12 episodes about a total narcissistic bitch, there is not much to conclude or talk about;
- the story is so unpolished and unoriginal it feels like something some little kid wrote on wattpad on a whim.
- characters are so unremarkable I can't believe they actually made this an anime because there's just no story to tell. not to mention how inconsistent the personality of the mc is
- mc doesn't experience ANY meaningful character development at any point
after episode 6 I was pretty much just hate watching it's incredible how bad and content lacking this story is and how I was so invested in the slight bit of hope that maybe Elaina would grow up. but not only that she didn't actually mature, her personality was really inconsistent and confusing without any proper justification.
all of the journeys she has been through felt like they didn't have any meaning whatsoever. this whole watch felt so pointless it's baffling, I've never felt so negatively about any work of fiction.
I have to convince myself that this is a joke/bait and some commentary about edgy and "self aware" main characters, I really hope that's the case and that I'm just dumb for taking it too seriously, and even if it is they handled it so poorly it's not even the "funny" kind of bad, it's just bad to the degree it was hard to watch on occasions and not to mention how poorly they handled some topics.
I definitely don't feel encouraged to check the manga, or anything else related to this anime and I honestly just want to forget about it which will be so easy considering I already forgot 50% of what happened
episode 9-12 spoilers;
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the way they handled episode 9 is absolutely dreadful, from the point of the episode and the role it plays in Elainas development to the way they handled the little girl and the motives behind her actions.
the episode starts totally alright, very cute even and the issue comes to the way they treated the little girl and the notices for killing her parents, after mentioning how she has been molested by her father and abused by her mother they decided to put the blame on the child and there was no commentary whatsoever about the actions of her parents, not even a word which is absolutely deranged and I can't believe they actually let that slide it's really beyond me.
at the end of the episode Elaina breaks down, mainly because she wasn't as high and mighty as she thought. everything else that happened is just a very minor side thought.
episode 10 just felt really unnecessary and unremarkable, they tried to expand on Elainas mother's lore but it didn't feel impactful at all and you can clearly see that Elaina is absolutely nothing like her mother in a sense that she didn't learn anything from her, despite even at the start of the series her mother trying to lecture her about not being a self absorbed bitch and it fell absolutely flat it's like the first episode never happened??
last episode was kind of a way for the creator to try and convince the viewers "hey guys she developed as a character I promise!" and it was the most underwhelming and basic development any character could get, it's actually really insane to think that she's 18, it feels like she's 16 at most. there is nothing to mention other than that, I guess episode 9 was brought up again as a way to connect that to her development as a character but it didn't feel very genuine.
