(old comment from different site back when I first watched it)
5/10 It can be funny but that's about it.
Any seriousness is quickly ruined for me by simply bad writing.
The weird PS2 graphics 3D animations are kinda weird.
It's obviously not the worst show ever but Average 5/10 or at best 6/10 seems justified.
Not sure how the hell this has an 8.54/10 over here. Even 7/10 MAL seems high.
Bonus points for some of the music and soundtracks I guess those were pretty neat.
The MC himself is also fun enough so there's that without that I'd have not even come back to the show after leaving for a while due to simply bad writing being painful.
The elf girl is also fine, it's really just the story, plot points, and world building that are honestly just bad and stereotypical at best. It reinforces a ton of the worst and unjustified tropes, has a poor understanding of slavery of practically any kind and is generally full of holes and things that don't make a lot of sense if you think about it for more than 2 seconds. It's partially not it's fault that the same "bad writing" being repeated in other shows again and again just makes it leave a worse taste every time I mean "Shield Hero" commits a lot of the same "sins" but that simply cancelled it out with other writing that actually did have some weight and quality to it. This show just doesn't. It's writing is "Okay" at best and simply "Bad" at it's worst. If you oversimplify and unrealistically present something like slavery again and again and again at some point it just becomes silly. There's a clear lack of motivation, cause and effect and general logic.
And it even had the gall to compare such an inaccurate representation to "the age of exploration" or whatever.
Now if he'd said that after seeing Elves capture and sell other Elves to humans, in a world where these humans are the only species that actually ended slavery but because they are Elves they use it as a good/bad excuse to buy them anyway and break the rules cuz "they're not human"
Now that would be a somewhat valid comparison.
Or maybe if there was a race they'd never been in contact with and they infected them and a ton of them died and they also treated them badly, and there was colonization and many crimes that go with it like r-word even that would be a valid comparison.
Although both of these comparisons would still benefit from a larger and more varied world, like how in war among most cultures and peoples in general "r-word" and slavery were the standard not the exception.
You could also switch the roles however you want and heck I encourage them to do so.
If you want to create a race of orc's that's actually the most civilized and closest to getting rid of things like slavery. Go ahead that'd be amazing though you'd have to also account for the problems they would face like elevating themselves above other races because they are civilized, and don't have slavery nor r-word their enemies, but also like how some orcs in particular those looking for money would ultimately find a way to somehow have r-word and slavery anyway.
And then if you have even more balls you'd also show a completely different socially functioning way of slavery and how all the people of a certain race including the slaves will defend that system when another group or race or the MC is trying to impose that they should end slavery.
Slavery plots don't have to be bad. But you're making them bad by not even thinking about them or being creative whatsoever.
I mean look at bloody One Piece, they got it right, the bad/worst kind of slavery isn't even really about race although it might be used as an additional excuse, it's mostly about Class. And even One Piece really only captures one kind of slavery.
I'm going on a tangent that was obviously far from the only thing the show lacked but it was just an example. |