Alright so never done this before (a review that is) but here it goes...
This was absolutely phenomenal, it was wholesome, it was sad, it was scary it was intense, i had no idea what i was about to witness when i started this but man... that blew my expectations out of the water, so lets rant a bit...
Music - 7/10
The Music wasn't anything too special but it was still pretty damn good and the use of the music was also done pretty well, there were especially a few tracks and moments here and there that stood out like when
Animation - 8/10
The animation was actually pretty damn frickin' solid, it had quite a lot of very well done animation and they knew what they were doing and when to do specific stuff, it was also quite nice that we had a more Generic Isekai sort of look while in the game world, they even go chibi at times, but when in the real world it's very dark and grey, much more detailed which i appreciate very much, two art styles for each specific part of the show
Characters - 8/10
The characters were pretty damn well written, it doesn't shy away from getting nice and gritty about who the characters are and their faults, every character here has many flaws (some more then others) and they display them proudly and use them as much as they can for quite compelling characters, you can get behind the MC and other people are fairly easy to understand when you really take a look at them
Another note i should make is that they also get you invested in the characters, they easily win you over with them and a small spoiler as a warning to you, you WILL cry at least once
Story - 8.5/10
At first the story is quite wholesome and nice and then after about the half way point things go off the rails (in a good way) the story gets really good, the plot twists are plenty and well done, the only reason i don't give the story a 9 is because near the end while wrapping things up it gets a bit messy as it sort of gets a bit too complicated (there are stuff i even just now realize that i didn't before after discussing stuff with other people), so just be warned that if you start to get a little lost near the end it's not just you, the ending of the anime gets a bit hard to understand at times but just know that there's MUCH more to this anime then just "a broken family playing video games"
As a side note while the ending wraps everything up pretty nicely there are a few things that i would've liked to see covered a bit more but there is a sequel manga being made at the moment so maybe that's where i'll find them, stuff like
All in all a very great anime and i highly recommend giving it a go, when/if you give this a go i HIGHLY recommend at least staying tell episode 6
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