I dont usually write serious stuff but i felt for this anime i should because there is something i find very interesting about it. Now this isn't a review for people that have not yet watched the anime because i am simply making an analyses of it and there will be spoilers but you're welcome for the ride.
First off going into this anime it seems like an anime where you have to turn your brain off and just sit back and enjoy the ride. What it is is a blend of tengen toppa gurren lagain, power rangers, and kick ass and when you here those three together how could you possibly have to use your brain when watching this anime. Well thats because just as a normal stupid giant robots anime it kinda blows.
My problems with watching this anime without thinking are mostly to do with the pacing and ridiculous shifts in tone. When it comes to pacing this anime is bad... really bad like so bad that... maybe it could be intentional? now what I mean when i say bad is well first we have one enemy, our hero defeats him and instantly another pops up. Right away our hero is given new comrades and sent to instantly fight these bad guys, with a one scene break suddenly they realize the president set this up and it was all a trick. They beat him but suddenly it turns out the guy helping them set that up and that was a trick... thats kind of ridiculous and not in the good way TTGL would have been
Because of this i started to think that there is no way this could have been an accident but still that wasn't enough the other thing that i found interesting is the ludicrous shift in tone. At first this anime is pretty calm no one dies or gets hurt nothing really bad happens. Then completely out of nowhere 2 cops die. They die bloody deaths to. Their deaths are treated with respect and care like a death should be treated. Okay and so then we continue and the monsters of the same breed that killed these cops act almost comical? When i say this i mean they literally have a monster that's buying all the fruit so that no one can have it. That's a bit of a switch. Then in the next arc the happens right after the first people do die except these deaths are treated like the deaths of people in super hero shoes the faceless side characters that just fall over and die without any real impact, completely unlike the other unimportant cops that were treated with a lot more respect.
These two things got me thinking that well there's probably more to this anime then what one may see by just looking at it at the surface. The first thing i thought about was the escalation in this anime. Now bear with me this will take a while. We start of in a setting where everything is generally normal and realistic. Our hero wants too well... become a hero and so he makes a costume and tries to make people follow rules that people don't consider important. Seems fine right, well soon after a girl from a popular idol group joins him because she wants to be a hero. She is a bit psychotic and she uses a mace thingy with a tazer. Wellll that's getting a bit weird in reality that wouldn't really be allowed but still its within the bounds of reality. Soon after he meats a mild scientist who gives him weapons that don't cause pain so would be legal. Hmmm that's once again strange but not impossible. Then we have a gorilla with a guillotine inside it... wait what that doesn't sound very realistic you're probably thinking. Well hold on this gorilla kills the two cops and its treated like how this situation would be treated in reality if a gorilla with a guillotine inside it suddenly pops up and kills people we would hold a memorial for their deaths and there would be a meeting of powers as to how to handle it. Soon more monsters come, and they keep coming however every time they seem less of how it would be in reality and more cartoon like. Then we meet with our bad guy. When he talks two idol girls I found him to say some things that make sense as if he was aware that they were superheroes and they had responsibilities just like super villains however in the next episode when he talks to the main character he seems more cartoon like telling him to join him. Then the world is saved and just as its saved its put into danger yet again. Then the show goes full power rangers however the team dynamic is more realistic but as it goes on it becomes more cartoonish until all the super heroes gather in a cartoon like setting to stop evil. Then the next bad guy to keep it short is even more cartoon like although it turns out he has good motives and then the next one is similar to a lot of anime bad guys where there imposing their way onto people thinking its right this last one may not be as cartoony but it is the most stereotypical one. And then we meet god.
Phew that was a lot but as you can see if you agree with me this anime gets more and more cartoon like with every episode causing it to have weird pacing and tone shifts. Now when our main character talks with god, god says he did everything as the main character wanted it. I'll get back to this but another thing to point out is that another focus of this anime, mostly in the last arch is that of how boring this world is. Have you never though that you wanted to live like those superheroes because thats exactly what our main character thought and the way it plays it with him is the way it would probably play out in our minds. The anime goes from how it would be like in reality to how it would be like in our minds. I feel this was done on purpose in order to make us relate to the character in reality as in how it start and in our minds as in how it ends( not the last arch). Thinking about it like this made me like this anime quite a bit and honestly i think this anime is more than what it appears to be. It's like how we go into our own worlds in order to escape reality for a little while and thats what this anime does, slowly pushes away reality in order to go into it's own little world.
HAH and you thought it was done. Well not just yet I do still want to say a bit about why my entire shpeal didn't include the final arch. Well that's because i feel more so that it was there in order to bring us back to reality for that wild roller coaster kind of like saying don't get too ahead of yourself with your fantasizing because when you put away your phone and look up reality is still there and you still have to deal with it.
If you read this that damn I'm impressed but if you looked at the giant block of texts and thought, naw, then heres my summary basically an anime bout a love triangle of one guy and one girl trying to fuck another guy. Thanks for reading o and here are some arbitrary numbers cause I dont believe in scoring
