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Terrible story that pretends it has something to do with Nietzsche sometimes. Well, it doesn't. It would have if the MC turned evil partway through and his father or GF had to finish him off, you know, with the abyss corrupting him or something, but we never got that. We're reading a shitty power fantasy, why would anything interesting like that happen?

Art: possibly the best I've seen in any manhwa. It approaches the quality and detail of western comics consistently.

Story: it begins as a generic MMO with portals and demons and raids, then shifts into a large scale war between two factions. The MC has ... no trouble with any conflict, or with any fight. All fights start off by some rando guys dying, the MC appears, the villain is confident, then dies in a few hits in an anti climactic way. That's all the fights, period. It ripps off AOT and HunterxHunter during some segments. The romance is annoying and without any warmth. The story starts dragging after the MC revives his mother, and gets very repetitive. The plan of the villains is laughably stupid. They dug their own grave, basically.
The MC has no weaknesses. How can a human kill gods or demons? It's nonsense. The only thing the angels do is send the MC's father with a power, with which he does nothing 95% of the story. It's shown that not all demons are bad, but the story goes nowhere with that idea. The number of asspulls are innumerable. The MC can't even be killed, he gets revived soon after, and to top it all of there's a TIMELOOP! So, infinite tries till the MC gets it right. What a joke. And no, don't tell me it was mentioned that the time travelling cup might break soon, so it's not as many tries as you want. That doesn't matter because the whole thing is an asspull with no indication that they were ever in a timeloop, with the MC experiencing deja vu or something.

Characters: generic and forgettable. They never have any serious internal conflicts. Jinwoo murders many people, but he never suffers any anguish for it. The female characters are the worst. They constantly fawn after the MC, and do nothing else. Is that your experience with your girlfriend or wife? Or any girl you've met? Some characters like the MCs father and the seven star Chinese hunter are hyped up for many chapters, but they do nothing major. Everyone talks in such a robotic fashion. There's attempts at comedy, but they all fail.
Now, for the 'development', it's bad. The MC just transforms into a chad overnight. His damn face and body are different, to the point his sister doesn't recognise him! I've got news for you: doing 100 pushups doesn't build that much muscle, not does it increase your height. Jinwoo is a joke and a fraud. He wasn't in the beginning, when he had to use his wits to survive and provide for his family, but he did become one at the author's behest. He's practically a god by the end, and no, none of the explanations excuse the fact that he is overpowered and has NO WEAKNESSES.

Verdict: it's entertaining in a crude way in the beginning, but then becomes increasingly repetitive and annoying as the MC never had any difficulty with any problem. It's made for the worst kind of security seekers, who wish they had cheat skills and time travel powers so that everyone would see how awesome they are!

Bonus: here's a theory: the MC died in the beginning and all the rest is just a dream till he reaches the afterlife. That's the only way all that crap makes sense.

This is going to be a review of all three films. The first one is good, the second is when things start to slip up, and the third is just plain bad. There is potential in the setup, but the writers are so bad that they screw it up in the plot department.

The characters are all unlikeable, with the exception of sabre, the teacher and Archer, who are taken out of the picture early. We get no backstory for rider, who takes up so much goddamn screentime. At first Ilya tries to kill the MCs but then she joins them for no reason. Shinji ... abusing his sister was just gratuitous. Shirou never asks any of the questions begged by all the infodumps he received from other characters frequently, instead being content with chilling in his harem house. Also, how did Ilya know that her brother was selected in the beginning? The fuck?There's so much unexplained stuff, like what that earring Sakura was wearing that one time was.

Why have servants if the mages can keep up with them in a fight anyway? Are you telling me even after 4 goddamn grail wars neither Gilgamesh not sabre ever figure out that the grail is actually satanic or some shit? There is a mages association and prominent mage families but THEY DO NOTHING. Every one of the characters is related in a pretty dumb way, like literally 4 of the participants are from the same school. Stupid porn game writing. Show don't tell is the rule, but this series shows too much and what it tells is irrelevant drivel.

Shirou has no plan, no motivation, no personality no nothing. Why isn't saber, rin or hell, Archer the MC? Because it's a porn game, that's why.

No amount of pretty visuals saves terrible writing or characters.

The first 10 chapters are really good. All we know is that we have a group of friends, and the game organisers are trying to break up the friendship by showing doubts and offering money as a reward. Then there's a retcon I didn't really like regarding a certain character. The author repeats this throughout the story. What is established about a character gets thrown out in the next game, all for the sake of a subversion, a twist. Still, it's intriguing and entertaining, till chapter 50 or so, that is. Then the decline into absurdity begins.

There's only so much suspension of disbelief that ... is possible on the part of a reader, when in every new game it's like the characters memories get reset. They forget how yuuichi is a liar and a manipulator, and get fooled again and again. This gets very tiresome after a point, and it defeats the purpose of the twists in an ironic way, as the story has now become predictable. No matter what the situation is, yuuichi has planned everything from the first moment and will win anyway. But that can't possibly be true because he couldn't be prepared for every contingency, and I'm talking about that scene during the forest game where he falls off a cliff. How the hell did he know a branch would be there? Ridiculous. That is just one example.

More and more characters are introduced, the games that were intricate and strategic become action packed shootouts. There's retcon after retcon, twist after twist(each more absurd than the last) till the final bell tolls, and we are left with an ending we don't care about so much because we stopped caring a long time ago.

The way the female characters are portrayed is also a joke, as it's either buttshots or boobshots, even when they are talking. The art starts out incredible, then slowly decreases in quality.

The games are well designed and some of the foreshadowing is great, ultimately it becomes too repetitive and predictable for its own good, which is ironic since this series is all about twists. The question that is begged towards the end, after all the reveals is, were the characters ever really friends even? That makes the central theme of the entire manga moot, and the ending scene pointless. It's still very entertaining, so give it a chance , maybe.

The positives: the art, the animation. It's spectacular. The initial village setting was beautiful.

The mids: the music is overused in Instagram and YouTube, otherwise forgettable.

The negatives: some of the CGI was awful. We are expected to believe that the white cat was really leading the MCs to the doors. What about that scene where he threatens to destroy tokyo? How did the cat know that the male lead can be used as a keystone substitute? Nonsense. Initially he was supposed to be the keystone, but then we are told it's the black cat.
The characters are forgettable. It's the damsel and the hero, but gender swapped. ... The plot is the same old disaster prevention bull from weathering with you and your name. The romance was shoe horned and awful. The side characters had no roles except as plot devices. The abilities of the cats are nonsense. They can possess and send souls into objects? Okay. The MCs also bump into the white cat in the most contrived and convenient ways imaginable.
The white and black cat join the heroes for no reason, despite being portrayed as villains initially. The black cat incites a fight between the MC and her aunt for a forced and pointless reconciliation scene. The doors lead to the afterlife, but when you try to close them to prevent the worm from coming out, somehow the souls of the people who resided in now derelict areas help close it? Makes no sense. Why does the afterlife have a damn worm that causes earthquakes? Why aren't the souls already in the afterlife? Actually the afterlife looked pretty bare, where are all the souls that passed on? Maybe the worm ate them. Pretty terrible afterlife. How is the MC the only Closer around? There's like a million damn doors. The climax had an unnecessary time travel tack on. The MC's mother's fate is never made clear.
The narrative is a complete failure and pretty colours don't solve bad writing. The writer also belongs to the violet evergarden school of making people cry by showing people crying, which is a terrible way to invoke emotion. Waste of time.

A cute, heartwarming, sweet romance series with likeable characters, good art, animation and visuals. The MC is introduced as an edgelord but really he's a softie inside. The girl seems hoity toity but she's a simpleton with a good heart. It's funny, charming and totally worth a watch. The side characters are not really explored that well, but it's the interaction between the MCs that makes it fun to watch.

The setting is not really unique, as it's the done and dusted school setup, where the usual beats are met, like the school fest, tests, the track and field day etc etc. The MC's edgelord tendencies ... get more and more reduced the closer he gets to the girl. He is very protective of her, and his actions sometimes baffle himself. There is a hint of ecchi but no fanservice, which is a plus. The girls voice acting is done very well, the seiyuu has a unique voice, which was a pleasant departure from all the overly cute moe voices you usually hear. The comedy is tsukkomi-boke style, which never gets old and always works.

If you like slice of life romantic comedies then this one is definitely recommended!

Absolutely spellbinding animation, visuals and art. Girls armed with anime weapons beat up monsters in satisfying sakuga filled battles. Characters are forgettable, but cute and deadly. There is not much of a story, and it derails towards the end, anyway. The last 3-4 episodes really ruined the whole series by shifting it from mindless battles to edgy gore fest that comes out of nowhere, but barely an explanation. When you start to kill for shock the series gets ruined, folks. Even berserk is not exempt from that rule.

It could have been a charming action series where the MC fights to save her friend and ... gets to know the reason why she committed suicide, but not even that happens. At that point the side girl's ghost flies off without giving an explanation, a girl with a butterfly head comes out of nowhere, eats your Pokemon and menaces you in your dreams for no reason. Does that make any sense? There's no resolution to the plot. The sequel is even worse, I hear.

Tried to be madoka magica, ended up being school days. Not worth wasting time.

Started out pretty interesting, but like all mystery box series, ended up disappointing by not answering any of the questions raised and left with even more questions. It gets more and more tiresome as it goes on, explaining a bunch of nothing to pretend to be deep. I suppose there is a lot of symbolism going on, but do you who who hides in an excessive amount of symbols to build a mystery box instead of telling a good story? Bad authors.

Concepts are introduced and then forgotten about after a few episodes. Characters make nonsense decisions all the time. The MC has so idea ... what's happening and has no desire to find out it seems. The ending is atrocious, as the MC didn't even fulfill a certain promise he made to another character. How pathetic is he?

Art and animation are completely unmemorable. Characters are not really developed at all and are forgettable. The powers of the children are never really explored well. Like most anime of our times, the ending flopped. Ending song is quite good, for a positive. Too little, too late, though.

Some of the starting episodes are fine, but because the ending is bad this series cannot be recommended.

Good animation, great visuals, okay-okay story, likeable characters, fantastic action. CGI sometimes doesn't look good but turned out great towards the end. It's mostly a mindless action series but does deal with some themes like class system and others which can't be gotten into without spoiling the series.

The main selling point for me was that the main characters were likeable and you wanted them to survive and be on the next episode. You're not looking to see who dies most gruesomely next, like a lot of its contemporaries. I found the comedy to be quite good as well at parts.

Not much else to say, would ... recomend it. It's a small fun action packed series.

Everything was fine until not-sakura dies. Let me explain. The animation is very high level, fast, fluid and fantastic. The story finally gets interesting. What will the MCs do when the villains hatch a plot of releasing demons in densely populated Shibuya? There will be casualties. It also affords a chance for villains to hold people hostage when the good guys come. Mahito plans to break Yuji by repeatedly killing people in front of him. All good, bold stuff.

The problem is that the author assures not-sakura is a natural enemy of mahito, in addition to Yuji, then promptly kills her off. Something he will repeat ... with gojo in the future. Meaningless death for the shocks. After an awful flashback that reveals nothing about her character and is just there for cheap emotional manipulation, the series lost its enjoyment for me. I don't like being manipulated, not for not-sakura, not for nobody.

Mahito goes ultra mode then loses like an idiot because he lets his Armor down for no reason. Geto has everyone by the balls but he scoops. Instead of giving a cathartic finish for mahito, who has been a villain since the beginning, he just gets absorbed by geto. Great. Nonsense powers and incredible animation do not a good anime make. The studios already know this. They aren't idiots. Which means they are putting out low quality content for the sake of it.

I've already forgotten both the seasons immediately after watching them. Final verdict: mindless fights with an edgy twist. Watch with your brain off. Or find something better to do, rather.

The most interesting aspect of the previous season was kyoko and gotou, and rei's conflicts and interactions with them, which are completely absent in this season. We never get any answers for what happened between kyoko and rei, and even the first season's ending parts showed them as being partially reconciled for no reason. Gotou's wife is shown to be hospitalised. That makes it okay for him to sleep around with a college girl! Basically all the darkness from the first season in relation to the main character is gone.

The bullying plot was good. It hit the right emotional beats at the right times and ... gave food for thought. Too bad that the problem was solved by a new teacher swooping in, thereby making the problem not the bully but the previous teacher! It's also not believable that the grandfather didn't take any action himself, seeing as how he loves his family. The bully is apparently a one dimensional sociopath, but people are never like that. Check out the manga takopi's original sin for a better take on bullying.

The issue I had with the previous season was it's end focus on shimada, a forgettable plain character, not at all interesting compared to rei. This season suffers from the same issue. There is too much focus on side characters, to the point rei is forgotten and got almost no development. The family also had fewer scenes with rei. They just sit around and eat food episode after episode. The series is not iyashikei last time I checked.

The next character explored is souya, but what is revealed about him hardly changes his character or the plot. He is the top player and doesn't have many interactions outside the game, which is usually the case for such people. The most interesting character was a shogi player who also trains pigeons for races. He is serious to a fault but kind to his animals and friends. His arc concludes in a touching scene. Too bad he's forgotten promptly. There is also a set up for a romance between rei and hina but I didn't much care for it.

Overall this season just felt vastly inferior to the last one. It has its moments but it's a slogfest to the end. Wouldn't recommend it.