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Way to much spoon feeding. like crazy amounts of spoon feeding.

I don't know why Anime have this fetish of spoon-feeding the viewer what we are suppose to feel when watching certain scenes or characters, but I'm start to hate that approach. I'm not even talking about the silly and mostly unnecessary inner monologues. I am talking about the characters we are suppose to hate, love, root for.

Take the Prince Julius, BTW SPOILERS:
This is the "You have to hate" character. Or the asshole character. To make him look terrible he gets an evil laughter, an evil smile and evil face, he is also responsible for ... selling the perfect saint (which makes no sense even if the anime tries to sell that it does), he wants to marry the little sister and lies about his mistakes, blaming everyone else. The cherry on top is after being invited by the current saint to go to the front line (because reasons) and he goes into super scary mode, hiding behind the saint, pushing soldiers in front of him and crying like a little bitch. I get it anime, we are suppose to hate him, put the spoon down.
The same kinda goes for the parents of the saint. Its crazy how desperately the anime tries to shove the viewer these on-the-nose scenes.

Now lets go to the other side: The good prince: There is not much to say. He is the lalida prince. Cares for everyone and everything, looks good, smiles, is charming (well for anime measures) and is overall the good kind of character. He is not really doing much and I went into this because there would be romance , whatever.
However, its not only the prince. It seems that the whole freaking city the saint was sent to is a mesh of good people. Just plain goodness. I mean what kind of fking black and white bullsh't is this?

Now to the MC herself: It makes absolutely no freaking sense to send the saint that literally protects the whole city from monsters to another city. NO way. I am not buying that. I didn't care at first because I though this anime was mostly trope-hunting for the "The character we feel sorry for gets a better ending and a decent romance". I would have been somewhat fine with that but the anime keeps going the boring path.
The anime is also not really hiding the fact that this is absolutely retarded. Like 10 min later, the city gets flooded with monster warnings and everything seems to fall apart and the prince is like: WHAT??? WHY NOW?? WHAT IS HAPPENING, OMG!

The last character I would like to talk about is Mia, the little sister of the perfect saint… and I can tell you, she is something else. She is the main reason I started to see this anime more as a comedy other than whatever this anime tries to be.
Imagine you are a little sister or brother to someone that you deeply love and look after. Also you are a saint. The protector of the city and you (hopefully) have been taught manners and some f*cking common sense. Now for some reason you have NOT noticed that the character you deeply look up to has been treated like trash. Suddenly, this person vanishes and everyone, even the person who is suppose to marry her and doesn't even care one bit that she is gone, tells you that she just left off, voluntarily. Yes the main saint protecting the whole city by herself just goes off. Exactly. Logic.
After a while, like 20 seconds, you heard that this person was sold to another city and that the prince is the person behind all of this. Now, what is your logical conclusion? Exactly, you marry the prince so that you can betray him later. YES. If you thought that she would help her sister, find her or run to the city she was sold to, then I have to disappoint you because the REVENGE ROUTE IS ON BABY. And if you, like every normal human being, think this is still stupid; don't worry bro, the anime got you because this revenge route is just a trick: Character development baby and its coming for you REAL good.
The saint remembers that she is the protector of the city (like 1 episode later) so she instantly changes her motivation from Revenge to "I haf to sive sa piple, beecuse I good."
So she rans to the older brother of the prince, who locked himself in his room for like 12 years or something, and she tried to motivate him back on his feet by screaming at him some cliche motivation speeches. Well that magically worked and he got up saving the day aaaaaaand that's where I dropped.

If this spoon feeding trash keeps going, I assume that in about 5 - 10 years the animes will have flags above the character which states who we have to hate and not. Like: "Evil character" or "Good character". Like those "laugh" signs in talk shows.

Hmmmm... it's not bad, but the biggest problem with this anime is that it is not consistent, which is quite rare. Most shows I have watched mostly stayed true to it's quality of writing, theme, tone and genre.
I was expecting a comedy. The beginning was a heartwarming and easy to watch comedy where you dont need to think about the anime too much. But towards the second half it turned into a overboarded drama show?

This anime didn't know what it wanted to be towards the end. They probably tried to justify the 24-episode long show and tried to spice it up with all kinds ... of fake drama and unnecessary long backstories of almost every character that appeared.
This combined with an episode-long monologuing about everything they say and do, is just an exhausting type of unwanted drama and anime-type misconceptions. Also the characters are screaming a bit too much for my taste.

I don't want to spoil too much but giving the MC a backstory at the very end that barely supported the actions prior to the last episodes was really not helping to understand the character. And also why? No one was asking for it. 99% watch this anime for the girls (me included).

Backstories can be as deep as the Mariana trench, but if the actions are generic and only line up to a level to most other animes it makes the character generic and boring.

Now, there are some good moments here and there and also some heartwarming ones, but I feel like this show just wasn't genuine. From the music, the design to the way the characters act. They try to "force" a feeling out of you and it probably worked out for some, but I just couldn't take this show seriously enough.

This Anime is basically the basic bitch of anime with way to much make-up on and, even though this anime is nothing but a masterpiece when it comes to being generic, it got an 8.5 rating on this site. Now, Im very happy to see that this anime got a 8.5. I wished it would even get a waaaaay higer score, like 9 or 10, because it shows that all this nonsense about deep characters, engaging plat, overall deep and complex story and well written character development and interactions, are completely pointless and no one actually cares about this and only writes this in reviews ... or reddit or pornhub or hentai forums, just to justify in some smartass way, why he liked a show (or didnt) even though he/she has no actually clue, why he likes anything in this world. And Im one of them: I have no clue why I dont like Solo Leveling. And I also dont know why I liked another show.
This is something that this anime has tought me and I am very thankful for that: Every human being that has ever lived or will live, knows absolutely nothing about life or him/herself. We are all fucking stupid, and we know nothing about anything.