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Story ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ The story covers Akira Oda, a high schooler that is summoned to another world with his classmates. While one of them is the hero, his class is the "Assassin" and his skills are way higher than the so-called Hero. He's falsely accused of a crime and has to flee and find a way to survive in this MMORPG-like world.The story is below average. The setting is Isekai 101, a.k.a. a person or group gets summoned and somehow the protagonist is really strong in the beginning. I find that there are two main points that I was extremely turned off by with the story of this anime. One is that Akira has extreme "Plot Armor", if he's close to die, he'll just "heal", if he's close to lose, he'll just "win" with his "OP traits". That takes off so much of his own growth.
(Me throwing the anime out after it was done)The second point in which I was turned off is that the character develops a really "intense" romance in the anime. He falls deeply in love with a person from this world, and while that's totally fine since other animes have done such, I feel like this one was extremely rushed. They meet and two episodes later they're already willing to die for each other which is weird. Overall, I consider the story below average because there's a combination of standard isekai setting + very fast romance, and it's not a cute romance like Kirito/Asuna or Rudeus/Sylphie.
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Art ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ The art in general was good. I liked the aesthetic of the anime; the magic was well animated, monsters were cool, and character designs were also nice. Animation-wise, I felt like some moments, especially in combat, were lacking, but that doesn't happen all the time; they did have some cool moments and fights. In general, I don't think the art will turn people off the anime.
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Characters ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ There are a medium amount of characters in this anime: Akira, his schoolmates, companions he finds on the way, and some other side characters. In general, they're okay; different side characters fit a different purpose in the story and I don't think they were bad in general.
As always, with comments towards main characters, Akira was terrible. He's such a simpleton and his whole motivation quickly shifts from the main theme to his romance interest. He's also very indecisive, and while he does grow stronger in the anime, I feel like he had no personal development. He's 100% the reason I wouldn't watch a second season.
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Soundtrack ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ The soundtrack was good. In general, the soundtrack had enough to keep me in the anime; nothing felt too out of place, with good combat music and dramatic music. The opening was in my opinion really bad, but the ending was very soothing and I personally liked it in general, which is why I put it here.
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Conclusion ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ If you're like me, you skip everything and read only the conclusion because you don't want to get spoiled with other themes. So I will try to be brief on this point:Don't watch this anime. Honestly, there are so many good isekais out there that I can't see exactly why I would recommend this anime to someone. It lacks animation to be a "battle anime" that you turn off your brain, and it lacks plot development for it to be an anime that you can ignore its weird aspects. I'd only recommend this anime if you're looking for a combination of isekai-battle-anime/romance. If not, just watch other isekais such as Re:Zero, Mushoku Tensei, SAO, Overlord, Slime, Log Horizon, Konosuba, etc., and you'll have a better experience.48 out of 55 users liked this review
