Glamorous Heroes

I'm not going to lie, my friends and I watched this at double speed and I missed most of it because I was hardly paying attention.

Story: 1/10

The story of this show kind of reminds me of a BOFURI event arc. The characters (who I don't remember the names of five minutes after watching), collect the "Seven Deadly Sins", which are keys that one enemy literally has six of. These McGuffins lead to a final fight with the MC fighting basically the shadow version of himself. I don't know. I don't like Zelda, so it really didn't do it for me.

Art: 5/10

The show looks like if ... Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds knew what SAO II was going to be about and tried to steal the idea. The pink-haired AI girls were kind of hot though, so I'll give it a pass.

Sound: 3/10

There were like three songs in the entire show, so I guess I'll give it a three on sound.

Characters: 2/10

The characters in this show range from knock-off Brooz from Interspecies Reviewers, not the main character from SAO Alternative playing a party healer who doesn't heal, a stormtrooper with titties, and the God of Video Game High School--who basically just cheats right in front of the devs like a sigma male Chad. Oh, and I guess there's Gojo's down B with Lubbock's imperial arm. The characters reminded me of a lot of other shows that I would rather be watching, but I guess that's better than nothing?

Enjoyment--the only category that matters: 9/10

Watching this with friends has made me realize that even with Ken Burns effects, keyframes that could be done by middle schoolers, and walk cycles that make characters look like the have prosthetic legs, a show can still be a good time. Definitely don't watch this show by yourself. Watch JJK or Code Geass or freaking Redo of Healer instead. But with the boys, this anime was a riot. 9/10, will be forced to watch again.

the poor pizza is getting cold.

watching this hidden masterpiece has reminded me that the world we live in is often unduly cruel to artists with a misunderstood vision. the author of this should be a professor of philosophy and friendship and earth will be better.

i have undoubtedly grown closer to friends through the enriching experience we had viewing glamorous warriors.

this admittedly has somewhat dated animation, although the transitions and fight scenes embark a charm that is lost in modern animated film.

the show stars some of the greatest protagonists in anime, making it a more ambitious crossover than end game or even smash bro; gojo from ... the sorcerer demons, gut from the angry guy, the piece from that one part, two sword tower beater, and many more. if you like any show there is something for you, and if you dont like shows then there is even more for you.

thank you, good night.

I honestly unironically like this anime. I don't get what the hate is all about. Like sure, I was expecting some sort of ironic humor, and that does deliver, but to me there's more unironic than ironic enjoyment. Definitely doesn't deserve to be one of the lowest-rated anime of all time, that's for sure.

I definitely understand some viewers being confused when they're plastered face-first into a battle at the beginning of the series, but honestly I think . But honestly, I think that was one of the best ways to introduce the series, and I believe it was executed very well and left enough room ... open for exposition later in the first and second episodes, which I enjoy quite a bit. Sure it's a simple story, but it doesn't need to be so involved with lore like most anime is nowadays. I think it also helps that this is a bite-sized anime at six minutes long. The characters are also fairly simple, except the main character who has a bit more backstory when we get so see the stage, and I think that's what needed to be done as well. I love the AI observers being like "what the heck, that isn't fair" and sort of breaking the meta at times.

Unfortunately, this anime isn't perfect. I was originally going to rate this an 8, but some of the animation inconsistencies led me to drop it down to a 7. Plus, there's some details about the device the main character wears over his eye that the main villains of the story don't want the public to know about, and I wish that loose end was tightened up a bit more. Chihiro, the pink-haired character, also sometimes gets unnecessary dialogue. And there are a couple weird moments of fanservice in the second half of the series that leaves me feeling a little disappointed. Still, I enjoy this series and have respect for the team that made this.

Now, I did say there was ironic enjoyment to this too. Here were some of my favorite ironic moments:
- The theme song where one of the layers of words just goes "ous Heros" (fr they misspelled heroes), and the final s is trying to catch up with the rest of the letters (I think the katakana for "Glamorous" is misspelled, too, it looks like "gurarorasu" to me.)
- Episode three when one of the characters just nonchalantly goes "bakaaaaaaaaaaa" after a whole building is chopped down
- PIZZA
- The MMD dancing
- That one moment where they're frozen in mid-air for a second and then drop off the screen without their bodies moving
- The occasional sub glitches
- The transformation from one sword to two swords
- When it plays into some its more wacky moments, like "What do you mean you have to be stronger than the strongest there is?"

So yeah, um, I like this, and I guess this is going to be the top entry on my "People didn't like it but I did" list. I implore you to watch it yourself, even if it's for ironic enjoyment. I really don't believe this show deserves to be hated. At worst, it's a decent show with some funny moments and small errors, definitely not worth trashing it though! It's something I definitely recommend. I love it, flaws and all.