I will say this, the first episode is great. It's a 9/10. Good Pacing, it's funny when it needs to be funny and it introduces a very intresteing concept for an anime and it really captures the feeling of a MMO. Sadly however they had to go and make more episodes. Straight of the bat the second episode destroys any kind of tention set up in the first one, apparently beating levels in this game is something you do off-screen and you do so at an extremly rapid pace and then the characters hit us.
This is a 14 year olds wet dream, being a god in a MMO picking up chicks right, left and center. It's as if they were created by someone that really hates games and gamers, it's a parody of what gamers wish they could be.
The main character is socialy akward, introvert and does not like taking up alot of space, while in real life these would by most be called shy or if by some mean-spirited person, Anti-social.
How does this anime portray these character traits? It means you're a badass loner, an enigma to the girls and the envy of the boys. The reason he doesn't join groups and guilds isn't because he has a hard time forming social relationships, it's because he is so good at the game that he doesn't need to.
So basicly what you have a is a superman, badass loner with a softside saving damsels in distress... And he does so in zones he is way to high level to be in.
For those that doesn't know, this is an episodical Anime, there is no overacring plot but each week our superbadass mega ultra hero, gets a new girl that he has to save, and she will turn out to pretty much fall for him everytime. He is so overleveled for the zones that he runs around in that even 100 people fit to be in that zone would probably have a really hard time bringing him down. And because of the implications of a mmo, it's very lucky for our hero that everyone was forced to look like their real life selves in game, or one of the many many girls he tries to white knight in this series could have turned out to be 45 year old man, and we can't have that.
That is all this anime is a glorfied wet dream in a 14 year old boys head.
This series had so much potential, but it wasted it away on pandering what people that don't play games, thinks gamers want to be like.
This anime has managed to insult me not only as anime audience, but as a gamer and a man aswell.
All in all, really great first episode but on a whole a very bad anime. Someone wrote down the wet dreams he had during puberty and made them into a Anime.
