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Decent Isekai, with unapologetic pedophilia.

I literally dropped this show 4 times. Each time i would nope the fuck out and then some time later i would hear people/ critics saying how good the rest of the show was. Each time I'd be thinking;"hmm, perhaps they're right, maybe i should give it another chance", only to drop it once again. I've now finally finished it, and turns out it's a decent isekai, but that doesn't make it any less disgusting. There is no subtext or commentary on pedophilia within manga/anime. It's just written in, as if this was a normal thing lonely men turn into. And ... "oh look, he is now a pedophile in a child's body. How very convenient. Perfect justification to keep writing this!"

I've seen quite a lot of anime, and like many of you know there is a lot of fan service baked into the culture. A lot of that fan service is trying to walk the line of 'barely legal', or "justify" and work around that using the context of the show.
To me, fan service is almost always off putting. Rarely is it actually earned within the show. It's just there to attract horny customers. Over time I've somewhat gotten used to it and learned to ignore it to a degree. However, often even 'legal/innocent' fan service can ruin a show for me when it's too blatant. The illegal kind is always a wrench in the gears of a show, whatever kind it may be. Sometimes it's a passing moment of "...why... why are you like this japan" and other times it's hard nope on the spot. This show is most certainly the latter. One of the worst, if not the worst case I've encountered.

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you japan.

The music pulled me in and it is good. Everything else i had to endure. I was rolling my eyes so hard i had to start fast forwarding some of parts between the music. So much terrible writing, pointless drama and tear jerking. Mediocre characters at best, throwaways at worst. I know it's a problem in manga/anime as a whole, but damn some of these female characters were so stereotypically useless.
It started well enough, but went down hill quite early. Completely threw away an interesting story and went with just another high school setting with an arena arc to top it off.
I expected better, but ... it was so bad that it actually made me write this review. If you think this is like 'Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu', think again.