Warning this review may contain spoilers

First impression, so my first thoughts going into this show if I have to be honest I was going in completely builed the only thing I have hard is that it's like fate zero and there character like izyea from durarara.
So I went in with pretty low expectations because this has been quite hyped and in my experience it's better to ignore the hype and go see a show like this from a more impassual mindset in order to reach a clear conclusion as a critic and also not have my enjoyment factor be bogged down by high expectations which this show would probably never meet in a million years.

Story, 5/10
So by dear readers have you ever thought what would happen if say your favorite characters from anime, manga, light novels eta came to life in the real world.
If you have ever pondered this question then I have some good news for you
Because Re creators answers it in a very generic way.
they fight because of reasons to numerous to name.

Are story begins with bland main character Sōta Mizushino which for the rest of this review I am going to call seasonal anime kun.
Who though events that are complicated to explain.
pretty much what happens is main character goes into an anime.
a character from that anime he watching becomes real and there a magical girl who wants to destroy all of humanity with fictional characters because for various reasons and seasonal anime kun teams up with more fictional characters that just want to go home and leave humanity in tact.
I seriously do question what kind of drugs these people are on to come up with this shit and I also must ask where can I get this stuff from.

So re creators is what happens when you mix meta writing, a bunch anime stereotypes and lots of drugs.
when these elements are mixed together they create an unholy spawn of satan which as been born from the entropy Of a medium that's already on it last legs.

Because in all honesty this is probably the most absurd idea for a plot I have seen in quite a while but I will give them props you thinking outside the box a bit.

But at the same time the idea of popular Japanese media becoming real because reasons and there fighting each other for a multitude of reasons.
It feels like a less coherent version of fate stay night because it has an almost similar concept and plot beat.
Because it dose have those philosophy and morality charged battles that fate stay night and other shounen battle titles are famous for having and there enough background plot to keep you slightly interested to the conflict itself.

But I ask myself this question and ask this to my readers as well.
What else is there to this story than just a death battle and the background plot of these characters adapting to life in the real world.

Well nothing really much because the story itself feels like a badly written fan fic by a weebo high on crack and hyped up for the next battle shounen tournament arc.
And even if the battles and the slice of life elements are interesting to an extent.

But it gets bogged down because The story and plot itself has this odd obsession with pseudo Japanese nationalism and otaku pandering.
Which takes away any kind of deepth this story could actually have.
But at the same time I shouldn't expect much from a show is pretty much a battle royal with popular Japanese media as fighters.

Because though out the series itself they show case how effective the Japanese government was able to sort this shit out very quickly,
while also organizing counter measures to stop the evil media characters at bay.
And for some reason this show sounds like it's sightly jacking itself off of how it's only poplar Japanese media that's coming to life in the real world and only the otakus can help stop this crisis.
Even most of the dailong is taking about the Japanese government or a bunch of otaku pandering shit like how great anime and manga is.

It's comes off like some weird hybrid of fate stay night and gate.
Except it's taken the worse aspects of those series and quantified it ten times over. Like say what you must about psudo philosophy battles of fate stay night. But at lest those came from a psudo historical context because King Arthur was a chick apparently and even if it was psudo.
they at lest built apon and tried it make it interesting.

But with re creators is just taking basic character stereotypes who come from completely different worlds and giving them a basic moral alinement.
Then give the viewer slight information why they are like this and they just run with it.

And to me it's just Comes off as lazy and poorly written because it doesn't really leave much of an impression on me.

And This is a battle royal story and I wasn't expecting much from it anyway.
but good dam when there no action this story is boring is hell.
Like 3/4 of the show is just talking and info dumping and it just so many episodes are wasted on just banter and info dumping.
Most of the time it isn't even relevant and just wastes episodes.
Just so much dead time like in honesty they could have finished this is about 15 episodes not 22 episodes .
Especially with the recap episode we had which isn't needed because people already now what's happened especially because characters will bring it up anyway.

So story wise re creators is a cluster fuck of ideas that have been done better before and there are shows similar to it that are better.

Characters, 6/10

Main character seasonal anime watcher kun is possibly the most blandest character I have ever seen to date and that's saying something.
Because the only thing that he has as a character is that he very shy and likes drawing and that's the extent of his character.
He just another self insert character that you will forget in a week in fact I have to keep reminding myself that he actually exists.

He feels like a background character that just given the main character role because the writers couldn't think up any decent characters.
Even if they explained why he important to the story it doesn't really matter because he doesn't do anything he is just passive as fuck mostly and when I see him on screen I keep on getting PTS flash backs from guilty crown main character shu who was also a Passive.

The side characters are a whole lot more interesting than the main character,
Well actually to be more precise the fictional characters are the ones who are interesting. Even if they are basic stereotypes at lest they have personally and actually do something.

And one thing that surprised me is how they react to there situation.

Like one example is that during a huge battle where one of the characters involved was a magical girl and after the fight was finished.
She brakes down mentally because she comes from a very idealistic world where the concept of collateral damage or people being hurt And in pain Isn't really a concept she used to and when she sees the destruction around her that she herself has helped cause she just collapses on the ground and brakes down.
And while watching this scene I thought that was

And another thing which was quite interesting is that the characters themselves are developing more character traits the longer they stay in the real world because there getting exposed to things they never experienced before or haven't experienced yet and there not confined by the limitations of the respected story's they have come from.
Which is interesting because these characters or these versions on them have become slightly different and been apart from there world's for so long that they are starting to become there own entity outside there place of origin.

The other side characters who are quote on quite real are boring as fuck and I do t care about them in the slightest.
And are mostly used for info dumps or react how normal people would react in those situations.

The main villain that I am going to call evil magical girl.

Pretty comes off more As a edge-lord/ emo hybrid.
Because all she talks about is sadness and pretentious monologs about Creation and how she will get revenge for her creator.
Because her creator killed her self and thats the rest of humanity fault that happened apparently.
So she wants to make every one feel the sadness and dispaer like her creator did In Her last moments alive.

And I can understand the reason behind getting revenge for the person that your creator and gave you life.
But at the same time her reasoning behind it comes of as petty and childish.

It basically this.
" I suffer so I make the rest of the world suffer with me "
That's pretty much all the reason behind it.

The character interactions I find interesting to a point.
But after a while they become repetitive and boring.
And I stopped caring after a while.

Art, 7/10

The animation looks pretty decent and flows quite organically.
The backgrounds look decent as well.

Art pretty is good as well like there a few parts where shits a little off model or things get a little blurry.

Now the fight scenes are quite flashy and don't exactly hate it.
but it would be nice to have some battles that don't just boil down to using flashy gimmicks to win.
like it would be nice to see more difference in combat abilities that aren't about the super natural powers or big robots with hyper beam canons that blow up half a city block.

I actually quite like the characters destined because there quite varied and remind me of quite a few different shows which I quite liked the trip down memory lane.

Sound, 6/10

I really like a first opening because I find it it quite engageing ans gets me hyped for each ep. The ending and other op and ending sounds alight,but for me it isn't somethings I would go out of my way to listen to.

The ost is pretty good, if you liked sword art online or guilty crown ost I think you might like the ost for re:creators. Because there quite similar in music and beat to it.
The ost and music was done by Sawano, Hiroyuki who has worked on music and ost for series such as guilty crown, kill la kill and zombie Lon.

Voice acting was on point, nothing really sounded out of place to be.

Enjoyment, 5/10

Well I enjoyed the ride for what's it's worth and I was engaged enough to actually pay attention and not get bored. But after a while as the story continued I keep on losing interest and honestly I keep watching it even though the novelty of it wore off completely after 11 episodes Because I wanted to write this review.
And it's continuing more than it actually has to.
Because honestly the could have finished this story in about 15 episodes and it would be be ok.

Like I probably prefer fate stay night over this.

But at lest a got a great drinking game out this show.
because everyone time someone mentions the Japanese government or anime and manga you take a drink and if you do that you will be shit faced by ep 3 or ep 5 depending on your alcohol tolerance

Overall, 5/10

If you like shows like fate stay night or future diary then you probably like this show,
Because as far as shounen battle series all things considered it not exactly bad it's just another very average and slightly overhyped show.
And it's definitely not the modern classic that some people hype it up to be because in a few years time this show will be forgotten like most shows of it elk.

If your looking for something with more substance and depth and not just just cool fights. then probably better off just stick with fate stay night or watch hunter X hunter or yu yu hakusho.