I will be honest here if you are looking for a bloody gore revenge story? You are in the right place. To sum up without any spoiler
1) This story is about taking revenge request for a "bitten gold coin" no matter what it will be.
2) It's super gore for sure.
3) Its action focuses.
Now for the bad side of this show...
1) Mystery doesn't exist in this show... Reminder THEIR JOB is to kill for revenge NOT ask the damn question. Even if it ends up badly, they have to do it. I even wondered if this show is properly tagged...
2) This should be obvious but there are NO detectives or main culprits. There are only just "victims and targets for revenge" This is pretty much like just any assassin or hitman series.
3) The action can be too heavy that the story lacks... TBH, I do hope they just stop the action focuses for just one episode... Like, imagine killing every episode it will feel normalised. When it starts to feel like it's normal that those special gore moments are no longer special. It lost all its magic...
4) Most characters felt shallow too because yeah... That's about right when there's not enough time to build the story for you to really care about them much...
The reason why I drop this as well as give it a 5 score isn't the animation. If anything, I can dare say the animation is worth 7.5/10. It's the story that is like
1) Mystery is a lie...
2) Literally a lack of story because every ep is 50% story and 50% action (Which is excessive)
Yep, I think the story writer needs to improve their skills more... It's more shallow than the action-based shounen series even though they HAD to make 12 ep series "as memorable" as possible. If it doesn't it fails as an original series.
Non-spoiler ep 6
Finally, the flaw of NO MYSTERY was solved and the character handles MUCH better too... They left the character development "half done" but now they finally get it down with it for real. It's quite a fast shift for sure... The action is now balanced too. It still has like every ep but a lot less now. I guess even the studio knows they can't just keep throwing in action and expect people to like "action" but no mystery. I would be disappointed if they don't notice it and keep it going.
Oh yeah, the mystery will NOT be the watcher to solve the mystery. It will be HOW the main cast figures the mystery out. The answer will be pretty much in the open for the "viewer" but NOT the "character" in this show. However again this kind of mystery would be at the middle ground now. The mystery isn't what I would say a mystery fan would enjoy solving. Since it's NOT a "solve a mystery" but "how they solve it" Kinda more like a walkthrough if anything... So still even as a mystery, it's in the middle of the grey zone. Not what a hardcore mystery fan would enjoy... Also, as I said the action can be VERY repetitive too because it's losing its "unique" gore by showing it too often... With that, it will feel normalised. Also don't expect the killing action to be different too. They use the same killing move... Like yep, that's why you shouldn't "normalize" those action scenes... If you not going to add any more unique killing acts... It would just feel like normal sht...
Many popular "cruel execution" manga/novels or even Korean/Chinese staff have one thing in common... It always gives you the EDGE on how the execution would be... Death Note and Danganronpa's EXTREME execution is a good example. It was so extreme and new every time.
To fix this "using the same killing move" is simple... Less action and giving more story or the reason for such act... It would feel like "they deserve it" instead of focusing on "wow they did it again... GREAT!" Even One Punch Man's story structure is like that. In reality, Saitama can ONLY punch... Yet why the story felt so good? Because One (author) shifts to focus on anyone else. Yeah... It's just this easy-to-fix "Only have 1 move" issue. Just give us a side tract that has a meaning till we get to see another of "same move yet important"
At least things start to change since ep 5+... 1-4 really feel numb and just action... You can say the "reason why we want action" is a bit late...
Now its 6+/10. That's all I can give them for trying to fix things.
