This morning we discovered a new sci-fi anime series called Make My Day coming to Netflix next month which had slipped beneath our radar. How did we miss it?

It seems like Netflix revealed it during their Geeked Week event in 2021 - before our blog's time - and then quietly published the trailer to the Netflix site, skipping YouTube and social media.

On a cold planet of ice and snow, mysterious creatures suddenly have appeared from the dark underground and have begun to attack the inhabitants. Can humanity survive the terror lurking beyond the horizon?

We've spoken before about how lack of promotion is often an indicator of a poor title.

A mere two seconds and eight words into this trailer has us properly wincing.

If you have any hope of staying alive it is imperative you listen to me carefully.

Recycled dialog is something we complain about frequently because of its frequent appearance in entertainment.

Always tiresome, it's worse when either misapplied or as we hear here, copied incorrectly with the result being nonsensical.

It should be:

If you want to have any hope of staying alive it is imperative you listen to me carefully.

Netflix's marketing team are masters of making great trailers for what turn out to be average or sometimes even terrible titles, like The Witcher: Blood Origin.

This trailer is terrifyingly bad from the outset because either the source material, i.e. the series, is so bad that it's impossible to cobble together a good trailer, or they just didn't bother trying for that same reason.

Blah blah blah. More heavily recycled dialog and scenes which create an overall impression of a generic and half-arsed mish mash of other sci-fi properies.

Even the title sounds like a shameless and cringey ripoff of the Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) line:

Go ahead, make my day.

Netflix's JUNG_E releasing today and My Dad the Bounty Hunter releasing February 9 look out of this world amazing.

A stellar start to Netflix's sci-fy year.

This one looks like it should be filed under terrible-things-to-watch-and-trash-for-giggles-with-bitchy-friends.

Fabulously drunk.

Maybe it's really not that bad but is definitely not giving off a vibe of being in the same league as those other two titles.

Make My Day releases on Netflix on February 2.

[ Main Image: Make My Day trailer. Credit: Netflix. ]

References

Moore, Casey (January 6, 2023). Netflix Anime Series ‘Make My Day’: Everything You Need to Know. What's on Netflix.

Netflix. Make My Day. (viewed January 20, 2023)