Context: I've been watching isekai, greatly dissatisfied whenever morally grey characters go full villain, slaughtering people and generally having no empathy for fellow intelligent creatures. So, why do I feel different about this show?
The setup. The show doesn't hide that it's about war and its horrors. Thousands of people will die, to the point you become desensitised to death. And in that war, the faction of the protagonist will lose. With that certain, it all becomes about the journey.
The characters. The protagonist is a psychopath, and the Being X has inside of it every critique atheists give to it that ever existed. When it comes to supporting cast, the headquarters is filled with madmen. Gladly, it also has the straight man of the show, Erich von Bergen, that appropriately comes from a relatively civilian background. Soldiers are a colorful bunch and it's pleasant to watch their shenanigans.
The theme(?). While I mostly watched the show as dumb cathartic fun, there is at least one message: rules are not to be followed blindly. This show again and again shows, how despite the logical genius of the protagonist, their logical actions bring forth their doom. 2 notable cases are the one from the previous life that caused the reincarnation and the one from the first deployment, which directly caused the war to start. Both times were from blind following of the rules with little regard towards additional context. With little more deliberation and empathy, maybe, this wouldn't have been so troublesome for them but alas. There is also generally a decent amount of comedy of errors.
