Gunjou no Magmell

I hate it. I hate it when anime with potential disappoints me. It’s different when anime I know is bad turn out the way they do. When it comes to promising anime that turns sour is what really irks me. I don’t mean that the anime has a bad ending or something, I mean that there is no ending because the story goes nowhere. Why oh why did Gunjou No Magmel have to be that anime.

Gunjou No Magmel starts out with some potential. You have this huge island appear out of nowhere. Endless adventures and discoveries can be had. The characters are eager to ... explore their surroundings as are the viewers. They throw in tidbits of an overarching story that has remnants of Hunter x Hunter or One Piece. Everything was being set up nicely. The first few episodes do a good job at establishing the world with some self contained one off episodes giving this feeling of anticipation that they are going to launch into something big soon. Halfway through the series and they continue to only show self contained one off episodes. Now I’m starting to get a bit worried. Usually by now a story should be established. Despite this red flag I decide to keep going. A few more episodes pass and now I’m starting to get bored. I now have made the stark realization that there is no story and there never will be. I spoke to fast however as Gunjou No Magmel finally got around to having a story by episode 11. Keep in mind this is a 13 episode series. I cannot stand it when an anime with the potential for a good story decides to abandon it outright in favor of filler episodes and then decides to attempt a half ass story at the very end of the series. Now I don’t have a problem with filler episodes. I understand they are integral to long running series. What I do have a problem with is short one cour series where 90% of the show is filler. That is a problem and unfortunately the show has more.

The characters with the exception of one are completely unlikeable. The main character and his loli partner show potential early on but then show their true colors a few episodes in by harassing an innocent store clerk for shits and giggles. Other than those two you have the store clerk who I initially felt sorry for till I found out he was a creepy old pervert. The rest of the cast appear only once or twice for the filler episodes so they aren’t worth digging into. For all the bad characters though there was one good one. A girl who had a positive attitude and was pleasant to look at. Ironically the best episodes were the ones with her in it.

Nothing really special in terms of music nor is the art and animation. It’s decent I suppose. Doesn’t stand out in a good way or bad way.

Gunjou no Magmel will be remembered as the story that went nowhere. An anime with the potential to be interesting and engaging is ignored in favor of bogging down all the airtime with endless filler. Thanks for wasting my time.

Black hair.
German attire from circa 1935
“Niggard.” — Inyou

I did nazi that coming.

Ever since the days of Lewis and Clark traveling towards the Pacific ocean to partake in as much Native pungtang as they could handle, exploration has been a human fascination. Anime being no exception. Shows like Hunter x Hunter, Made in Abyss, and The Twelve Kingdoms demonstrate the appeal of an adventure in uncharted territories. The latest iteration of this theme, Gunjou no Magmel (Magmel of the Sea Blue), treads a similar path to its forerunners, albeit in a less ambitious, banal fashion. But why does Gunjou no Magmel underachieve?

Each ... episode begins with a new character seeking the aid of an “angler” — a search and rescue specialist in Magmel. Inyou, an aforementioned “angler,” possess a wealth of knowledge concerning the cryptic continent, and impressive magical abilities to boot. However, as opposed to traversing the expansive landscape it conceived for itself, significant portions of Gunjou no Magmel are dedicated toward emotional anguish. This is expected of an environment with immensely powerful creatures. But with the allocation of one episode per individual, the ‘poignant’ stories never blossom as intended. Simply put, the rapid pace hinders the emotional impact it attempted to deliver.

Furthermore, the juxtaposition between the high octane action and methodical somberness did not meld well. Full Metal Alchemist pulled off this tenuous dynamic, but had the benefit of 51 episodes to coax the optimal engagement from the viewer. Unfortunately for Gunjou no Magmel, with only thirteen episodes to work with, the characters fly by without impacting the viewer. As for the two recurring characters, Inyou and Zero, they are archetypal ‘stand-ins’ that yield nothing of consequence. Inyou is an invincible anti-hero who acts supremely confident and spouts useless platitudes to feign intelligence. And Zero is a girl who feels inadequate because her bust is….well, inadequate. Also, they both enjoy pudding. Yet when food preferences serve as characterization, then the writing staff needs to reconsider their priorities.

The action sequences are devoid of tension, along with energy. The Godzilla-like monster in episode two moved at a snail’s pace. Sure, he tossed boulders like baseballs. But the climatic battle did not live up to the expectations. As was the case with the other battles, thus far. Zapping the only potential Gujou no Magmel had at delighting the viewer.

Gunjou no Magmel is without a doubt one of the most underrated animes this season. I feel like not enough people are talking about it, and that leads me to writing this review.
After reading the synopsis and looking at the front cover art for this anime, led me to having some quite low expectations, but boy I was wrong. After watching the first episode, my impressions for this anime changed immediatley and to be fair, it reminded me a lot of "Made in Abyss" (my favorite anime of all times) except this time with an OP MC.
The story for this anime is pretty solid ... (even though it may get repetitive). I personally am a huge fan of mysterious worlds filled with potential to explore, and I believe that this is the main feature that got me hooked on this anime in the first place. I also enjoy the "dark" aspect of this show, which just adds an extra enjoyment level to the show.
The art and sound is also pretty good. I really enjoyed the opening art style and I loved the ending song even more. Sadly, I don't believe the OST is as "remarkable" or "good" as all the other animes out there, but that is one of the only negatives that I could spot in this anime.
The characters in Gunjou no Magmel are also all quite unique and filled with mysteries of their own, and this is something I'm really eager to uncover.
Overall, I'm giving this anime a solid 7/10 <3

Edit:
It went to shit 0/10. Absolute garbage.

First of all: this anime isn't for everyone. What I mean is, this anime has a very unique way of presenting their plot that a lot of people may not like. It doesn't seem to have any actual plot line, and has a lot less action than one would think. In a sense, it's a lot like Gintama or SKET dance, where the story focuses on the MC and helping different people with their problem every episode. But what makes Magmel of the Blue stand out is that it is NOT a comedy: it is a action drama that looks at various moral and ethical ... problems rather than the 'go defeat this monster for me' norm.

Story 7: While this may prove to change in the later episodes, there are currently no specific plot lines. It jumps from one character to another and focuses on a specific aspect of their problem. IMO, Magmel of the Blue does it pretty successfully, albeit with a few problems.

Art 9: The opening sequence was beautifully executed, and the art really brings out the fantastical element of the new continent. Sometimes you might forget that the MC still lives in a basically modern-day city.

Sound 9: The OST brings out the right feels, nothing much else to say.

Character 6: Probably the biggest problem with the anime. Every character seems to be generic stereotypes of themselves. Hell, the monsters have more diverse personalities than the characters.

Enjoyment 8: Being a die-hard Gintama fan, it's hard for me not to enjoy it.

Overall 8: While not the best anime of the season, it's still a good show that's worth giving a shot.

This anime is really bad wherein the trailer and cover will give you a shonen, action or worth story but its not. Theres no plotline and each episode seems a story of its own. The first episode will give a misleading overall story. The character development is really dreadful and theres really no progression. By that i mean you can't really relate to the characters.
There are scene where the a lot of thing left unexplained or maybe it just me. The anime seems trying to establish a plot by having some flashbacks of the MCs life but it doesn't really contribute or help to ... what the anime is trying.
The art is good like what all anime this season. Oh, the music also give a misleading vibe like a serious tone but the scene itself is not really like that.
Overall, don't watch the anime. The art might strike as interesting anime but the story is in all time low. You can't really understand what is MCs purpose, what his goal or it doesn't give a vibe that at the end something worthwhile will happen to him. Watch at your own discretion.

When I first began this anime, it had piqued my interest from the start just by how much potential it was given by the fascinating setting. A new continent "Magmel" had been discovered, which was full of all kind of varieties of beasts, to dangerous plants and who knows what else could be there. But in fact, the mystic part of it would make it exciting and make you curious about exploring the island and figure out new things as you move on. Of course, also all sorts of people wanted to explore this new continent to gain fame, discover new things that could possibly ... make them insanely rich. Here comes the "Angler" whose job is to save those who are stupid enough to get into all kinds of trouble over there. They also possess a really cool power which can pretty much materialize anything. Form simple blocks to something more sophisticated like big mechanic hands, even machinery was an option. It was kind of implied the possibilities where endless. Sadly we never explored it, and it was there from the start with no genuine explanation given.

As you might've noticed by my subtle hints, these possible ideas that could make the anime much more appealing and engaging were just dumped in the trash can and lost all its a mystic vibe in the process. Not to mention, even the character that could offer some form of entertainment. Were used once in their own respective one episode long mini-arc, given some kind of half-assed characterization that didn't do much really. Even then they were an uninteresting and a boring bunch from the start. In the end, they didn't serve any real purpose and just became a means to an end and nothing more. On the other hand, you had Inyou and Zero, who were somewhat amusing but nothing that changed the sad predicament we already were in. The story, in a nutshell, was episodic "monster-of-the-week" format or you could also say it was "which dumb person to save next." In other words, some idiot ventured into Magmell ended up endangering himself or someone else and had to call "Anglers" to rescue them from there. Inyou was one of them, and along with his cute companion Zero, they were up to the task.

However, they also gave us an absurd amount of whacky and useless filler episodes. When we finally got a random villain out of nowhere, he ended up being just plain annoying and nothing special too. It was a depthless effort to try and wrap up the anime, and make the ending give some kind of sense of closure. Most likely also an implication that time wasted up to this point was worth it. But I can assure that's not the case, it ended up being a complete waste of time. The foundation for some nice story-telling was ruined quickly in a matter of three episodes. The first few episodes were somewhat in the clear but were barely hanging on to cliff toward absolute ruin. Art and animation were also average and nothing special in general either. Though, If you want something similar than watch "7seeds" instead, that one was at least entertaining from start to end and had a lot of varieties of characters. Even if the execution and direction for both was undoubtedly a failure. However, stay completely clear from "Gunjou no Magmel," which indeed was a waste of precious hours of my time and thus you can just skip over it altogether.

It's amazing how to pretentious first chapter can be turned into an anime if not bad but neither good in my biggest disappointment of the season. In its first chapter we intend to be animated with a childish touch but with a dark background, good animation, interesting characters with pasts, heartbreaking that would make you think that the real monsters are the same humans, accompanied by a feeling of exploration in a final world full of mysteries and the final result is a childhood anime with humor to rather ungrateful opinion, a generic final that endured a much less tragic ending than the villain of ... the first chapter. While the anime has another good thing, it is the opaque by other points, not very good, what could be the rescue of the relationship of Zero with Inyo, but there is a lot to see that relationship progress. All the characters are quite forgettable and if that were not enough, the soundtrack was not much better. It came to the end with the hope that my opinion has changed and that it has been memorable but it was not like

As I said, my biggest disappointment of the season 4/10

I apologize if there is any error in the writing of this review.

This is just some gibberish review that i write since I'm mad about how it all ends.

For me anime ends on the episode 10 and does 10 episodes were so much fun, always new adventures and new dumb people to fight off.

Seems like the anime was written by like 4 people since it's style changes like every 2-4 episodes, don't know what happend here but still enjoyed it.

The character itself is a charismatic guy that struggles with money and works as a proffesional rescuer from a new continent that was created, by higher powers. The continent itself has a lot of potential you can ... find some intresting creatures there. Wish anime focused more on creating new spicies and plants in a way that involves more people. Seems like writer lost his ideas around episodes 6, but still next 4 episodes were decent enought. The last 3 are really not worth your time unless you want to finish the series and be disapointed like i was.

!A LITTLE SPOILER ALLERT!
Episodes 11-13 are a joke, out of the blue comes out a big bad wolf and tries to scare our little lambs. From comedy to drama in just 3 episodes, the anime shouldn't have taken this path.

I first started watching this show because of the first scene having a character that looks like killua and i thought he was the main character , and that its gonna be HxH rip off, i mean the plot kind of reminds you of HxH but with a more "moral" MC, the first episode started very well , there is suspence , mystery a twist everything was great , i felt like this is gonna be the best show ever , but then the 2nd episode came out and oh boy i was disppointed, too much exposition , like half the episode was exposition, the ... MC didn't do much and it was overall boring , but watching the 3rd and 4th episode i can say its an enjoyable show but not as Great as it could've been.
the MC Inyou is very handsome i gotta say , his personality is cliché but that's never a bad thing for me , though it does get little bit much everything he starts by refusing the mission then accepting or changing his mind, but overall he is great.
then there is Zero the cute little girl , and she is great , i really like her , she might be my favorite anime girl besides Mikasa and Yuki , she is cute , smart, nice , and overall enjoyable character to watch speak and react to things.
The show is enjoyable for sure , i hope it keeps the feel and stays away from the too much exposition , and i'm gonna enjoy it for what it is.
do i recemend it? yes sure , but i wouldn't if you don't like slow paced anime

Very enjoyable and I finished it in one day, the plots are great, unpredictable so i was really caught up in those dramas this anime got. This is one of some anime that has no bad episode in my opinion. But it might kinda boring if you focus too much on the explaining, instead of that just look how the action turn out, it will be a 10/10. And more, the story and plot is kinda unique to me, yeah it actually got a "enough" smart and strong main but not too much overpower, they still have weaknesses and arent perfect, and specially the way ... they met, the way they relax and enjoy being together melt my heart.
I laugh a lot while watching it, you can watch this anime with your family too, the content is quite meaningful, especially in the last episodes(every episode had some violent scenes so remember that before watching!)

If my review got some mistakes about grammar please forgive me

Good, clean, fun anime. There's not much of an overall plot, so it's very episodic, and the quality of the writing varies strongly between each episode--nothing so far has even come close to the brilliance of episode one. Episode 1 sets the show up to be a serious drama but it's honestly more of a monster-of-the-week comedy, a lot like Western action cartoons. It has a neat art style but the animation is super limited. The tone varies between comedic and serious depending on the episode. The characters are pretty one note but still fun. I'm still probably going to watch it every week just ... to see the ridiculous writing style and interesting world. The OP is so good alone that it bumps the 6 to a 7.

My first impressions of the show were very hopeful. After the first episode, I had the thought that the show would be a grand story about a humble/reserved overpowered hero who fights his way through a dangerous environment...boy was I wrong. Every episode is something new, and not the good new. All the stories feel very rushed and there are no explanation for many things. Besides the main hero and his mysterious master, all the other characters backgrounds are just uncomparable. I hope in upcoming seasons(if there are any), the writers will focus more towards a longer story for the main character instead of having ... a different story with different, unlikable characters every episode.

Why? How? How did this even make it past the publishers?

This show's baselines is based on some very popular and old shounen anime/mangas out there with barely a plot on its own; Toriko, One Piece and HxH influences can be seen from the start, intro gives the vibe of both already away, first filler character is a Killua wanna be then later on even an obvious Toriko reference can be seen as a filler character.

Both female and male MC's lore aside, it's more focused on the discovery of the dark nature of humanity that they get to see during their work time WHILE it's ... also sort of squeeze the relevance of our MCs and MCs back stories in. It's trying to get the audience's blood pumping on the premise of adventure and fantasy with adding a poor attempt at seasoning the show with the dark twists. You can hardly get motivated to feel for the main characters, not to mention side characters, due to the confusing attempt of a build up.
It was a 5-6 of a score until it tried to be humorous as well. The MCs suddenly turn into cancerous "It's just a prank, bruh" characters who're tormenting an average hard working man until he resorts to restore some of the damages that the MCs have done to his life but they sort of kept stalking and bullying him for days after days straight for their own conveniences.

TL; DR: It's trying to hard to be too many things it cannot be since all the details have not been worked out properly. Mainly also has no plot because there's nothing happening that gets you pumped for next episode and MC is as pumped about life as your average salary man.

Art and design is mediocre at best, the mentor reminds me of tegami bachi & HxH (radiating the I'm a calm and collected mentor aura), male MC reminds me of the MC from a tennis anime whose catch phrase is "mada mada dane" , there are already so many official references being made based on story, there's really hardly anything original that stands out about their design, and I'm looking hard here to find anything, okay? That goes as well as for the characteristics, it fully radiates the all to very much "I've seen this somewhere" vibe.

Down the line, all of these points together make the show hardly enjoyable and overall since it doesn't make any sense of what it's trying to do here either. The oblivious scenes of trying to gain empathy from the viewers makes me eye roll instead, the fighting scenes are plain paired up with the equally "I've heard this somewhere before" vibe of BGM.

I couldn't watch on anymore after sitting through half of it, but skimped through till the end and the show kept it's consistency of just being purely poorly made. If you would want to give it a go, I'd recommend to watch it with the minimum of expectations one can hold for a show.
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No srsly, how did this make it past the publishers?
And considering it made it's way to animation studios and gets produced by Shueisha it's a big why & how.

First of all let me start by telling that I am the kind of guy that enjoys a good story so the story weighs heavy in my overall enjoyment of the show. I like to see a thread connecting each episodes due to a plot unfolding or a secret being uncovered to deliver the viewer one hell of a good time.

Gunjou no Magmel honestly had me hyped. A story about pretty much an alien island filled with unknown goods variating from species to fruits with certain extra's. With that we get presented one hell of an amazing looking and acting main character and his ... side-kick, a strange but interesting girl that usually guides our mc around with her robot.

Our mc has made quite the reputation and great high status for him in a positive way. This is mainly due to his teacher though. This leaves space for great back story content.

Since the island is so dangerous a lot of people ask the mc help for his services which comes at a price. His adventures on the island is extremely interesting due to the mc having loads of knowledge about the island and the inhabitants. There are so many mysteries surrounding the island and the mc especially the connection between the two! Or three if you count his side kick. She is extremely talented, knowledgeable and fun!

BUT... this show isn't about all that. Most shows usually start by getting the audience familiar with the daily routine of the mc and potentially his friends/others involved to the plot. Here it is the mc doing his daily things (won't spoil it for you). So 2-3 episodes pass and this is where shows will show you that something is happening that forces the mc to not live his daily routine any longer! This is all based on a basic story structure that has proven to be successful, interesting and fairly enjoyable for both the writer and reader/viewer. This is called "Hero's journey". Feel free to google it to find a great summary about it to understand it.

So after the mc is introduced to something that isn't his daily routine the plot will begin and the story starts to unfold. This combined with a mysterious island, people with ridiculous abilities and a mc with quite a hefty reputation.. sounds like the ingredients for a quality show right?

The show however doesn't get past the point of daily routine. This show is only about his daily routine. There is no plot. There is no story. It is just a character with certain powers, a sidekick and a mysterious island doing daily things. Nothing more than that. The mc doesn't have a goal and won't get one. Each few episodes consists of small missions that are unique to each other. The only connection is the mc and his sidekick and the island. But we will never learn anything useful about these 3. We learn more about the people involved in his daily routine.

Since I love stories I can't enjoy this show since there is none. Even if it was a show with an unique story (or more) per episode I would rate it a lot higher. I am confident that not many people share my thoughts and opinion so I do suggest to watch the first 3 episodes. What you see is everything you will get. It won't get better, it might get worse depending on the "mission". If you enjoy it then you should watch it.

I find it extremely difficult to describe that this show has no story, but just boring daily routines from someone. But I hope I got my point across. This is because the summary is extremely misleading. There is no actual exploration at unknown grounds (from character perspective). The continent already exists for quite some time and plenty of people in this show know it, so it isn't brand new.

The synopsis tricked me into being hyped for nothing. Hope it won't do the same for you. If you enjoy these type of shows, you might be able to rate it more fair than I can, have a blast.

Do note that only the story is non existent. The art is stunning! Animations are great as well. Sound effects are fitting and good. Characters are extremely interesting, but there is no development, meaning you will learn pretty much nothing of value, making them mediocre at best. This combined with no story gives me a hard time in enjoying this show. If those 2 don't matter to you then the show might easily hit a 7-8 for overall enjoyment. For example if art and sound were bad, but there was a great story + character development present I would rate it 7+ as overall enjoyment. That is because I don't care as much for animation + sounds as story and character development.

The story premise of discovering and exploring a new part of the world is very interesting and has been used before in anime like Hunter x Hunter or Made in Abyss. But unlike those anime Gunjou no Magmel doesnt succeed in making the story and characters flow together or even make it seem interesting. The first episode gives you a false view of the anime because it starts the set up for a coherent story line and it starts of amazingly good. But then every other episode is almost the exact same! Every episode starts off with the introduction of a new character, then our ... main character Inyou goes off to save them. The anime barely uses the environment, which seems very interesting, but it is almost never used and explored.

The anime also lays heavy emphasis on the emotional part and uses a lot of flashbacks. There is barely any action and when there is a part that has action it cuts off very suddenly and gives you no satisfaction.

The characterzations of our main characters Inyou and Zero are also very poorly done. Once in a while there is a small flashback that gives us some information about them but even 8 episodes later we still know nothing about their motivations, dreams, likes, dislikes and their past. The only characterzation that is used almost every episode is what food they like or dislike or that theyre broke. The abilities that they have are also never explained as to what exactly it is or why they have them.

The animation and music are the only good things in this anime. The animation is pretty good and fits the aesthetic of the anime and story. It also flows really good when there is an action part but on some of the characters the animation just doesnt fit. The music is also pretty good overall, but with some moments it almost seems as if music parts were switched around and where it should be more peacefull or suspensfull music there are action filled beats and visa versa. The opening sequence of the anime is also amazingly good. The animation that spins around, the neon highlights and the music choice all fit together.

All in all I would only recommend to listen to the opening because the rest really isnt worth your time.

I wanted to like this show, but I'm having a very hard time enjoying it.

When I first saw the cover and read the synopsis, I was excited, because this gave me a Hunter x Hunter vibe. I expected a continuous story, but each episode feels like a filler in One Piece or Naruto, where they try to make the filler look engaging and not just pun overload, but at this point I'm honestly losing interest in the show and might even drop it.

That is my only issue with it - lack of consistent and continuous story.

To summarize Gunjou no Magmel with a few words, it ... would be something like this "The anime that is a filler in its entirety".

The story of this anime is just dreadful. Man, I can't see how you could have started off a kind of interesting plot into something so boring. And worst of all, it's pretty episodic, which makes it worse. I have absolutely no interest in the main character or his side kick, and nor do I care to learn about his edgy past in store.
The individual episodes don't really make for anything engaging, and story is nowhere to be seen.
Instead of one long story arc, this anime loves to have individual small arcs that are all equally bad so as to play it safe and ... make it so that there is no creative input available.
Everything is poorly written and the plot is nonexistent. You'd wish that there was a semblance of pacing, but things are quickly rushed through to go through the motions rather than trying to have any meaningful story.
And the OST...the OST. What was this abomination of a soundtrack? Literally every episode and half of all the soundtracks have an er hu (Chinese instrument). Why is a Chinese instrument the soundtrack of choice, and why are you slapping it on every scene regardless of context? It's excessively so on the "edgy" scenes, but it doesn't even fit those either. Just why? I really don't care for sound tracks unless they are amazing or just terrible, and I'm proud to say that this anime has by far the worst soundtrack I have ever watched in my 13 years of watching anime.
Like I said before, I have no investment in the main characters since there is minimal interaction or development among them. Rather, they serve as a backdrop to the new character appearing in the episode.
An overall mess to something that could have been pretty good with the synopsis and setting. How unfortunate.

Usually I don’t write reviews but I had to after what I discovered This Anime in episode 9 copied 1 of the soundtrack from the testament of sister new devil anime I Swear I never seen any anime do that in my entire life.

Also more about this anime it doesn’t have a story or a path to follow it’s just like everywhere a new thing every episode which is kinda confusing and lame 😒
Overall I say it was a waste of time 5/10

Soundtrack was also all boring not that good

Characters were ok main character was over powered

Disguises itself as a Hunter x Hunter clone but in reality is a generic, forgettable mess. The gist of the plot is this: some new continent suddenly appeared and people want to explore it. Are we given any information as to why this happened? No, of course not. The characters are beyond bland and can be described completely by their character archetype. There’s over powered main character Inyo whose powers are never fully explained then there’s token loli Zero who, of course has a crush on the protagonist. There’s other characters but they aren’t developed enough to even qualify as real characters and none are ... particularly important to the overall story. If you can even call it that.

The show is episodic and most episodes aside from the last couple have little to no connection with the other so in all honesty you can watch the first and last episodes without having missed anything. I actually recommend you do that and save yourself some time.

Excited that this anime is based on a Chinese comic and hope for more collaborations in the future.

5 episodes in and the show seems to have a bit of potential. The mystery and potential adventure of the story seems to be building but the production values let this show down alot.

The story involves the aspect of exploring a forbidden land full of mystery in an era where everything has already been discovered which I personally find exciting as a fan of HxH and One Piece. While I patiently wait for the whale boat to reach the Dark Continent I thought I would fill the ... hole for adventure with this series. The main character seems interesting but has frequent dull moments, rarely reveals what they're thinking, its usually obvious but I hope for something a bit more complicated in which not everything is not obvious.

The individual episodes have all had somewhat interesting story lines but fail to show the scale of the entire setting as a whole.

The voice acting has been great along with the animation however the scenes can at times be full of weird empty silences, characters just doing nothing for 5 seconds absolutely frozen with no music. Things just feel very boring for something with this kind of potential. The main character can also come across quite dull, well most characters come across a little dull and I think that may be an issue with the direction rather than the original writing.

I'm guessing this series has been commissioned with maybe a little bit of prejudice towards the origins, I'd think if it was based on a Japanese IP it would have been giving a little better quality production values and better direction

I recommend people give this show a try and add the manhau to their reading lists as I have in order to gauge the actual quality of the series it self.

The most I can hope for is that if this anime continues past a 1st season is it is given to a studio willing to put effort into the writing and direction in order to make sure this show meets its potential.