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Summary: Overall plot is actually decent; story details are a mixed bag; garbage animation.


The good: Split timeline is an interesting way to structure the story and ramping up for a good plot twist presumably during the finale.

The mixed: Kumoko is an interesting character similar to Ainz but with realistic motivations. However, most of the human-side characters are uninspired and monotonic to say the least — no wonder why so many fellow anime fans found that side of the story less compelling.

The (really) bad:

The animation is bad, i mean really bad. I have the utmost respect for animators in general who often work way too hard for ... us anime fans so I have never said this casually or ever.

This studio overuses CG where it is unnecessary. While CG is fine for non-human characters like dragons and Kumoko, they insist on using CG models for even core characters like the demon lord. Problems like rigid body movement and stale facial expressions completely took me out of the story.

Camera work is also all over the place. Enabled by CG, they just spin the camera wherever and whenever they want without actually considering the why. If drawn, these scenes would've required master animators with many key frames but now they just feel cheap. The scenes also randomly move characters around and abuse the hell out of camera depth effects, which would be effective in small quantity for dramatic effect but definitely not 20 times per episode.

Other reviewers pretty cover my other complaints.

Verdict:

Another studio with a proper budget should have picked this up.