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Jun 22, 2019
I was told to watch this anime from a friend, because they told me it was "so good" and one one of their favourites.

After watching the first season, I've personally dubbed this "Generic: The Anime". The characters have about as much life in them as cardboard cutouts. The dialogue, of which there is a LOT (it makes sense being that it's about merchant trading and finances) is clunky and feels forced a good chunk of the time. There have only been about three moments where I've actively KIND OF wanted to know what was going to happen, and likewise those are about the only three moments I even remember.

I want to focus more on the characters. Lawrence has zero personality beyond "that merchant guy who gets in trouble". He's not funny, he's not really likeable, actually he's the worst sort of anime idiot, in my perspective. Holo, the "great female lead" people have told me about, is downright insufferable. She comes across as snotty and superior, but talks way more about how amazing and so wise she is than she ever actually demonstrates her defining character trait. She's arrogant, demanding, and...She just gets on my nerves. None of the other characters are worth mentioning, they're as uninteresting as the leads.

Everyone speaks very monotone in the dub, which makes boring financial dialogue even more boring. Is there background music? If there is I don't even remember. The opening is pretty bland and the ending is something I skip everytime, so nothing in the sound department stands out or impresses me at all.

Art wise, everything but the backgrounds look very generic, including Holo and especially Lawrence. The backgrounds, at least, look like there was real effort to make them look nice and soft. But medieval trading isn't going to give you any really visually stunning backgrounds...Again, they DO look really nice for what they are.

Overall, do I think this anime is particularly bad? Despite my abysmal scores of it, not really. I just find it so, so tedious, with a lead I personally can't stand, and nothing of interest really happening. I do, however, hope others can enjoy it as much as others I've talked to seem to, and as much as the other reviews here do too. This one's just not for me, and if financial dialogue doesn't do much for you, I most certainly cannot recommend this anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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