TL;DR: Here are some quick keywords: Pro-eugenics, misogynist but lacking fanservice, pseudo-intellectual, timeskips, Ayn Rand novel in disguise.
CW: Rather extreme misogyny, pro-eugenics, very infuriating writing.
Story: 2
Are you extremely misogynist? Do you believe Hitler was onto something when he was dabbling in eugenics? Then you and the author of this piece of garbage might have something in common! Even then, though, I would still not recommend you watch this series, because ignoring the gross core message of this series, it's just objectively poorly written. As other reviewers have already pointed out, the story is crammed into a few episodes. How did the screenwriters solve for this? One word: timeskips. Imagine you start watching a story: we are introduced to the main character who is thrown into an unknown world. We're being told that he's sort of competent, but he still has a lot to learn. We get our first scene where the stakes are getting high, but our MC overcomes the battle. However, he decides he needs to grow stronger if he ever wishes to obtain his goal. Cool! You're hyped, click the next episode, and then: SURPRISE, a timeskip! Apparently the anime decided that the most interesting part -namely the main character learning and developing into a hero- was not worth to show the audience. Instead, we skip straight to our MC all grown up and acting like a Gary Stu cardboard cutout. Any info he learned the last few years, we are informed of through infodumps. The story also features other flaws, like portraying complete racial segregation as a natural thing that shouldn't be questioned and several plot threads that lead nowhere -specifically one certain character dying a very anticlimactic death: they were there first, the next moment they were gone. Normally you'd think "oh, it's this old cheesy trope where this character is revealed to return and turned evil offscreen", but nope, apparently they actually died. That entire scene only existed to prove to us (?) that social Darwinism is valid.
Characters: 1
As I mentioned before, the main character starts out as mediocre, then becomes a straight up Gary Stu we don't feel any connection to because of a dumb timeskip. But, it doesn't end there! We also have two (!) somewhat 'important' female characters, both of which tie their entire self-worth to whether or not they can get babies with a strong man. I'm not even kidding, main girl who has a crush on MC must mention at least once in every conversation she has with him that she wants to make babies with him. But since the series goes for a serious vibe, we don't even get treated with the real fanservice. Jyu oh Sei: if you're going to be blatantly misogynist, then at least give us the hot sexy stuff as well. Alas, Jyu oh Sei as a story wishes to be pseudo-intellectual so there's no place for pandering that's *too* obvious.
Art: 5
The art is mediocre, I guess. It has some intriguing concepts here and there, but they never do anything interesting with it.
Sound: 5
It's been a while since I watched it, but I don't remember anything about the sound, so I assume that means it was quite forgettable. But I guess that's relatively impressive for this show. Well done Jyu oh Sei: you haven't offended me in the art and sound department. Too bad that won't influence my overall assessment.
Enjoyment: 1
Believe me, it takes quite some effort for me to get offended over my Asian cartoons. But I guess, Jyu oh Sei managed what no other show has managed before. It's the only series that has gotten the rating of '1' from me, out of all shows I've watched. It achieved this feat because not only was it objectively a very shitty series, it's also morally bankrupt.
Overall: 1
I couldn't be bothered to watch the last few episodes, but according to wikipedia and a few other reviews here, it only gets worse after I dropped. I guess you may enjoy this shit if you either are in search of an eugenics-themed power-fantasy, or you want to hate-watch a show with friends and wanna see which of them punches their head through their screen first. A shame though, because on paper, a nature-themed battle royale style story sounds sort of interesting.
