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Apr 20, 2024
Isekai power-fantasy harem trash that knows what it is, doesn't take itself the least bit seriously and ends up being better off because of it.
The world is ridiculous, so are the characters, the animation is flat & lifeless, the character design is generic harem bimbo stuff, the characters themselves are 2 dimensional at best, the music is whatever, the plot is all over the place & predictable at the same time, and yet the experience as a whole was enjoyable, mainly because the protagonist is an asshole who does whatever he wants with no regard of what's right or virtuous, failing upward in the process.
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you're in a silly mood, you enjoy power-fantasies, but are tired of Anime pretending to be anything other than the complete and utter garbage they are (*cough* SAO *cough* Shield Hero *cough*), I'd recommend giving this a try, especially in the english dub, where the campy & over the top acting adds another layer of foolishness to the experience. A refreshingly un-serious take on a worn out genre.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Apr 20, 2024
Generic Isekai Harem anime with 1 dimensional characters and a revenge plot without the revenge.
Imagine being framed for the worst crime imaginable and having your reputation destroyed across the whole country while nobody believes you. Nobody wants to work with you and on top of that, you're restricted to only using a shield, but are nevertheless expected to fight off waves of monsters. This helpless, hopeless, rage inducing predicament is what got me hooked at first. An angry protagonist with nothing to lose and a setup for a great revenge narrative? F*ck yeah, let's go! But what I got was one-note characters, tired trope after
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tired trope, a major conflict driven by stupidity rather than any real interesting reason for conflict and a pathetic resolution to the whole revenge saga.
Harem: this is a harem anime, so how does it deliver? Barely. The girls/women have no personalities outside loving the protagonist, no depth, no traits that could make them interesting or fun to watch. Their designs and vocal performances are as generic as they come, you could close your eyes and think you were watching any of the other thousand assembly line harems out there. At least we're spared the flustered bumbling spineless male protagonist trope, since our guy is too angry to for that.
Revenge plot: The setup is there, the anger is there, but the show doesn't have the balls to follow through on this theme. In fact it has a naive child's sense of "justice" when it comes to dolling out retribution. At one point a character who tortures and kills people for fun is spared by his former victim because "killing him would make me no better than him", even though he's STILL DOING IT AND WILL DO IT AGAIN IN THE FUTURE IF YOU DON'T KILL HIM! Give me a f*cking break. Without spoiling too much of the ending, the villains responsible for framing our protagonist & making his life a living hell never get their comeuppance, they get what amounts to a slap on the wrist & get to roam around freely like nothing happened. F*ck off.
The only thing worthwhile is the animation and soundtrack, but in every other regard this show is a major letdown. Don't bother.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Nov 28, 2023
For an anime with a video-game themed title, very little of the show has anything to do with video-games. You won't be getting a fun exploration of how a relationship can blossom through an online game, you'll be getting all the tropes of the Shojo genre with little in the way of character depth or interesting twists, where the game occasionally serves as an excuse for our protagonists to interact.
After getting dumped, 20 year old college girl Akane meets 17 year old handsome, academically elite, pro-gamer, handsome, tall, aloof, handsome high school student, Yamada, who's very handsome. Much like that sentence, the show isn't shy
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about beating you over the head with Yamada's handsomeness; when he's in public everyone swoons over him, girls confess to him, guys high-five him, dogs do tricks for him, incase you ever forget how handsome he is, don't worry, the show will remind you.
But despite all this positive feedback, we're expected to believe he has no clue about his own attractiveness and even considers Akane out of his league?! Sure, buddy... It's almost as hard to buy as him maintaining what amounts to 3 full-time jobs (school, pro-gamer, MMORPG elite) while having enough time to tutor, hang out with his guild-members IRL and casually hang with a girl he barely knows. Even for a wish-fulfilment fantasy about the mysterious high-status man who can have anyone but chooses us, the self-insert protagonist, that's a stretch...
Akane is your typical Shojo girl: kind, earnest, understanding, tries hard, smiles in the face of hardship and is cute but not so cute that the average viewer can't project herself onto her. She's an active protagonist, yet much of the story relies on convenient coincidences, like the way they meet, or the frequency with which they happen to bump into each other in public.
Their chemistry is somewhat non-existent, owing in part to Yamada's lack of- and Akane's overabundance of personality. Most situations are just excuses for Yamada to witness Akane's, at times unnaturally forced, good-heartedness and they both spend way too much time in the "oh I don't know how I feel about them, or how they feel about me" phase, despite passing the line of mere friendship many times throughout the season.
If you're new to Shojo and don't mind suspending your disbelief for implausible premises, this show might be worth a watch; it's decent at some things, the animation is nice, the character design is kinda cute and the overall vibe is cozy. But if you've seen even a couple Shojo, you're not easily flattered by shallow pandering, or you have no patience for poorly written contrivances, skip it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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