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Jun 17, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Have you ever watched a let's play of some progamer, where he completes a large RPG sandbox at 100% with all the secrets and achievements? Well, that's pretty much what ReMonster is. Literally an anime adaptation of the walkthrough of Dragon Age or Nevervinten Night-like games for 100%.

What does this mean? Well, almost the entire show is just endless leveling up, gaining evolutions and new classes. For convenience, even broken down by day and accompanied by the most unemotional comments in the style of “I killed X boars and received +10 to my strength, after which I evolved into an Ogre Champion.” Of course, like all such isekai, this show is chock full of ridiculous action between the OP protagonists and the useless fools unfortunate enough to be his opponents. Which only adds to the show’s let-play vibes of some game, since the action in this show almost entirely consists of one-sided destruction of mobs and periodic battles with “bosses,” each of which looks like a special target in Monster Hunter. And I haven't even told you about the social part of this show, which is reminiscent of some weird fantasy visual novel.

At this point you are probably asking me, but why did I give this 7 out of 10 and mark the review as mixed? The point is that this is all just an incredible example of so bad it's good. Starting from how the whole plot essentially sounds like a lesplay with comments of a non-existent RPG game and ending with the author’s strange fetish for cannibalism. Seriously, the narrative literally spends a significant amount of time telling how the protagonist devoured the opponents he defeated (a significant portion of which were human or simply intelligent beings, by the way), thus obtaining most of his perks. Yes, just like in the cannibal traditions of aboriginal peoples, where they believe that they will become stronger if they eat the flesh of a strong enemy.

Overall, I wouldn't say it's a truly TERRIBLE show. It’s just so sincerely and innocently goofy and silly in its idea of ​​building a fantasy story on such literally conveyed game mechanics that it just becomes incredibly funny and somehow cute. If "Shangri-La Frontier" was Superman, then ReMonser could definitely be Bizaro, even though it's not even an MMO anime. If you like these kinds of unintentionally siily cool wish fulfillment fantasy shows, then feel free to watch it with your friends for an enhanced comedic effect. If you're looking for serious fantasy, or at least solid isekai, then you're clearly better off looking elsewhere.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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