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Really wanted to like this, but it falls short for a multitude of reasons. The show starts off decent, but quickly loses its footing and fumbles around trying to hack a redeeming story together.

Going into this show with little to no prior knowledge, I had originally expected this show to be an adventure / Isekai anime, but with a video game debugging twist. The end result ended up disappointing me. What this anime delivers instead is a half-baked story with incomplete or abruptly ended plot points, and less than desirable characters.

To further explain the first point, the story is a mess. Plot points and elements ... to the story will fall through or abruptly end in an episode without so much as a second mention. The show is constantly bouncing around ideas and trying to see what will work for it, but it always ends up feeling half-baked in the end. Large developments with characters, or newly introduced characters / elements of the story will suddenly appear and leave as they are needed to serve the plot.

As stated previously, this show would be much better served if the writers had taken a different approach. Instead of the hybrid isekai / adventurer style plot, it should have been a plot revolving around a seemingly normal person doing crazy technical / debugging shenanigans in an otherwise typical anime setting. It would have been a refreshing take on the genre and would have opened the door for great comedic moments as well.

As for the second point, the characters aren't that great. The main character is just molded into whatever serves the current direction of the plot best, while also simultaneously holding on to annoying traits that make him a bit of a pain to watch. He's incredibly stubborn and dim-witted on multiple occasions. A couple of the other characters are annoying and don't really do a whole lot to the show except just be there to facilitate goofs or dynamics between the cast. They're annoying and the show would be better with them gone. As to avoid spoilers, they will not be mentioned, but you'll know em when you seem. The latter half of the show is worse than the former for these reasons in particular.

This show is just OK. Middle of the road, lukewarm anime affair. Viewers may enjoy it if you don't think about it too hard and just consume it without much critical thinking. For those that want deeper plot points and character development, this show isn't it. It's a hit-or-miss and you may or may not like it depending on how you view anime.