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Apr 30, 2023
I have a problem with just being able to get poison 'immunity', it feels like an unnecessary power up. This happens a lot in the show where the main characters are just given things for the sake of it, detracting from the good parts. It feels like the writer knew what they wanted to write and how they wanted the plot to flow, but didn't bother with the finer details until too late. I had a problem with the little girls, which seem to only have the personality traits of 'being twins' and 'being little girls'. Big weapon small girl cannot save that. Another problem
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it has is not fleshing things out. Much like sword art online, which this borrows from, there are certain events which don't have as much plot importance as they were supposed to because they just didn't have enough time dedicated towards them. For such a large cast 12 episodes of 20 minutes just isn't enough. Certain characters really feel like they would be interesting if they just had another 10 minutes to develop after we first see them. This is most apparent in samurai girl, who is a badass in the first fight we see her, then she gets assimilated into their group and doesn't get any major development for half a season. The emotional connections meant to be had by these characters aren't shared by us. I found it very difficult to understand why shield man and blacksmith woman just instantly joined the guild. From the beginning it felt like they were part of a larger external group from how established they were, as well as the group chat, but when asked whether they would join the guild they pause for a slight moment and before enough time to think had passed, they were just like sure. This is mostly me just venting about the things I didn't like about the story, but as you can see, its all minor things. The story has no major underlying issues or problems. It has problems that the average person can see, but has nothing which someone more informed would say is terrible or needs to be urgently changed.
Great anime, would recommend to anyone who isn't sexist (checkmate). Lisa best girl. Ichika stan 4life.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Apr 30, 2023
Pretty good follow up to season 1. It quite often felt a bit sparse, often not knowing what was going on with the action. Its action was definitely worse than season 1's, however the story was just as good, or even better. With such a large cast, they managed to give everyone a reasonable amount of screen time and found interesting methods of keeping each character important to the plot. If you compare it to season 1 which was just as good as this, but with less flaws. Season 2 is worse than season 1, but that does not mean season 2 is bad, which
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is something most people don't understand. There are countless problems in both seasons, namely: having too many people, abilities and places. With a more concise story, it would be much easier to see everything good about this show. The best parts of the show for me are two things which many similar action manga fail at. First is the power scaling. Throughout the show, it never feels like the main character or any other characters are completely out of reach. Yes, it is clear that the main character is undoubtedly the best player, but the show repeatedly poses challenges to the characters which show the main character is not invincible and not much better than everyone else. The primary example of this is in the dynamics with the second main character (voiced by the best VA ima), where the main character is consistently outperforming her, but on many occasions, a threat, battle or challenge is shown to both of them which is only completed because of either the teamwork of each of their strengths or one of (either of) their strengths.
The other pitfall other action anime and film fail in is the suddenness of failure. Many good actions of all forms of film understand to have your characters lose to build character and relatability. These however, do a bad job of this. It often feels either inevitable or surprising for these characters to lose. What I mean by this is that main characters will often be shown to be either much stronger or weaker than their contemporaries making it feel either like a robbery for the character to lose, or something you were just waiting for, with no suspense. Bofuri does a good thing called 'weaknesses'. Each character has a flaw which is shown and worked around and when the characters you're rooting for actually lose, or simply not win (not place first or something similar), or even get impeded, it was clear to the audience that these were real threats from the beginning. With each encounter every action which is not intended to be a surprise can be followed by the audience. Furthermore, a not insignificant amount of the non-action plot revolves around managing these flaws and hiding them from potential rivals and enemies, making them feel important.
This show isn't perfect and I haven't mentioned the episode where they forget to stop using 3D animation causing it to feel low budget and gross, but its a genuinely good show. For every small error or plot hole they have, they avoid a distinct pitfall plaguing many similar shows.
I recommend this anime to anyone who is tired of terrible scaling in anime and is fine with some minor inconsistencies and flaws. Or, if you just want to see the best girl VA'd by the best.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 30, 2023
I don't know why this song is on this site, but its honestly a banger. As a song, it can be disliked if you don't like the genre, lyrics, MV etc. It relies on you knowing the story for the game it was made for, thus making its inclusion on this website odd. If you don't like the music video because you don't understand it, that's by design, it holds meaning to those who have an interest in the characters shown. I recommend anyone to learn about the characters and play the game before you say that you can't understand why certain aspects of it
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are the way they are. You would not watch an anime opening and ask: "why are these guys fighting something, the song doesn't even talk about fighting." I love this song, because it has value to me, but for others, it is fine to not enjoy it because you saw what could be valuable to others and personally did not find that value to yourself.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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