(Your) Apple (2025)

Apple is the Thai GL equivalent of the anime One Punch Man

Any anime fan probably knows what I'm talking about with the headline and can stop reading because it's self explanatory.

For those who don't: One Punch Man Season 1 is one of the funniest anime ever made, with good animation and interesting, different storylines, while One Punch Man season 2 looks like lazy unmotivated hobby animators had 2 weeks to create a double digit number of episodes that focuse on this one storyline nobody really cares about and gets really boring and repetitive.

To put it in Apple's terms, season 1 is adequate/pretty good acting, a cute storyline, tv production like quality in sound and video, while in season 2 the acting somehow seems like they're just starting acting school, the story is all over the place and repeats itself over and over again (lack of communication, they fight, they don't talk to each other, they make up, rinse and repeat) and the audio and even sometimes videoquality is like it's filmed with a smartphone from 2016. A new high spec phone and 50 Dollar streamer mics would have done a much better job.

I understand it's a "web special", but that doesn't explain in the slightest why the quality of everything dropped as much as it did. Also, did they really need to put out 33 5 - 7 minute episodes? For me there was absolutely no way I could get into it because every episode was its own thing, with it's own intro of 1 minute, outro of 2 minutes and often a summary/review/replay of the ending of the last episode that lasted 1 to 2 minutes, just like it would've been with a 60 minute episode, only without the chance to "immerse" yourself into the story or the characters because there just wasn't any time for that before you had to skip the outro, intro and summary of the episode from yesterday again.

All in all pretty much a disaster if I'm really honest, especially when compared to season 1. A 5/10 is very generous and only because I liked the first season and I like Orm and Folk and they have pretty good chemistry together.

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