okay, first of all, this is the first real review I have written and I will use DeepL translate due to my bad english, I apologise if you notice any spelling or semantic errors, so let's start.
First of all, what is cote or also known as classroom of elite? As the name suggests, the anime takes place in a school of elites, I don't know much about this school, so I won't talk much about it, but I remember that it was founded with the money of the state or something like that, which means that almost everyone in the school should be the best
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in their field in a certain field, but since I'm writing this, it's not hard to guess that this is not the case, if you've been to school even once in your life - which I have - you've noticed how simple and ordinary students this "school of elites" has, Actually, this is not the problem, the problem is that these students are in such a school, I swear to you, in my middle school high school years, I knew people whose future was brighter than the students in this school, well, maybe there may be 2 or 3 or even quite a lot of idiots, there is something called torpil, after all, maybe these idiot students entered this school by torpil, but there is no mention of such a thing in the anime, this is literally a dead end, so I'll leave this part here.
So let's take a look at ayanokoji, the main character of the anime, which is the most important factor in the series becoming a popular series,
ayanokoji is an intelligent, cold-blooded, organised and in many ways charismatic character and that's what makes him one of the shittiest main characters I've ever seen, but why? There are many reasons but probably the biggest one is that the story doesn't focus on ayanokoji when it should focus on ayanokoji, it's hard to explain since I don't know technical terms, you'll probably understand what I'm talking about better when I talk about episode 12 but for now I'll keep talking about ayanokoji, the most important factor that makes ayanokoji boring is that he is predictable, yes, an anime main character who is both mentally/intelligently and physically superior is strangely rare, usually either his intelligence or power level is cut down somewhere, I don't know what the purpose was, but these do not change the fact that ayanokoji is a predictable and therefore boring main character, I might even be exaggerating a bit, but ayanokoji is no different to me than an isekai main character who doesn't get flustered when he sees a woman, he's not as deep as most people talk about because he's so simple, what he says is just rhetoric, and once you realise that, he becomes an even shittier main character, I have no idea what kind of character ayanokoji is in LN, and although I don't want to be prejudiced, if the story processing is even remotely similar to the anime, then probably the "ayanokoji is better in LN" comments people talk about are just an illusion.
Then the other thing I didn't like and even openly hated was the ending, the 12th episode. episode, the last episode of the anime, which was obviously made just to increase the popularity of the novel, should naturally leave an atmosphere like "holy shit that was so good" or "omg I have to read the rest of this" in the viewers, and the anime did the cheapest thing it could do to do this, leaving everything to the last episode, briefly like this, nothing is told until the last episode and suddenly everything turns out to be ayanokoji's plan, ok, first of all, this is literally insulting to the viewer, not showing anything until the last episode and at the last moment the story says "ha ha ha actually everything was his plan", I would like to talk more about it, but I'm tired of writing and as I said, I don't understand technical terms.
pros and cons (this part was added later, most of the things I wanted to tell but could not tell because I could not create the correct sentence structure and my technical knowledge was low).
pros:
+fantasy of non-phenomenal power
+although the characters are poor quality and poorly written, some scenes are entertaining
+the scenes where the characters interact with each other are not boring
+ the background of the main characters is intriguing
cons:
-both ayanokoji and suzune (I may remember the name wrongly) are boring, monotonous and predictable characters, there is no surprise elementary
-the story is monotonous, predictable and very repetitive
-characters are not introduced properly due to poor story presentation
-the fact that almost every character shown has a middle school level vision and behaviour destroys the believability of the setting and story
-the fact that the main character is perfect in every respect makes the plot unexciting, for the same reason the viewer does not get nervous or excited
-simple problems that arise in the story are conveyed as if they were very complicated and inextricably difficult, similarly, all kinds of events are magnified and unnecessarily complicated
-characters are either stereotypes or do not even have enough character traits to be a stereotype, or their screen time is too short to decide which of these is which.
-empty scenes that pretend to be clever but are meaningless and unnecessary for the story, characters and plot
-unnecessary fanservice
-that no-one is as clever as they should be
-no credibility or realism (because it does not contain any magic-like fantastic elements in it, even if it is fictional, and because it tries to have a realistic universe).
-no character development, the main character does not learn, realise or discover anything, we only learn that he knows these things, this is not character development.
I'll be honest, even I didn't think I could find such a bad direction, if I push myself a little more here
I could probably find more bad points, but I'm tired
Of course there are many more things that could be mentioned, side characters, suzune who is the second main character or enemy characters that I haven't mentioned so far, but no, enough of this hate spewing,
if you, the person reading this review, my advice to you is to either watch the anime at all or watch it with zero expectations, assuming that it is just a shitty power fantasy, I wish everyone a long life, a healthy and happy life.
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Aug 17, 2023
okay, first of all, this is the first real review I have written and I will use DeepL translate due to my bad english, I apologise if you notice any spelling or semantic errors, so let's start.
First of all, what is cote or also known as classroom of elite? As the name suggests, the anime takes place in a school of elites, I don't know much about this school, so I won't talk much about it, but I remember that it was founded with the money of the state or something like that, which means that almost everyone in the school should be the best ... |