Apr 20, 2025
Pro: The animation is flashy. That's pretty much all it has though.
While being sold as a show about being a hero, it's really more about media and the plight of the celebrity. The masses are mindless consumers who see a flashy commercial of pretty people telling them to "believe in themselves" or some other generic canned corporate line and that builds enough trust in to give actors superpowers. The show starts with some random guy who is meant to show the civilian perception of heroes. And he outright says someone prettier will come along to replace the hero. Then immediately sees a hero die right
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in front of him. The reaction to this death by literally everyone is to ignore it and brush it under the rug. He is surprised, but is more concerned with the wacky comedy of the manager telling him he needs to replace him. So he just…does. He abandons his life and anyone he may have known or cared about and just plays pretend as a person he watched die. He does ballet twirls, winks at the camera, says "trust" and "hero" a whole bunch, and coasts. The only hesitation being if he's "good enough." The dead man's friends, colleagues, girlfriend, find out that he died and was immediately replaced, and they DO. NOT. CARE. No one cares that someone died. No one cares about anyone left behind. No one cares about protecting people from harm. All anyone cares about is their image and whether the people (that they're supposedly protecting) will let them profit financially or personally from it. It's always what does this tv show, this action, this death, this image, get the "hero." Whether that be a higher rank, the freedom to travel, cooler powers, nebulous fame, etc. And the writing truly treats these characters as heroes. That's the worst part. Play sad music, have them verbally spell out the situation the audience can already see, have some cool sakuga, and the in universe audience and the viewer are meant to eat it up. Because the good guys have trust and hope. And the bad guys use meanness and fear. And no one is any deeper than that. I guess somewhat fitting for a story about corporate schlock, this show IS corporate schlock. All flash and no soul.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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