Story: 1/10
Jesus Christ was this story a mess. The basic plot is that our Main Character, Eiji who looks exactly the same as Yuki but without the cap wished for something which caused the “Great Destruction.” But here is one thing, they call it a great destruction, so shouldn’t everything look ruined? Shouldn’t there be only a few survivors? Shouldn’t it be more post-apocalyptic? Nope, Big Order doesn’t even know what it means by saying Great Destruction, it shows you a perfectly fine world with many people living, no building collapsed, and there is even SCHOOL going on. How does that make sense in something called the “Great Destruction?” This therefore already breaks our reality on the story and this so called “Great Destruction.” We can even tell this story has no confidence in itself with the absurdity that it has sometimes and the fan service. There are many uncomfortable topics in this series such as incest and sex. They really should put hentai on the genres of this series. The series pacing is all over the place and many events are things you will not care about. Not to mention the overall poor writing of the dialogue and scenario. Many things are also left unexplained and overall, this story was left in pieces by then end.
Art: 4/10
How do I describe Big Order’s art? It’s overall poor for a 2016 anime. Even anime that are worse than this show in this season have better art work. This makes Hundred’s art looks like Leonardo Da Vinci painted it. Backgrounds don’t look very good. The sky is for some reason green until the last episode; don’t know who made that decision. Character designs are all generic and we have seen this before. They literally look the same as Mirai Nikki, just change the hair a little bit and heights too, then you have the characters of this series. Overall the art for this series was poor.
Sound: 4/10
Is there anything redeemable about the sound in the series? Well I can’t really talk about it as I was so disgusted that I couldn’t even listen to the sound. It’s extremely forgettable. Huh, that’s probably why I can’t talk about it, because I forgot everything about the sound. That’s how forgettable it is. The Opening and Endings are extremely bad too. Even though it sort of fits with Big Order, it really is a bad song on both ends.
Characters: 1/10
Honestly the worst part of Big Order. I really hate every single character in this series. It’s really hard to find a series where I actually hate every single character. Even in one of the worst series of all time, Chaos Dragon, I found a character that I actually liked. That really tells you that this show is bad. It really is never explained what motivations some of the characters have and it is a huge cast and trying to develop all of them in 10 episodes is impossible. Another good example of that is this season’s Mayoiga. Dialogue between characters is poor and you really can’t feel any emotion for any of the characters. Some are just introduced out of the blue and you are like “Who are you?” Character development is quite literally non-existent. Eiji for literally the entire series just says “I’m gonna save Sena!” Literally every episode he just says that. It’s quite literally the same with every other character in the series too. Rin is like “I’m going to kill Eiji,” the fortune teller is just like “I’m going to make love to Eiji,” and so on and so forth for literally every other character.
Enjoyment: 1/10
This show is probably one of the most unenjoyable shows to watch. I literally had to drag myself to KissAnime and cringe at how bad this series was every Friday. A poor story with poor characters makes for an overall poor anime. I seriously considered just dropping the anime entirely as every episode felt really long and not worth watching. Completely the opposite vibe from a great show such as Re:Zero which wanted me to keep watching every episode and each one felt like 5 minutes long. A good way of saying how un-enjoyable this series was is saying it was like watching an episode of Endride or Divine Gate.
Overall: 2/10
This show is quite bad, but somehow was not the worst of the season. Yes, Spring 2016 had even worse series than this. The poor story, characters, and lack of enjoyment that it gives you really brought this show down to something like watching that live action Dragon Ball movie where everyone was white but the sensei. The art and sound of this series really did not help at all. It just kept dragging down everything about it. So is it worth watching Big Order? No and I hope that is abundantly clear by the paragraphs that explain everything that I hate about this show. I hope this review was helpful in convincing you not to watch Big Order.
