Glass Fleet, Volume Three

If you must catch up with Glass Fleet (and I’m warning you to turn back now!) check out my reviews for Glass Fleet, Volumes One and Two!

As if jury duty wasn’t onerous enough, the Powers That Be must have sensed I had evil lurking in my heart: Yes, I did steal that last piece of pizza! Mwahahahhahah! Do your worst!

Gaah! I spoke too soon! It’s Glass Fleet, Volume 3!! I didn’t mean “Do your worst,” literally! Noooooo!!

In volume three of this craptacular downward-spiral of a series, Vetti proves he really is a mother-humper, golden showers rain down on Cleo, and Michel proves “he” has what it takes it make Vetti go gaga over “him”.

plot summary

The People’s Army takes the fight for freedom straight to Vetti and his armada. With the help of the Baroness, Bebe, Michel and his army decimate the opposing fleet.

Cleo lends a hand with his powerful glass ship, but he has an ulterior motive for helping Michel; a fight to the death with Vetti. In a last minute twist, everything Michel had worked for his torn from his grasp. Now he must fight a wholly different battle, as does Cleo.

Will the two survive their upcoming trials to triumph over tyranny?

review

If I could scrub my eyes right now I would. If I had the capability of popping these traumatized orbs outta my skull and sticking them in bleach to wash away the taint of this Volume, I’d do it in a heartbeat. This stunk so bad, it has an actual aroma of failure. But enough about what I felt.

Character Development

We’re given much more insight into Vetti, this volume ’round. The tyrant had a wretched childhood, and it shaped him into the bastard he is today. We’re shown in flashbacks how Vetti was abused and in turn became an abuser. The scene was sick, but didn’t feel attached to the anime. Since nothing is consistent in the series, I’m not surprised that the scene was thrown in for shock value. The ploy of demonizing Vetti’s foster father seemed stuck onto the episode. Then again, everything about Glass Fleet feels like someone took a bucket of random garbage and tossed it on the screen.

Rachel turned out be someone I shouldn’t have put my money on. The way she folded and became weak was disappointing in a sea of disappointments. She was the only character I showed any interest in as she always managed to insult Vetti in clever, subtle ways. Damn, now what am I going to look forward to in Volume Four?

The sick shotacon-ness between Vetti and Ralph was thankfully played down, but nonetheless there.

Cleo is about as interesting as a cinder block, and just as smart. I don’t care about any of these characters and wish, fervently and often that the Glass Fleet universe gets sucked into a black hole. Now that I’d watch.

Unfortunately, the Glass Fleet universe has a “Black Hole Negate Button“, just like they have a “Vacuum On/Off Switch“. The laws of physics were voted down in this anime, during a filibuster of bad taste.

Character Design

Good. Lord. There are now no longer any bad character designs left in the world; Glass Fleet has officially used them all up. I couldn’t believe the character designs could get any worse, but whaddya know, they managed to up the crappiness!

I don’t know where to start critiquing the garish designs Gonzo churned out for Glass Fleet. I can’t fathom who or what inspired the studio to create such blatant ugliness, but I wouldn’t want to meet it in a dark alley, that’s for sure.

Animation

Amazingly, the animation is in a holding pattern of “bad”, whereas everything else has gotten worse, impossible though I thought that was.

Gonzo, Gonzo, what’re we gonna do with you after everyone’s seen this? How can anyone ever look you in the eye again? You’re like the hot co-worker who gets drunk at the company Christmas party and makes a complete ass of herself, and everyone has video of it-on YouTube.

I had predicted this series would keep going down, and it didn’t disappoint. Wow, the one thing Glass Fleet has lived up to so far is its own badness…

Rating

Glass Fleet, Volume Three gets 0 outta 4 Hammies!