Ousama Ranking: How to create expectations and miserably fail to reach them!
Ousama Rankings is a cliché story about a boy named Boji and his journey to become stronger. It's filled with many plot elements found in the old anime times, it has many of these old shonen clichés and it doesn't even try to make its own but adding anything new except it's very own bullshit logic.
"Bro you need to get into OS, it's a very mature seinen anime that is just too good. You will love it!"
Okay so I can get how most people will love it - good fights and animation,
tries to be emotional and does hit for many, bloody and decent storytelling but in no way do I get how this is a mature seinen anime. The characters are dumb as hell and are written similarly to shonen characters with no depth, and these characters have rushed development and the same personalities that you have probably seen in another anime.
The main character has tons of bad plot armour which doesn't help me like it either, the author did something else to him very early which I won't spoil but it's bad for the future of the series and could quite possibly make it worse.
One other thing about this show is that despite being 23 episodes into the story, we have barely explored the world, and that time has been wasted on bad melodrama where the show is screaming "CRY FOR ME!!!!!!" and with no good reason as to why. I am not a fan of melodrama, especially when it's trying so bad to make you cry but I don't have a good reason to.
The story is told in a simple way, with nothing that felt bad, it's portrayed nicely, despite the other flaws, the storytelling is decent and I like it, it's also why the show is rated as high it is right now but sadly, this is the best part.
But this show is very inconsistent in its tone, you see, right now they are showing some tragic scene but the next moment, very conveniently the tone changes to that of showing hope. Now that is not wrong, every shonen does that but OR does it so conveniently fast that it ends up being bad.
This show is also very predictable. I have seen many shonen, and as I mentioned it uses those same clichés and so, the experience is very predictable, you can expect almost everything except its own bullshit haha.
The music is absolutely fantastic, and the visuals are great too. Especially in the second opening, it was very fire and I can't describe how much I like it, it's that good.
Sadly this show wastes too much time on unnecessary plot elements, and that time could have been spent to explore more of its fantasy setting, and develop the characters nicely instead of giving "rushed" development.
The execution was in my opinion very bad, the show tries to be so much but really just fails even at the most basic things. I am not a fan of how it does what and I very sadly am disappointed badly.
Overall?
Just ask yourself, Are you new to anime? Do you like shonen? If the answer is yes, then without a doubt, you should watch OR but don't expect it to be mature or well written. Truly a disappointment to me.
No, this review is no troll.
