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Mar 24, 2024
Even though I've seen shows that are objectively worse, this is the first show that has made me want to pull my brains out through my ears with a metal hook. It seems this show has been decently well received, and I myself can't quite express what it is about this show that irritates me so much, so I can't guarantee everyone else will have the same experience. But if I had to narrow down just what is so insanity inducing about this anime, it's the fact that she's in her twenties, but only the audience knows. I've never moreso empathized with Candace from Phineus
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and Ferb, the feeling that you know something that the writers are trying desperately to gaslight you into thinking doesn't matter.
You see the problem with Myne is that the authors seem to have a hard time deciding whether or not she's supposed to have the mental capabilities of toddler or a college student. She has all the knowledge of an adult but still acts like a baby, and within the logic of the show she should be internally a fully functioning adult. So how exactly is it, that I as the audience am expected to go "Aww" when she jumps into a man's arms going "DADDY I LOVE YOU" when realistically she's only 3 or 4 years younger than him and also- HE'S NOT HER DAD??? She's skin walking as his frail and sick 5 year old daughter?! What? How is anyone okay with this? Or when she tells a group of seven years olds that she'll never forgive them after they ruined one of her attempts at making books... That's not 23 year old behaviour. Not to mention the time she starts blushing profusely after a 7 year old flirts with her. But it's also impossible to forget that she is in fact a full grown adult, because the writers keep reminding us how smart she is for a 5 year old and how mature she acts for her age.
Relating to this issue is the following scenario. Imagine you go into work one day and one of your coworkers is asked, "what's 7+8?" and he answers, correctly, "15." Everyone in the office looks up and gathers around him. The manager comes out of his office and congratulates him on solving the question, and offers him a promotion on spot, all the while your coworker smiles smugly telling all his admirers that it was easy for him and he's done harder problems in the past. That's how it feels watching this show. Look! Myne can do long division! She's a wonder! She's a miracle! The second incarnation of the lord himself! Am I supposed to be impressed? She's in university, it would be crazy if she couldn't do basic arithmetics. At least her isekai peers generally still have skills that go beyond what's expected of the average person, for example in Doctor Elise; even on earth it's considered impressive to be able to cut a highly sensitive explosive out of a man's flesh without it detonating, or in Campfire Cooking in Another World; most of us can't cook well enough to tame a legendary beast. But Myne doesn't have any of that. Myne is annoying, weak, a little creepy, skin walking, and every character in the show is convinced she's god's great gift to the world... Lovely.
All of the other characters aren't even lucky enough to be considered annoying, after all, being annoying could technically be considered a character trait and they aren't allowed to have any of those.
In terms of redeeming qualities, there are no redeeming qualities- I mean the op is pretty okay? Does that count? The characters are terrible, the animation isn't great, the plot... there is no plot and the world building is pathetic.
I know the score I gave it was a 3 (much higher than what I felt like giving it), but that's because I know most people won't feel as strongly as I do and ultimately reviews/ratings are there to help other people decide whether or not the should watch a show. However if you've somehow read to this point in my review and agree that it doesn't sound appealing to you, I couldn't possibly recommend you actually put yourself through it. If all you want to see is a story about a resourceful child (actually a child) navigating a difficult world I'd much rather recommend "The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash" instead, it's not perfect but it doesn't make me wanna throw my laptop out the nearest window.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 31, 2023
Akuyaku Reijou is an anime that I can only really recommend as background noise. The isekai and reincarnation genres have always been a refuge for shows with wasted potential, but even if lost potential is unavoidable, Akuyaku Reijou is utterly self sabotaging. However, I did give this show a 4 not a 0, so I'm inclined to point out a few of its redeeming qualities before I disparage it.
Pros:
It can be fun, I'd say somewhere half way through the show I would confidently state that I was enjoying myself watching the show, certainly keep your brain off while watching, but once your brain
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is off it can be mildly entertaining.
It's not a slow burn at all, the main character and her pet (the demon lord) are openly head over heels for one another by like the third episode. So if you hate the will-they-won't-they-tropes that plague a lot of the romance genre, maybe you'd prefer this. I personally think they shot themselves in the foot having the two main characters get together so quickly, but I can see it appealing to a few people.
The comedic beats do land sometimes, not always mind you, but often enough to give the show an upbeat feeling so good enough.
Cons:
The pacing is terrible. The show should have absolutely ended at episode 4, it is as if they crammed all their main ideas for the concept into the first 4 episodes, then realised they still had 8 episodes left to fill. Instead of going back and trying to give more depth and flesh out what could be considered the core of the story, they instead just tacked on 8 episodes worth of nonsense. It's the writing equivalent of being sold a bag of flour by the pound, opening it and finding two-thirds of it is rocks. It isn't "I'm the villainess so I'm taming the final boss", it is "I tamed the final boss in 4 episodes, now watch me go on side quests for three hours."
The depth of this show is lesser than the depth of my carpet. No character development whatsoever, the only exception I can maybe think of is Keith; the demon lord's right hand man, and Levi but they are both side characters and their arcs only last 1 episode. Otherwise if there is "development" it isn't really development, it is just a random and inexplicable shift in a character's attitude, see-> the demon lord during the third arc, or prince Cedric in the final episode. The character with the most interesting concept was probably Lillia, and her motivations absolutely deserved exploration, but no, nothing. Don't expect anything in the realm of high quality writing, you will inevitably be disappointed.
It doesn't make sense. I don't think this warrants an explanation, I just thought I would leave this here, if you even pay a modicum of attention to the screen you'll probably become extremely confused and frustrated.
There's way too many characters. Maybe this explains why the show couldn't be bothered to develop any of them, but my god why are there so many of them. Although preferably they wouldn't constantly introduce new characters, the issue is only further exacerbated by the show's refusal to drop them from the screen after they are no longer relevant to the current arc. Furthermore the characters aren't even eye-catching, the designs are all bland, and you couldn't even consider them to be gimmicky, they all have cardboard personalities with few exceptions.
Almond. Fuck his inclusion in the final two episodes, he alone dropped my rating by a point.
Let's wrap this up.
You should watch this show if you have an infatuation with the isekai/otome game genre and a thing for lord claude.
You should not watch this show if you don't belong to the former group.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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