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This show has an interesting plot where it is a game of making people your slaves while trying to avoid being made a slave yourself. And capturing a master makes that master's slaves also your slaves. I like how that naturally leads up to a big finale where there are mostly slaves and very few masters. Then the masters duke it out in a final, "who will win it all" battle. Despite that, the tension is rather short lived because the games end extremely quickly and always followed a specific pattern. I won't tell the pattern because I feel like it is more enjoyable before you figure it out. I really enjoyed how most of the characters felt like real people and how the characters came to care for one another naturally(the device to make slaves cannot change emotions). An interesting case of playing "is this Stockholm syndrome?" for the watcher. There is also an interesting game of "is anyone participating in this game a good person?" My conclusion is that there are only 3 good people who wore the master/slave device: the beefy salaryman with glasses, the hostess for a Victorian noble-esq cafe, and the dog. Even the main character, who entered the game to free everyone only planned to free everyone when she became everyone's master. That is still using people as slaves on purpose. I will have none of that greater good bullshit on such a small scale.
Is it perfect? No. Are there many potholes and stupid ways of winning? Yes. Was sexual assault and harassment of women most of the depraved acts mentioned in the synopsis? Yes. I am in no way saying it was a masterpiece, but I am saying that I enjoyed it for what it was and someone else might also enjoy it.
