断裁分離のクライムエッジ/The Severing Crime Edge

I'll start this whole thing off with something I finished pretty recently. The Severing Crime Edge, henceforth referred to as Crime Edge, has a rather bizarre premise. A guy with a hair cutting fetish finds a girl with insanely long hair, and only he can cut that hair. Fascinating, right? Yeah, I knew this would be dumb from the get-go, but was hoping it wouldn't be completely disappointing.

Note that I said I was hoping

The show is pretty much stereotypical fanservice anime number 4,653,125, but it somehow manages to be worse than most of its peers. You see, the fetishes are entirely nonstandard, not that that's bad, but, the way they are presented is in an entirely unattractive way most of the time, and the other small percentage it could be effective, you're usually still wondering why you didn't spend your time on a better show that could've done more for you.

There is, surprisingly, some action scenes. Depressingly, apparently the animators forgot they had spent all of the budget on making the hair look nice, and thus almost every action sequence is one color, usually an ugly brownish-grey. This is actually quite irritating, if you can't even dedicate yourself to being full fanservice, then at the very least color in your damn action sequences! It's not pleasing on the eyes, and once again, leaves you wondering why you aren't watching something else.

The story is also a mess. The main character ends up going to a loli-ahem, young girl's house in the hopes of finding out if the rumors of a ghost are true. Technically they are, but she isn't a ghost. He immediately obsesses over her hair, and a few days later discovers that his special scissors passed down from his murderer of an ancestor can cut the hair of the girl, despite all other scissors failing. He then proceeds to find he can fight with the scissors, and battles against other users of items passed down from murderous ancestors.

Yeah, I don't know what they were thinking either. It's all just an excuse for hair and/or loli fetishists to have something to interest themselves. Don't watch it unless you really like those, and even then, you could do much better.