after reading the first 19 comments on the finale? i find the vast majority of y'all hyper-over-critical and frankly... blind to the comparisons out there in the past 30+ years of anime history.
@Moppit got it right with this part, "I found this more watchable than "Isekai Cheat Magician" and "The Banished Former Hero Lives as He Pleases." at least Moppit had something to compare Liam's show with.
let's look at shows with MANY similarities to Noble on Brink of Ruin! How a Realist Hero Rebuilt a Kingdom, 8th Son Are You Kidding Me, TenSura, Headhunted to Another World, Faraway Paladin, High School Prodigies Have it Easy Even in Another World, The World of Otome Games is Hard for Mob Characters, In Another World with my Smartphone, and Moonlit Fantasy.
what do these titles have in common? MC(s) from a modern Japan/world are transported or reincarnated in some way and become or are naturally OP in some way. their new worlds are fantasy fiction based. the protagonists are nigh-on immediately involved in national or local politics for various reasons. also they're 'nation builders' in one way or another. either gaining lands of their own through, conquest, inheritance, or that was the very reason they were brought to this new word... to 'fix it' somehow.
now with THOSE titles to compare Noble on the Brink of Ruin with? Noble is mediocre and average at best. the 'nation building' in Noble is quite simplistic. 'the nation' simply drops into Liam's lap. Liam does have to work hard-ish on his OPness, but obviously his 'hard work to become OP' is just fast repetitions of simple acts. Liam is creative but short-sighted and the show goes into crap detail on the details of 'nation building', unlike most of the other titles i mentioned. Otome Games goes into details with the sociology of the game world that MC ends up in, but the details are quite sketchy in and of themselves. Liam ends up on 'the ass end of an inheritance' but Smartphone and Moonlit skip that entirely and 'things just happen' to those guys. but Moonlit's MC DOES have to work at a LOT of things and has TONS of setbacks, unlike Liam. of course we all know TenSura's MC Rimuru DOES have the background to 'build things up' but his people do all the work for him, after he sets up the 'ground floor' so to speak. but Rimuru DOES have a great deal of international relations to handle and supernatural superiors to defeat or placate. while Liam is... shrug... that's a 'soft sell' on the international front for him; soft, squishy, and amorphous. Paladin glosses over SOME details and HS Prodigies just gives tiny thumbnail sketches... not unlike stickman art for international issues. Headhunted works a decent amount on the nation building but only details the issues directly influencing its MC's situational problems as they come up in the story. an 'overall clash or improvement or change' is just brushed off with 'something something result or conflict was stopped by his action(s)'.
so, is Nobel on the Brink of Ruin a total suckfest in comparison to those titles, some massively popular with dozens of episodes more than Nobel and years' worth of fanatical followers? Nobel doesn't totally suck. want to know why? it was pretty, the art was well done. the animation wasn't terrible. the writing is where Nobel falls short. either the light novelist is a lazy author, or the screenwriters were just 'phoning this one in' to finish the project on time, under budget, and with as little amount of effort as possible.
so visually this show rates a 6 as above average. the enjoyment factor and fun of the story bumps it up to a 7. the shallow story keeps this show from going beyond a 7 into the 8 range. so without anything MAJOR as a detriment or positive for Noble? it is a 7. not a total suckfest, but definitely NOT Anime of the Year or even Best Anime of Winter 2024/25 Season. this show was just a fun piece of entertainment. :D |