"Berserk of Gluttony" takes place in a fantasy video game world that notably isn't an isekai. It's a hot take, but isekai might be an overused genre. Watching a character learn about a world and be a fish out of water doesn't require them to have been from another world, and this show is evidence of that. In this show's setting, every living being has five stats, each defined with numbers from one to several million, and classic abilities like "Identify" and "Fireball." This show follows Fate Graphite, who has a pretty rough name. Fate is too on the nose, and graphite is what goes in a pencil; it's not cool. Despite the name, I do like the character. You see, Fate has had a rough life, and audiences, including me, love an underdog. Fate was born with the lovely ability "Gluttony." All this ability seems to do is make him hungry, and everyone either looks down on him or pities him for it. His only way to make ends meet has been to work as a gate guard for an order of knights who relentlessly bully him. He spends almost all his little money on food but is still hungry and thin. But, one night, as he's guarding the castle, there's a break-in, and he manages to finish off one of the intruders. This activates the true power of the Gluttony ability. The stats and abilities of the man he just killed are given to him, and he doesn't feel hungry... for a little while, anyway. What follows is a story of a guy just trying to live his best life and protect those he loves but has a dark urge that needs feeding. The drama that arises from this predicament is what kept me coming back. Will the people he cares about find out? Will he lose control of his gluttonous killing hunger? The action and the power scaling aren't great, but they're held up by a story of a man cursed but trying to make the most of it—a story that is sometimes great and sometimes too convenient. Sometimes, I'm on the edge of my seat, watching if Fate can keep it all together, and other times, I'm rolling my eyes at how convenient it is that the type of person we need is suddenly here. Sometimes, characters change their directives in ways that don't make much sense. It is like the writer planned on doing one thing but changed their mind and started doing another later.
Visually, it's fine. It certainly doesn't look great, but it doesn't look
terrible. I like what they were doing with some of the character designs, but that's about the only thing I liked visually
The sound design is fine. I don't have a single issue or piece of praise for any voice acting, music, or sound effects. It's just fine.
As far as characters go, I like Fate and the Sentient Sword; everyone else is either fine or a walking bundle of tropes.
Overall 7/10. Sometimes Great and sometimes too convenient.
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