[New][April 2017] World End: What do you Do at the End of the World? Are you busy? Will you Save Us?

Last seen: Episode 3

Summary: Quoted from My Anime List:
Five hundred years have passed since the humans went extinct at the hands of the fearsome and mysterious 'Beasts.' The surviving races now make their homes up on floating islands in the sky, out of reach of all but the most mobile of Beasts.

Only a small group of young girls, the Leprechauns, can wield the ancient weapons needed to fend off invasions from these creatures. Into the girls' unstable and fleeting lives, where a call to certain death could come at any moment, enters an unlikely character: a young man who lost everything in his final battle five hundred years ago, the last living human awakened from a long, icy slumber.

First Impression: Deep Story impaired by cheap humor. Also, seriously, that IS the name of the show. I hear Light Novels are generally responsible for these kinds of ridiculously long names? I mean, even in Japanese its that god damn long, just look at the Romanji Tag of it at the bottom of the post. It's ridiculous.

My Opinion: Could do without the vaguely erotic or 'ecchi' humor. It has shown plenty of aptitude for more conventional humor, the ecchi jokes just feel tacked on. Maybe that's just me though? I've never much cared for them, so I highly doubt I have any say in whether they're quality or not. I can vaguely think of maybe two times in my life that I actually approved of that kind of joke in an anime, one of which being a scene from the second season of Utawarerumono.

ASIDE FROM THAT. Great show. Very moving concepts on display, and some quality characters so far. Things don't always move in predictable ways, at least as far as tropes go. You could still quite easily see some things coming, but only if you think outside the Archetype's box. I don't really feel like recommending this one yet, despite being decently invested in it. Perhaps by the end I might, but not yet. I still have some vague misgivings that I can't quite put my finger on. Mostly having to do with the risk that the show's not taking itself seriously enough like it should. I have seen a Lot of shows in recent memory bomb that should have soared because they lacked confidence, and going for the cheap harem/ecchi humor has been a hallmark of it so far.
Grant, they haven't gone towards the Harem route yet, but it's fucking looming all around on the horizon, so at this point I'm just kind of bracing for impact.

HENCEFORTH, I shall refer to this show as 'World End: Are you busy?' Because apparently there's a bunch of shows featuring 'world end' in the title. Meh.