This had so much potential to be a very good anime and when I say that I mean it, think of how good Parasyte was, this could have been at the tier, but of course, the main character is too wimpy for that. Do you love wimpy shrimp main characters or, aka the Shinji syndrome, do you love a show that keeps on making you question every decision? Then “oh boy, do I have a show for you”. I can see why some people liked this, but after finishing it, I have a lot more dissatisfaction than anything. Have you ever wanted to like
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something, but it keeps on disappointing, well that’s what I felt watching this all the way through.
This anime had a fascinating and eye-catching beginning, the concept of the show I really loved; with the whole collecting coins for wishes, but as I saw more and more, the whole thing left more to be desired and questions than a coherent story. Now, it’s hard to know where to begin with a blog of an anime that makes you so frustrated, but I guess we can start with Shuuichi Kagaya. There is one thing that annoys more than anything in anime, more than generic isekai, more than lolicons - which are wimpy ass characters. Shuuichi is one. I do believe that sometimes the troupe can work in certain anime like Evangelion, but Gleipnir did it terribly and for me ruined the enjoyment, even ruined the anime too. What really was lacking in this “action anime” was action, well… There was action, but it was a weak excuse for one, as our “not main character” Shuuichi was so shrimpy that it couldn’t provide a full fight, which is what I disliked because the fights felt very lacklustre.
This disaster, known as Gleipnir, had a concise start to the anime; a good mystery element to his past, which I was invested in, interested in the Elena character, on board with the goals and hoped to see it pan out, but it started to decrease in score when they met the group. This is when the brain-dead decisions came from the plot that baffled me. Firstly, Chihiro the furry is shuuichi but even more annoying. What really annoyed me was weird sexual overtones of this anime which I felt killed enjoyment and become weird as hell after a while. Some scene they go into extreme danger and are willing to die from the enemy's way stronger just for something like a wallet. Then, plot armor saves them and gets the upper hand, but don't get satisfaction of actions as something always cucks it.
Shuuichi not having an exciting fight except for the first episode, I could come to terms that won’t happen halfway through, so it was still annoying to experience, but I’d put that aside to get onto the other priorities of the anime. You know, when people said they hate overpowered characters; I think this show took it literally and made our main characters extremely underpowered. Our main character is the most useless character I’ve seen as they get pushed around by everyone and the show is even self-conscious about it too which just adds to the frustration. During the later half it felt kind of random and half assed; ideas out of nowhere that have make no sense.
The story doesn’t feel coherent after this because they were progressing to their goal, right? But after this, they go back to the school, of all things? I don’t understand why they would go back to school to go back to normality when it seemed like they were missing school, anyway; it felt unneeded and irrelevant. It was just an excuse to segway the story along. Only thing i really enjoyed was the backstory, which was a breather from the stupidity that had occurred through the show. I feel like out of all the episodes, only four of them were actually good and half of it was a backstory. Every other one, I felt, had plot holes, terrible troupes and meaningless or dumb storytelling. I liked Youta’s storyline and where he is now, but the future of the anime seems to me. It had locked itself for disaster and would be an awkward start for season two.
What stands out to me, especially during the end, is how they are going to get there final goal. As, mcs are too weak to even try unless he blacks out or merges with the blonde girl but enemies seems like in a way different league from anything else, even with the buffs he could get there is no way he could beat him. Then the ending, which half the timeline is full of holes. After going to some random ending that was probably rushed, saying they are not the main characters; I felt like even who made this was self-aware at a shoddy job they did so made light of it in the end. The end made me just lose my mind at how bad it was and how disarrayed the whole show was, the uneventfulness that took place throughout the anime was remarkable at how much of nothing it came to; the laughable dubstep bgms, the annoying mc, all over the place plot. In conclusion, don’t bother with the anime. Read the manga if you want. Biggest disappointment that you will get if you finish this or have. I’m sorry on behalf of everyone who actually faith when this aired, me included!
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Dec 4, 2021
This had so much potential to be a very good anime and when I say that I mean it, think of how good Parasyte was, this could have been at the tier, but of course, the main character is too wimpy for that. Do you love wimpy shrimp main characters or, aka the Shinji syndrome, do you love a show that keeps on making you question every decision? Then “oh boy, do I have a show for you”. I can see why some people liked this, but after finishing it, I have a lot more dissatisfaction than anything. Have you ever wanted to like
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Nov 15, 2021
Mangaka and assistant san would've probably been a decent anime if it was a normal short form like 3-5 mins each but it’s 12 mins each which for the concept I felt that there wasn’t enough in the anime to warrant that length as it's basically just him taking advantage of the girls who work for him and using hexual sarassament as gags maybe for a super short anime that would be funny somewhat, but it gets dragged out and repeating the same jokes just like what senko san and other ecchi comedy anime do that lack substance.
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