Di Gi Charat Summer Special 2000

You automatically temper your expectations when a company hires a studio to produce an anime as an advertisement for their business. Madhouse took free reign and whole hog license with DiGiCharat to do whatever they wanted, pull out every stop that exists, and debut some unreal talent with Miyuki Sawashiro. On top of…

Where the original 16-episode series is a work of comedic genius, this special falls flat. Those fast-paced, compact, wacky, absurdist episodes worked great for the show, but stretching them out into longer episodes with very little happening and little to no decent humor just makes this show drag. That said, the…