Apr 22, 2021
I went in expecting the worst, and it did not disappoint. As with the first anime, it is nothing but a power-tripping main character defeating your generic super evil villain which is designed solely for the viewers to hate. There is nothing of value to this anime, it only exists for the viewers to live vicariously through the main character.
The characters are bland and shallow; there’s your generic female sidekick, another girl whose only personality is her breasts, and two generic males who we know nothing about. They all exhibit sameface; the only way we can distinguish them is the gaudy color palette used on
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each character: the main character is a bright blue, the main female sidekick is pink, the other girl is purple, and one male is red. They have no backstory; there is no emotional attachment to these characters, and as such, they can only be distinguished by their hair color.
The animation is similarly of low quality. In one scene, they allocate two frames for a tiger-drawn carriage. Their paws just go up in one frame, and down in the other. In other scenes, you have your typical still frame fights, and panning shots of similarly still frames. I'd wager that this video https://youtu.be/240Vq6tIxio has more keyframes than the two seasons combined. It's also obvious that the penultimate fight scene involving the main character is lazily animated. The main character's attack seems to have been designed to avoid having to animate complex moves.
Let's talk about the story. It's your typical overpowered character power-tripping fantasy. We meet a few villains; most of them are framed as edgy, pure evil, with no complex personality; just someone that presents a barrier for the main character that everyone roots for to be crushed. The main character first faces off against a villain who overpowers him. He retreats and as he lost his sidekick, he suddenly gains more power, to the point where he can just massacre the tribe that said villain belonged to. After the initial confrontation with the main villain, she is nowhere to be found. Her entire tribe is massacred with her nowhere to be seen. She was only there to provide a minuscule bit of tension and nothing else.
Obviously, the conflict within the anime is weak, as the main character is overpowered. When some of the supporting characters died, there might’ve been hope for some tragedy in this story, to provide a little depth. But as expected, their deaths were not permanent. Through some plot device, the main character's sidekicks are magically revived, and all goes back to normal. To some extent, it plays out much like a sitcom. The laziest plot device of this entire series is "the sage", a voice in the main character's head that is nothing more than an exposition machine. It powers the main character and grants him increasingly powerful abilities, in addition to spitting out verbatim exposition, with no attempt to integrate it into the story. The anime doesn't even attempt to animate an actual character to deliver said exposition; it's either a voice in the main character's head or a glowing sphere. He doesn't make much of an effort to acquire his superpowers either; they are just granted to him by the sage when the plot deems it necessary.
All in all, this anime was nothing but another generic isekai designed for the viewers to live vicariously through the main character. It has no value; it's just another cash cow in a sea of mediocre anime. It's the poster child for modern anime: poor plot, terrible animation, bland characters, fanservice, nothing but pandering to a wide audience.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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