
a review by Maxburn

a review by Maxburn

Emotional side
I'd like to say that Re:Creators speaks a lot to me in an emotional level because I am also an artist, so a lot of things that can be considered normal banter, or a lot of useless dialog by non-artists, I deeply valued. It's really relieving knowing the author of such a great anime also goes through the impostor syndrome. This is continuously revealed in the show in multiple occasions, such as the interaction of the first god with Selestia and the last fight scene where Altair meets her creator. I would also like to note that the author puts great emphasis on the creation of a great story compared to the creation of a really good character, it's something I struggle a lot with. After all it's not what about what a character should look like but how everything about this character interacts with the world they are put in.
Character designs
Generally speaking the characters aren't special per say in the begging. Each one looks like your stereotypical hero, they want to protect the world and be the best person they can be. However, during the progression of the show, we see that almost all characters develop, Selestia understand what her role in the world is and knows that she's not truly the hero of her show nor is Charon. Mamika is just your overall annoying character when she first shows up, but eventually builds an incredible relationship with Alicetelia, a bond of heroic values i suppose. Mamika wants to be the pillar of hope for everyone, and a character that removes depression from other people including the main antagonist, Altair, which personally had the biggest development in only 3 episodes. Altair just goes from your classic emotionless killing machine to something more humane once she's faced with her creator. I believe her design is portrayed fantastically, she is designed by a god who considers herself weak and is put down by almost everyone, but she still ends up being the most busted character in the entire show. She can be considered many things, but I think a beautiful way to look at her would be the hope all hopeless people are lacking. Everyone wants to be brave, invincible, free from world constraints and to live their own life the way they want to, hence why she was such a popular design in the show and got that many abilities by everyone. And at the end of the show we see an Altair, who's willing to break the most fundamental rule of life, which is that all living things must die and it's considered a huge taboo to try to revive the dead. This obviously, won't happen and that's why her creator shows up after Sota uses the famous Magane phrase
>uso no uso, sore wa kururi to uragaeru
Story development
The story starts a bit slow, and the first 3 episodes you don't really understand much of what's going on. I thought I was watching an isekai, then a massacre anime like corpse party and then it turned into something like Shield hero. The story develops at a nice pace after those episodes though, and you start developing a liking to most characters especially meteora. Almost all the important decisions in the story will be influenced by meteora's way of thinking. She's the brains of the squad, and the voice actor did an incredible job voicing her as intelligent as possible. The way she keeps her tones low but steady, and using smart words all the time definitely give meteora the leader role. This may be a bit controversial for most, but I really enjoyed Magane as well. She looks like an airhead character, because she speaks so god damn much, but most of it is because of how her powers work and what she's trying to achieve during conversations. I like how the story has the ups and downs as in, there's not much hope when we see how strong Altair is, then the group starts building up with really strong heroes, only to get one shot by Altair later on, which leads herself to her own downfall because she's a kind character who just deeply cared about her creator.
Audio
To be fair, I don't think i need to write much here. The opening songs, both of them, and the closing songs are fantastic. All the songs are in my favorite playlist as a matter of fact. 100/10 nuf said.
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