After a bad episode, one would expect Love Of Kill Episode 8 to try and do something good. Instead, we got something on the opposite end of that spectrum. Let’s find out what happened in this review!
Love Of Kill Episode 8 Overview
Love Of Kill, or Koroshi Ai as it is known in original Japanese, is an action and romance anime that’s airing as part of the Winter Anime 2022 season. It is an adaptation of a Manga of the same name written by author Fe and is being adapted for the medium by the studio Platinum Vision. Platinum Vision has made several action and romance anime in its past, including Servamp and Devil’s Line.
The anime is being directed by Hideaki Ooba, a veteran of the industry who has been involved with the productions of D.Gray Man and Hunter X Hunter Greed Island. This episode of the show is also referred to as Koroshi Ai Episode 8. You can read our review of the previous episode in the series here.
– Koroshi Ai Episode 8 Review does not contain spoilers –
Love Of Kill Episode 8 Review- A Cry For Help
First of all, let’s start with something that we haven’t been able to discuss because of the spoiler warning. It was awful of the show to tease the boss’s death in such a gruesome and effective manner and then reveal him to be alive the next episode. Not only is that horrible writing, but also completely braindead. Had the boss died there, the show would at least have some consequences, something that it hasn’t had since it began.
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He is not even a particularly important character to the story that just had to be kept alive in this manner. There were a thousand better ways to handle this situation, especially since pretending he was dead anyway wasn’t necessary. The show could have done without that red herring. If the situation had ended there, this act would have been okay after a while. However, that wasn’t to be. Not only did the show attempt the same thing in the latest episode, but it also did it even worse than the first time. If you didn’t think something that bad was even possible, you’re in for a surprise.
When the show wasn’t making its sins worse, it showcased the mastermind behind everything going on with Ryang-ha and Chateau currently. We don’t know much about them, but we did learn more about the henchmen they sent to take care of Chateau and Song. The show introduced too many new characters at once, and as a direct result, none of them stood out from each other. The villain from the previous episode was intriguing enough, but now he’s just a gear in a huge cog with no respite or character development on his horizon.
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Love Of Kill Episode 8 also featured more of the same flashbacks that we get weekly about Chateau and Song’s past, and it is getting old quickly. There is a limit to how many times one can watch the same accident, and the extra scenes they added here didn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know. We know that they’re both known each other for far longer than the show has shown, and while that part of this show isn’t uninteresting, here’s hoping it gets to the point soon.
Chateau wins her first fight in this episode, finally proving she isn’t as useless as Jim, the mouthless boy. This was an off-putting episode by many metrics, but the worse of them all might just be the show’s faux attempts to portray stakes and danger while everyone and their mothers know that nobody is going to die here. This is supposed to be for an older audience. Do the showrunners think adults can’t take death? Shonen anime like Demon Slayer are braver than Seinen anime in this case.
Verdict
Love Of Kill Episode 8 was just as much a useless waste of time as the show’s previous outing. It feels like the show has already driven off a cliff, and all we can do is stand and watch as it meets its inevitable doom.
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