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May 2, 2021
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (3/5 eps)
There's a good chance you already know what people dislike about this show, and you're just scrolling reviews at this point.

Yes, the "animation" is exactly the level of quality you get from youtube readings of webcomics, where one or two people just dub themselves reading somebody else's comic and artificially slide the character stills around. I'd compare it to animanga, but it's more like something you'd throw together in google slides.

What it did for me, and probably a lot of other people was introduce me to a very pleasant story and a hilarious character, as well as give him a great voice that I can now read his lines in. The voice acting here is the real attraction, and it does add some credibility to the yakuza tropes being parodied. Is that worth watching these short comics stretched out to multi-minute long sketches? Well, probably not for most people. At times it does feel like watching someone read the comic as slowly as possible. I don't take it as a grave insult on the series like a lot of the fans seem to, but I also wouldn't call it an anime adaptation so much as a manga dub, or manga reading. It'd be right at home on YouTube, but on Netflix it seems a little out its depth.

Regardless of that quality, the source manga is great, and that comedy carries through fine here. If you don't have access to the manga, this is a servicable, if inferior, way to enjoy the story.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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