Fantasista Doll Episode 6
What They Say:
Uzume Uno is an ordinary junior high school student nothing special to mention about school grades or in the field of sports. However, one day, her destiny is significantly changed. She happens to find mysterious cards from which dolls therein with special abilities come out to real life. Uzume becomes the “Card Master” and executes contract with these characteristic dolls. Soon or later, she somehow finds herself in a position to fight not just for her own town, but to save the whole world….
The Review:
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers)
With some of the recent incidents having settled for the moment and Uzume having made more of a bond with all the dolls to varying degrees, Fantasista Doll has a kind of fun opening here to an extent as the girls just hang out and have a good time together. Uzume’s finding her voice when it comes to all of them and the girls themselves are also really making some effort to find a good balance when it comes to Uzume. It also doesn’t hurt that Uzume has made a few new regular friends, even if they too control dolls that are like hers. It’s opened her to a larger world and one where she’s struggling, but doing fairly decent overall when you consider what exactly is going on.
This episode spends some of its focus on Akari as she’s interested in potentially joining up with another master after we get some material involving Miina. There’s certainly some curiosity here to how this unfolds but it’s a rather welcome element overall in the idea that different dolls can be exchanged between the masters since they are playing it up like a game in many ways. For Uzume, the struggle come sin whether she can give up on someone that she’s been with for any length of time, and especially since she does know the way so many of these girls are feeling lost and alone when it comes to being discarded in the past. And no matter what Uzume says, it’s her actions that count and they’ll have a certain level of distrust until things can be done in a way that reinforces what it is that Uzume says, rather than just believes and talks about.
In Summary:
Of course, the show goes into a bit of action which naturally brings Akari and Uzume closer together rather than apart and it hits some fairly predictable moments here. While the show continues to have some appealing animation at times, the series at the halfway mark is essentially bland, uninteresting and mind numbing a lot of the time. It’s actually done in a competent way, but it’s just simply uninteresting and that keeps it from actually seeming like it’s doing anything. The show is a by the numbers work without enough excitement to it to make it engaging and a gaggle of girls who you’re still hard press to remember who is who unless you have a favorite or your Uzume.
Grade: C-
Streamed By: Crunchyroll
Review Equipment:
Sony KDL70R550A 70″ LED 1080P HDTV, Apple TV via HDMI set to 1080p, Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver and Panasonic SB-TP20S Multi-Channel Speaker System With 100-Watt Subwoofer.