But then I watched it.
And, oh boy. It is not good. Like... it's really bad.
I think this has enough conceptual meat for maybe a ten minute short and then the joke at the core of the premise is completely played out. As far as mockeries of isekai and fantasy anime tropes go, this is a pretty poor offering. It lacks even the tiniest of fractions of the humour and charm of something like Konosuba. I think my mouth might have twitched in the direction of a smile once or twice, but there were no laughs here.
So does it work on any other levels? Well the plot is thin, the characters only loosely sketched, and honestly, I don't care about any of them. So you can forget story and character.
But surely, with the all the talk of it being borderline hentai, it's at least decent ecchi? No... it really isn't. It's about as stimulating as watching rhinos fuck on a nature documentary. I mean, hey, if that does it for you, all power to you. But yeah, this did nothing for me.
I think in part the above is because I just don't enjoy the art style at play here. In fact about the only thing I find decent is the OP which is reasonably catchy.
So yeah, I think Funimation's censorship shenanigans are pretty shitty, but I'm not sure this was the hill to die on when it comes fighting moral panics and their instigators. It's, simply put, a struggle to watch.
