The fighting is the best part of the show, the challenge of defeating a single small goblin by 6 people. They are uncoordinated, incompetent, the left overs.
Most of the show is an uneventful waste of time. Every scene is excruciatingly slow which would work if the characters were insightful and interesting but nope, all of them have the same goal, to be stronger so they can defeat monsters to get paid and survive. It is so dull, there are 7 main characters all bland with no unique character traits.
The "protagonist" is so generic that I honestly can't give you any information on his character other than physical traits. He's supposed to be the main "main" character and doesn't even have the basics: fear, desire, belief. I guess this is one of those insert characters for the audience to self insert themselves to. But these characters are just terrible for the story obviously as all other anime with self insert characters are awful.
The other characters: there is the aggressive guy who shouts gets angry with an inflated ego. He also sexually harasses the two girls who are just there for fan service. One is the shy one who has relations with the caring guy who coincidentally is a healer. The other girl just like the protagonist, has no character trait other than the fan service and that she uses a bow and arrow. Finally the big friendly "giant" who can cook with a ridiculously massive sword because he is strong.
Yeah those are all the 6 main characters with the stereotypical adventure character archetypes. Some people might enjoy the RPG elements the show is based on with the twist of being a difficult challenging world. Although it seems the characters are so bad at fighting for the sake of being a huge hurdle, it feels forced rather than being natural & believable.
There are some good points in the show where it starts off with them already in the world with an interesting premise where the characters forget their past lives and world but still have hints of it remain.
The world is the generic medieval fantasy setting with magic. There are monsters that attack humans, the humans fight back, they get rewards for defeating them. This is just an RPG with no unique thing to set it apart from all the other generic fantasy shows. In the anime there are just the humans and goblins, no other races. I'm pretty sure in the show it implies other monsters and maybe races but the part we see only has this. Which is not an end all be all if it wasn't so poorly executed.
So this was one of the earliest anime I watched and then having not experienced many anime I scored it 6. Recently rewatching the show I can't imagine how I managed to complete this dull, uneventful torture. I dropped during episode 4 as I wondered who was that person back then that could enjoy this. I gave it a 4, now a 3. The reason it's not lower is because of the concept, it had so much potential.
If you care about story, characters, clear goal, structure & plot than avoid this show. Maybe if you don't mind the slow pace with generic characters with no clear goal or urgency. This anime tries to have a serious dark theme but spends what feels like the majority of the time, at least in the first few episodes, on pointless shenanigan that went against the theme turning it into a mess.
So if value your time don't waste it on this there are millions of things that are more worth it and if you have a lot of free time well it's only 12ep. I think watching the first and maybe second episode is basically what the rest of the show is like.
