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Read the first sentence of each section to quickly find how you may receive this, ignoring the first section if you don't care about me joking around. If your of the opinion that more genders exist then don't even waste your time on this it's not about anything past Male/Female and the sequel is the same.

Enlightening, a means of catharsis for many. It's past being a masterpiece, it's so past anything we've seen before that artists of any form would look upon it with all it's grandeur in display that they would be so impressed, they become disheartened in continuing their passion. Charles Dickens, Vincent ... van Gogh, Prince Rogers Nelson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Walter Camp, Musashi Miyamoto, Bruce Lee, Osamu Tezuka, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Nicolaus Copernicus, God, Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel, Gordon Ramsay, Terence Thomas "Mr. Wonderful" Kevin O'Leary, Steven "Johnny Sins" Wolfe, and many more view this as the best of the best for anything to ever exist 10/10. . .

Yangseongpyeongdeung (Gender Equality) is difficult to talk about for MANY reasons, but I'm going to have to give situations in order to give my opinion on how to recommend it and what score to give it.

If your coming in, ignoring any intent or not caring of any serious intent from the creator, wanting to laugh or just waste 2 min. then I recommend Yangseongpyeongdeung 2 (Gender Equality 2.) It's better quality wise and I think is also more unironically comedic with it's timing of the songs 08/10. I can't comment on Gender Equality 1 being funny as the joke died for me after I finished the sequel since I watched the sequel first but I would guess it to be a 07/10. This is the mindset I recommend coming in with the most.

If the creator intended for this to give an answer and/or solve anything then I think this is silly. I don't think it's a problem nor do I think this "answer" is necessary 02/10. The sequel is better quality wise and I find more merit in it's "answer" since it shows some signs that I see more reason to add the other gender 03/10; I recommend watching neither. If you do consider this being the intent of the creator I do not recommend coming into this thinking with that mind set. I do not believe this has an answer or will solve anything.

If the creator intended for this to start a discussion then this being a prompt is a 06/10. Sequel has better quality and has signs that I find more merit in discussing 07/10; I recommend watching both or just the sequel. If your not going to consider this as the intent of the creator I at least recommend coming in with the mindset that you should use this as a prompt.

The quality of the art/animation/etc. and sound/music is good enough to watch for any of listed mindsets about but I still recommend the sequel since it has better quality in every department.

Whenever I (attempt to) assess something critically, the topic of "art" and what it entails comes up. Whether or not something feels like art matters not, since at the end of the day, it is. No matter how minor this idea of "art" is present, it's there in some form, to argue against is the same as defining an abstract term. This same term, "art," is just as abstract as it is subjective, since the closer you get to art, the closer you get to it being meaningless. What I have before me is indeed art. This, I feel, is somewhat evident in the current ... score, that being a 7.16/10. Ignoring what I've said, you would think that this does not deserve any attention as I'm giving it now. With the context, it shows the range of subjectiveness and as I've said previously, this is parallel to art. To expect otherwise is silly and goes against art as a whole. With this in mind, what is the point of all this description, and in a way, praise of this impossible to self contain piece of media. Well. . .


TLDR: Bro this shit is crazy good, watch it now 10/10.


Honestly though, I struggle to say anything more than that. Like yeah, duh, it looks great with a style I have seen very little of for anime music videos, the song is great with it fitting so well to everything involved, and it's about a very important scene in the anime that, without a doubt by watching this, will enhance the moment so much that it will make you appreciate the show more. The amount of emotional impact you can gauge that I felt from this, is so palpable that you can tell so much of how I care about it from the first paragraph. What's even wilder about this is that I don't feel the same emotion about the show, not even close, it's leagues away. If I could think of more things to convince you to watch I would but I value more the vague notion I've provided, so you go in with less info and be surprised by it as much as I was. I implore you to watch Yasashii Suisei / Comet whenever you have the time.

Spoiler Free TLDR; Most fans will enjoy this, but the potential it had was wasted so badly that I'd argue it added nothing and was not needed; very cookie-cutter/uninspired. Not only that, initially the way to view this was not worth the effort nor money due to it being at an event. It's now available on streaming platforms and due to that fact, I will have a score that will reflect that.
Day 1 score Lowest 01/10 (Lowest acknowledges lack of availability and what-if's/wasted-potential,) Highest 05/10 (Highest ignores availability and what-if's/wasted-potential)
Present Day Lowest 03/10 (Acknowledges what-if's/wasted-potential,) Highest 05/10 (Ignores what-if's/wasted-potential)







... Spoiler Free Review:
Every time Arifureta has a chance to add something, it almost always has something negative to it with how its handled, especially so with the "extras." Those being "Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou Recap," "Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou Specials," and the exact thing I'm reviewing "Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou: Prologue." The thing that all three of them have in common is that they have an abundant amount of content that. IS. NOT. NEEDED. I assume the "Recap" was made for more time to produce the anime, fair enough it's much easier to reuse assets, but as you may have guessed/remembered the necessity for the viewer to watch this recap was so minor that most viewers laughed at it's existence. The "Specials," while adding content I thought was actually interesting comparatively, also reused assets just for recap scenes. In my opinion, these "Specials" were worse, since to get them legally, you had to have the Blu-ray release of S1 and I'm sure the marketing team had pushed the idea that you "had to get this to see this GREAT content." So you might be wondering how do these problems apply to "Prologue. . ."

Before I resume bashing this I need to make this clear, the idea to show what happened to the class right before and right after the summoning(?) is a good idea. However, what they chose to do with the idea is so cookie cutter, so uninspired that I honestly didn't notice immediately when the audio went out for my T.V. because it was going down just like how I envisioned it. So I ask, in the way this was done, was this really needed? Didn't we all have an understanding of went down well enough while watching S1? What does this add? I gained NOTHING from watching this, because it did NOTHING with the idea. Again our understanding from S1 was so similar to what actually happened in this episode that it honestly was a waste of our time. I wouldn't be so mad about it if it wasn't how it was first presented.

"Initially screened at the Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou -Live & Act- event on January 19, 2020" is what MAL says. Now I don't have any info about it but I think we can agree that their was some sort of entry fee and that's where we can compare the extra's to one another again, money & availability.

I already explained that you needed to have the Blu-ray for the specials so that's at the bare minimum, 45 bucks and that's current day. Luckily availability is easy for it, order online or local store.
Recap, I have no info on so I'll just assume it was aired on cable so cheaper but harder to find now.
Until this happened, "It was later released via streaming platforms on March 19, 2020" (MAL,) the only way to have seen the Prolouge was to go to an event on 01/19/2020. So while the price might be cheaper than the specials theirs no way availability is easier. So imagine being a Arifureta super fan, hearing theirs extra content, going to the event because of the extra content, and seeing this. Them getting ripped off would be so great that it may have turned some super fans, to just average fans and you don't want that. Sure this doesn't apply to everyone who went because their must've been other events going on to make people decide to come but I'm still mad for the people who went just for the anime screening. Why? Well because I'm the type of person to go, just for that prologue, that's right I'm the fucking idiot who does this. This part of the review is meant to represent the minority of people who are as dumb as I. Now read the tldr for my closing statement

As I was watching this I was constantly thinking that this wasn't as bad as the main ep's.* I ended up questioning if this was true and if it was true, why?
Was it because it's been two years since the 12 ep's first aired?
Was it because they decided on a different, overused, simple idea which the audience could possibly relate to better?
Maybe it's because they decided to not take itself too seriously which made it so the horrible fights didn't return?
And when it did take itself seriously, was it ever fitting and not over the top?
Yes to all, that being said they only could go ... so far with what they already had which made it so, at it's best it was somewhat enjoyable and at it's worst, you've felt you've already seen this done both in the same quality and better. To be honest you probably have which begs the questions:
Is this worth watching, and where does this stand score wise?
Short answers:
No/5
Long answers:
Assuming you've already seen the 12 ep's, you enjoyed them, and you haven't seen many specials like this then this will be worth your time. If even one of those is not depicting you then I'd advise you to stay away.
To answer the next we would need to have an understanding of what has happened in the ep soooooooo
Plot: . . . festival, booths, failure, shaved ice, dancing, and 1 minute ghost.
Great, got it? Good, now if that seems somewhat average for a "special" than you better believe that it's in the range from a 4-6, for the score. So I decided to give it a 5, not a 4 due to a grave visit for the later appearing 1 min ghost and my own enjoyment.

Ep's/Ep = Episodes/Episode