya Haruhi Second Season, which is mostly due to Kyoto Animation’s trolling with the Endless Eight arc. I have to admit that watching all 8 episodes of Endless Eight would be more enjoyable than all 13 episodes of Glasslip since I know that every episode is going to have a lot of enjoyable moments with a fulfilling conclusion at the end. Glasslip has none of this, which is why I declare it as the worst show I ever seen, until another show beats the level of terribleness of this show. 

Overall Rating: 5.2/10, F, Failure

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  1. Overlord-G :
    April 16, 2015 at 5:10 pm • Magical Level: 439

    I said this in one of your GL episodics and I’ll say it again, this show would have been leagues better if it had been a story about raising chickens.
    Also you mentioning PA Works having a trope of humiliating male leads has increased my respect for them tenfold.

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    • chikorita157 :
      April 18, 2015 at 12:22 am • Magical Level: 3105

      Even if Glasslip spends most of the time on Jonathan, I think True Tears, which also has chickens would be a better show than this, especially since we have shipping drama and the story is written by Mari Okada.

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  2. Moonlitasteria :
    April 18, 2015 at 7:54 pm • Magical Level: 34

    It was a nice concept, but I believe somewhere down the line the staff became too ambitious with it or had a lot of fledgling talent working on it as they first project. Both the former and latter probably would explain the reason why they didn’t expand upon certain things they brought up like the vision with Kakeru falling from the roof. Seems like a lot of writing and planning was probably going on during production. Either way, I can agree it was utter failure, but hope that doesn’t dissuade more off-the-cuff projects like that from being made.

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    • Kai :
      April 19, 2015 at 1:06 am • Magical Level: 135

      Pretty much this, yea. Watching Glasslip, I always felt it’s trying too hard to be something it’s not. In the end, it just failed to get a single point across. Nice music though.. at least.

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      • chikorita157 :
        April 22, 2015 at 12:22 pm • Magical Level: 3105

        As mentioned in a later comment, I feel that the music and the animation is the only thing the show got going for it… everything else was a failure for the most part.

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    • chikorita157 :
      April 20, 2015 at 7:38 pm • Magical Level: 3105

      I do agree that there are some things that the creator want the story to be, especially in regards to make the story unique. Of course, while being ambitious is good, but if there is no direction, it will ultimately fall apart and it’s easy to see why it failed.

      But I have to give them some credit, the classical music sounded good and classy.

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