Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki Episode 12 Discussion

Overall I think this anime was mid. However, the final episode was awesome. The fact it pissed off a bunch of weebs because he was "mean" to their waifu was the icing on the cake.
Earth acted in a perfectly valid manner. He's been polite. He's set boundaries. They've been consistently ignored. This situation is all too familiar for those of us who bend over backwards for people. And just like in real life, the moment you cease being the pushover everyone expects you to be and stand up for youself, you're suddenly the villain or acting unstable. F' That. If you're sitting here thinking "well he didn't have to be rude", chances are you're used to taking advantage of people like Earth.

The fact that, in the end, Queens actions that set him off were "coerced" really doesn't matter. Had they not thrown that last little tidbit in, her actions would have been completely in line with her personality and actions up to that point. When it happened, you thought "of course she did", not "what?!". She's a victim of being the "boy who cried wolf". Had she not been a complete tool up to that point, she'd get the benefit of the doubt. Sucks for her, but it is what it is and Earth isn't some villain because of that.

But these comment sections are obviously full of people who are essentially real life NPCs who likely have never experienced a woman's attention and are incapable (unwilling) to discern between genuine affection and toxicity. Sure Queen is cute, but her entire personality is trash. The "I'm cute so I can do anything I like and people should find it endearing" trope in anime is gross.
Once again, Kudos Earth.

People seem to have hated this anime for I don't even know what reason.
Everything that happened were already defined by the premise, we did get what we asked for.

Some people are mad about the MC's nickname as if theirs didn't suck.
Some people are saying it's not original, as if it was a criteria to make good stuff (pro tip: there is no such thing as an original show nowadays, even demon slayer is not original per se).
Some people complain about the story line, which I don't understnad since everything is in the title "a playthrough of a certain dude's VRMMO Life". We get the VRMMO Life experience, we see Earth wanting to play very casually and kept being dragged to complicated events.
Some people even say the dude is acting childish? The MC is showing emotions when playing a game and try to stay sociable what do you call childish about that... no really? How come it's the most childish review that trash talk anime like this one by tagging them or their MC as "Childish".
Some people complain about the plot being predictable... which in an anime like this one is just being consistent. Don't pretend you understood at the second episode Earth would help and feed a baby red dragon. But once we see that, we can understand Dragons People exist and thus we will see them at some point. But no, you could not predict at first in the 9th episode that Earth would have to literally kill a dragon. When shows are well constructed, with a little bit of intelligence you can 'predict' some aspect of it with ease.
Some people complain about the charadesign... bruh. Do I need to say that overcomplicated charadesign are even worst and easier to mess up? Keeping it simple is best. And here it's simple but not 'dumb' or 'boring'. Every character has a unique design and we can feel how it could be different players going for different type of skin.

I'm kinda mad at all the gatekeeping around some anime like this one. I almost didn't watch it because of it, and I personally enjoyed it pretty well. It was chill, fun to watch, no complex plot just seeing a dude experiencing a game. I don't understand why you'd watch yet another "trash" isekai (hate this way of calling something "trash", let me enjoy watching whatever I want ffs) as if you don't alreday know you won't like it smh.

I sure hope there will be a season 2! There's a lot to discover about the world in the game (and even outside the game), about the game devs, we can discover a lot about other characters and I still want to see if Earth's relationship with some NPC will change or not.

I'm a bit disappointing he left the Fairy queen like that tho, I would have like a real closure at least. My best case scenario would have been for him to apologise and concede a favor to the queen, then leaving the kingdom. I think the dumbest move on his part is scealing his ring.

On this note, I hope more people would try anime like this one and I hope season 2 will be announced some day.