Uglymug, Epic-Simp!
First impressions?
As a fat, ugly monk this facial disposition spoke to me..
Who’s the most dangerous monster ever alive? I pondered.
The Leviathan? The Behemoth?
No.
The Simp.
Brethren, where did we go wrong?
Look at that ugly mug, man!!! This was supposed to be a show for the men! We are supposed to get some epic unadulterated, ruthless, coldness and action. A sea of specially spiced-up skullduggery.
We’re back again with another “Nothing ever happens” bonanza, ‘turn your brain off’, no-one-of-consequence dies and we’re just doing dramatic dances around a circular plot line.
The Problem..
- Sucker
- Idolizing
- Mediocre
- Pussy
(SIMP is a contextually specific word only applying in one fixed direction to the male to female dynamic)(A woman cannot simp, A man cannot simp for another man.)
The greatest crime perpetrated by these kind of shows.
We start with an intriguing premise, the promise of fascinating goals, redemption, genuine grievances and suffering, a seemingly profound MC. The first sequences sell us a dream, then once we’ve been ensnared and they’ve got our attention, the steadfast bait and switch occurs. All the greatness and potential neglected, deserted, forsaken to pivot to subplots about babysitting some random girl, as we watch on gleefully in our conveniently placed chair next to the bed of a hotel room.
I’ll list a few of shows which have done this...
- The World's Finest Assassin (S2)
- Improved My Farm-Related Skills
- Farming Life in Another World
- Spirit Chronicles
- Shield hero.
- Greatest Alchemist.
Surely you agree that it’s getting out of hand.
It completely ruins the show’s potential we have greatness locked behind the obligatory stroking of female egos, it’s like Isekai 9/11, a completely fabricated inside job spelling doom for this genre. We have the same forced backstories for these annoying girls, which are completely unbelievable with manufactured suffering, forced placative exposition borne from fake morality based in simping. They can try all they like, It’s not even remotely fascinating or remarkable. When you have the gold right there why do they abandon it for the same rusty iron trash? They’re so afraid they won’t get a female audience that they crucify it all for their sake. Just take a glance at the cover of the show, which women seeing that, are going to watch something so rough looking any-ways?
These writers evidently lack talent, actual life experience and lastly courage. These editors seemingly only know to use the so called ‘tricks of the trade’, but it’s all for naught and breeds decadence. Not only are the developments so uninspired and mediocre they’re afraid of any controversy at all. The guy is already the ugliest person in any of the shows this season, why are they still afraid to go deeper with the fantastical elements. I’m very sad to say brethren, that experiences like Re-do are far removed from our future. It’s over!
This binge-watch was grueling for me, I had to take a break, intra-episodes as well as inter episodes several times, what it could have been if it actually cared about it’s audience.
I don't know about you, i much prefer looking at that hideous gargoyle over any girls in the show.
The problem is that 25% of this show’s runtime is him observing girls from a distance but he’s not a pervert guys, I promise! He’s just being protective, “wholesome” and concerned, BASED!
No I’ve had enough, can we just admit we’re men and we’re attracted to women and if someone calls us a pervert, not only does not matter, we don’t care because that’s the point?
We watch this dejected man get reincarnated into a fat ugly troglodyte so he can do this with his new life? It’s just so ludicrous it even encouraged my own self-reflection.
Once you dash away the premise, abandoning world building what’s left is that we’re stuck in a loop of drama focused, SOL woman worshipping. Calling the bitches pretty 5x an episode whilst being willingly castrated.
What’s worse the writer gave the MC a completely Anti-woman disposition, in which he is viscerally harmed upon touching them, and will die on the spot if he ever engages in copulation. This is a trade-off for his completely OP stats. In short he can’t sleep with them, he can’t make a habit of touching them. If these limitations are the core elements of the story, you would hope this is an opportunity to stay far away from women and harems and focus on fantasy elements, world-building, game-world mechanics, world domination may I list more.
We’ve got none of that.
Instead we have such unbelievably foolish execution, it’s just gets so mindbogglingly stupid and circular that you’ll laugh at how ridiculously convenient the plot gets.
Tell me, Soldier?
What really do we have left here, any talk with the opposite sex leads nowhere and we have zero chance of any real intersexual affinity. We end up wasting precious developments on women, who without any chance of sexual intimacy, are at very muted story potential.
I thought about the restrictions even more, and I just realized that his whole list of restrictions is a sorry excuse to engage in generational level cuckoldry. I think-back to a scene where a man describes him as a girl’s bodyguard, furthermore, with some thought he’s basically her eunuch slave. I recall at some point there’s a stark picture where MC is Standing up in a meeting room observing as her slave while she’s sat down talking with a strange man. This strange man who’s peculiarly is only there to make a meal out of her stupidity. You have to take a step back and understand the depiction of such a thing. it’s far too deep to be ignored, It illustrates to me, that we as the viewer are him, the writer ignores our wishes, and instead detours the entire narrative entrapping us into his chamber of simp delusions.
But wait, if I’m observing him, cuckolding through a screen, what does that make me? Perhaps I’m an Epic-cuckold, if we follow that logic...
Again, you would hope with such a plot device creating a massive deterrence against women, It would breed something more nuanced, fresh, and creative. We instead have managed to get the exact opposite.
This is what you must become accustomed to whilst watching this show, pitiful isn't it?
Characters
“Ugly-mug, Epic fighter”. Not only is this title utterly meaningless by the twelfth episode, he simply doesn’t live up to it. It’s all talk, and you’re going to be drowning in it. After 12 episodes the MC doesn’t feel like a real person. His perils in his former life do not seem to affect him at all, there’s no rage, there’s no revenge, it’s like a slap on the knee then he becomes our cookie-cutter, omnibenevolent, sacrifices his entire identity to help others garbage MC. What a let-down! Half an episode of a set-up which should have produced a different beast all-together. It’s hard to care about a characters struggles if they don’t even feel them. It’s pitiful writing yet again. These side characters don’t save the show either, the chemistry isn’t there, their motivations are contrived and unrealistic. There’s no where to run, maybe a singular likeable character that’s about it.
One of my biggest problems is in the day to day discussion between the characters. The first episode is not utterly terrible but after that it’s just dull dialogue as deep as a puddle. Who ever was in-charge of the conversation either couldn’t be asked or doesn’t understand ping pong mechanisms in general discourse. It’s constantly 1,2 5! They’re talking past each other or answering the wrong question or just saying random stuff giving away crucial information for no reason. The conversation is just so unnatural. These random expositions and blurting out of the obvious by these characters, it’s too much, make it stop! I don’t know how it’s possible for the dialogue to keep reiterating that the same girl is beautiful/pretty feels like I’m being programmed or something it’s certainly an eerie experience.
Oh the humour, well they tried I guess. They’re making laughing feel like a job here, I’m not programmed for this sort of drivel any-more. To fully enjoy the humour that it tries to sell you, it seems you must first hate your own existence as a man, worshipping the “divine feminine”. However it’s not all doom and gloom here, I did end up in hysterics momentarily when the plot got to advanced degrees of total stupidity and convenience. The show is a little bit funny in that respect, but it seems far from intentional.
Generally, I love inner monologue for this sort of show. It creates a new dimension giving us valuable insight into the thinking patterns, ideals and true character of the MC. They did not do well, not only is the inner monologue blindingly stupid, it reiterates and repeats things we already know. This culminates in shamelessly extending runtime and ruining the charm of actual dialogue. We don’t need to be reminded his next remark will be witty, due to his previous work in his former life. We already know this, just get on with it. It should show through the discourse. It doesn’t solve the MC’s characterization problems like it should since 90% of it is just him talking about a girl, or stating obvious things we can see already. Amateur work here, as the whole point of video is to replace paragraphs of descriptive writing in a handful of seconds. You know what it’s remarkably bizarre how this man’s desires as an MC are barely expressed, his entire existence is to prop some other character up, they don’t fathom how repulsive and how empty as a narrative this is. Make people smile? How worthless! Which man do you know cares about something so fleetingly superficial.
To make matters worse, there’s a moment where he’s on his knees asking to be a girl’s protector. How very puzzling and uncharacteristic of him as we ponder the unfortunate chain of events the start of this show. Continuing on, after his proposal she agreed and wanted to hand-shake. What a one-sided agreement. What is she offering to match such an ostentatiously benevolent proposition? Of course, you guessed it, nothing. Do you comprehend it now?
So we know that he cannot hand-shake with a woman as that would evoke a terrifying amount of unnecessary pain. Obviously if this is his wish, he should settle for a verbal agreement. Because of the simp narrative rather he chose to make physical contact receiving the recompense of his inanity.
Let’s conclude; he gave everything for nothing and then took avoidable physical pain for this deal to happen. This isn’t even faintly a reasonable development by any respect, it’s only tolerable in a wayward society that is so religiously married to the god of romance, using the avatar; the woman, the vector by which these rituals are performed. If this depiction doesn’t make you wretch in abhorrence, you may be serving this same false god.
How did we get here? If you’re going to offer up your life to protect a woman there’s no “Hand-shake” for moments like these, the only thing they can offer is a permanent prescription of Milk-shake and Cookies, as well as obedient servitude or there’s no deal.
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Plot
So much potential squandered, for the most mundane, drama squabble putting MC in the middle of a brood of hens. Fantasy elements barely explored, game-world mechanics used sparingly and when convenient, world-building non-existent, characterization terrible.
Would you offer to be the Life Protector of a woman, when they gave some burgers and chips that you were owed, a few times? I mean is the bare minimum from a girl all you guys need now? Where’s the standards?
The limitations the show introduces might do more liberating than it does restrict, the way these things are designed makes it possible for the writer to just inject any exposition to justify doing pretty much anything. This makes for a very inconsistent experience, a total lack of immersion and sometimes outright disgust at shoehorned, spontaneous conflict resolution. Literally everything is made up on the spot, there’s zero foreshadowing, no general plot-line, we don’t even know anything. They love to make death mean nothing and their lives and vocations utterly amorphous, universalized lacking any specificity.
Initially I praised the writer for introducing such restraint to the character but as I watched more it seemed that it didn’t rein in anything, It didn’t use the device as intended but rather provided a platform to invent nonsense devices which further scatter the narrative. It turns out that if he touches a girl through cloth, its fine, sheer poppycock! What if he uses a condom during intercourse, does that work too? I guess I’ll never know.
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Story
There’s no story just a bunch of pontification and platitudes achieving nothing. No one meaningfully undergoes any character development. The sequences of events are spontaneous lacking logic or any plan. The events barely affect any of the characters as they try to flood you with a sea of information and backstories. If your brain is on, their actions and words will run at odds with the reasoning centres of your cerebrum. It’s puzzling, exhausting and at the end of it, I was going through the motions desperately looking-on for the final seconds of the 12th episode.
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What’s the good?
He does try very hard to hide his power, and to be somewhat discrete about stats which is the kind of tension that keeps viewers invested, preventing me from dropping it.
Animation is generally quite sound.
Especially I will mention Episode 8, a true standout for me, It took barely any breaks with the action-packed physical conflicts taking centre-stage, it never gets as good again. The sound direction was surprisingly good as a bonus.
The OP and ED are decent, the soundtrack is actually quite good, completely wasted on this show. The Voice acting is hit or miss, some characters great some will make you want to turn the sound down but it was passable in this respect.
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If you’ve already started, Episode 8 is a great jump-off spot, If not, don’t bother.
What lessons does the show teach?
If you’re an ugly reclusive, outcast who has been done injustice by society for crimes you didn’t commit, even you can secure your rightful place as a Super-Simp servant for some random girl.
Good grief! It’s just pitiful, Japan’s below replacement rate and their response is for their writers to create shows like this where a man is castrated and worshipping the same demons that are denying their own replacement.
A show so bad it made me a cuck, therapist recommendations anyone?
Second season? No chance..