Suppose A Kid From The Last Dungeon Boonies Moved To A Starter Town just came out a few months ago in the Winter 2021 season, the title promised a show with an overpowered character going up against normal life for normal people, at least this is a reasonable expectation from the title. As an anime with a relatively big budget I had quite high expectations, but since it started airing it hasn’t received much praise.
The question, like always, is “Is it worth watching?” I hope in the next few paragraphs you’ll get an answer. The review is mostly spoiler-free and in case spoilers exist they will be marked like this →
There’s a TLDR at the end for the ones that don’t want to read all of this.
The title was not promising anything new and the expectations were of something along the lines of “Konosuba” or “ That Time I got Reincarnated As A Slime” with good animation, epic fighting scenes, and somewhat decent jokes. Now it’s time to ask the question “did it hold up to its expectation?” and the answer is just “No it didn’t”
In the story there has been put some thought, at least a lot more than in any other thing. It is clear that there was a clear idea of where they wanted to go, but at the same time it looks like they had no idea on how to get there.
While there has been some thought put into the story the episodes themselves feel like they are not going anywhere and empty. This results in the constant feeling of watching separate episodes that are not clearly connected as there is no development in the character nor in the story.
Another problem is the many plot holes. While there are no huge plot holes there is a plethora of small ones. Seeing a character act unfaithfully to who they are and what they stand for is quite common. This is not too bad after all though because of the horrible characters in which I’ll get to in a bit.
Not really a spoiler but I'll talk about the last episode so I'll mark it
The ending doesn’t leave any space for a second season this is all I'll say so don’t expect a second season because it will likely never come.
The characters are the part where this anime really fucked up as there is not even one character that is decent throughout the entire anime. The main problem is that no character has a tiny bit of personality, they don’t feel like people, therefore you don’t get attached to them. Furthermore there is no development at all. All of the characters are very easily forgettable because of their lack of personality, in fact I had to go check their names multiple times while writing this review.
Another problem with the character is that they are all completely brain-dead, there is not even the hint of the presence of a brain in them, proof of this is that even after seeing the limits of normal people with his eyes Lloyd doesn’t realise that he is much stronger than them.
Now I'll get into every character separately (more or less):
Lloyd:
The protagonist is barely worth calling a character as he has no personality and has no development in the story. At least he has a reason to fight unlike all the other characters but at the same time the reason he fights is told to you at the start of the first episode, and that is all there is to know about him. Another important thing regarding Lloyd is that he is brain-dead, more than any other character, so if you dislike stupid protagonists avoid the show
Riho (first half):
Riho from the start was a very promising character, compared to all the other characters she clearly is the best one, she is the only character that seems to have a reason to live and to fight. In the first half she has a personality and a reason to fight. Sadly around episode 6 she just becomes a clone of all the other yandere characters so it did let down my hopes.
Alka, Selen, Riho (in the second half), Phyllo (somewhat):
They are all clones of each other pretty much, and this is the reason they come in a group as they are all the same character just drawn differently. Their personality can be reduced to “Yandere”, that is all there is to them.They are all basically the go brrr meme just that instead of brrr is yandere, so more like “character go yandere”
Marie:
She is the character with the best jokes in the show, but sadly she is just a slightly better clone of all the other characters, but she is still pretty bad. As a positive note at least I remembered her name which means that at least she is not completely worthless as a character.
The next paragraph is about the (supposedly) villain and the fact that I have to mark it as a spoiler should already tell you that it was not a job well done and she is not even on the character list
The animation is not the worst but definitely falls into the “meh” category as it resembles more something from 2015 than 2021. The flow of the fighting scenes is terrible, full of scenes that make no sense physically, for example characters being kicked in the side and falling backwards. Another example is a very minor spoiler so I'll tag it as such anyway ~!
(episode 8 around 15:00) two people throwing firebombs that have seemingly been lighted by god himself as no one spent time lighting them they are just throwing them picking them up from the floor already lighted.
In conclusion I would only suggest this show if you have nothing better to watch, you don’t mind having a complete idiot as a protagonist, you like the subpar jokes in this kind of anime.
TLDR: Don’t watch unless you literally have nothing better to do.
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