Now what does a kid enjoy? As Scamboli said it: Kids love stories that they could plug themselves into, "if I was Bell I'd save that girl and MARRY HER" or so the thought would go. Or "I have to save everybody these kids are counting on me" type deal. Well as I've grown I've realized how awful this plot device can be, don't worry about your actual writing skill just think about the kids and maybe they'll eat it up. Going back even more, when I loved Danmachi I use to hate the comparisent of Danmachi and Sao. "ONE IS GOOD" I said, "Don't compare garbage too good" I continued. No, these shows are near identical in some unbelievable ways, even more so in how they make me feel. They both got the protaginist who gets random powerups when he needs to save a girl. The plot has no depth whatsoever in any sense. Everything about the writing is bad. There always has to be a villain for the sake of there being a villain. It's so similar that I wouldn't even be suprised if they were written by the same person.
Danmachi s3 focuses on the Monster vs Human debate, they explore the deep in-world discussion between the relationship between the two sides. The humans enter the dungeon, the monsters fight back, etc etc. This could be a good idea if the author could give me a goddamn reason to care. This whole season we are thrust upon a scene in which we have no reason to care about. Bell is our plug in character, he cares because he wants EVERYBODY to be happy. Alright at least he has a reason to care but what about ours? We don't have one... The only reason we are suppose to care about this shitty show is that there's a cute loli who smiles and acts like a stereotypical loli. I cannot remember anything about her and I finished the goddamn show 10 minutes ago. Going back to that kid mentality, a kid would eat this shit up. "I would save that little girl everybody must be happy" or some garbage like that. I'm not a kid, you're not a kid considering you ain't mad about this review so what's the deal?
The characters of this show were honestly pathetic, the charm that everybody once had is gone, everybody is just annoying now (More on that later). But you wanna know what makes it even worse? The stupid jokes we are suppose to laugh at. Guess what, I ain't gonna lie, sometimes I did laugh, the jokes were funny every once in awhile. But if I laugh at 5 of the 100+ jokes then something is wrong. I'd describe Danmachi as that little kid who keeps following you around, he says stupid jokes trying to make you laugh but none of them do, but once in a lifetime you actually laugh and maybe you think "this kid ain't so bad" but then he tells more shit jokes. You don't know how much times I'd pause during episodes because I hated everything so much.
The harem shit is actually getting annoying, there are too many girls, too many to care about. What makes it worse is that there are TOO MANY OF THEM that they all have to share screentime. Thinking about this made me die from laughter after realizing how stupid the thought of it actually was. Also what doesn't help is that none of them have a personality trait worth mentioning aside from your standard run of the mill stuff.
Everybody in this show had their arcs completely destroyed and forgotten about in replacement for the stupid monster arc that nobody cared about. The people of the red light district had no stake in the show whatsoever and the only time they were shown was to alleviate the pain of the people who liked them. But it's done worse in the Hermes and Sword Princess characters, Hermes was once this mysterious figure who felt as if he could control the world, nope he's just another loser as well who is nothing compared to Bells beautiful light. The sword princess officially only has two traits, kill monster and kuudere.
Ok I have so much to say but I would spoil the whole show and at that point what's the purpose of the review. Danmachi is appalling, there's nothing good about it, it perfectly represents peoples distaste modern anime and its focus on target audiences. I do not recommend for the life of me that you watch this show unless you're trying to get your mean score down. In the event that you do watch it I hope you enjoy it in the way that I didn't
To sum it all up
Story: 1/10
Art: 5/10
Sound:4/10
Character: 1/10
Enjoyment: 2/10
Overall: 1/10
Thanks for the read
