Look, it's not that bad, I fully expected it to be worse, but this show has an average premise, animation holds up surprisingly well, and there's at least one decent story arc. If you ever felt like Overlord is too long has too much politics, you just want the catharsis of OP protagonist beating up on overconfident bad guys, this gives you exactly that and maybe slightly more.
The first thing I have to applaud for in this show is the production quality, the animation is consistent and sometimes actually quite good, characters are always drawn very well, their twisted emotes as they're being utterly evil or shocked in disbelief by the MC's power, are very well done, as is the voice acting. This show may be power fantasy slop, it certainly is high quality slop for discerning hogs.
The setup is again, mediocre, the title basically says it, the MC has unlimited gatcha powers and he's level 9999, no one has any hope of defeating him. Not only that he's got a whole army of lv.9999 gatcha waifus, even his gatcha power becomes irrelevant because he's used it repeatedly off-screen to become basically Ainz from Overlord, he never even has to use gatcha anymore in the entire season. The slightly interesting part about this setup, is that every fantasy race in this world is racist against humans, and I mean capital RACIST. Sure, they're basically punching bags for the MC to kill without moral consequences, but I like how all these bad guys still have some personality, motivations and relationships beyond just being bad guys. For example, there's a bad guy that wants to kidnap live humans for evil experiments, but he needs the help of another bad guy who is super racist and loves to kill humans, there is honestly some tension and dynamics going on, I was not bored watching these bad guys, they're actually great.
Other than the bad guys, the other lv.9999 gatcha waifus the MC has as servants, are also mildly interesting as they get introduced to beat up on the bad guys. There are generic architypes like the maid or the tough guy who can harden himself, but I liked the mute girl with the musket that talks, it was fun.
The story is basically what you'd expect, the MC becomes lv.9999 and seeks revenge on the assholes who betrayed him, while he is very OP, the script does have the decency to give him one little challenge. He wants to basically put up a show of ultimate revenge for each of these bad guys that is as dramatic and satisfying as possible. So while he could, he's not going to just go and assassinate them, that wouldn't do. It isn't completely devoid of challenge as that other show about instant-death ability.
This season has you could say 3 mini arcs, the second one is probably the best, it's another one of those smurfing stories with the MC pretending to be noob adventurers. The third arc is also interesting in that it has some interesting subversions on how the way people boast and talk before the fights, and how the fight ends up playing out. It was decently funny.
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