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Sorry, I will be blunt and its not gonna be incredibly detailed and written like an essay for a written lit course.

The story sucks. It has its moments, but it's not the greatest. My honest opinion is that the story is rather simplistic and it doesn't really hold up with its happy go lucky ending. The characters feel really weak at times, and they don't exactly flesh them out to an extent where we want to care for them. The music is decent if you mean the opening. Only decent part of the anime was the opening. The rest ... of the time, it felt like hell watching the anime. It was rather boring outside of the occasional joke and the main antagonist was just boring. The main heroine? She needed to be slapped because she was the reason why this stuff happened. The main character needed to learn more about self preservation and to stop dragging people to their death. The side characters were interesting to a degree, but nothing too ground breaking.

Careful not to pay too close attention to the number as they don't mean that much.

Anyways, my previous review is somewhere here where I looked at it objectively from a development standpoint. It does everything it needs to do, establishes a hero's journey, creates tension, and arrives at a climax before ending it. It would be a 7/10 for execution. Now that I'm done talking game, let's move onto the anime.

Your hero is an everyday hacker, who is surrounded by anime animal girls, one of which has a fetish for hot springs. We get to see their everyday life before we ... see something happen. What you say? A general killing it's civilians as casualties of war. You know, you generally don't want to kill off your productivity if you want to prosper as a nation. Seriously, where are the key supporters and the businesses who were located in that city? Anyways, the show starts to fall into a slump where the cast is depressed over the death of random people. Does it make them better people? No, not really.

Soon there is a war with a neighboring nation who had another uprising which had their own set of one dimensional antagonists. Sadly, it ends like I would've expected. Nothing really changes. No real stakes involved. We just move into the next story arc. Here we get to see a main character die by becoming bubbles.

So how is the story in the anime and the game? It's bare bones. It's the same problem with their first game. It sounds cool, a hero rising up and getting their people to overthrow their oppressive ruler. But the characters aren't that interesting and there is no consequence for their actions. Why is the bandit village stealing? Is that productive? Why are they not farming? Why are they not doing literally anything else? Yeah, it's that situation. In many cases for banditry such as what happens in China, it is done not as an occupation, but to oppose the government or when people are experiencing extreme poverty. But these characters just seem to exist as bandits with no real oppressive rule or extreme poverty.

Does it end well? No, not really. It ends in the same way as the first game. Best girl is ditched just like her mom by the protagonist when they decide to become god. Both are doing it to be sealed away. Seriously, has no one solved a problem without killing people, annoying the populous, or getting sealed away for religious/safety reasons?

So, is it enjoyable then? Sure, if you like to see how they made the anime from an objective point of view and discussing the guidelines to righting a story. But if you want to enjoy it as entertainment, it is subjective. The main character doesn't exactly fit the series, the helpful male character looks too similar to the MC, so it's obvious what will happen, the antagonists are idiots, the key supporters are morons, the main cast are lounging around without a purpose, and nothing is really resolved at the end of the 2nd game or next season if it ever has one. To stop the civil war, he unmasks the plan to, of course, blow up the city with a giant space laser! Which apparently, still blows up the city.

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