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Jan 6, 2024
The main character, Lord Tvrunefureuyrwouewourdhflpuiodsfyuoduf or something, is essentially Legolas but with red hair, including the ability to rapid fire and multi-shot perfectly aimed arrows at essentially any distance. Despite that, his side immediatley loses the battle they're in and he is captured by the enemy cosplay fetish porn star, errr...war maiden. She immediately falls in love with Lord Taurtysiaufhtisudhtuish at first sight, only slightly complicated by him being her prisoner, but not really since the hentai cosplayer treats him as an honored guest with complete freedom to do whatever he wants.
The show then immediately provides a plot device to conveniently erase any
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resentment between their two forces from the prior battle, which is completely forgotten and forgiven, because plot.
Having now become instantaneous allies against all reason, and with Lord Tuutreoutioeouiuytiouyt somehow in charge of their alliance despite still technically being either the magical porn girl's prisoner and/or vassal and/or property (they're kind of inconsistent here), they face off against the ridiculous and over the top irrationally evil villian characters who are really just evil because they're evil. No explanation given or needed, apparently. Later, there is an unnecessary twist in ep 11 that makes no sense, but I guess they lost track of how to actually end the story.
Despite insurmountable odds, they surmount them using large doses of extremely convenient lucky breaks, enemy idiocy, and massive plot armor. Powerful enemies are shamefully used merely as plot devices to showcase how strong the heroes are, but actually just show how stupid the enemies are for throwing away their best forces.
Also, there is boobs. Lots of them. Lots of huge boobs are standard in any military drama, I think.
For a b-tier harem anime, the art is quite good and the animating is of surprisingly high quality. The plot has moments of brilliance, but mostly it's just enough to piss you off that the rest is so disappointing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Nov 21, 2023
The plot is virtually nonexistent. There is almost no worldbuilding. The characters are incredibly one-dimensional and there is no attempt to give bad guys any actual depth. There is not even an attempt to explain how power levels work or to be consistent across characters or even within the same character. The art looks like it would have been mediocre 20 years ago and the animation is...meh, at best.
This anime feels like it was written by, and for, a 10 year old. I do not recommend this anime for pretty much anyone. Don't waste your time.
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Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Oct 9, 2023
This is the ultimate Isekai anime. No quests, no real villain, no rival...just pure, unadulterated level/skill grinding. An entire arc devoted to nothing but spamming spells and attacks to level them up, then eating and sleeping and regenning mana. Another arc devoted to nothing but grinding mobs and selling loot to buy new skills so he can grind mobs better.
And that's it. Literally. That's it. 12 episodes of resurrected in an RPG grinding. I've never seen an Isekai of such incredible purity. I don't even mind that the animators accidentally deleted the upper lips of every female
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character in the show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Oct 1, 2023
I liked the first season, but the second season took a nosedive. It went from pretty good Overpowered MC anime to just nonsensical in season two. The whole rumors and traditions thing seems confusing and arbitrary, and in the end really seems like it was more created to drive the plot than to plausibly explain how an entire race works. It's possible that this is the reason that the spirit race appears to only actually be a handful of entities, though there is no explanation for why only those rumors and traditions were personified.
They spend a TON of time in the time travel
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arc, most of which feels wasted. It's a significant number of the total episodes, just to start one rumor so that they can lean even further into this implausible idea that spirits can just be erased from existence if you tweak their rumor, or if they deviate from it at all. Similarly, they can pop right back if you tweak it the other way, apparently. Again, zero explanation for how this works on a societal level for an entire race of people, who should essentially be popping in and out of existence non-stop in a chaotic and utterly unsustainable maelstrom of endless creation and destruction, except...there are only 5 of them? (mother, tree, misa, 3 little flying spirits, that's it)
The Gods make no sense. Either there is no reasoning behind the Father God's desire to destroy the world, or it's incredibly poorly explained. Also, where are the other gods? The only other one is the God of Destruction, which is apparently a sword...except it's also a castle? And it doesn't switch, it's apparently both at the same time? And it can destroy anything even reality...except when it can't, with no explanation? Also, Anos could have claimed it at almost any time he just...lets Avos have it anyway? I guess it's fine, because despite being all powerful, it's actually meaningless? Also, can the Father god please make up his mind? He's trying to destroy the world, while complaining that Anos is going to destroy the world because he stopped the father god from destroying the world?
When Anos' minions turn against him it was because...why? I guess it was just time for it to happen? A few people resisted, because of their belief/faith in Anos, except...his most powerful and closest lieutenants didn't? It's either not explained, or poorly explained.
Also, don't they have an army of killer clone girls? Why didn't they use them? Whatever.
No explanation also seems to accurately describe all the various powers and power levels in the show. There was some mention of the fake demon king having some kind of innate power, but it was immediately forgotten. Other than that, powers appear to just be floating circles that either work or don't based on...something. I mean, yeah, we know Anos is going to win, but the battles meant absolutely nothing, because none of the attacks meant anything. It was just random color that accompanied the small amount of conversation. Shin has a bunch of swords, but I defy you to tell me what their significance is, since they all seem to do/not do the same thing, which is nothing, most of the time. There's a whole lot of mind control, with little explanation for how it works or why it stops or why a few people are immune to it despite not being near Anos, or why he can't break it, until he can, etc.
Season two pretty much turned into 12 episodes of "this happens because it's time for it to happen and none of it needs to make any sense or be explained." I can't really explain it properly, but Anos went from "not worried about what other people did/thought because he was so incredibly powerful that nothing mattered" in Season 1 to "wandering aimlessly and not really doing anything, or doing random things for no real reason" in Season 2. Obviously he's never in any danger, and he can win at pretty much any time, but there is very little explanation for why he wanders around doing various things this season instead of just fixing the problems, which he obviously can do (and DOES, at the last minute). While it is hard to really explain the difference, it FEELS different. Season two just didn't have whatever season one had.
Disappointing. Though it's kind of appropriate that they spend the last few minutes of the season with the characters literally telling each other that they don't understand what happened and can't remember how they got there. Yeah...me neither.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 1, 2023
This show is torture porn. Every episode is an attempt to one-up the last, with more and more horrible things happening to the cast, even as they slowly ruin the main character until you can't stand to watch either him or the show.
This show could have been really good, with its fairly unique and dark plot. What kills it is the main character. Imagine Evangelion's Shinji, except that in addition to being a pathetic, whining idiot, he's also a (literally) raging asshole who wallows in self pity, demands everyone do what he wants, and then screams and insults everyone when he doesn't
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get his way like a child.
A lot of people will say that the plot, the terrible things that happen to him, justify his character acting this way. Maybe. Doesn't change the fact that he's an abusive, selfish asshole who makes the show unpleasant to watch. And he gets worse with every episode, slowly literally going insane, getting PTSD, and becoming a traumatized abuser who lashes out at everyone around him, even his friends.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Feb 18, 2023
This show is an uncomfortable combination of adult and child themes. The world/story, generally, is pretty dark, where people are oppressed and brutalized. But the characters of the show and the individual episode plots are incredibly childish, with a huge focus on never killing and the juvenile heroic attempts to "save everyone" that you usually see in shows for young children and which only work in situations where the heroes have MASSIVE amounts of plot armor which allow them to succeed despite their ludicrous and unrealistic approach to reality. Watching the protagonists make insane decisions due to a childish black-and-white-no-shades-of-grey outlook on
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life, and having the dumbest character be the nominal leader of the entire group, can be incredibly frustrating, not to mention utterly destroying any chance for a watcher to take the show seriously.
The rest of the show is...fine, I guess? The art is good, if you don't mind most of the characters in every faction being literal copy/pasted faceless goons. The voice acting is good. The fights are limited, but fine. The character development is bad, but I assume it's aimed at people who already know them.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Nov 4, 2022
This show really only has one flaw: it's short. Not in a way that hurts the story, but rather that I wanted to keep watching more episodes.
In every other way this is a masterpiece. Visually excellent and creative, I don't even mind that it combines realistic visuals and chibi visuals. I love that Decadence isn't just another Gundam, and the gear system is fairly creative.
The plot could have been more complex, but it's fine for 12 episodes, and the secret that you learn is a pretty creative spin on the normal plot, without being batshiat insane the way a lot of sci-fi
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anime seems to end up.
12 episodes isn't a lot of time to develop a cast, but you meet a handful of main characters that are well written and voice acted. The show lacks a real villain, because the true villain is "society," but the villain-type character it has works for the story.
A lot of anime start strong, but then don't deliver, or have an unsatisfying ending, or one that makes no sense, or one that feels like a betrayal of the story and the characters so that the writer can make some sort of ridiculous philosophical point about society or something stupid. Half the time it makes me regret the time I spent watching the show. Not Deca-Dence. You'll enjoy the ending. You'll feel good about it.
This is a good show. Watch it. You'll be glad you did.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 22, 2022
The animation is fine, the voice acting is fine. It looks and feels very Gundam-ish.
Where is all falls apart is the plot and the characters.
The characters are annoying and one-dimensional. Honestly, the best characters are the AIs, but the writer decided to make them glorified virtual secretaries for the teenage pilots, despite it being incredibly clear that the AIs are far more capable than humans.
The main character is a whiny, crying idiot for most of the show. He's in the middle of a war, yet he doesn't actually want to fight or hurt anyone and cries constantly any time they take even
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minimal losses. Ironically, there is a short period where he gets pretty gloomy, which the show tries to portray as a bad thing, but that's the only time he actual stops being terrible.
Probably the worst, however, is the combination plot/character which is "the resistance." The entire show revolves around the struggle of the resistance to free Japan from the oppression of the poorly written, ludicrously over-the-top evil foreigners. Except...it doesn't really. Sure, the show constantly TELLS you that's what the resistance is doing...but it's not. The ENTIRE SHOW, the resistance doesn't do a SINGLE THING to overthrow foreign rule. Instead, they run around playing hero and acting like a glorified relief organization. There are entire episodes devoted to helping 5-10 refugees at a time with their daily lives. Most of the show is just them "rescuing" one group of refugees after another from conflict zones, every time spending valuable resources and combat-trained lives to protect helpless civilians who contribute nothing to the war effort (and who in fact constantly are draining them of food and slowing them down). Animes LOVE those scenes where heroes act like crossing guards, telling witless civilians to continue going in the direction they were already going. Now imagine that, but in a giant mech, instead of using the mech to actually fight. No, I'm not kidding, they actually do that. This idiotic hero complex the entire resistance seems to have is made even worse by their reluctance to kill anyone, even enemy combatants during active combat. They want to fight a war without hurting anyone. It's ludicrous...except they aren't actually fighting a war at all, because...
You know what the resistance DOESN'T do? Actually attack the foreign military forces or do literally anything to throw them out of Japan. Not. Even. Once. Not ever.
The combat is also super lazy. Sure every anime gives main characters plot armor, but this show literally just makes main characters invincible until it's time for them to lose, and then the exact same attacks that previously didn't even scratch them suddenly chop through entire mechs with not explanation or justification.
This anime feels like it was written by a child. Not FOR children, BY a child.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jun 3, 2022
Reading the summary, watching the opening theme, watching the first episode, you'd be forgiven for thinking this was an anime about giant mechs fighting for the survival of mankind against the Alien Betas.
It is not. After the first episode, the aliens are never seen again. The majority of the season is just mild school harem drama, then there are a handful of episodes at the end with some human vs human conflict that makes absolutely no sense, does absolutely nothing to move the story forward, and isn't even connected with the theoretical plot of the series generally.
The series ends and you realize that
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you've watched 12 episodes and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED. They're exactly where they were in episode 2.
What a disappointment.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 9, 2019
This review covers the first 9 episodes.
First, this definitely isn't a PG13 show, it is a PG show for kids. I don't care what the page says.
Story:
The story is bland and essentially copied from better similar mange/anime. There are tons of "Japanese student summoned to alternate world to be a hero" anime out there, and I'm not saying they can't be interesting or have new twists on the ides...but this one doesn't. It's boring and derivative. If evaluated as a PG rather than PG13 show, the shallowness of the plot makes some sense, though that is not really an excuse.
Characters
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are complete morons, so stupid it's painful to watch. The kind of stupidity that makes you want to yell and throw things at your TV. Again, if you're 6 years old, perhaps you won't notice, but to anyone else, all the characters are one dimensional idiots who appear unable to do anything except blindly yell and hack at their problems.
Animation
The animation would have been at best mediocre 20 years ago, and is incomprehensibly bad for something coming out today. There are a TON of really bad still shots, and when they bother to have the characters move they do it poorly. Fights generally consist of a poorly animated charge, a flash of white with a sound affect, and then a combatant flies backwards or has some other spell effect.
Sound
The sound is fine. That's literally the best thing I can say for this show.
I give this 3/10 and giving it a 3 is being generous.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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