I had come in expecting to see a show about hunting dangerous ghosts, and that part of LOCKWOOD & CO delivers. What I hadn’t been expecting was how ruthless its world was. If you’re thirteen* and can detect ghosts, welp, here’s your iron sword and firebombs. Try not to die, get put into a permanent fugue state, or fall into substance abuse.
Don’t get me wrong, the first episode was very good, and I’ll be chewing through the rest of the show this week. But this show is going to obviously be about supernatural child soldiers, and I’m morally certain I’m going to see one of the cast in full-bore PTSD within the next few episodes. You Have Been Warned.
Moe Lane
*Theoretically, LOCKWOOD & CO would be a show about teenagers, except there weren’t any in the first episode. There were a bunch of people between the ages of thirteen and maybe eighteen who had been in multiple combat scenarios over the course of several years, but that’s not quite the same thing.
“Adolescence” was always a luxury of stable society, and far from historical norms.
Such a world must still be built on “Do or do not. There is no ‘try’. “
In other words, it’s a lot like some of the grimmer animes I’ve seen. As long as it doesn’t end up the way EVA did I’ll probably be relatively happy. ^_^
Hmm that sounds promising. The tween-oriented shows of this type are of mixed quality, but the threat to younglings seems more palpable to me.