Basically, 100-man tells a normal story, without much news, but that creates a concept that I admit I liked. When it comes to isekai, we imagine a complex of several times, after all, who is transported to a different world, has to race against time to survive daily. The anime reversed that, using an idea of respawn after death. Games like this are common, with League of Legends being one of the most popular worldwide. The show brought a deep idea, but developed in a peturbating way, since the very beginning of the series has holes in its use. This problem would be to revive in a condition in which it would not normally survive. This leads us to believe that certain types of death, such as beheading, being swallowed by a monster or being drowned are ways in which the character would be in an infinite loop of death and resurrection. But the very idea is broken at first, when Kusue is killed with a cut in half and manages to return to life normally, without any explanation. But it's not just that, Kusue doesn't recover his arm, which there is no explanation in my opinion. It was an abysmal mistake of a very poorly executed proposal. And it gets worse, when Yu is swallowed by a monster and does not last a little time inside it. Again, it was cut in half. It would be acceptable to put this problem aside if it doesn't happen again. And in fact, this failure was diminished and began to make sense as the episodes progressed.
However, the anime has not seen any signs of improvement since the beginning. It was a show of "doing missions" and "a pseudo-strategy" involving the death of the characters, where what would happen once or twice in each episode is actually repeated several times until it gets sick. And more than that, it is uninteresting and bad to see such ridiculous dramas about it. First, there is Yu, a girl who suffered from losing a dear friend, then there is Kusue, who has an exaggerated inferiority complex, because she finds herself a hindrance in relation to others. And there is Yuka, who was bullied, but who internally disputes the possible idea that she deserved it. These banal dramas keep hammering the audience's head every second of the characters' calm. It is no longer enough to see a show of ridiculous missions, we have to listen and endure conversations about how to improve your personality, for the good of all. I agree that this is necessary, after all, every serious anime should develop the psychological and as actions of the characters in order to consider a personal and social improvement. But 100-man not only makes all this ridiculous, but he didn't know how to create a decent story for each one. That is, they missed the easiest thing ever.
Oh, and I couldn't forget about our protagonist. Is he a little better than that? NOT! He's also awful. Yotsuya is his name. He is more of an MC who tries to solve everything himself and who forgets his friends when he thinks he can deal with some giant creature. He is anti-climatic and has no charisma. He is a character that puts other protagonists at an inferior level, which made me hate him. And all this is added to the common idea of using an MC who despairs of having a girlfriend and who is always getting in trouble with any of the female characters. In fact, as their struggles are as ridiculous as possible. Remember Hachi-nan tte? So, the way the studio decided to "show" the fights is exactly the same. An absurdly uncomfortable amount of static frames and no flexibility in character movements around it all. It is as if we are seeing a lot of screams, where the next scene is a cheap and cringe resolution of a fight that we did not see, precisely for that nutty direction.
The only thing I would save on this show is the interactions between the characters. As strange as it may seem, the anime manages to maintain some advantage in this, by creating in the second part an interesting productivity of the actions and a team interaction that can favor the anime for its future (in fact, a second season has already been confirmed). The character with half a head is also not all bad. He really emits some humor in his incomplete dialogues and manages to keep the cringe amused, however ridiculous and painful it is to watch it. I even confess that I didn't drop this anime just because of it. I really wanted to see him scare everyone and disappear mysteriously, like a ghost. Well, he is just a moderator who inserted the characters in this world, but we don't know what his intention is (that is, if the author really thought of the answer to that question).
Another interesting thing is the CG. I really liked your visual output, although it is still below average. But he is not as bad as Arifureta or Gibiate, two of the worst animes in terms of visual production. 100-man was competent for the small amount of money he had and made an anime that, although weak and with a visual widely repeated in the isekais, managed to bring a good execution. It is worth saying that it is not the merit of the studio, nor of the designers, after all, this does not mean that anime is good or something, just that it is a positive aspect in the midst of an enormous amount of problems.
Ultimately, 100-man has more things to fix than to maintain. It is not an anime remembered this year, nor does it deserve any merit other than a brief competence and proposal. It was a show that poorly executed an idea that seems to be excellent. I wish I had seen more of it this year, even though it was an anime cringe and hard to watch. It's an anime that I still see a potential, because it brings things that I like in isekais. It is a pity to see that he is nothing but cheap entertainment material, but it was fun to follow his funniest moments and his ridiculous missions.
