Hametsu no Oukoku


The Kingdoms of Ruin

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Japanese: はめつのおうこく
English: The Kingdoms of Ruin
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 7, 2023 to Dec 23, 2023
Premiered: Fall 2023
Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:53 (JST)
Licensors: None found, add some
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, DramaDrama, FantasyFantasy, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Theme: GoreGore
Demographic: ShounenShounen
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.221 (scored by 7797577,975 users)
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Ranked: #86852
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Popularity: #1256
Members: 201,593
Favorites: 954

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Dec 22, 2023
FunnyFunny
I’ll be the first to admit I am an inconsistent writer. My life is a constant barrage of new tasks and distractions that keeps me from accomplishing, well, pretty much everything I set my mind to. Things get especially difficult to manage around the holiday season but here I am, back in the game, because over the past 13 or so weeks I’ve been subjected to one of the most indefensibly piss-poor, psychologically agitating pieces of “art” I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Hametsu no Whatever, Who Actually Gives a Shit About the Title of This Garbage is the rare kind of complete and ...
Oct 23, 2023
Preliminary (3/12 eps)
While I thought the anime would be decent, and maybe slightly interesting, considering there isn't many series related to witch extermination, especially with that much cruelty. (there're some manga with similar concept, but they're 18+ and completely whacked) The more we go into each episode, the worse the writing becomes.
I don't know if this was messed up by the mangaka himself, or the studio animating it and finalizing it as a product, but the actions of every single character, their emotions, their train of thought, and reactions are all terribly written, as if done by a teen who's bad at writing essays... At this point ...
Oct 20, 2023
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (3/12 eps)
This is some quality “so bad it’s good” content. It is so insanely edgy that it becomes impossible to take seriously. The (many) tragic scenes are so over the top that it’s hilarious. The show feels as if some kid was pulled from a Call of Duty voice chat on Xbox to write the story.

There are just about no likable characters here. The main character attacks civilians for extremely petty reasons. Our antagonistic force is the empire who’s running a genocide because… well they’re evil that’s why. This sounds like a certain megahit series featuring an evil protagonist seeking revenge on the world for genocide, ...
Dec 23, 2023
Mixed Feelings
First two episodes were like a strong 7/10, maybe even an 8. The hook is really there and you wanna see how this epic revenge story pans out. But unfortunately the overall quality and writing just falls off one cliff after another. Every. Passing. Episode.

The animation gets awful the last half of the season and they essentially just keep throwing dark themed plot twists and blood fiestas in your face for the sake of it, hoping it will be enough keep the viewers interested. Sadly it doesn't, at least not for me because if you keep trying to plot twist your way out of ...
Nov 11, 2023
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (6/12 eps)
I've never in my life seen someone manage to destroy their plot so well, so constantly and so fast as this anime did. Whatever made you like the 10 minutes of the first episode will be butchered, ruined and destroyed if you so much as stay awake while watching it. Nothing makes sense, nobody is enjoyable and they made me hate the beautiful setting that was the only reason i kept watching this in the first place.

The pacing is the equivalent of Sonic overdosing on cocaine, plot is the equivalent of shooting yourself in the balls and the characters are the equivalent of an orphan's ...
Nov 3, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (5/12 eps)
This one started out really strong. I was all in for a "kill them all" type anime. And it seemed like that's what we'd get. It was easy to get invested in the demise of the human race. They were horrible. The humans were jealous creatures that hated witches because they were not as powerful as them, so sought to destroy them. They hated magic. They used science to overcome the magic and the witches. However, within a few episodes, the humans attacks seemed more like magic than the actual witches. Their techniques would be hard to ...
Nov 22, 2023
Preliminary (7/12 eps)
This show is so bad it actually made me write a review for the first time. And the reason why I'm more annoyed with it, us because it had a somewhat interesting premise that lured me in.
But the whole plot was reduced to an edgy, boring anime with zero character development, zero world building, zero logic, over used plot armour for the main character, mindless killing and gore. No character is interesting enough for me to care about their deaths.

The main character comes off as just an edge Lord protected with ridiculous plot armour. The supporting girl is an annoying pure girl archetype, written ...
Dec 22, 2023
FunnyFunny
The Kingdoms of Ruin - Extreme hatred built on nonsense logic that perverses the idea of justice, but it being "so bad it's good" to play the bad guy and get some mind-numbing satisfaction due to it being over-the-top edgy? I highly question the "novel" concept.

When was the last time we had an extremely over-the-top gory and violent series filled with extreme hatred to the point of nepotism? For many, the classic series of Lynn Okamoto's Elfen Lied would come to mind, being the Summer 2004 anime that would, for one, grow to be infamous for its violent mess of gore, cruelty, and nudity. Even ...
Dec 22, 2023
FunnyFunny
While not without its flaws, Hametsu no Oukoku was one of my favourite shows of Fall 2023 and the year as a whole. A really good dark fantasy story with an interesting world. But, it’s not for everyone.

Many of you will have seen clips of the first episode of Hametsu on YouTube, IG or another social media platform and for good reason, it’s insane. It is one of the most infuriating and emotionally gripping premieres I’ve seen in a long time. The tragic ending sets up what promised to be one of the more entertaining revenge quests in recent anime. Does it live up to ...
Nov 26, 2023
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (8/12 eps)
Tell you what. Do not listen to the low rating reviews saying that this anime does not have likeable characters. If you like similar genre of animes like elfen lied, death note, fumetsu no anatae, you are going to love this one. It started off peak, and continues to proceed marvellously throughout the storyline. Every episode has a good storytelling that entails the reason of why the mc acted as he did. Some episodes also were heart-wrenching about the perspective of different characters in the war. All in all the story is good, the production value for music is high, the characters are likeable and ...
Nov 3, 2023
Preliminary (5/12 eps)
The story so damn mess, power creep not consistence, character motive so naive, in human side no one think about the logic behind killing the witch (Like come one, they help humanity and no single character think this is wrong to slaughter a witch or living creature).

Witch have magic, but I'm not see any of them use magic at all. Magic defense is basic, they should have that as passive which always activate but can be destroy depend on the attack and defense level. But no they can't even use defense magic.

Also they can't even cast attack magic, they cast magic that so long like ...
Dec 22, 2023
InformativeInformative
Im still confused as to why they did 12 episodes instead of doing a movie. I wasted my time on this anime. First episode was like damn! From the second to the tenth episode it just went donwhill, and when the climax arrives in the final two episodes I just wanted it to end.

We get animes like this because Chat GPT is out. The story did not make sense. A bunch of scenes put out together and call it an anime.

I have to comment about the art to make this review, but it makes me more angry that I have to write ...
Jan 1, 2024
FunnyFunny
Just don't listen to the comments of babies who can't see a bit of blood, it's because of these people that animes have become increasingly childish and sometimes even spoil masterpieces with childishness. In short, this anime is not a 10/10, but it has a well-developed plot, the characters have an interesting chemistry and you feel like continuing to watch and moving forward to see how the work unfolds. For those who like less cliché anime, it's a good choice and I would really like to see a second season. for me this anime easily get a 07/10 or more.
Apr 1, 2024
Well-writtenWell-written
Easily the worst anime I've sat through. This series is just flat out soulless in both its story and production.

Storywise there isn't anything at all. The fuckass MC wants to commit genocide for a reason that is fucking petty as hell given he didn't give a shit about the main problem that led to that reason in the first place. The main girl is an insufferable pacifist that honestly comes off as a genocide apologist, especially given a scenario that happens during ep 5-7. Not one other character is likable or memorable, mostly due to being killed off minutes after their introduction. And don't ...
Dec 2, 2023
Preliminary (6/12 eps)
It's one of the most awful animes aired this year, it is almost as bad as Good Night World. The characters have no real motivation or development. The story is all over the place, there is no coherence to it and at times it feels like the anime is trying to be a harem anime like some horrible attempt at a gag. The story is really unpredictable, not because the story telling is complex but rather because it isn't well executed. Character interactions are poorly executed, none of the conversations actually flow and it seems like they exist solely for info dump.

The fact that ...
Dec 8, 2023
Preliminary (10/12 eps)
This is without a doubt the worst anime of the season. It's worse than the pig isekai. The first half of the first episode is pretty interesting. The show sets up well at the beginning despite being edgy it shows some promise. Unfortunately the promise dies right there and never shows any signs of life again. The characters are beyond stupid but not seemingly intentionally. The show also seems to want you to be emotionally invested when characters get injured or die but it does absolutely zero setup to make you actually invest or care about those characters. ...
Nov 3, 2023
Preliminary (5/12 eps)
To be honest i was excited at first. But, the inconcistences of mc dropped my expectation. He yelling about revenge, vengeance, etc. But he seems like doesn't willing to do so. Remember when all of us had shown the angry expression of the mc, i thought it will be rousing. But, what we got here? An impotent mc?. Oh god please...
You wanna show gore, so show it. You wanna show thrill, then show it. You wanna show revenge, a vengeance? So let show it. Don't show us a drama comedy.
You said you hate sugar but you still eat it, dring it! Don't made ...
Nov 9, 2023
Preliminary (5/12 eps)
So edgey it makes me reminiscent of Redo of a Healer. It tries very hard to be "dark", "grim", and "brutal" with no regards to the "too bleak, didn't care" effect. The over-arching pattern with the show and writing is that everything is set up to move in the direction that can produce the most blood and dismembered bodies on screen. There's little to no substance outside of shock value here. In an attempt to be so edgy, the entirety of the plot is predictable as you need only be in the mindset to guess what would be the edgiest and bloodiest outcome to happen, ...
Dec 22, 2023
Mixed Feelings
I don't usually write many reviews, but I had to share my thoughts on this anime. "Hametsu no Oukoku," or "The Kingdoms of Ruin" – even the name, unrelated as it is to the anime, feels overly edgy. It ticks all the boxes of what makes an edgy anime, featuring a protagonist with black hair and red eyes. Let me be upfront: I just don't think this anime is good, and if you're over 18, chances are you'll agree with me.

Let me quickly break down the basic plot. God creates humanity, realizes it was a mistake, then creates witches and shares his powers with them ...
Mar 27, 2024
FunnyFunny
This is a hidden gem that many people are missing out on. I know there many people in the community that hates everything about this anime but I don't think it deserve all the hate its getting. Yes the show is nothing special compared to the other great anime out there but thats the whole purpose of adapting this for the season. I think the anime did a fantastic job on the story imo I was hooked the whole time. I'm able to see the mc develop throughout the anime even if its a little for others.

The anime has a lot of gore as ...