Where it lost us was in its villain. Its villain is the achilles heel of the entire series. The following will be an exhaustive breakdown of everything wrong with the villain that contains spoilers from episode 8 onwards. Thats really where the troubles began.
The villain goes from being the Darth Vader to the Emperor in about two sentences. What I mean by that is- initially he is introduced as feeling similar to just a high level henchman ala Jaws from James Bond or the Aforementioned Darth Vader. When in Reality he turns out to be the Uber BBEG of the series in the vein of the Emperor or Zuul from Ghostbusters (Idk why I couldnt think of anyone else- dont @ me).
Not only is the Villain literally a massive capitalist dickweed by wanting to monopolize the only life-saving medicine available for a world that has been plagued by this disease. BUT he is also the asshole who made everyone hate the protag by spreading rumors about the hero's sacred order AND he also used to be one of them! Realizing now that the emperor comparison is really apt given their backstory... ANYWAY! The villain then completely turns into not a cold, calculating badass who is confident in his every breath, but a complete whiny baby who freaks the fuck out whenever anything even slightly goes haywire in his halfassed plans. Part of this is on the blame of the animators I feel for making him too expressive in these moments, but most of it I think has to do with the writers and the VA for just completely hamming up his performance and dialogue.
After episode 8 most of the logic that was present in the series kind of goes out the fuckin window. So much so that the hero and villain (SPOILERS SPOILERY SPOILERDOO) both die in the 9th episode, and both come back to life by the 11th episode. But now they have god powers and immortality and shit.... yeah its just... yeah...
The only saving grace is that the ending goes SUPER gay like.... these guys might as well go around summoning rainbows everywhere, but the mushroom allegory kinda gets the same point across so its fine. But im not kidding, the second the villain is defeated, the show goes back to the same show that my girlfriend and I loved beforehand. So- if you're looking to be edged in terms of satisfaction derived from entertainment this is probably a good bet if you feel up to binging it.
Overall Id say this show is a fun distraction if you feel up to it. The animation isnt great most of the time but when it slaps it really does. And the ending makes me think a season 2 might not be AS bad. But I reckon that this show will more likely be remembered for its homo-eroticism than anything so if anything it'll probably just provide context for all those horny fanfics you might see on AO3 for the next few months.
4/10 needs more gay
