Reading this anime's blurb, I had pretty huge doubts it would be as comical as its premise promised. I mean, the cast is huge, the plot is the simplest thing yet the anime goes on for 22 episodes and the designs are insane enough to make me doubt the anime's realism- as in, how the world and society worked in it compared to ours.
And I was 100% right, but watching was still a lot of fun. The characters weren't walking clichés nor too interesting to steal the show; my favorite is Nagisa -we need more traps MCs- and when I realized that Karma was played by Nobuhiko Okamoto I laughed and was glad he got a role that wasn't just random yelling and threats. All the teachers were enjoyable- with Koro being the most developed of all the characters- and the students got introduction at the right times without overstaying their welcome to the point I had a good grip on everyone's basic personality.
And ok, the plot is where it gets shaky. These kids have to kill their teacher or he's going to destroy the world. That kind of threat seems like it'd weigh down on them everyday, but it's barely present. They don't worry about letting great opportunities go and the stress that the whole world's fate is in their hand barely gives them pause. They aren't interested in knowing why Koro destroyed the moon, wants to destroy the world and is now teaching them. And none of them refuse to kill him after he gave them a motivational speech or straightened them up.
All beliefs that this was happening in our world went out the window at episode 13, however, where one of the teacher gets a bad case of Out of Character-isis and they allow a guy to mercilessly beat the students all day long. Like, this whole system was already shaky, with the teachers and director encouraging bullying of the E class and shamelessly discriminating against them in ways that would've had the parents rioting in the streets, but when that happened my suspension of disbelief turned to me and decided we should part ways.
Because that's 100% child abuse. It also nulls Koro's job since the guy changed all their schedule to be only physical training and I can't believe that the guy who loses his shit when students endanger themselves to kill him would let the sweetest, nicest 90 pounds girl get fucking slapped across the courtyard by a man three times her size.
And the last arc also raised a lot of 'wtf is this' when a guy
But I did enjoy myself a lot, even if it doesn't look like it haha. The penultimate arc was a lot of fun, as well as the last one apart for that one bullshit logic, the designs are colorful and pretty, the OPs are awesome and the animation is really smooth- haven't read the manga so I have no idea if it's just a panel per panel rendition or anime original at some points but either way it was cool.
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