It's basically about a guy named Yoga Kimimaro who looks like a highschool boy but is supposed to be in college...I suppose I can overlook that as not everyone looks like an adult in college. He majors in economics yet knows next to nothing about money, investing, and so on. He basically just works at a convenience store and save up. He's in love with his friend who has a boyfriend and the story begins when he gets a random deposit of a large sum of money and a visit by a weird being from some other realm they call the financial district. Now I'm going to stop it here and go over what we have so far.
Yoga is by far the most milk toast, boring, passive b*tch character I've seen in quite a while. I wonder if anyone has to come into his bathroom and wipe his a** for him case he's too passive to do it himself. We get a glimpse into how passive he is when he never speaks up to confess his feelings for his friend. you would think that this would be a flaw he would have to resolve in the end, and he sort of does...sort of but we'll get to that later. During most of this anime this guy just walks around as everyone explains the plot and he's so freaking ignorant when it comes to the economy to the point where you wonder why he's even an economics major. By the way he looks and his ignorance, you might as well say he's a highschool kid. but I guess even the creators realized how stupid it would be for a high school kid to participate in a financial game and save Japan from economic collapse. So they instead created this “might as well be a highschool kid” character with the title of college student and economics major.
So let’s continue. He gets taken to another realm…because it would be boring this was a slice of life about people dealing with Japan’s tough economy and there he has to pay a money battle royale type of game that is never fully explained because the creators know nothing about economics except a bunch of keywords. While there Yoga draws the attention of the main bad guy with a sister complex and daddy issues, Souichirou who is the boss controlling everything there. They do a good job of setting up this character and his personal goals. So much so to the point where I wonder if they should have just made him the main character. He’s an adult, more involved with economics, more knowledgeable about the financial district and its effects on the real world economy (although not smart enough to realize that pumping the economy full of money is not good), not perfect, not passive, has a more defined past, and the list goes on. But I guess that would make too much sense. Instead he’s the exposition guy. He stands around informing the main character of everything for some odd reason because the main character attracted his attention…still trying to figure out how considering the fact that the main character is about as interesting as watching paint dry.
Then we have another exposition character…because the plot is so far gone to the point where they needed multiple characters to explain what is going on. I forgot her name but she just walks around talking about her investigations and eating burgers cause that’s her quirk. These characters basically have to explain the economy and so on to this so called economics major as he battles people with money powers and supernatural creatures. Smh.
Overall, I liked the art style. It was sort of monte cristo like which is cool and well, at least the characters were all adults even if one is questionable. The ending was what I expected it to be. Rushed, convoluted, and “explained” by a third party. Oh and if your wondering if the main character stops being such a passive b*tch. Well, he acknowledges that it’s one of his issues and he tries to resolve it by standing up for his beliefs…after he’s told what they should be. The plot with the girl he had a crush on was dropped so there is no resolution there. Then he’s told that his choice at the end was for nothing so, so much for making decisions for yourself that other people say you should make. Lol!
