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The hidden dungeon only I can enter is without a doubt the worst execution of an anime which had a great sounding plot and synopsis that I have ever seen. It starts out with a really cool sounding idea, living in a regular world where people have to work really hard to obtain skills, beat monsters climb ranks in guilds etc... and someone can create, modify or delete skills, however this was entirely ruined for me after the first few episodes when I realized just how poor of an execution this anime was. I haven't read the manga so I don't know how good / ... bad the source material was if there was any but nothing can excuse the sheer disappointment, cringe and discomfort I felt from this whilst watching. I only gave it a 2/10 which is still quite a generous rating in my opinion and it was only above a 1 because of the mediocre at best art and a decent twist on a classic genre.

Art: 3 / 10
The art was probably the most redeeming quality of this show and it still looked cheap and choppy most of the time. There was no interesting use of colors, character designs or really anything, it looked as if someone had taken the most generic features of background characters and cheaply glued them to a 2010 anime character drawing template and said "looks good enough". Not a single scene made me feel any excitement for any fights (which there were few of) and the lack of any movement for characters who aren't in focus amazed me. Want a cool fight scene well here are 3 average camera angles, no effects, nothing to make it stand out from anything else but it will still be the "highlight" for this past 3 episodes. Most anime I have seen have had better quality drawings and far far better use of angles, character designs etc.

Characters: 1 / 10
It completely baffles me how someone has managed to write such uninteresting and bad characters. While watching, I would be eagerly awaiting the end because a plain black frame with absolutely nothing happening had more personality than these excuses for characters. Character development? What's that? Original characters? Forget it. Calling them 2D characters exaggerates their depth so it would be more fair to call them 1D although I would argue that even a single dimension is wasted on them. Our main character, the star of the show, supposed to be likeable and well thought out, is really just a combination of the most common and predictable tropes of low budget anime. He has no special outstanding characteristics, his design consists of about 5 colors and there is absolutely nothing except screen time separating him from a background character. The other supporting characters are similar embodiments of classic tropes somehow done wrong.

Plot: 2 / 10
There is a singular reason why I would rate the plot a 2 rather than a 1 and that is because of the general theme. The idea of being able to create, modify and delete skills in a world where skills are everything sounds quite appealing and exciting on the surface and it would be if the plot wasn't so loosely connected and poorly made that a toddlers stories look as inspirational as Martin Luther King's speeches. Most episodes feel like their substance was thought up on the spot with little to no prior planning as to how it would all play out. What was that, some advanced level grim reaper monster is in front of me, hmm, lets toss a rock at it and it is dead. How on earth would anyone ever find something as uninspiring as that even slightly entertaining. Near to everything was predictable with the only exceptions being worse than my expectations and it is honestly insulting how I need to check a spoiler warning because I could describe the entire plot in detail and it would be more surprising than if you hadn't read it because I can't even put into words how boring and unexciting this is. You would get more surprise from the lack of words in the English language which can describe this dumpster fire of a plot (no offense meant to dumpster fires).

Conclusion:
I could rant on about how much of a waste of time this anime is to watch and I think that it is quite obvious how much I dislike it. A part of me is convinced that this was made as torture for criminals to get them to talk and it would probably be quite effective if you just started to play it. If you disregard my warnings about the horror of this show then you best be mentally prepared for the eons that each episode feels like. It would be no exaggeration to say that this anime has left me permanently scarred and despite my love for anime, it has managed to significantly fall after watching hidden dungeon. In short, this is without a doubt the worst piece of "entertainment" I have ever consumed and it left me with a void of regret for watching all 12 episodes, I would never watch this again in my current life or any future reincarnations I might have and I give my sincerest apologies to everyone who has suffered through this with me.