RIFLE IS BEAUTIFUL

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MANGA ComedyRifle Is Beautiful

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  ABPAEAE

  35/100
  Misleading, bland, and disappointing.

  As someone who loves all things firearms, I did not enjoy Chidori RSC enough to continue watching it.

  The story is quite unoriginal and feels like a direct copy of many anime from the 2000s onward. Everyone's description of the anime is also pretty misleading, since firearms are nowhere to be found within the anime. Chidori RSC is about Olympic-style competitive beam rifle shooting, something closer to laser tag against paper targets than actual target shooting with real gunpowder and lead. A minor difference to some, but as someone who has a raging hard-on for firearms, I was very disappointed by this.

  The characters are bland and unoriginal, from their writing to their design. I couldn't even distinguish everyone's personality and appearance from one another if you paid me to. Everyone's design is based around stereotypical flashy neon color schemes and overused anime character tropes with the depth of a kiddie pool. Altogether, this makes for a great recipe if you're aiming to release an anime that feels like unflavored nutrient paste.

  The background visuals and audio design are just as bland as the character design, and I struggle to find many words to describe it with. The animation is typical "we want to make a full-fledged 20-something minute 12-episode anime but don't know how successful it will be so we'll just make do with a tight budget" sort of animation, with corners clearly being cut and nothing flashy added to garnish the final product. Audio is... I don't even remember. It's hard to have downright bad music in anime, but it's oh so common to use bland, lackluster music that would fail to impress even someone who has been deaf since birth trying on some new miracle hearing aids. Compared to the highly realistic orchestral recordings of Hibike! Euphonium or Girls' Last Tour's exotic selection of original and remixed tracks that amazingly suit scenes like fresh gravy on warm biscuits, This anime simply fails to impress me in any way.

  An anime about realistic, casual shooting might be niche, but is highly desired by that niche. There's so much untapped potential a few studios have already tried to crack open, but they all ultimately failed miserably. In my opinion, Upotte! of all things is still the only anime that has successfully catered to borderline (or fully) autistic gun nuts like myself, if only because they got most of the dynamics of realistic firearms right. I really hate to give a low rating to a debut of pseudo-firearms into the normie market and discourage the viewing of such a subject, but Chidori RSC really just isn't that good of an anime, be it for someone who simply wants to watch an anime, or for anyone interested in it for its supposed "shooting" aspects.

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  Waffler

  60/100
  Its fun if you are interested in rifle shooting, otherwise its kinda soulless... sadly

  Look, as much as I love rifle shooting (I did long distance during high school), This anime is kinda meh story wise. Accurate though when it comes to posture, zone, jackets, pants and how monotonous the sport seems. It's actually super exciting but we learn to keep it in because it'd affect our heart rate when we shoot. Competitive shooting is a hell of a thing and I think that it should've displayed the teamwork aspect of it more. We got a glimpse of how shooting orders are made, etc. But nothing too much in terms of team feel. And thats why I feel like the characters are 1 dimensional. They had shallow interactions and existed for a certain purpose. A stern, seemingly robotic and perfect shooter, a tsundere shooter who spikes in scores competitively, a hyper shooter who only comes online during competition and a purely consistent shooter that does the same thing over and over again. To be fair I would say the consistent shooter is the best out of the the 4 but that was the point of the anime. The anime was all about the cute girls. And they were really shallow. "I really like shooting" thats really all our main character comes to. That and "Secret Boobage". The others are just as described above. I think they could've added more character by adding the importance of teamwork and trust in. Rather than just making all the shooters super good there was a little struggle shown by hikari shooting bad on individuals and tsundere girl doing bad during the team stage. But I mean that really isn't much at all. It focused too much on the cute girls doing cool things aspect and it missed the part where you had to write characters that were interesting and the teamwork troubles that would come up during competitions, even practice competitions. When they're all infinitely positive there is no interesting thing about rifle. When everyone shoots basically a 600+ why would anyone ever want to try rifle shooting. I understand these people are someone peak(?) I've seen year 7's shoot very close and above that limit as they get experience. Ok this is kinda long winded but you understand that when someone hits the ceiling there is literally nowhere else to go right? When people get insane scores all the time, the art of getting an insane score is taken away. Add better characters and flesh them out. Then we can talk. We need more people to be interested in this really fun sport!

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