I didn’t think all that much of the premiere of Undead Unluck, to be honest. But it did score some points with my by setting the intro scene at the Southern Terrace Exit of Shinjuku Station. That’s the first Japanese railway station exit I ever used – on my first visit I stayed at the Sunroute Shinjuku Hotel, just off the Southern Terrace Exit. Got off the Narita Express and spent like fifteen minutes looking for it (Shinjuku has a ridiculous number of exits). As it turns out it’s a really nice area, too – especially when they have a light-up at Christmas.
Unfortunately it was all downhill from there. Not a terrible episode and I didn’t hate it. In fact David Production did a nice job with the visuals, imparting a nice comic book aesthetic with virtually no detectable CGI. A bit Shaft-y (director Yase Yuki is an export from there) bot not intolerably so. Looks like there was a pretty good budget here, perhaps surprisingly so as it was my impression that Undead Unluck was a decidedly mid WSJ property in terms of popularity.
Mid in terms of quality too I’d always heard, and nothing here dissuades me from that. It’s a pretty standard Jump premise – a cute teen girl (Fuuko) has a weird magical ability. To wit “unluck” – anything she touches dies gruesomely (Shinigami Bocchan does it way better). She’s about ready to off herself at the aforementioned place when she’s stopped by an undead dude with “1865” tattooed on his chest. He’s mostly naked, but that’s an improvement as he winds up spending most of the episode totally naked (which I would say stopped being funny after a few beats, except it was really never funny in the first place). Once he lamps her ability, he gets the idea that maybe she can actually allow him to die.
Most of the rest is slapstick, and not especially great slapstick. I find both “Andy” and Fuuko kind of low-key annoying, and it feels at times like there’s more screaming and shouting here than spoken dialogue. I sort of get why this premiere seems to have proved popular – it’s bright and flashy and grabby and clearly well-produced. But as little as it engaged me, I find it pretty hard to imagine this show can convince me to stick around for long. I sense an outside chance this could cool down (WSJ newbies are under enormous pressure to throw the kitchen sink into opening chapters these days), and perhaps become more interesting when it’s slower and quieter. So one more episode? Sure – but it’s not going to be a long leash.
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