Mar 23, 2022
This show is actually dreadful. The fact that this got made is frankly absurd.
So let's break it down. The MC get's sent back to some weird psuedo-ancient china after getting blood on his smart phone. He takes over the body of a useless noble and get's a system (who is later personified as a "Cruel Loli" and I am quoting the characters directly). The system lets the MC get more powerful when he upsets someone else. This allows him to just become the most powerful person on the planet (except his dad, but we'll get to that). The MC himself is just obnoxious, but
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not in a funny way. Instead, we get a "This is an asshole who is just coasting through life for the sole reason that the script needed him to do so" kind of of way.
The MC's father is a much more interesting character, and I would maybe watch a show about him, but not MC.
Furthermore, the art is just horrific. Assets are constantly recycled. Background characters ALL MOVE IN SYNC enough times to not be a suprise.
The writing is just so totally uninteresting that it got to the point it wasn't even funny to make fun of it anymore.
The story itself is just nonsense. Nothing really happens other than the MC and his brother seeing something and doing 1 of 2 things.
Option 1: Be oddly cruel to some random character for no reason. Like, he just tortures people and forces them essentially into slavery, and the show is just like "look at how cool and funny MC is". And it's not just for Anger Points either, sometimes he just makes fun of disabled people who don't even give him AP. He's just cruel.
Option 2: A painfully drawn out and boring fight. The animation is slow, terrible, the effects are essentially just JPEGS smashing into each other as they fly around.
I will give you a visual summary of every single fight. Some characters square up, MC says something obnoxious that the show alone thinks is funny (except when he admits he "no longer lusts after toads" after meeting someone, that was funny). Then MC and whoever is one his side throws hand, moon, and Yin-Yang JPEGS at the enemy, as the enemy summons the same fucking gate model to summon some other bullshit JPEG back. Eventually the MC and Co will have their JPEG smash into the opponent and they will win. That's it. You can now go and watch something else, I've given you the whole show.
A brief note on the sound of this show. It adds random annoying sound effects that sound like it's from one of those shitty youtube videos that targets children, but to everyone who isn't a child it's just annoying. And the voiceactors just randomly walk outside of the recording studio or some shit because out of nowhere the audio for the voiceactors just drops hard. Add to that pretty much all the sound effects are stock sound effects I bet you could find on a royalty-free soundboard, I can safely say that it is certainly not worth much (if any) praise.
If you are looking for something good to watch in the Cultivation genre that's similar to this but done well, watch Soul Land. It's pretty, the fights are good, and the MC isn't just the worst person to watch exist.
If you are looking for something more serious, Record of a Mortal's Journey has been really good. I'm not done with it yet, but what I've seen is just great.
If you are looking for something bad to watch to make fun of or just marvel in it's terrible glory, watch My Cultivator Girlfriend. It is so bad it is hillarious. I really can't recomend that one enough.
TLDR: Don't bother with this one, it's funny to make fun of for 30 episodes if you stretch, then it becomes so redundent that's not even fun anymore. If you are looking for anything other than that, look elsewhere for much better shows.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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