Dengeki Daisy's Emotionally Gripping Premiere Has Some Crazy Directorial Choices
There is a very interesting cinematic preview that the episode starts with, acting as a vague flash-forward about how the rest of the series is going to play out. However, the voiceover and style of this preview is kept intentionally vague to the point where I can see a variety of different directions that the series eventually goes in. However, I might've been able to focus on this preview a bit more if it wasn't scored to the actual song Time After Time. The whole thing felt so surreal. I thought I was watching an AMV from the mid-2000s, but it doesn't stop there. The show overall is very gorgeous and evenly paced. While the designs are pretty typical, there is this storybook style to the show from its use of color and how certain scenes are framed. The characters sometimes represent these amalgamations of shapes that blend, but not in a way that makes it hard to discern where they are or what they're feeling. A lot of this comes down to the fact that the characters don't really have any outlines outside of explicit close-ups, and despite the fact that the show itself isn't overly animated, as half of the episode arguably is composed of still shots, it never feels cheap or unintentional.
However, there are a couple of the aesthetic choices that weren't made so explicitly clear. For example, the show itself is in a very odd aspect ratio that is closer to 4:3 than it is to 16:9. I thought this was used as some kind of framing device that was going to be made clear by the end of the episode, but to the best of my knowledge, it never is made clear why the episode is boxed like this. I don't think this was an error with the way that the episode aired because the Crunchyroll staff never pointed this out at all, and the translation notes overlapped with the dead space that was left over. The only thing I can think of is that the framing of the screen might be used to replicate a flip phone screen, which is more of a vertical rectangle than an even box. Whenever Daisy texts Teru, the text messages are overlaid in the center of the screen, so perhaps that was the reason, and while that is a bit clever, it was no less distracting that the entire episode was like that. Still, this was a very emotionally gripping premiere, and while I'm a bit cautious about the directions that some characters go in since the main couple seems to be between a young adult male and a high school girl, I am very curious how Daisy as an entity will tie into these rather depressing themes.
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