I was shitting on this anime season saying that Frieren is the only good new anime in it, and I've ignored undead unluck completely for it seemed like one of those generic animes we always get, for every generic isekai we get generic action shounen with no effort put in to it, most often based on some souless mobile phone game.
But then I actually tried it and it is so good, each episode feels like it is 3 minutes long because I lose my grasp of time as I get immersed in this light hearted fun.
They got really nice artistic sequences and the voice acting in this episode was beautiful. Somehow they managed to put sand in my eye in at end of this episode even tho it is comedy anime. Even that one quote at the end about wrinkles just hits right. I'm truly impressed.
(btw i disliked anime about fire-feet and jojo from same studio) Also this "unluck" concept is not anything new for me either, I've seen many series and movies doing that for example Lucky Man, or tens of comic book heroes using luck and luck manipulation(lady luck, domino, shamrock, black cat...) and ofcourse I do not even need to list any immortality stories.
What I'm getting at is that this anime does not re-invent the wheel, but the execution is so good that it does not matter in the end. Mushoku tensei gave me similar feeling, I've seen everything done in it elsewhere but it was so well executed that I rate as best isekai to date. Ofcourse what makes this even better is the character chemistry and lack of annoying MC. I'm not saying that this story has no plotholes, but it does always just enough to feel believable, like the regenerating guy actually using his powers not just to defend but also for movement and attacks in funny ways, is pressure of your blood and mass of your hand enough to take down armored attack plane? Ofcourse not but I do not care about realism I care about creativity. Even if the hand would get proppeled towards the target it is not diamond, it is just meat, tiny bone and skin that would leave no damage at all on hardened metal or kevlar composites.
As an example in many fantasy stories magicians can create portals, but for no reason they never make one in the sea to use pressure of water to instantly kill anything or teleport enemies in to the sun. Or teleport grenades in to enemy king's room, or teleport gas from cave system in to enemy tents. They always just use it to travel in very limited way, movie armies or escape and that is it. Meanwhile if you play dungeon n dragons boss always ends up in someone's bag of holding and enemies teleported in to pots of acid. And undead unluck does just enough with these powers to feel like those guys at DnD table instead of some uninspired AI writen script where the only effect of regeneration would be to fix some minor wounds and lack of luck would make people trip and fall or miss the target. Best example of this being unluck working differently inside the barrier ball. Even this bit of extra thought put in to fights is very valuable to me, because I have less and less patience for characters with crazy powers of Gods using them in such boring ways that I could beat them in 1vs1 fight using just wooden stick. Like flash instead of throwing rocks at enemies, or instantly restraining people with those anti-mutant handcuffs is running next to people and weakly punching them in the stomach instead, in flash series he is losing to just normal people punching him at normal speed in every episode, he runs in front of people, stops, starts talking or staring at them, gets punched and then wakes up 3 hours later and world is about to end because of his actions.
If you can not write for strong hero, do not make him strong. You can have flash that is just 3x faster than average human and you can have very interesting tv show about it. To make him run at 90000km/h, read whole book in 0.01 second and then making him lose to thug with baseball bat is just stupid.
tl;dr
I expected very little from undead unluck but it was actually amazing. |