Life in Quadrant 4

Naive airhead pretty-things-lover meets straight man… girl who unleashes evil onto the world meets ring-hating breakup-obsessed fortune teller.

Yeah, uh, what really ruined the episode for me is how dumb both of the mermaid protagonists were. You’ve got Marin – one of those naive-to-death goody-goody people that believes everyone has a beautiful heart (omg!) who spends the entirety of the show looking for a pretty, pretty ring and/or its owner. The other, Urin, who I sympathized with until she decided to listen to a weird voice in her head and opened an incredibly ominous trunk and probably unleashed hell on earth. Dear merciful heavens. And the other main character – Kanon – did nothing but moan about being dumped and throw her ring (twice!) which basically started this whole mess anyway! Dammit, it’s only the first episode and right off the bat, I already hate the main characters!
Animation-wise, nothing so glaringly bad, but there was a scene where they tried to throw in an SD arm (which I assumed to be monkey scribbles before I realized it was SD) into a non-SD scene. Music was ambient-y, soft stuff. Nothing to write home about.
Despite featuring mermaid girls clad in bikinis the entire episode, there wasn’t anything too fanservice-y about it, though every time Marin was looking for The One Ring, she did so in the bushes while she waved her ass in the air. And everyone always just stared at it.
I guess, of course, it would be unfair to completely write this show off on the first episode, so I’ll give it another one, two goes before it’s headed straight to the dumpster. The actual plot’s juuuust about to get started so I hope it won’t be more of the same crap!