Arcana Famiglia Review

Gratuitous Italian awaits.

In the Italianish town of Regalo, the Arcana Famiglia runs everything as a good natured mafia ring with each of it's members possessing a power aligned with the Arcana Tarot cards. Felicita daughter of leader Mondo has come of age and it's put to her that the other family members will fight for leadership as well as Felicita's hand in marriage, not willing to do so, Felicita decides to forge her own path to becoming head of the family, along the way, the more unique members of the family showcase their back stories and powers with much centered on Liberta and Nova as well as Jolly who passes for an antagonist in this.
Based on a video game and it shows, but it's baffling premise cannot disguise the fact that very little attention was made in making the characters good, the group of Pace, Luca and Debito stand out as the worst of the bunch as they really didn't need to exist as they have zero chemistry with Felicita, this isn't helped by a dub that feels really flat in delivery but needlessly hammy especially with Jolly, Dante and Mondo, and there is no excuses for making Nova sound like a fem boy. It's a bad mishmash of baffling story telling, a confusing power system and lame duck characters voiced poorly in the dub, led by a supposedly strong female character who looks as lost as the audience.
Final Verdict: I wish this was better as the premise made it sound much more palatable than what we actually got, leaving this dish cold and disappointing

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