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Oct 10, 2023
Preliminary (6/12 eps)
I've heard some people compare this to Ascendance of a Bookworm. Watching this anime reminded me of Ascendance of a Bookworm too, but only because I was shocked by the stark contrast as to the quality of the writing, pacing etc. Ascendance of a Bookworm is exciting, entertaining and well written. This anime is bland as hell. This anime has a bad case of tell don't show. They skip along at an enormous pace, peppering the episodes with "a few weeks later" cards and giving us zero development. Every character is one dimensional and so boring. They seem like they're trying to paint this world as more dark than it appears, but everyone is so uncontroversially kind that it feels like an empty threat. Even the supposed antagonist is one dimensional and doesn't feel scary at all. I mean they essentially made the villain a mean high school kid. Pitting him against an adult woman who just very clearly outclasses him. There's basically zero suspense. The main character feels like she has very little agency of her own either. She stumbles into every new plot development without doing anything to really push her own life where she wants it to go.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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