Aug 14, 2019
While the concept for this show sounds generic and over done, it appealed to me as something that could be enjoyable. Something I could sit down and mindlessly appreciate after a hard long day. This however was not the case, and I would have to be more than just mindless to even enjoy a scrape of this absolute faeces of a show.
Everything about this show reeks of amateurism. It's bland, it's boring, and it gives us everything we hated about every other isekai and nothing that we loved. The male protagonist who was bullied and is out for revenge, but somehow lost any personality
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he had along the way. His love interest; the loli girl who is a million years old so hot damn, it's "okay" if they kiss - she's definitely legal. And let's not forget the disgusting CGI. Action scenes can often save a poorly written show, making up for the terrible dialogue and half-assed attempt at character growth. But for Arifureta, it only adds to the long list of detriments.
Nothing Hajime does is revolutionary. Nothing he does is even vaguely interesting, actually. He trains, he grows. But who is he? We only find out during badly timed and frankly unseemly flashbacks. We have no reason to care about this person because his only known trait, which isn't a positive, is that he was betrayed by a classmate. I think I'd prefer it if he were at least insufferable. If he at least made me feel some sort of emotion. In a show where the art, animation, and vile GCI are just some of the downfalls, the protagonist really needed to carry the show. But he lacks in pretty much every aspect and fails to even keep us glued for one episode.
Yue is the same. She's a cliche loli/vampire and provides absolutely no value. I'm a firm believer that a good show will utilise a few cliches; they're used often for a reason. However this is one that isn't quite necessary. Telling us she's 1000 years old doesn't make us feel any less creeped out when she sucks blood from Hajime's neck. It certainly doesn't make their kissing scene less creepy, either. Fuelling the fantasy's of a certain set of people is lovely fan service but it's not quite what I'm looking for.
All in all, this show is pure garbage. Badly written, badly directed. Poor transitions early on when dealing with past/present scenes make it hard to watch, and action scenes that look like they were animated during the 90s only make it worse. Put the icing of dull, unlikeable characters onto the metaphorical cake and we have one of the worst shows of 2019.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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