Shangri La offers an intriguing and fun video-game story that is actually ABOUT THE GAME ITSELF and not about the MC's real life/romance or some shit. You get to see the MC level up, gear up, develop his skills, go through questlines, and more, it's great! There's also plenty of likeable characters with actual personalities to them.
The art direction, animation, and music are all consistently good which is fairly impressive considering this is a 25-episode show.
Not much else to add except for that this is the VRMMO anime that you WANTED Sword art online to be. It really is the best in its own genre,
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Mar 31, 2024
Jul 4, 2022
I don't write reviews, but I just wanted to say that this would have been a 7 from me if not for the bizarre decision to tack on a random fanservice filler as the final episode, which felt like a bad OVA, right after episode 12 which actually was the actual finale.
And also, what's with shoving all these extremely uninteresting side characters down our throats and the show constantly trying to gaslight you into feeling like they've been long time friends with the main cast? Just feels so off. Out of all theses newer side characters, which include Ost, Rishia, Kizuna and Yomogi, Rishia ... |
