Like isekai, battle royale anime is starting to become a rising norm in the seasonal lineup and just like isekai, it's beginning to get less and less interesting.
People being pulled off the street at random to take part in a big brother-like social experiment where said people are given superpowers to kill each other for reasons unknown is in theory a good concept, but the execution is just so... meh. The tone switches between edgy power fantasy and comedy(?) so much that the pacing moves at a snail's pace.
Our main protagonist Akira is a Mary Sue and so hilariously edgy that he actively sucks the tension out of any scene he's in and ruins most of the show. It's hard to route for an actual sociopath who walks around saying "*SIGH* I wish the world was more like a game. This world is so boring *SIGH*" at the best of times, but he somehow manages to make the archetype even more boring with his ability. See he can "have the ability your enemy thinks you have" which I think is the most convoluted ability I've ever seen. I was enjoying watching him work out the limitations and conditions to his ability, but after 7 episodes of him using nothing but an arm cannon it got old pretty quick.
Yuuri is the typical battle royale girl archetype who had suffered childhood abuse. There's nothing all that interesting about her or any of the other characters. I don't remember most of them.
Mion is by far the most annoying character out of the cast. Her being a cat person (for some reason) and her irritating voice made me loathe scenes she was a part of.
The animation reminded me of a better-looking Hand Shakers which... isn't exactly good. It's not exactly bad looking, but it doesn't move all that smoothly and when CG models are used they're awful to look at.
Overall 5 seconds is probably all you need to watch to know if you're going to enjoy this or not. For me, it was a disappointment. The edge is strong, but nothing else is.
Watch Darwin's Game or Gleipnir instead.
4/10 disappointment
