Chillin’ in My 30s after Getting Fired from the Demon King’s Army

Fantasy slop is out of commission! This anime was a constant barrage of how logically flawed a story can be, saving as much animation budget as possible by using PNGs and motion blur when it is not obvious, taking as many chances as they can to reduce the choreography that needs to be animated in a painstakingly annoying way. A story that tries to sell itself as a lighthearted and with obvious cry bait... While failing to make any compelling characters. Doing the least amount of work possible both original material and adaptation wise. And the most obvious one... The lust bait!

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___ The loop of this story seems to be characters having overconfidence in their ability to do things and being put into their place by our so lovely main character, Dariel-sama while a gyaru woman is trying to groom him at the village he settled in. The story focuses on the implications of this relationship as Dariel is a former "demon" but things start to shift later in the story. These shallow characters that didn't know their place is made out to be "deep", the story tries to sell you the image of depth on these characters while failing to deliver on making them worthwhile to explore. The only thing they do to create this illusion is... You got it correctly! More lust bait, at least for the female characters. And that's what is most frustrating about this story. When it runs out of ideas, it resorts to appealing poses. But it isn't just the story that is bad. The production is equally, maybe more incompetent than the original material is. I mentioned a little bit at the start, but cutting a lot of impact scenes, skimping out on the characters choreographies makes the overall watching experience jarring. When it feels like when I'm finally starting to turn my brain off and focus on the anime, I get bombarded with a wonky scene that would obviously take more time and resources to pull off properly. Even if I could overlook the frustrations I have with the story, I can't just sit and have a good time with what I was given because of the production quality. ___ ___ ___

I mean, this anime would be at least passable if the images you saw there wasn't a common occurrence. It isn't just a lack of animation though. There are some stills being used over and over in some cases to save on drawing time as well but that'd be too hard to show with just images. It makes the experience even more miserable than it already is...

I have basically ran out of things to say because there really isn't much to add. I have already stated what I wanted. This anime is not worth your time and I'm glad I skimped out on watching this back in 2023. But times come around and I found myself having to write a review about it, so yeah! I will get a hoard of dislikes because of the low rating but it is a waste of time for everyone involved, both the producers and the viewers so I think it is justified.

Please treat yourself to something good, I'm heading out!