Kono Sekai wa Fukanzen Sugiru

It's great tbh...

The animation could be better, but the rest is great. It's dark and comedic at the same time. The bad animation sorta adds to the dark theme making it kinna hard to watch altogether. The distortetd animation
kinna warps the characters and creatures, making them like something straight outta uncanny valley. However, the concept of game and bugs wraps it all up, making it "understandable" in a sense.

The other downside for this was the ending, it was basically cutting it off waiting for the second half of the story to be released, if you don't like annoying cliffhanger cut offs ... like that, then i don't recommend, but other than that I really liked it, and honestly can't wait for a season 2.

Really wanted to like this, but it falls short for a multitude of reasons. The show starts off decent, but quickly loses its footing and fumbles around trying to hack a redeeming story together.

Going into this show with little to no prior knowledge, I had originally expected this show to be an adventure / Isekai anime, but with a video game debugging twist. The end result ended up disappointing me. What this anime delivers instead is a half-baked story with incomplete or abruptly ended plot points, and less than desirable characters.

To further explain the first point, the story is a mess. Plot points and elements ... to the story will fall through or abruptly end in an episode without so much as a second mention. The show is constantly bouncing around ideas and trying to see what will work for it, but it always ends up feeling half-baked in the end. Large developments with characters, or newly introduced characters / elements of the story will suddenly appear and leave as they are needed to serve the plot.

As stated previously, this show would be much better served if the writers had taken a different approach. Instead of the hybrid isekai / adventurer style plot, it should have been a plot revolving around a seemingly normal person doing crazy technical / debugging shenanigans in an otherwise typical anime setting. It would have been a refreshing take on the genre and would have opened the door for great comedic moments as well.

As for the second point, the characters aren't that great. The main character is just molded into whatever serves the current direction of the plot best, while also simultaneously holding on to annoying traits that make him a bit of a pain to watch. He's incredibly stubborn and dim-witted on multiple occasions. A couple of the other characters are annoying and don't really do a whole lot to the show except just be there to facilitate goofs or dynamics between the cast. They're annoying and the show would be better with them gone. As to avoid spoilers, they will not be mentioned, but you'll know em when you seem. The latter half of the show is worse than the former for these reasons in particular.

This show is just OK. Middle of the road, lukewarm anime affair. Viewers may enjoy it if you don't think about it too hard and just consume it without much critical thinking. For those that want deeper plot points and character development, this show isn't it. It's a hit-or-miss and you may or may not like it depending on how you view anime.

I simply can't recommend this anime because it has no end and no development of its main plot at all!

In the first episode, it's explained that the debuggers are trapped inside the game. By the last episode, they are still trapped and they haven't stumbled upon ANY information about this problem.

The whole anime is about the MC meeting other debuggers, and their interactions are all messed up because it seems that every human being trapped inside the game has a wicked personality. They just brushed aside the fact that they are trapped and the plot turns into "let's hunt other debuggers and destroy their debugger ... stone so they stop messing up with the game".

The only good point about this anime is how they explore the game mechanics and bugs in order to win their battles against the evil debuggers. BUT often times we feel disappointed because the bugs can be very broken, and when we are in the middle of a great fight and the MC uses some dumb bug to end the fight, it's simply anti-climatic. We are left thinking "what, just like that? that was it?".

When (and IF) this anime has a second season, I will make sure to watch and delete/update this review. But for now, I really can't recommend an anime that has only a start, but no middle (no real development) and no end (literally, it doesn't end, last episode feels like we are barely into the first half of the anime).