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Apr 2, 2019
Mixed Feelings
There's nothing inherently *wrong* with [Excessively Long Anime Title Anime]. If you're into game-type series with a lot of physics-defying high school grills then I expect you'll get value from the twelve episodes. So, worth watching? Not really. It was never bad enough for me to drop it, but the last three episodes had me watching on half the screen while researching grilling tips for my Grillmaster™ 5000™ and sorting my extensive collection of Grill™ Images™ on the other.

It's not really a harem anime because there's only one grill in the running, but the other collection of QTs stick around the boring protagonist like gum on the bottom of a school desk put there by some random Stacy while she blew Chad Penninghampgoldworthton and then forgotten about just like her prescription for Zovirax. There's nothing special about any of the main or side characters, although that doesn't mean they lack charm or personality. It's obviously nothing you haven't seen before, but they're still fun to watch. Also, the animation is top-quality and some of the panoramas really are beautiful.

What really salts my dripping axe wound is the premise/co-main component of [ELATA]: the video game Legendary Age. At first I somewhat enjoyed the game world because it allowed an alternate storytelling path for the characters to grow--even though I really, super-duper don't like vidya animes. Then it just kept going to the point where the last couple episodes are all about the game. This sucks because by that point in the series I didn't give a dry turd about the game, I wanted to watch the characters interact IRL. I'd "gotten to know them" and wanted that to take priority over an endless stream of MMO cliches. And speaking of, some of the memes spouted in dialogue are overused (normie scum) bordering on cringey.

But like I said before, there's nothing *bad* here, but it's definitely not good either. I didn't hate my time because I did finish it, but I also can't really recommend it either unless you're really into the vidya anime "genre."
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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