Jun 23, 2025
This anime was based on a light novel and apparently doesn't have any connection to the manga except source material. If I had known that so much of the story and fight scenes were going to be changed (compared to the manga) in this adaptation I wouldn't have even attempted to watch it.
Personaly I have not read the LN but even if this anime is true to the source material, the fights and supposed "heavy" story points/arcs are objectively terrible without comparing it to the manga or LN.
The fights lack excitement and don't engage the viewer at all, MC looks like he is barely holding
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on in one fight while defeating a group of people with ease in another. Anime fails to present MCs (every characters in this series to be honest) strength to the viewer which in turn is just left confused on how strong he actually is. To top it off the fights don't have any excitement to them since not only do you not know much about the characters MC is fighting, the visuals are also lackluster and switch from the use of cheap looking cgi to regular cheap looking animation. Showing a few basic real world swordsmanship moves does not make for good entertainment media and can only be appreciated by practitioners pointing in excitement when witnessing their passion portrayed realistically even by a small amount.
Now the story feels like the MC is pathetic and just gets by in any and every situation and is just stumbling through the events without giving any care to really anything. Side characters are shallow without having a proper backstory, the events of the anime seem rushed and very short for what they portray and what they should be like, Mewi especially seems emotionless and very disconnected from the events that are important to her character and her development (lack there of in this anime). There is so much cut content it is not even worth mentioning all of it here but it definitely reflects it by how uninteresting and unengaging the whole series is.
Final words on this absolute steaming pile of trash of an adaptation.
It is not worth even a second of your time and I could not recommend the manga enough. The manga does everything that this anime fails to and everything else it does better. The boiling rage this absolute waste of time left me in is only calmed by the fact that the manga is still ongoing and I don't have to engage with this because it is not the only visual adaptation of the series. The only reason this garbage gets anything higher than a 1 is because while being a horrible adaptation and a very forgettable and poor experience it is not the worst looking thing visually and is at least in line with other countless bad anime which are getting shoveled down the viewers throats in the past couple of years for whatever reason.
Give a shot to the manga adaptation. If you want to give this a watch on the other hand, reconsider. Don't waste your time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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