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Jun 17, 2016
Big Order is a mess. A real BAD mess. I don't think I've seen another anime with such bizarre execution, themes and ideas while also tripping over itself at every opportunity faster than the time grandma fell down the stairs. This show was so bad that I thought it was a joke or a satire of anime conventions. Boy, was I wrong. While, certainly, there were many parts of the anime I would classify as "so bad it's good", by the end, the narrative became even more of a convoluted mess and all fun I had with the series quickly diminished. Hell, when I saw the announcement for this show, I initially thought it was going to be a slice of life series about working in the fast-food industry. After learning that in fact, it was the same author as Mirai Nikki, I understood why it was such a big mess but I think this is far worse than Mirai Nikki in terms of writing, normally an author gets better over time, not the other way around.

This doesn't help either that every character in Big Order looks like rejects from Mirai Nikki. To be perfectly fair this is expected to a certain extent since manga authors usually have a particular style or way of designing characters but the likeness of Nikki certainly felt more so reductive than innovative.

Big Order's narrative begins with an extremely vague flying woman who goes around granting wishes to people, She eventually comes across the main character who informs her that he wishes to destroy the world since he was influenced by his favorite cartoon...the world was destroyed by a FUCKING cartoon. After the protagonist commits genocide, the narrative picks up ten years into the future (because fuck continuity) were we see the world has not been destroyed, and even after a massive calamity, society seems to have progressed enough to build another school. I certainly haven't lived through a disaster like the world being destroyed but I highly doubt a school or sometimes whole cities would still be running, but hey, this show doesn't care about its worldbuilding so why should I? The show shortly establishes that this woman, named Daisy, had been granting wishes to many other people too, who are thus given the label of "orders" and are hated by the remaining populace.

Just a small tidbit if you'd please excuse me, but if Daisy was granting random wishes to people, then why on earth didn't anyone wish for the world to be fixed or something? Was Eiji (our genocide protagonist) the last person she ever granted a wish to? Anyway, Eiji is incredibly annoying. He is an edgy as fuck teenager and the world hates him, while also having a rather intimate relationship with his sister. Why? I don't know, incest is going to be in every bad show now? And it's not like it's subtle either. They literally have sex with each other. Neat. While on his way home from school one day, Eiji is attacked by a Yuno clone (minus everything that made Yuno a fun character). She vows vengeance on Eiji since his wish caused the great destruction which killed her parents. During this fight, he showcases his power which literally looks like a poor man's version of a stand from JoJo. In fact, every power is literally a JoJo stand except they're all CG and look like shit and none of the powers are ever developed or explained.

Anyway, Eiji can control things within his 'domain' and manipulate things within that space to do whatever he says...so not only is this show like JoJo, it's also like Code Geass, he even wants to take over the world in the name of peace like Lelouch. While Yuno-clone is in this domain, she is unable to kill Eiji but over the course of the show begins to fall in love with him which is the dumbest thing I've ever heard because he kinda says that he will marry her or something...this makes no fucking sense.

After deciding to take over the world for the sake of world peace and to protect his sister and is made king of some kind of organization or whatever... I don't fucking care anymore. Why should I care when the anime gives me no reason to. We're introduced to all these characters who are supposedly the strongest but they barely have any screen time and pretty much are useless

The plot is all over the god damn place and nothing makes any sense what so ever. Things happen at random, all of the characters are stupid beyond belief. We rush through the plot at breakneck speed never allowing for any plot or character development at all. No character is likable in the slightest and no one is ever developed. For a while, the show could be pretty entertaining since it was so bad it was good. Such as in episode 4 when a nuke is dropped right above Eiji's head and he stops it his bare hands. Wouldn't it explode? Why didn't the people aim the nuke a few miles away from their location to ensure that it can't be stopped? Who fucking cares.

The anime tries way too hard to be edgy featuring plenty of leg and arm amputations and some of the worst censoring I have seen in a long time for any kind of nudity. Don't you love scenes that are 90% white light?

There were some parts that were just fucking dumb. Like the one scene in which Eiji touches the ears of the Miko character and she becomes pregnant. What the fuck.

The powers are never explained and lack any originality. The characters are boring and badly written, there is crappy animation and bad CGI, dull script, extremely forced plot twists that make no sense near the end and combining that with one of the worst endings I have ever seen makes for one of the worst anime of this year.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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