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That show is so bad I've checked to see if Netflix or Disney were somehow involved.

The characters are insufferable. Most of them are stupid. Their design is bland at best.
The story makes no sense.
The art is average and, sometimes, briefly ugly.

This has to be for very young audiences who don't know any better.
Looking at what the credited show writer's previous works, it makes sense.

Its one saving grace is the "drawing attack" sequence, but once you've seen it once, you've seen it all.
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As a side note, one of the ugly characters is a unicorn that may have been inspired by Unico from Tezuka (because of its "childish" and "noble" forms). It's called "Unco" in the anime so I may be right about that.

I've seen worse but that's no reason to watch it.

I rarely enjoy Korean comics/anime but this one was repeatedly recommended, admittedly by younger acquaintances, that I had to try.
Let me tell you: it was hard.

Like many low-quality entertainment products, it's foundations are shaky.

Almost all characters are consistently or, worse, selectively stupid. A hallmark of being badly written.

You have the protagonist, of course, who isn't the brightest bulb. He gets progressively smarter but it takes about ten episodes for him to finally be able to reason like someone benefiting from an average brain.
He sometimes has an idea of what he should do but doesn't follow through or seems to forget. I suspect it's because then ... it allows inserting scenes that look "cool" on screen.

If you listen to some of the conversations through the episodes, you'll notice that quite regularly there is no thread. It's more a chain of reactions concatenated together and at some point you'll ask yourself yes, but what about two or three topics ago? Did the characters forget?
My guess is that there is some kind of check-list with what dialogues or reactions would be "cool" and they are put there without much thought.

Something that I find even harder to accept are that so many characters are sadistic sociopaths. I believe calling them "operetta villains" (understand: comically exaggerated evil figures) is appropriate. Often they are made to look nice and then "surprise" they were evil all along. It's so ridiculous.

Speaking of exaggeration, some scenes are over-acted and the "camera" emphatically shows you the over-reactions of characters. e.g. when someone's proposition is being rejected, which leads to another check-list-like scene.

I could comment on the girls suddenly having a pretty forward and bold interest toward the protagonist but that may actually be the only somewhat realistic behavior in the whole show.

That's about it for the bad. It should be enough to detract ... everyone? ... but it'll go over the head of viewers who don't pay attention.

The positive? Yes, there is some.

The art is OK and I believe I've enjoyed the musics.
Combats are well choreographed and I suspect this is what its audience finds attractive.
Lazy story and badly written characters put aside, the slow progression of the protagonist feels more right than the typical "from zero to living god in a fraction of a second".

When all is said and done, I'm guessing this is a show made using a check-list that'll please teenagers and maybe young adults.
It may also please viewers of all ages with a short attention span.

There is worse out there so I'm giving a "mixed feelings" recommendation.

That has to be one of the dumbest anime I've had the displeasure to watch.
There are spoiler further down, I'll tell you about it before I start.

The first episode starts with a basic superpower story and some basic exposition and has a "twist" (wink wink nudge nudge) that you'll see coming from miles away, probably.

This was a disappointing start but there were a couple of potential paths to make it a good watch. Needless to say, I was disappointed. I'm writing this so you don't have to be.

The next episodes are repetitive. They are essentially displaying an application of the most inefficient and fail-prone solution ... ever to "solve" a specific "problem".
It only "works" (from the perspective of the plot) because everybody is incredibly dumb.
Basically they are on the level of slow four-year old kids with severe brain-damage.
Otherwise, episode two would have been the end.
Also, to me, none of the "problems" being "solved" during the first four episodes looked even remotely like a problem needing to be solved.
It is exactly as if whoever has written the story has never seen how humans behave.



From this point on, I'll have to spoil, in case you still want to discover this "gem" by yourself.
I'll give specific examples of the stupidity that bothered me.



There are superhero-level powerful "monsters" (kids) in the world. The chosen solution to eliminate these "monsters" is to group them all together and having a powerless child kill them one by one. It has to be done secretly because the population is not on board for that.
The "monsters" children are sent to that place under false pretense. They are found by the government, a letter is sent to their families, then they are shipped to a place with others like them. The facade is that it's a school for the "elite".


First plot problem:
That assassin child has no idea what the monsters powers are.
Keep in mind the monsters have been sent to that place after being discovered. Tell me how the information was kept hidden except for the plot?

Second problem:
Nobody seems to really care children around are disappearing one by one. Everybody is too stupid to realize that the perpetrator is most likely one of two people. They are really really really dumb. A single character with a few connected brain cells would break the plot as soon as episode two (or three, if they have less than a few)

Third problem:
The teachers are supposedly not aware of the big plan, so they are supposed to be responsible for the kids. They don't seem to be all that concerned to have them missing one by one. It feels so fake to watch. Then again, if there were any kind of normal reaction, the plot would break.

Fourth problem:
The operation is supposed to be a secret. Part of the stupid plot says the place is isolated for one year. (Yeah, because having a smart and well written story is too difficult suppose) However how does that makes sense if after a year, families can't have contact with their (dead) kids anymore. What, exactly, is the plan, long term?

Fourth problem, part two:
This is actually one part of the plot: one of the kids is on this place because his sister has disappeared. Apparently he's the only one who cares. Not his parents, not the general public, nobody else. Make it make sense.

Fourth problem, part three:
That kid had his sister disappeared and he is sent to the exact same place. Nobody had anything to say about that at home?
"You've lost one of our kids? Sure, take the other one too".

Fifth problem:
Why take a powerless child? Let's say it's to make contact (because the information about the power seems to be lost). How does that help for the other classes? Is there one assassin per class and we are only shown one? That would be even dumber if the murders are tenfold.

Sixth problem:
The excuse to kill the monsters is that there are prediction of how many people they'll kill based on their power.
So, let's review the dangerous ones:
_ someone able to disable other people's powers. I'm pretty sure I'd keep that guy alive at all costs to stop the actual bad ones. (a million expected deaths from him, sure)
_ someone able to go back in time up to 24 hours (with great effort) but can't be detected by anybody or else. Okay, that one could have potential to ruin the lottery. Yeah, I totally see why he needs to die.
_ an immortal (with no smell and a brain that only makes connections when it fits the dumb plot). If you don't see why he's so dangerous that he should be preemptively eliminated, don't worry: only the plot knows.
_ a girl who can licks you back to health. What a monster, isn't it? With 150000 expected deaths.


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I could say a lot more.
I could dismantle each character of the first four episodes.
I could dismantle most of the scenes.
I could dismantle the stupid application of a time-based power. I'll grant time powers/travel is one of the most difficult things to handle in a story. A writer needs discipline, define very clear, rational, rules and apply them strictly. Whoever wrote that plot stood no chance.

This is, in a word, revolting.

This show appears to be a girl power-trip fantasy.
It's a kind of isekai where the main character keeps her knowledge of medicine from the modern world as well as some knowledge of future events.

After that point, the story doesn't really make much sense.
In a nutshell she knows everything, can do everything and nobody seem to wonder how nor why. There are enough hints to tell her knowledge can only be supernatural. In a pure display of lazy writing, one character has a brief thought about it, but discards it as impossible (see: to hang a lantern).
Of course, everybody likes the main protagonist. There also ... the trope where a few important people wonder who is the mysterious super doctor.
As said :a power-trip

The medicine in that world is weird. The level of knowledge ranges equally from the medieval to the modern era at the same time.
They don't care about hygiene but do operations and have disinfectant for instruments.
You'll see aberrations like an operation where the surgeon wears a mask but not the nurses standing next to him. That's just wrong.

Avoid if you can't turn your brain off.