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There are few things that you really regret watching. But this is beyond that. It has already been more than two years since I've watched this and I'm still ashamed to not have switched off at the first second. Especially because I forced myself to go through with it. I found this so disgusting and disturbing when I first started it, but as you force yourself through this, your psychological barrier goes lower and lower.

All this time afterwards I can at least say that, although my intrusive side always tells me otherwise, I am not a paedophile. I am still ashamed to even have this ... on my list, let alone in my head. I really wish that I had never watched it, also since it was one of those things you only watch because they're infamous. Truly an alltime low...

Every review is subjective, so is this one.

You know sometimes you hate to be right. At the beginning of this season that this show was looking good, but that being about it. And I feel confirmed.
This show does one mistake from the get-go. In fact the entire first episode is a mistake. For some, definitely not financial reason, they decided to make the first ep pretty much a promo for what is to come. It is ok wanting to present action in the first episode, as a lot of shonen jump series do this too, in order to get good ratings for the first ... chapter. However it becomes problematic when that first episode is not ever referenced again and at the same time spoils the second episode, which is btw the only interesting plotpoint in this series. Anyways, off we go:

Story:
There isn't really much to say here. It is a surprisingly boring story with not much driving force. Now this could work with the right characters, but we'll come to that. It is relatively slow paced, but feels slightly accelerated towards the end with some questionable plotpoints to spice it up, but pacing is not the big problem anyways.

Art:
Well this is MAPPA X MADHOUSE so it is quite good but not the best each of them could do. If you know how MADHOUSE does fights, then you will recognise them here. MAPPA seems to be responsible for the rest here and it shows. You might think that there shouldn't be any problems with them taking over the rest, but oh boy. So positive first: extremly well done scenery and you got your typical MAPPA shader slapped onto this. But negative: the characters don't always move fluently, the perspective always looks kinda flat, there's never any attempt to make them look hq even when standing still, face shadow isn't really a thing and so on.

Sound:
The best aspect of this anime. As this is an anime about music, you can expect that, but really. As music is pretty subjective I can only say that the ost never destroyed the mood or felt unfitting in any way.

Character:
The worst aspect. While two of the three main characters are actually quite likeable, that's about where it stops. The third mc is one of the most annoying characters in the last few seasons of anime, and so is the rest of the cast. I get easily annoyed with bad characters but this really ticks all the boxes for presenting annoying characters, that wouldn't even have to be so annoying in order for the story to work.

Enjoyment:
I liked the fights, but that's about it. As you can tell I didn't really enjoy anything besides that. But gladly there's a lot of fights in this anime. I never got my hopes up when I saw the trailer, so it's not an disappointment for me.