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This will be my first review so if my points aren't well expained I'll blame it on that.

Now at first I really liked it, I wasn't going to watch it at first because I had just finished The Overly Cautious Hero (OCH) and didn't want to something like it, but in the end there wasn't much else that peaked my interest and the idea behind a character building only defence seemed interesting.

I'll start with what I liked, the art was great, whever a spell or ability was cast you could see how much effort had gone into it, everything looked so clean and crisp. As ... well as that the first few episodes were really great to define Maple's character and her style to me made sense and reflected in her goal of taking no damage, up to post first event I thought she was a good character.

On to why I felt it fell part after that, outside of Maple we didn't really see much of any other character outside of maybe Sally, nobody else really changed or was overly important or got a chance to shine, they maybe get a small moment of dialogue here and there but most of the time they are sideliners. I have not read the manga so it maybe does it different there, but for the anime nobody outside of Maple seems to be developed as a character which I am personally not a fan of.

The next thing I am sure is controversial but I'll say it anyway because it was the most offputting thing for me, and if you have already watched the show you will know why I specifically said just post event 1 that I started having issues. It's what happens to Maple's character, she starts off being a pretty interesting, playing a unique playstyle while suffering the drawbacks, that's what I want from a character, it makes them memorable for being unique. Then after a while, it seems like everything gets forgotten about other than the fact he has high Vitality, every single fight from then on it's almost like the lack of Strength, Agility etc don't matter. I even did a bit of the maths based on the wiki info, what's happening there and what's happening on screen should be two completely different things.

I won't go into too much more detail but she essentially becomes just a generic OP protagonist after a certain point with numbers that shouldn't make sense with what's happening. While that may be nitpicky it's was a similar issue with OCH but in that case I thought his quirk became boring and used poorly after a while, this time the thing that made her different became a redundancy. It is already trying to compete in a genre that is desperate for something new, making her the way she is tied in with the way the story flows doesn't do anything to make her stand out.

But what I will say is that if you can look past that I imagine you will like the show, and I probably am taking it too seriously. Put it this way, if you are new to the Isekai genre I think you will like it, but if you've seen too many to count then I'd advise looking somewhere else, it's very generic for being new.