Why is this anime is so hated?

If the characters looked the same as every other generic cute anime the rating woukd be higher.

For me, it's the character writing. They're very bland and tropey. I'm not particularly interested in any of the characters and that's the most important thing for my enjoyment of a show. I'm only sticking around because I don't have many series this season that come out on Tuesdays to watch.

Answer: Because people prefer generic and soulless Isekai/Fantasy.

Personally, I just think it sucks. There isn't much in terms of story or plot, it's just games after games. I just know it's going to end with the blonde girl either dying because of Eita, or sacrificing herself in order to stop him, MC getting angry as fuck at Eita and then defeating him in the last game, leading him to lose his sanity and die like the others. I can feel it in my bones that it will go this way.

The bare-bones and most likely predictable plot wouldn't be an issue, if the games weren't so boring. We had a parody of Fall Guys with horrendous character models, avoid the beasts-- SIKE they're innocuous-- DOUBLE SIKE here's the real monsters you must avoid! And now an escape room episode in which we don't actually get to see any of the puzzles, save for the last riddle which was whatever.

I don't like the characters design, and their writing is very flat. I like Eita because he is a selfish asshole, but that's all I can say about him. Speaking of character design, the Old Ones are the worst offenders. All those neon colors clashing with the sickly green skin color makes me vomit. I also find them pretty annoying

I wouldn't say it's awful, it got me curious enough that I want to see what happens next, but man does it suck IMO.

@ReMightyRon not really agree because a lot of anime have not this generic style and have fine review and critic =\

@TomuKun but at least you should agree that out of every 10 new isekai/fantasy anime that come out every season only 2 or 3 are really good.

Personally, I just think it sucks. There isn't much in terms of story or plot, it's just games after games. I just know it's going to end with the blonde girl either dying because of Eita, or sacrificing herself in order to stop him, MC getting angry as fuck at Eita and then defeating him in the last game, leading him to lose his sanity and die like the others. I can feel it in my bones that it will go this way.

The bare-bones and most likely predictable plot wouldn't be an issue, if the games weren't so boring. We had a parody of Fall Guys with horrendous character models, avoid the beasts-- SIKE they're innocuous-- DOUBLE SIKE here's the real monsters you must avoid! And now an escape room episode in which we don't actually get to see any of the puzzles, save for the last riddle which was whatever.

I don't like the characters design, and their writing is very flat. I like Eita because he is a selfish asshole, but that's all I can say about him. Speaking of character design, the Old Ones are the worst offenders. All those neon colors clashing with the sickly green skin color makes me vomit. I also find them pretty annoying

I wouldn't say it's awful, it got me curious enough that I want to see what happens next, but man does it suck IMO.

ok, how many folks are commenting on the H.P. Lovecraft angle? i dunno i'm not reading the critiques and reviews etc. online about SHOWS RUNNING NOW. somebody wants to kneejerk respond to episode1? ok, first look, first impressions, anime studios writers etc. KNOW they gotta hook audiences with ep1. or 'casuals' who aren't reading the source or read it in the past won't stick around for more episodes. but i haven't watched ep3 yet and so far... i'm thinking this is an upper tier show on design and animation alone. complex designs for backgrounds, characters, and the interactive/mechanical/technical details in this show are high quality. somebody doesn't like the colors or the art style, ok that's an aesthetic choice. but the TECHNICAL ability to CREATE these people and their world IS there.

oh and are the folks griping about this anime ALSO the folks whining, 'there aren't enough original non-sourced adaptations anime created every year!'??? because this anime is listed on MAL as "Source: Original" . . . . . . Lovecraft is used. but apparently this isn't a DIRECTLY sourced/adapted anime.

so to take a 3ep step and say this sucks? no. it doesn't suck, the author(s) just doesn't like it for various reasons but CAN'T GET OVER those reasons and look elsewhere at the show and see its merits.

the Lovecraftian angle. mmmkaaay. i don't know his work well, never read him. i have just a general recognition and suchforth. with the new Watson TV show here in the US, and Sherlock out of the BBC where Cumberbatch got his big international break before Doctor Strange in the MCU, and Enola Holmes, and years n years ago with Elementary on TV with Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller... as a Sherlockian i'm eatin good with live action. anime? i think Japan needs to keep hands off with Sir Doyle's works. the Harajuku Holmes one? decent to good. Moriarty? disgustingly putrid. i dumped that one fast. the Holmes one where the name was just a comparison to a smart antiques dealer/appraiser? good hook, but only a fun show in general. so picking a 'famous Western author' to draw from? where is the level of The Count of Monte Cristo in anime today? Gankutsuou may be 20 years old now... but it is STILL an awesome re-imagining and adaptation of Dumas' novel! that anime inspired me to READ THE BOOK! all 1,300 or so pages! no i'm not watching Anne of Green Gables, all the old anime or the brand new one out now. i skimmed/sped read the novel's first 3 chapters and it bored me utterly, so no thanks. i'm glad Japan KEEPS MAKING MORE ANIME of that book! but it'll be a hard pass for me. so the 'hook' of using H.P. Lovecraft with this anime? shrug! it gives an interesting baseline to the story. uses the SAN metric i've seen in RPGs based on H.P.'s works. the names are memory tinglingly familiar. the imagery of the 'old gods' is kinda lost on me since i'm not intimately familiar with Lovecraft's works. but if i was familiar would these new designs turn me off or on? i dunno.

my issue with this 'H.P. Lovecraft's Old Gods summoned into a VR game server' premise? it. is. a. computer. i don't care HOW MUCH CASH your company sank into this facility. physically hack the fiber optic cables going into the building with heavy equipment. take out the hard-phone lines at the same time. beat up any wireless access to the outside world with Fire Axes and Baseball Bats. THEN cut the power. turn off any backup power sources. turn off the fire sprinklers and fire retardant/extinguishers protecting the server-farm. AND BURN THE BUILDING DOWN TILL IT IS ASHES. everything. gone. all the chips and SSD hard-drives and magnetic drives... the whole shebang gone up in smoke. shrug, problem solved. if the nutso folks and folks in comas and whatnot don't come back? sorry. casualties happen in a WAR WITH OTHER-DIMMENSIONAL BEINGS!

the baseline idiocy of going into this game and trying to beat 'The Old Gods' at it? meh. i don't like it, but i am mildly entertained. so, i don't think the show 100% totally sucks right now. i've got it at a 5/10.

@KiliianSleipnir That's a huge critic!!! I like reading it so thank you !