Ah yes, we are once again graced with another cookie cutter Shonen of the season, and as always, its score is heavily influenced by manga fans, tweens and edge lords who think gory = God tier. But before you go on a rant on me and how I dared diss your 736th 10/10 anime hear me out. It was a decently enjoyable show, infect a fine show, a 7/10 show.
As an anime only, and especially one who started watching the anime right before it ended this season it was astonishing how people went from a hype train to calling an all-out hate war over the animators and its adaptation; So naturally I was interested to see how badly they F***ed up. But to my surprise it was just...Fine? Am I missing something or did y'all finally grow up? when I sat down to watch another Shonin anime that follows those same patterns, I got pretty much what I expected so the lesson here is to utterly ignore manga readers.
Now the first few episodes and the worldbuilding in general kept reminding me of Jujutsu Kaisen and I'm not sure if this is a new trend in Shonin set by, I assume Demon Slayer, but the Gore heavy Spirit hunting is slowly becoming the repetitive norm for Shonin Bots. The dark yet not so spooky psychological tone which seems to always tickle SingleH's Dopamine receptors was fine but somehow, I can imagine it being better received in Manga format. As for the story the only thing that really stood out to me was our protagonists goofy oversexualized ambitions, and boy as a dude they are relatable AF, but the rest was too generic and slightly rushed. I'm hinting at that 2-episode training arc which really didn't show character growth or a Sensei Student bond it was just there Cuz it had to follow the tropes.
The animation was spot on and while it wasn't the most beautiful piece of media I had consumed it was a pleasure seeing how well CG tech have evolved over the past few years and how they were used to add a bit more dynamic life to the scenes and objects. As for the Music, I can't really say it was good or bad, but it defiantly was forgettable. There were brief moments where the music really came through, but they were few and far between sullied by generic action music during the fights.
Overall, I'd say it's worth a watch but it's nothing really that special
