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This belongs to my "Minecraft let's play video" category – an anime you can watch in the PiP mode while doing something else and not really miss out on anything that happens in the show.

It's a regular Isekai, with all the standard Isekai attributes and plot twists. There are girls... They're really annoying. Well, that's classic. The hero is an Iron Man outside, but a pussy inside – that's also classic. The art is nice, the same goes for voice acting. The soundtrack – well, there IS a soundtrack... Ok? Given that the overall budget for this series was 2 bowls of rice and a ... couple of Asahi beer cans – it's not that bad.

Anyway, just watch it in the PiP mode.

Ok, so this is the first anime in my "Minecraft let's play video" category – an anime you can watch in the PiP mode while doing something else and not really miss out on anything that happens in the show.

The art style is nice but the animation itself is mid. It's not like in Blue Lock S2 (nice looking frames with very little movement), but sometimes the animation is as lazy as just putting a static frame of a running character (yea, they're not running) and imitating the motion just by animating the dust layer and overlay on top of the character layer. The voice ... acting is nice, the soundtrack is, well, it exists, kinda...

The story is basically the opposite of what you see in the title, because... Khmm... I want this review to be spoiler free, so I'm just gonna say that when all is said and done the MC is very rarely alone, despite calling himself a "true loner".

Anyway, if you're doing some routine work this anime is worth watching in the background. Especially, if you're a zoomer who's used to watching 3-4 brainrot videos simultaneously – for it'll be a piece of cake for sure!

The story is mediocre, the drama is forced, but this is still worth watching because of:
1) Sawano Hiroyuki's opening – trust me, that OP is so good that you won't skip it even once.
2) It has reasonable girls – they're not mentally unstable, they're not trying to jump onto the MC's dick, they don't behave like assholes.

Ok, now, what might cringe you out is:

1) The main antagonist – the typical "I want to play around with the MC" type, who evil (not so evil, though) just because ... he's evil. He doesn't have any real motivation.
2) MC's little sister – she's just so passive that it's annoying.
3) Gameplay – those 90's Doom style walking and running animations are really cringe for a "very popular and highly acclaimed" shooter game that is worth of holding a tournament.

So, my rating, including the personal bias, – 7/10.

Actually, it was pretty fun! Like, it's literally one of the fewer shows that has a complete "revenge" trope, which doesn't have a half-assed ending to it. Also, it kinda reminds me of Elfen Lied, because all the annoying smug guys get wiped out pretty quickly without getting a chance to get on the viewer's nerves too much.

The animation quality is good, the character design is decent. The soundtrack is also pretty good, however the opening theme felt a bit weak in dynamics for this kind of god-knows-what-happens-next kind of isekai. The ending, though, is really good.

Animation – 8/10
Story – 6/10
Music – 7/10
Character design – ... 7/10
Overall – 7/10

Right off the bat:
Animation – 10/10 (guys, just teach me how to use Maya like that, damn...)
Music – 6/10 (well, it's not bad)
Story – 2/10 (very typical but if that was the case I would've given it a 4 or 5; however, in this case it pretends to be super serious and becomes pure cringe)
Overall – 5/10

Ok, so the MC, Will. Will, will Will will Will Will's will? Anyway... Kind of like the guy from Mashle but at least he has a positive IQ. But in exchange for his positive IQ he's a crybaby, and yet the strongest student physically. How does that work? Don't ... even ask me, jeez. So he can defeat a freaking SS-rank monster (speaking in the MMO terminology) but can't give a good beating to some of his "friends" so that they stop fucking around with him. Why? Oh, that's because he's K__I__N__D. His heart is bigger that your M... Actually, no, nothing can compete with that, you're right.

The teachers at the academy are annoying af, but that's kind of realistic, I guess, at least for me, because in my country you can only be on good terms with your university teachers if you bribe them (or if you're female – do some "pillow job", so to speak). Thefore, respect for realism.

Every student around Will just seems to pay too much attention to him – if he's as useless as you claim, then why don't you just leave him alone? All his so-called "friends" are also very stereotypical: there's a guy who's all high-and-mighty because he thinks he's cool, there's another guy who's a hothead and always wants to fight with the MC (oh, god, that's why I don't like Shounen, bruh), then there's are girl who is in love with the MC and nobody knows why, let alone explains it somehow. And, finally there's his roommate who is indeed a REAL MAN, and together they could do some REAL MEN'S STUFF, but unfortunately the MC seems to be into girls. Oh, wowsers, zomg teh drama.

When I was watching it, I was skipping some parts because I was like: "Yeah, I know where this is going. Ok, skip, skip..."

Watching a show about "a cute Russian girl" (I know she's ハーフ (hafu), now what?) when you're living in the Donbas under you-know-whose jurisdiction for over 2 years is not funny at all, so this review will be filled with personal bias.

Ok, I don't think I have to explain that Russian girls can be pretty looking but are far away from being cute – I mean, they can meow in the Discord VC, but does that make them cute? However, this is an anime – a fictional story, so we'll ignore that fact for now.

It's said that Kuze used to watch Russian movies with his ... grandpa. Well, there's an average Brat 2/Zhmurki/Brigada/Bumer enjoyer for you, huh? Honestly, I don't know how that works, because literally nobody cares about Russian movies except for the Russians themselves, the countries under the Russian influence (the empire just won't give up, you know), those sects from the West who are fond of the USSR and communism (wanna come and try living in the DPR, guys?), a bunch of Koreans who happen to have Russian in their school program, and a bunch of Chinese who have gotten tired of living under the supervision of Big Daddy Xi. Oh, yeah, I know there's one Japanese dude on YouTube who speaks decent Russian, and then there was that ballerina girl who became friends with Slava Marlov and Morgenshtern... But apart from them – who would wanna learn Russian in Japan? Come on...

Now, since the following paragraph basically illustrates the actual state of affairs in Japan in regard to the Russian language abilities and comprehension, the voice acting when they tried to speak Russian was... Well, they tried. Good job but I didn't understand a single word on the first try and relied on the Japanese subs instead. Also, can someone tell them that Russians usually insert a swear every 2-3 words in a sentence? That's the best case scenario, actually, because some dudes can have their sentences made up of swears exclusively (yeah, that's me). Honestly, I don't care much about their linguistic abilities since I'm also bad at speaking Japanese, so, yeah, whatever...

Animation – great, very vivid, nice character design, nice AMV-style endings. (8/10)
Soundtrack – not of a fan of it but objectively it's not bad. (5/10 personally, 7.5/10 objectively)
Story – a typical ラブコメ (romcom) story, nothing too special (5/10)
Voice acting – if we exclude the cringy Russian parts it's ok but nothing too special (5.5/10)
Openings/endings – not bad, especially the endings (yeah, nice job editing that text in After Effects, guys) (7/10)

Final verdict – 6/10 objectively, 4/10 subjectively.

I wanna write something cheesy in the end but the FSB's gonna send me to the basement if I do that :(

To be fair, watching this anime can be compared to listening to DragonForce – if the mood is right, it's perfect. So goes for me. While everybody is bitching about the MC, I find him pretty cool because you don't often see a guy who's so hesitant (in terms of relationships and such), yet willing to spend so much money (calm down bro, you won't be able to do your monthly mortgage payment at the end...), which is both hilarious yet fun. 10/10 for me, haven't read the manga, enjoying the anime, you should try too.

The downsides on the other hand would be:
1) Sometimes, there's ... a lot of text on the screen so you have to pause the video to read the subtitles (not that it's a problem, but the pace itself is quite flashy). This includes emotions indication text, text on signs and phone messages text. It's not as annoying as in the Monogatari series, but still it's present here. Gives those kinds of epileptic vibes.

2) Also some mild nudity is present, which leads me to a question: "How can this be rated as PG-13?".

3) As in every shitcom (not that it's something bad though), from times to times some lo-fi art (sketches rather) will be encountered thoughout the anime. They're probably done just to emphasize the situation which occured beforehand but I am personally not a big fan of such lo-fi artwork style.

It has a decent drawing for a retro anime and has quite a few funny moments as well. It's black and white and there's no sound but those are compensated with an interesting storyline.

English subbed video you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOzUkY5DrQU

As it's based on a Japanese folk tale it should have some sort of a moral and should be teaching you a lesson. This one doesn't, but that's what makes this story more saucy than others. Small spoiler: failure followed by a betrayal.

I liked it a lot and if you are looking for retro Japanese animation, then you should watch this one!