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Oct 23, 2022
This animation is great and there is a lot of attention to detail thanks to an excellent studio making this. The action scenes are impressive but I think the story is very overrated. It needed a couple more episodes, since there is no downtime the characters are not really fleshed out. In terms of the plot, this show is basically 'what it's like to be a edgerunner'. The characters don't voice any desire to upset the status quo. They do missions which is get intel or kill people for money, and once they are done they accept another job. So this show is a window
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into that life, but that's about it. It doesn't raise any questions. A lot of people like the setting and this mostly scratches that itch, but I don't get a strong emotional reaction. Some shows will stay in your thoughts because they have something worth thinking about, but this one has stayed in my thoughts because I keep seeing people praise it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Dec 9, 2021
This show made me angry often. It's the edgiest anime I've ever seen. Story was was written by a teenager. Few examples:
*The MC and his doctor dad do a house call for a sick patient and the dad asks MC what he thought and MC is like "I made sure to take note of his security incase we need to kill him later".
*MC as a child becomes the family head, one of his family members is drunk and challenges him so the MC literally teleports behind him and breaks his arm. And then says "Don't worry. I made sure it was a clean break."
*MC
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strips naked for his dad on the reg to be felt up, so his dad can make sure all of his muscles are developing optimally. Ok.
*MC picks up the first girl in his harem by saving her from some wolves and talks to her before recruiting her. He caps this off by thinking to himself "Brainwashing complete."
*MC spars with his dad, usual edgy stuff like I can triangulate his position by the sound of wind deflecting off of his hair. MC got a sharingan in episode 1 or 2 btw.
*MC's harem girls catch a spy. They strip the spy and he tells them "Good job. I see you've remembered the basics of torture."
So the MC is a reincarnated middle aged guy who has had a pretty stressful life as an assassin. They make the point that he spent his whole life being super careful and acting as a perfect tool for assassination. He is tired of this life, and after his enemies finally get him, he remarks he no longer wants to be a tool. When he reincarnates, the goddess asks him if he wants to keep his memories but he has to do a job for her. Two major problems with this. First of all, it instantly goes against his character, because from this point on, he is a soulless feelingless killer again, acting as a perfect tool for the goddess, which is exactly what he regretted from his first life. Other problem, he has the mind of an experienced middle aged man, but he doesn't act like one ever. An older professional dude would not be super edgy. And when he had the wet dream, an older guy would not sperg out like a 14 year old. He would not be constantly awkward and annoyed around his busty mom. He never acts in character, he is just a blank slate and from his past life the only thing that carries over is his knowledge about modern science and he can invent lotion and stuff. Sometimes between scenes, there are shots of other men the goddess sent on the mission like the MC, and they all just stayed in bed and got drunk or lost sight of the goal. You would think a guy who is tired of his hard life as an assassin would also take some time to wonder at this new world and have some fun. But nope, he is a perfect killing machine who is min maxing everything.
A lot of people have praised this for being an isekai with an actual pre-isekai character story, but it's pointless because they discard everything except for his keen knowledge of chemistry. 100% of the time the MC is doing anything, it's not the way the old guy would have done it, and they are supposed to be the same person, his consciousness was supposed to be unbroken from his past life. And it hurts the show in a lot of ways, because whenever you remember he has the mind of a middle aged man it's just messed up, like whenever he's sharing a bed with the underage girls.
There's some other problems with the show. They spent almost a whole episode on a tragic backstory of abuse for one of the girls in MC's harem. It's so messed up because on its own this could be part of a mature story. But in this show it's just disgusting because as soon as he shows up and literally buys her she is super in love with him and wants to service him. Her personality from her backstory is just erased, a person who has been through that would not act this way.
Stuff happens in the show, but the MC is obviously insanely OP so there's never any challenge, nothing ever goes wrong for him. There is sort of a plot, but it's not that interesting, and the show regularly makes me feel hatred and disgust. I can live with some edgyness but this show is constantly making me think "oh my freaking god.." Only thing I liked was the side scene where a rapper got reincarnated and the goddess had a little DJ stand with "funky megumi" written on it. Otherwise aggressively bad show, negative rating out of 10 for most episodes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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Sep 24, 2021
It's pretty bad, I would say maybe watch if you enjoy watching bad shows just to see the multitude of ways they manage to be bad. You can see the cracks in the first episode, and every episode after that the show almost seems like it's about to take off and it constantly whiffs.
This show had some cool character designs and at times it was endearing enough that if it actually went somewhere it could have been a mediocre but okay show. But the plot development is extremely poor and the show wastes a lot of your time doing nothing of interest for a
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while. Then in the last couple episodes there is not enough time for the show to properly end. Nothing much gets resolved and nothing really feels worth resolving. The end is not satisfying and leaves as much open as possible for a second season which I don't think will happen and even if it did I'm sure it will just pick up with some random time wasting that makes the season 1 cliffhanger completely pointless. As soon as something interesting starts going on you can totally rely on this show to not follow through and turn it into a waste of time.
In a sense the show starts off as an adventure, but the motivation behind the first goal is not enough to get the viewer interested. Then when the journey ends somewhere halfway into the show, the protagonist goes on a revenge plot, which comes out of nowhere because the protagonist has never shown any emotion or reason to desire revenge until the second he learns there is someone to get revenge on. Then that plot just disappears entirely, if you didn't watch that episode you wouldn't even know because that plot point is never referenced after that episode. It feels very haphazard. More like a loose collection of events than a story.
The characters are all fairly one dimensional and none of them develop. The MC acts in a way that you never know what he's thinking except for the two times in the show that he says it out loud. They killed every potential that he had in order to make him a self insert. By the way, I would have never thought to call this a harem if I didn't see the tag. I would watch other shows for that, nothing really happens to call this a harem. And also the MC has still not gotten over the crush he had on a girl that rejected him IN A PAST LIFE. Even after meeting multiple new romantic interests in his new life over the many years during the show he is still thinking about her. It almost feels like the writer of the show felt like he was rejected only a couple hours ago because that's when the flashback happened, but in the setting of the show it has been way too long to still care.
There's also the power fantasy aspect of the self insert, as the MC is pretty much just a one man army, but the system of powers/techniques is not well explained and doesn't make much sense. Also you never see him training despite him saying he has always kept it up. They also say like 30 times in the first couple episodes that the MC can't use magic, but it's never explained why. But he can use seirei jutsu, which is not magic, but other people can't use it, but it functions essentially like magic. I think the fighting is not that satisfying, as you never see the MC overcome a physical challenge. He mostly wins fights easily against overwhelmingly weaker opponents, and there is never really any threats, so it's not a great show if you're into the fighting and power scaling stuff.
There's tons of other small things that really don't make sense and it just kind of makes me incredulous. If you reincarnated, and you were one of the two people that remembers your past life, and you met the other one, and you recognized them because you died in the same accident, you would not spend years around this person before it randomly comes up in conversation. What a ridiculous plot point, which by the way is pointless and nothing ever comes of it, I guess it's just a bad excuse for one of the characters to call him oni-san. I'm not sure what they were thinking when writing this show. It's just kind of a mess that chooses not to redeem itself. Truly bad in a way that feels intentional at many times. And it's not even a fan service or funny. 0/10, waste of fairly decent animation and artwork for this script.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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