Oct 4, 2021
This is one of the weirdest failures of a show I've ever watched. Realist Hero is a series of payoffs to problems and events that were never set up. This show promises a series of problems that our pragmatic, logical hero Kazuya Souma is meant to face head on by using his brain where others may act impulsively or fail to see the bigger picture. But where's the fun in that if the thinking process is never shown? The obvious, but short-sighted solution that one would logically jump to first is never presented until the problem is solved, at which point another character (usually princess
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Liscia) asks our hero "why didn't we do the obvious thing?", and Souma replies by explaining what would've gone wrong if he had done what she asks. But at that point, there's no tension or mystery, and we don't get to guess what solution he'll actually come up with, because it's already happening or it has already happened.
The art is cheap at best, and fairly inconsistent. The number of dialogue scenes where we don't even get to see the face of the person speaking is almost jarring. But for the kind of show this is, it's overall passable.
Our main character Souma works just fine, and he could've even been great with a better story. But it is quite annoying that everyone loves and either accepts him as king or respects him as an enemy so easily and so quickly. He's clever, but he's not that clever. Which, on the other hand, is actually one of the things that I like: he uses knowledge that would be unique to him in a different world thanks to our history and literature instead of any kind of really convoluted Keikaku doori-style plan.
The rest of our characters are as one-dimensional as they come, but with maybe one or two exceptions none of them are terrible. Like for everything else, their relationships happen offscreen and we get told about them. And most of them appear for 1-2 episodes each anyways, so the lack of depth isn't really a surprise or a big issue.
The main problem of the show is its lack of stakes or tension. The only time the show tried to set up mysteries is as a hook at the end of the episode. But by the 3rd time the issue is immediately solved at the start of the next episode, people will catch on to the trick and the only setups the show was attempting to use just stop working.
Don't watch this. I can't say that it's horrible, but you will probably get nothing from this. No tension, no humor, no action, and no feels. You might as well be watching some ads, although in that case the production value would be better.
3/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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