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I heard about Gachiakuta because apparently Urana Kei was an assistant on Fire Force. This leaves Gachiakuta with big devils footprints to fill. Thankfully it lives up to the standard of Ookubos works.

The first 3 chapters are the strongest point of the manga. Right after Rudo is dropped into the abyss countless questions will rush through your head. Questions that will not be answered immediately, rather rudo first has to join a group and learn the combat system in and out. Obviously. Here the artwork of the manga really shines. Overtly stylized character designs rendered to be as ugly and unrecognizable as humanly possible. Despite ... a lack of backgrounds in most panels, there's too much visual noise on screen. Which brings up the next issue. Characters often speak as if to only explain the world to us, this shows especially with the first antagonists. The same antagonists then also do the MHA thing of running away through a handy portal, leaving you in anguish as you wait for them to show back up and still be as boring as this time.

Despite what I just said, worldbuilding and power wise Urana Kei had a great idea and I'm hoping to see this series improve. Just as it stands right now, I cannot in good faith recommend anyone read this story.

Orient is an honest surprise of an anime. Not only did A-1 Pictures not decide to adapt the rest of Magi but now Ohtaka's newest work is also given to a different studio, which - even more surprisingly - botches the anime even more than I expected A-1 to. The color palette is just all around unappealing, shots are very static and the anime always does that thing where they pan the visual camera to pretend there's movement.
The voice acting is ok at best, sound effects at least aren't on berserk 2016 levels but still not worth of note and the same can be said ... about the soundtrack.
With all the issues of the presentation in mind, enjoying the writing of the show becomes borderline impossible, making this one of the most disappointing watches I had this year.

You might or might not have seen people call this the "One Piece of Korean Webtoons" or something like that. Which is a statement I can wholy agree with.
It's just like One Piece in the sense that the adaptation fucking sucks and then the Korean part comes from the fact that this anime really is not that good but for some reason there's a chunk of people obsessing over it like it's the 2nd coming of Christ.
I can't really comment on wether the (((webtoon))) is actually as good as One Piece because reading is for nerds so maybe everything I hate about this will be ... fixed a few seasons in so in like 2050.

The main problem here is the worldbuilding, which apparently is a major focus of this story. So it's kinda odd that 11 episodes in I know nearly nothing about this world. The tower is too complex of a setting to easily wrap your head around it and the mixture of sci-fi, fantasy and straight up real modern elements being thrown in makes for a rather weird mixture. All of this isn't helped by the fact that we don't get a sense of place at all, it's like the characters are being ported to whatever place fits the need right now.

And speaking of characters: I don't care about Bam or Rachel or basically anybody. Most of them are walking stereotypes and not even the good kind of stereotype where they are at least charming or something. It feels like everything is left super vague because the author really thinks of himself as the modern einstein or something which brings me to the point most annoying to me:

The author is a fucking loser. This little nerd unironically already set up an entire multiverse for his stories and he didn't even complete one. He's calling himself SIU which is short for Slave In Utero to be super mysterious and super smart about fucking everything and also he's a Korean and I really don't like Koreans.

Also if you read this review to the end congrats you're a nerd as well I'm not sorry I do make the rules