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***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***
This show is like Squid Game or Kaiji but dogshit. Imagine you get tazed, kidnapped and extorted into playing some game that looks like it's going to put you into debt by a suspicious person, this person says you can leave before you start the game. Mind you, one of your "friends" forced you into this game by paying this suspicious person 15k USD. Why do you even have the option to leave? If you do leave the game, the friend in debt that betrayed you will have to pay $150k USD. This instantly makes me think of three things

1) they have ... no reason to help a friend that's already betrayed them, obviously, they've already fucked them over
2) one of their "best friends" is from a rich family, if he cared so much about them, he could pay the debt
3) why the fuck are you going to trust some cunt that just tazed you and kidnapped you

Do any of them leave? No, we get a lot of forced flashbacks where they initially show how tight their bond is with each other. But in the upcoming flashbacks they show their bond actually isn't all that tight after all, from hitting each other to saying "I only care about you, not the others" ... right? The premise is flawed, it doesn't make me feel any tension, it feels utterly and completely stupid. This concept of using debt instead of human lives as punishment for losing the game really doesn't make you feel much, oh no, I'm 5 gorillion dollars in debt and I'm a poor highschool student, what am I going to do? File bankruptcy? LOL

The characters are one dimensional archetypes. This character is the rich kid, this character is the poor kid, this character is the nerdy kid, this character is the bullied timid kid, you get what I'm saying? Most of their dialogue revolves around their archetypes. Like when the suspicious person that's running the game brings up debt, the rich friend says "Oh, I could've just paid that! *smiles*" yeah you could and still can, so why are you still playing the game after getting kidnapped? For their to be some degree of tension, you have to care about the characters and there has to be real punishments. I don't care about the characters and I don't care if they get in more debt.

The art is generic and uninspired, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a lot of poorly paid oversea animators working on this. The nerdy looking character has some of the most wack ass hair I've seen in a while, I don't know what they were thinking when they drew his character. There really isn't much to say about the other characters or the background, none of it stands out, none of it looks well done. The soundtrack is probably the best part of the show. It matches the scenes of the show relatively well, though it's nothing worth listening to later. Overall, it's a really stupid show. It wasn't worth this write up.

Uohhhhhhhhh! !! !! Child erotic !!!!!! Child's belly and chest !!!!!! Erotic … 😭😭😭

*ahem*

Anyways, this story is about a lazy NEET (presumably) who gets summoned to another world and suddenly gets to manage a dungeon. I like the concept almost as much as I like that LN where the guy becomes a literal vending machine and dispenses Dorito chips for points to get better tasting Doritos, so I like the concept a lot. The little girls are very cute with thigh high socks and cute toes, so personally I enjoyed the art.

This series has made me actually laugh once or twice, it's very comical, ... nothing is taken that serious. There's like one panel of a loli getting btfo'd if you can't handle your lolis getting btfo'd this may not be the series for you. As a huge fan of escapism stories, I really enjoy the thought of a dungeon simulator surrounded by cute little girls that progressively becomes more comfy and cute. If you are of similar mind, this is the story for you.

It's a simple show that does everything it sets out to do perfectly. The girls are cute, the backgrounds are pleasant, the soundtrack is calming, it's like taking a nice walk outside. If you try watching it and pile on grandoise expectations of what it should be and then complain that it's not like that, you will not enjoy this show. It only takes you out for a walk outside. Seeing as most people here have never touched grass at any point in their lives, you may want to avoid this show if you dislike enjoying the simple things in life, like cute anime girls. ... This is one of my favorites of the season.

tl;dr: good art, decent soundtrack, awful character development and one of the worst time travel implementations of any show. It's okay, not great, not awful.

Story: 4/10
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They jump into photographs and change the past for various clients, why? Well, they don't really explain their motivations much. They simply do it. The story is one of the characters jumping back into the past to help a client, solve their problem and then return to the present. You might then wonder, why doesn't the main character go into the past to either

1) save people
2) accrue a large amount of money

Well, he can't do that. Why? The show ... essentially brings up the butterfly theory, that one small change can have immense impacts. For example, if I traveled to the past and took up a few seconds of your future partner's time with idle conversation, you may never meet them. Then your entire life trajectory (and countless others) would be changed permanently. The show brings this concept up multiple times as a generalized excuse, it never expands on it and it's never applied to the characters when they change the past every episode. Every change the characters do in the past are seen as largely an isolated change, so why can't the main character change the past however he pleases? This is never answered.

Art: 7/10
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There was a few scenes where I could tell there was a lot of effort put into it, then others where there was a lot of slacking. Overall, the background art/animation looked generally good.

Sound: 6/10
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Very hit or miss. It either perfectly suits the atmosphere or it ruins the atmosphere, they also reuse some tracks far too much in the wrong context. I did enjoy some of the OST's in this show but by the time I heard it for the 30th time, I stopped enjoying it as much.

Characters: 4/10
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I feel like I know nothing about the main characters motivations, thoughts or beliefs. Instead of focusing on the main characters, there was a plethora of episodic side characters that ended up being fleshed out more then them. I found that the random side characters they helped out seemed more interesting then the main characters, who didn't seem to have much of a personality.

Overall: 6/10
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It's alright but has a few flaws, mostly related to character development and the time travel aspect of the show. It's like Mushishi and Steins; Gate tried to have a kid but it came out a little retarded. Great concept but very poorly executed.