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It is saddening to see such a charming anime drop its own charm.

At first glance it looks like a kids' show, and the first few episodes do feel like a toy sales pitch. But also starting from first episode the comedy showed off its fast pace, from the character interactions you could tell the main cast genuinely cared for each other, and the attention to detail with the plot (in a kids' show!) was great, so the fact this was made for promotion you forget.

It especially hurts because the anime showed it *could* deal with character emotions in a mature and believable way. The times ... it did so were touching.

Yet, the moment the story headed for large-scale drama and destruction everything started to fall apart. Despite how careful they were being with character actions, the main cast started acting very out of character when it most mattered (serious moments). This also goes for side characters, every single one acted in ways a person would never act during the serious arcs. Despite having previously shown the ability to act like normal people before these arcs even happened.

So while the anime does keep up this façade of good comedy and character interactions for a long while, it decides to head into a more war/fighting related plot, which would be fine if it wasn't for the dubious writing. Or maybe it's dubious in my eyes, but it was written like this because Legendz is ultimately a kids' show. But that's also an excuse, in the beginning they could keep up the quality while at the same time remaining as serious as a kids' show can be. It really feels like halfway they gave up on good writing and just added whatever a kid would find cool.

My point is: don't be deceived by thinking it will deal with things in a believable way. As long as you expect kids' show developments and actions from both characters and the plot, you may avoid the bad impression this ended up leaving on me.

Sotsu is a long recap with only four episodes worth of actual new content.

You can seriously skip to episode 13 and miss nothing.

Even then, content that actually continued the story from the last season didn't start until the last two episodes. At that point the dialogue becomes too cheesy, even more than the normal Higurashi dialogue, and it just becomes too ridiculous of a story to actually enjoy.

The entire last arc only makes sense if you know about Umineko. Not having read Umineko will probably lead to confusion.

I'd either wait for a fan edit or skip to episode 13. This season was a mistake.

I won't spoil in this review, but I recommend you skip this special. It isn't good and isn't related to the main plot at all.

You can expect the same level of quality all previous episodes had during the first half. The setup was good.

Then the 'twist' is revealed and it turned into the stupidest story of the year. The message it tries to convey isn't bad, but the story unfolding like it did lacks logical sense.
The resolution to the entire dilemma was both confusing and underwhelming. I still have no idea why things ended like they did.

I think more context is given after the conclusion ... in the form of letters. Sadly, these are not translated.


Nothing stops you from watching the episode, but if I could go back I would tell myself to skip it.
Maybe watch it when you're done with the anime.

Hold even a glint of expectation and you'll die of boredom.

The only good thing is the portrayal of early teen personality felt very real. Most of the protagonist's dialogue and actions were exactly what I would expect from a rebellious teen. Sadly this was just him, everyone else's personalities fluctuated between realistic and ridiculous. Almost all teenage characters had unexplainable outbursts that left even themselves confused.

Along the way were super cheesy moments no teen would ever participate in nor act in such way. The protagonist was the sole exception, whenever those scenes happened around him he just stayed quiet.

Speaking of feelings, we never, ever, get ... to hear character thoughts. Everything is told.

When someone is feeling down, it isn't shown the character is down, we are told by some other character that this character feels down. This wasn't a problem until the final episodes where doing this felt very out of place.

The realism I spoke of was gone by the end of the anime, since the focus went away from the protagonist.

After pushing through the episodes don't expect anything from the ending either because it is as open as it gets.

It's very dull and uninteresting.

Entire scenes and dialogue don't feel like such, but more like summaries instead, which makes character actions impossible to understand. Explanations for events are so quick and vague that it's hard to exactly know what is happening with the plot.
It's like the anime thinks its own plot is so obvious it glosses over the *why did that happen?* part.

The constant cut of dialogue (I swear whenever they wrote a scene they cut 90% of the contents) and lack of consistency made immersion hard. Not being able to follow what was happening caused the anime to feel like a drag.

One good thing ... I will highlight is the demon girl protagonist. While at times she too suffers from the dialogue summary syndrome, she is cute.
I stand on her design being one of the only redeemable features of this anime along with the OP and ED.

I really do not recommend watching this.

It's not the most exciting anime, but the possibilities with the slimes are very interesting.

This anime initially displayed a lot of interesting concepts regarding them (they gain abilities based on what they eat), most which were sadly set aside to speed-run the story.
Many mini arcs about the protagonist struggling to find an use for his slimes' abilities were skipped. That was arguably the most interesting part of the series.

The characters were very good in the first two episodes, they acted exactly like a real person would. From the third episode on however, there was *something* missing in them. Maybe it was the anime directors wanted ... to get to the end as soon as possible, so they cut out character interactions.

Many other new characters introduced were set aside after two or three episodes.

The art is colorful but super average. The animation isn't anything special either, you only really have the story to focus on.

Despite its rushiness, the anime does manage to stay entertaining, calming and relevant enough to its main themes (slimes) to deserve a watch.

The anime's synopsis is misleading (and so are the first episodes) because the show soon turns into something completely unrelated to the main premise. 'Clickbait' would be the appropriate word to use here.

As the synopsis says, the set up is that the protagonist has to use her knowledge of the game to avoid the game's bad endings. It is a very interesting premise that the anime lets go of less than halfway in.

The first episodes, as promised in the synopsis, involve the protagonist doing her best as a kid to avoid future doom arcs. The very first episode is incredible and over-delivers; it shows her ... struggle against what appear to be events set in stone by trying *all* possible ways to avoid them. The following episodes don't disappoint either.

Despite the incredible start, the plot comes to an abrupt stop the moment Katarina grows up.
Three to four episodes (in a row) are dedicated to filler. Having filler is not a bad thing, the glaring issue is that *all tension is gone.* The main obstacle is GONE!

The following is NOT A SPOILER and should be added to the tags: this is a (reverse) harem show.
By the time Katarina is grown up, everyone is in love with her. The plot point that made the entire premise interesting, trying to avoid bad endings because everyone hated her (the villain), was resolved in the first few episodes.

Since there are no longer any stakes due to Katarina having romanced everyone, it feels ridiculous when she panics and worries they may kill/vanish her. The first three/four times it was kind of funny. The tenth time not so much.

After the filler arc, the plot is picked up again. Yet the events in it occur with zero foreshadowing, essentially coming out of nowhere, and there is no other explanation given other than "it's just like that."
As an addition, I don't like using the word cliché, but the word perfectly describes the anime's final arc.

What the anime does get right are the emotional scenes. Even I, who disapproved of the anime out loud during the entire final arc, had to fight off the feelings of wanting to cry at one point.
Perhaps it was the soundtrack, but I definitely felt the tears wanting to come out.


To summarize: the anime promised a plot it didn't follow through. What it did turn into (a slice of life, comedy-drama-harem show) isn't particularly groundbreaking or special. It's just average. Though I won't deny it may be a good start to anyone trying to get into slice of life anime.

I repeat, so you are fully warned: Do not watch this expecting the initial premise to last.