It kicks off in a promising direction, with exciting characters. The entire premise and beginning are great, but as the episodes start to pile up, while it introduces a plethora of side characters and ventures into even more side storylines, it grows increasingly more evident that it has nothing to say. The story builds in the tempo of a snail, which would not be much of an issue, but the show after a certain event (library) starts to forcefully, but again very slowly, regress all its past choices.
I lost any remaining interest I had when I realized that every story progression circles back to the beginning. No character goes through an arc. A lame character that finally died twenty episodes ago actually didn't. Everyone remains in or goes back to their old status quo. If a larger half of the show was outright discarded, no one would notice (except for manga readers).
During the span of 40 episodes, we learn about the history of the main villain where we are being repeatedly told how bad he is and how everyone is monstrously scared of him, but he never really does anything that would justify such a fact. It is an illusion, he just has an assassin bodyguard that extremely conveniently teleports around and is always at the right time and place to cause trouble for the main character(s). So the show has to devote itself to another useless storyline to go around the caused damage.
Totally unfocused experience. Definitely not something that justifies the runtime of 70 episodes. Monster not only munched and gulped people around it but also my patience and time.
