Overman King Gainer

Non-stop nonsense

It looked pretty cool from a few clips i had seen from it, so i decided to sit down and watch it. But I couldn't even get past the third episode before i almost had a headache from confusion. First of all, the pacing is just ABSURD, it's a full 26 episode season, but things go so fast it's half a season worth of story in the first two episodes, and it just throws new names and concepts at you without explanation. What is a "bachclone" or "exodus" or "five wise men".

Characters don't act like characters. It feels like an alien wrote how the ... characters act, there's almost no consistency. You never grasp what the characters are supposed to be. Characters act illogical, like for example: the princess who seems absurdly delighted about being kidnapped, practically going from zero to stockholm syndrome in the first line of dialogue with the kidnappers. There's absolutely nothing set up to justify her acting like this, the scene of her we see before getting kidnapped, she seems more than happy with her life as a princess.

The art and animation is serviceable, nothing phenomenal, but it does the job.

The soundtrack is the only thing that really stands out above anything else, the OP "King Gainer Over" is very good.

It's really the kind of show that was in too much hurry to get to the robot fighting and sacrificed both story and characters to get there as fast as possible, ultimately wounding itself so bad it became unwatchable.