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Worst of 2016: Mayoiga: The Lost Village

By Dustin Cabeal

Where to start with this piece of shit. Mayoiga gets my award for the absolute worst anime I’ve seen all year. Too many characters, a story that took twelve episodes to set up and explain only to leave you with the worst cliffhanger ever. I couldn’t fake interest in this show if they managed a second season that is.

Oh, the characters… they all went by their chatroom handles. Chai Latte. That’s what one person was called… fuck me that’s dumb. No one’s motivation made sense; the village seemed like a not scary version of Silent Hill, and no one died. My god, I wanted someone to die and no one would. Even when they showed someone floating in a river, seven episodes later they were alive and well. I failed to understand what this pseudo-horror was going for other than to have a convoluted story with a gross amount of characters fumbling through a premise that might have been interesting.