May 14, 2017
This is my first review but wanted to give my opinion of this series so far (up to ep 6). The word that comes to mind when thinking about this anime is disappointment. The starting premise is a great idea and fairly original. Characters from different media coming to our world would be amazing. The art is great and the music gets you pumped for the fight scenes. There's a good variety of characters and you get really excited to see where the story will take them. Here's where the the disappointment comes in.
I'll start with Souta Mizushino (the main character), I cannot find
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the reason he is even in this show. Hes the typical shy MC but we barely learn anything about him. He doesn't drive the plot forward, he has no real importance, and he barely seemed to be in episodes. The only purpose he had was to give information, either to the "creations" (anime people) or the viewers, and with the introduction of new characters hes not even needed for that now. Another problem with this show is flow. Some episodes have good balance of action, information, and drive. Other episodes are bogged down in dialogue and don't go anywhere. There is too much talking in certain episodes, and that's not even the main problem I have with the talking in the show. The conversations don't have the substance to warrant the time used for them. They say the same things over and over but disguise it with "big words" so it sounds important. On top of the long conversations the anime doesn't show scenes of what they're describing or reflect any of the consequences they talk about in their conversations. Most of the plot is through dialogue and never shown. A very basic rule of good story telling is "show, don't tell" but this anime does the complete opposite. Even after so much dialogue, you get very little of characters' backstories or what the worlds are like that they come from. With the problems from the main character and so much dialogue the one aspect that suffers the most is the "drive". There's no clear A to B, the reasoning behind characters doing what they do isn't established, and there's no sense of urgency. There's literally a part where they say they don't know what to do and they just wait in a room, even though they just discussed a huge problem that needs to be solved. Things just seem to happen and all the characters are just along for the ride.
Some parts I will praise the anime on is the realism they try to have. An example is some fights happen in the cities, and of course there's collateral damage. Unlike some anime, bystanders actually notice this and the government gets involve. Which I always appreciate when a fictional world reflects off the actions of the main characters, so that's a nice touch. It's also nice that they chose different characters from different genres and not just one media.
So in conclusion, there are good or even great parts about this show (which is why I will continue watching it), but there are a lot of problems that hold it back from being above average. It's disappointing because you can see the potential this starting idea/premise had. It's still only 6 episodes in, for 22 episode anime so it could (and hopefully) improve, but it will be hard to recommend an anime with "it gets good around episode 7". I highly doubt ill drop this anime for it being purely bad, but the wasted potential is a different factor. I'll try to update this review when more episodes come out if people found it helpful.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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