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 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.
