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Nov 22, 2025
This review covers the first 2 seasons, as well as the "Bridon Arc".
The show is composed of roughly two parts: the mystery-thriller that's mostly centered around the time travel mechanic, and the melodrama that's more interested in side stories of various characters.
At first, the latter element gets much more screentime, with the time travel being little more than a means to go from one story to the next. The first half-dozen episodes almost take on this "melodrama of the week" quality, which, uh, if you've read my Violet Evergarden review (https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=574604) you'd know I'm not a big fan of. I think episodic melodrama
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is particularly hard to do well, and while the scenarios here aren't quite as unbelievable as they were in Violet Evergarden, I still didn't find them particularly engaging, although I admit this might just be a "personal preferences" thing.
On the other hand is the mystery-thriller time travel stuff, which gets more attention as the series progresses. It does this part quite well, at least for the first two seasons. The black-haired protagonist named Cheng Xiaoshi gets 12 hours to enter a person's body and pry useful information. There's also the white-haired protagonist named Lu Guang can see the future and guide him in keeping the past how it's supposed to play out. It's a mix of the Butterfly Effect where altering events can have unexpected (generally negative) consequences, with bits of Steins;gate in how only "critical moments" really matter. It's an interesting enough gimmick to carry a story, and the show really comes alive when the mechanics are a focus or when they're used in creative ways. The show is also helped by the characters mostly acting like adults -- a relatively rare thing in anime. I have some minor quibbles with how Cheng keeps getting emotional and comes very close to changing the past in ways the could ripple out to being Bad, but he doesn't actually go through with them for the most part.
At the start of season 1, the show is roughly 70% melodrama and 30% mystery, while by the end of season 1 those ratios are flipped to 30% melodrama and 70% mystery. It continues with that pace into season 2, which is when the show is firing on all cylinders. It becomes almost a cat-and-mouse like Death Note, and I was hooked. A typical setup at that point is to show a scene without context, and have stuff that seems crazy or unbelievable happen, then it goes back and explains how everything worked. It's a good formula that maintains suspense and quickly answers the questions it brings up. None of the reveals feel like BS as they're typically only moderate extensions of the knowledge we already have of how the powers work, peoples' motivations, etc. while also doing more than enough to keep me guessing. That said, the melodrama also takes a turn for the worse here. Season 1's melodrama is fairly varied, but I hope you're fine with abused women being utilized as a plot device from S2 onwards, because this show REALLY likes to do that over and over. You'll see women beaten, abused, strangled, nearly raped, screamed at, and even murdered. It almost became a running gag, with whenever I saw a new female character introduced I would think to myself "I wonder when she'll get treated like a pinata", and I'd end up being correct most of the time. While S1's melodrama was merely "boring", S2's became outright repulsive, which was only helped somewhat by it having a lower screentime priority. Overall though, Season 2 is a decent package.
The same cannot be said of the Bridon Arc, which MAL lists as a "side story", but it's 8 episodes (6 episodes really, but the first episode is a 3-in-1) worth of fairly critical information, so I doubt you'll be able to skip it. I don't know if some amateurs took over or what, but the show basically forgets how to do a mystery-thriller. The way it's supposed to go is question → partial answer → bigger question → partial answer. But here, all we get is question → question → question → question... Minor spoilers here, but to demonstrate what I mean I think an example would be helpful: in S3E1 a redhead character is revealed to be a bad guy since he attacks Lu Guang for reasons that aren't explained, then Lu Guang goes back in time to stop something that isn't explained, and he encounters the redhead who's all too eager to help the protagonists for reasons that aren't explained, then in E6 the readhead turns on them for reasons that aren't explained, using a nonlethal takedown on Cheng for reasons that aren't explained, then demands a macguffin (the purpose of which is not exlained), but then he also has a heart attack in the middle of the fight that instakills him for reasons that aren't explained, and then it's revealed he actually survived for reasons that aren't explained. You may have noticed I used the phrase "for reasons that aren't explained" over half a dozen times, and yeah, the whole season is 8 episodes worth of setup for a payoff that never materializes. That leaves entire scenes where I'm just thinking "What is happening? WTF is any of this!?!" Obviously the explanation and payoff might be coming in later seasons, but it's still obnoxiously poor pacing to do something like this. Having questions that are answered in later seasons is fine, but there's a limit. I need to have at least some semblance of a grasp on what's going on for me to be invested, and this failed that check hard.
Two other notes:
First, the show has some definite homoerotic undertones between the two male leads. They're both typical prettyboys and are way more handsy with each other than non-gay friends ever are in the real world, while also showing next to 0 interest in any of the female characters. As of now nothing concrete has happened, but there's definitely something going on underneath the surface.
Second, the show has an overuse of fake cliffhangers, i.e. cliffhangers that imply something, but then the next episode comes around and it's not true, or it gets resolved very quickly -- often in under a minute. The end of season 1 is a particularly bad example of this. You can only do that once or twice before I become completely inured to it and reflexively start to think "yeah, nah, bullshit, nothing like that will actually happen" in a resentful internal tone every time it occurs. I guess they decided they had to keep the Gen Z ADHD kiddies from getting bored halfway through the season and start watching TikToks instead, but I really wish these shows would just have a little more faith in their audience.
So overall, this show is very much a mixed bag. It has some great elements and some not so great elements. I'd recommend not watching the Bridon Arc until Season 3 airs, and then just treat them both as one jumbo season or something. Hopefully we'll get some payoff, as the Bridon Arc certainly left a bad taste in my mouth with the way it ended.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Nov 3, 2025
ChatGPT recommended this to me when I went looking for a power fantasy anime similar to Solo Leveling. *Theoretically*, this series should be an almost perfect fit for me -- it has a competent protagonist, the aforementioned power fantasy with an overpowered hero, a supporting cast of cute girls, and a mystery-thriller undercurrent as to who's manipulating things behind the scenes. Yet I found this to be fairly mediocre for most of the runtime. This review is an attempt to answer why that is.
There's a LOT of corniness undergirding practically every arc. The first arc involves the two girls, Misha and Sasha, being on
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bad terms with each other. The big reveal is that this is fake in the typical anime "I love you so much I'll pretend to hate you so you'll forget me" way. They thought they had a problem that could only be solved this way, yet the protagonist Anos shows up and fixes their problem with a snap of his fingers, whereupon they immediately start gushing over each other (and him). It's all very cheesey, and this is hardly the only example I could give. Towards the end of S1 there started to be more and more mentions of "defeating our enemies through the power of friendship!" that caused me to roll my eyes.
The action scenes were another dull point. There's lots of the typical anime "you can't hurt me, I have an everything proof shield" followed by "ah, but I have a super ultra skill that *annihilates* your everything proof shield!!!" Any power fantasy will need action scenes to demonstrate the protagonist's power, but the purpose of an action scene for a power fantasy is different than it is for e.g. a battle shonen. There are nuanced differences between the two that this show doesn't seem to grasp, and as someone who does not particularly care for battle shonens, I found the action to be rather boring.
The power fantasy itself is also fairly unsatisfying. Anos is completely OP, and there are a steady stream of people underestimating him and promptly getting their face pushed in. Before watching this show, I thought this was all that was really needed to have a good power fantasy. After watching this, though, my opinion has changed. You definitely need more -- I think it's probably intrinsically more satisfying to watch someone who gains power over time rather than one who starts at the max level, and having lore about milestones, ranks, titles, etc. are also important to serve as metrics for how far the character has grown. This show lacks that, as Anos just shows up in episode 1 as an unstoppable badass right from the get-go. His power doesn't really feel earned like it does in Solo Leveling or Mushoku Tensei, and we don't get the RPG-esque satisfaction of a character going back and trouncing an opponent that once gave him trouble.
This show isn't terrible. It's making an earnest attempt and has a clear goal it's striving towards, it's just not particularly well-executed, and then it falls back on corny anime tropes to make things worse. There are some parts that are better. The mystery about who's controlling things behind the scenes is boring for most of the season but has a decent conclusion at the end of S1. There's also a revenge scene when someone attacks Anos' mother that's surprisingly brutal, which I enjoyed. Yet while these occasional positive aspects were enough to keep me from condemning this show as outright "bad", they weren't enough to make me want to continue to season 2 any time soon.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Nov 2, 2025
This is a decently executed show of stuff I don't really care for. Most of the problems I have with this series are probably either deliberate choices, or seen as acceptable omissions. If you like what this show is aiming for then you'll probably love it, but if not then you'll probably share my opinion that it's merely OK. I'm not sure if this show is supposed to be an homage or a parody, but in either case it's in that awkward spot that most anime-parodies-of-anime are, in that it's not really a parody so much as it's an unironic recreation that's moderately more campy.
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That's my biggest issue -- that it's very campy, trope-filled, predictable, and it's supporting cast is comprised of uninspired stock characters.
The protagonist starts out not knowing what to create for a love story since she's never been in love, but suddenly she's transported to the world of her favorite story and instantly meets the (unmarried!) hero she was obsessed with... and if you've watched any anime ever then you immediately know where this is going. The rest of the character development is very trite, e.g. the elf girl is revealed to want to end the world due to her depression from her immortality, but decides life is worth living after seeing one of the protagonist's goofy drawings. Another supporting cast member was wounded in a previous battle that prevents him from fighting, but instead of telling this to his comrades he instead lied about not wanting to fight any more and became an alcoholic. His development consisted of... realizing this was completely stupid and revealing the truth. It's all very thin and perfunctory and none of it landed for me. The show is so recycled that it even reuses the same exact animation of the protagonist drawing in nearly every episode.
The show starts as a monster-of-the-week sort of thing, where the protagonist has to draw some OP counter to whatever blob is attacking them. On the plus side, the show becomes more serial after the halfway point and starts having a moderately interesting story, though it's still highly predictable. The protagonist herself is fairly decent to watch since she's upbeat, competent, and driven. There's a significant helping of unfunny reaction comedy, but beyond that most of the slower scenes are at least decent when she's around.
This series was an OK distraction that passed the time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 29, 2025
This has some interesting ideas sprinkled throughout, but it doesn't really capitalize on them, and thus it ends up being meidocre.
Interesting idea #1 is being a 4X strategy game isekai, so instead of being the 99999th anime pulling from Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, this is cribbing off of the Civilization franchise. I enjoy 4x games so this held some promise for me, but in practice all it meant was that some characters are "built" from "mana". It's functionally indistinguishable from them showing up out of nowhere as they would in any other story, so it's mostly pointless.
Interesting idea #2 is that the
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"cheat skills" come from a mashup of different genres, so the protagonist has his 4X cheat skills, while other characters have RPG cheat skills, and perhaps there will be dating sim cheat skills. But as of the end of season 1, these have mostly just acted like any other anime asspulls to arbitrarily resolve tension in battle scenes. Nothing special really happens and it's impossible to reasonably predict where any of this will go, so it's not particularly engaging.
Interesting idea #3 is that the protagonist is leading the "evil" nation, which could give an excuse to move away from the typical nonsensical anime morality system. However, this is almost immediately subverted when the protagonist claims "evil" = "do whatever you want", which really means "do the right thing, but with a bit more violence".
That leaves a fairly bog-standard isekai that only has middling execution. There's a decent helping of unfunny reaction comedy, a boring unconfident protagonist, and a flat supporting cast. This series passed the time on my daily commute but was otherwise completely forgettable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 27, 2025
I'm new to villainess anime, and it seems like I should watch more of these.
The protagonist Alicia is hardworking and upbeat, which does a lot to make this an enjoyable watch. It's a far cry from the usual mopey anime protag that's typically either whiney and unconfident, shouty and annoying, or (if you're lucky) completely bland.
The premise is that Alicia wants to become the "best" villainess which involves working hard and taunting the ostensible hero. In practice though, a lot of the story revolves around breaking the usual prophecies involving both the hero and the villain. In other words, her actions inadvertently subvert
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tropes as she tries to play up her act. This ends up halfway mindbreaking the hero and gonking out some of the supporting cast as the story tries to reassert itself, but then becomes confused and doesn't know what to do. It's a fun package that I enjoyed quite a bit, and will all the subversions I ended up not having any idea where the story was going to go next, which is usually a good sign.
Alicia is blatantly rude to the hero who's only trying to be nice to her. It's still mostly the "villain is actually good in practice" trope, but the fact that the protagonist was blatantly punching down on someone was unique -- I'm not sure if this is something that's common in villainess anime, but it's certainly not common in the other anime I've watched so far, so I found it interesting and novel.
A few downsides: I think the shoujo romance subplot was silly. I feel the same way I felt about that sort of thing in Apothecary Diaries -- it's clearly not targeted at me and I wish it would just go away. The final twist in episode 13 was also fairly silly and feels contrived to give one last episode of "tension".
Overall though, this was a very good show.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 27, 2025
I enjoyed this quite a bit. The consensus on MAL seems to be that it's a mid, inoffensive show -- at the time of writing this, MAL's featured positive, mixed, and negative reviews had scores of 7, 6, and 5 respectively, and all of them said basically the same thing. I thought it was a bit better than that, although it should be noted that I have a particular fondness for this type of isekai, so take that for what it's worth.
First, there are a few negative aspects. This show is mostly serious in a way I enjoy, but there's also a good deal
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of goofy comedic moments too. None of them are funny, and some of them are so bad that they're almost cringe-inducing. Ryo's blushy-crushy flirting with the elf chick and fourth-wall-breaking wisecracks come to mind on that front. There's also some of that LN adaptation jank with the pacing, e.g. Ryo having a weirdly dramatic speech with a bird monster in episode 1 on "how he helped me grow" for a sequence that was probably far more detailed in the books but which happened in the course of like 5 minutes in the anime, or how Ryo had a giant fight with a witch in the middle of town which involved massive explosions... and then nobody in town noticed? There was probably some pocket dimension stuff that the anime just glossed over.
Those are fairly minor issues though, and beyond that the show is solid. There's a decent helping of Mushoku Tensei here with robust worldbuilding and the protagonist's penchant for overpowered silent spellcasting (also, Eris' VA makes an appearance as Lyn in the dub). There's much less of a focus on harem stuff -- romance is barely involved at all, at least as of Season 1. Furthermore, in MT the protagonist was powerful but still subdued in some ways. Here, the power fantasy becomes a more central focus, and it's executed well. The supporting cast slowly learns that Ryo is ludicrously powerful in a way that's satisfying to behold, somewhat similar to Solo Leveling.
This is certainly not a prestige series, but among the smaller anime this show still manages to have some ambition which is nice to see. I hope we get a S2.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Oct 14, 2025
Don't let the silly cartoon animals fool you -- this is a mature and well executed show that's worthy of your time. It's exactly this type of maturity that I wish anime had more of, where it's clearly meant for adults but it doesn't go overboard into grimdark depression nor obscurantist nonsense (like Ergo Proxy). It has moments of genuine levity to contrast with the bleaker scenes.
The show starts out as just a guy driving a taxi, but pretty quickly becomes a mystery-thriller based around the characters the protagonist has happened to drive. There's many different plotlines that wave around in the wind for
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several episodes, but by the end they've all been tied up with the main story. Some amount of suspension of disbelief is required to ignore the fact that some random taxi driver just happens to coincidentally drive nearly every plot-relevant character at some point in a city as big as Tokyo, but it's a relatively minor issue. The protagonist Odokawa is nearly unique in anime in that I actually enjoy watching him. His deadpan demeanor with a heart of gold was satisfying to watch, as was his ability to resolve tense situations without having superpowers. At the end of the day he's just a taxi driver, although he's pretty charismatic (from the viewer's perspective at least). Again, I *really* wish this was the default for anime rather than the exception.
I have a few other nitpicks, like how the antagonist Yano's constant rapping and rhyming couplets got old very quickly, and how the extended scene focusing on how a schizo became obsessed with Odakawa wasn't as good as the rest of the show, but those are fairly small problems. Overall this is a great show, and the ending reveal plus the satisfying resolution of all the plotlines during the finale bumped it up to "fantastic" in my eyes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 10, 2025
Quite underrated IMO. It's about as good as Steins;gate or Summertime Rendering, yet its languishing in obscurity for some reason. It really boggles my mind that anime fans will jump on some series but not others.
The core of this series is a mystery-thriller with a (pseudo) time travel mechanic. The protagonist has to piece together what's going on in this world, then try to save as many people as he can. This is executed fairly well, with the plot being complex enough to be interesting, but simple enough not to be convoluted. All of the reveals were foreshadowed reasonably well, and the show doesn't
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run out of intrigue halfway through the season and devolve into almost pure good-guy-vs-bad-guy like Summertime Rendering did. It's also paced briskly enough that it doesn't have Steins;gate's problem of being a long and tedious setup for the front half of the episodes. That said, I don't think the mysteries themselves are quite up to the level of Steins;gate or Summertime Rendering. So while Onmyo Kaiten might not reach the highs of the other shows, it also doesn't have the "bumpiness" that they did in terms of quality nosediving at certain points. It's "solid" throughout, rather than being "great"... then "mediocre" (or vice-versa) like the other two.
There are some downsides though. Probably the biggest issue is pacing. As I said, it's brisk enough not to dispense with the filler while also not overstaying its welcome. But... I think it might have went too far in the other direction. There are a *lot* of twists and reveals in this show, but with just 12 episodes they end up feeling crammed together. At some points it felt like there were major reveals and a big cliffhanger in every episode, back-to-back-to-back. Binge watching several episodes on Crunchyroll in one sitting almost felt tiring. This really could have (and probably should have) been 24 episodes to give some breathing space here and there.
My other gripe is with the protagonist, Takeru. He's not as bad as, say, Subaru from Re:zero, but he's still shouty, annoying, and has a room-temperature IQ.
Scenario 1:
Ally: "Oh no, the enemy is using an ultra super mega punch! Please dodge it!"
Takeru: "Ultra super mega punch you say? I'm attacking right into it!"
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Tritagonist: "Takeru, do you even know what you're doing? Perhaps there's more to this situation that you don't underst--"
Takeru: "Nope, but I'm doing it anyways!"
Furthermore, I've never been a fan of battle shonen fights, and this show features them every so often. They're not especially offensive here, but they're still silly and tropey -- stuff like the protagonist manifesting new powers right when he needs them, typically in a shouty "you won't defeat MEEEEE" kind of way.
Despite these issues, this series is still an excellent watch overall.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Sep 18, 2025
I'm giving this a 7/10, but this is not a typical 7/10 show where my thoughts would be that it's decent enough to be fun as I'm watching it, but that it's nothing special. Rather, this is an *extremely* ambivalent 7/10 indicating that I think this show hits more than it misses, but man did it get on my nerves at some points.
This is an extremely pretentious show from start to finish. It seems like whoever created this had a goal to "show that anime can be just as worthwhile as any other medium", sort of like if Ghost in the Shell got a
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full 23 episodes to flex itself rather than <90 minutes. One one hand this is a good thing since many anime are just utterly unambitious, but on the other hand this really overdoes it at some points.
My biggest issue was in just trying to understand what's going on. This show involves a lot of mysteries that eventually get answered, but in the first episode we're just dumped into the story in medias res, and Ergo Proxy really doesn't seem to care if we're managing to follow along. At some level I can respect not belaboring simple plot points like some anime do, but if a show is too reticent with details then it can become disorienting. This show definitely veers hard towards underexplaining, and at times almost seems blatantly obscurantist. I'd say nearly half of the dialogue is either riddles, philosophical gibberish, or both. We get quotes like “It’s not ‘I think, therefore I am.’ It’s ‘I think, therefore you are.'" I'm sure people can do something similar to what Youtubers do for Dark Souls item descriptions, weaving a coherent narrative out of the small patchwork we actually get to see. But watching this firsthand is just aggravating at times. It's like someone took a word salad of famous philosophers, existentialism, solipsism, metaphysics, and put it all in a blender called the 2deep4u 3000 and sprayed it all over the walls.
I was unsure how to watch this show. It was very unclear to me whether gaps in my knowledge were due to my own inattentiveness, or if they would be mysteries that were revealed later. It didn't help that there can be big jumps between episodes. Watching them back-to-back on a streaming service in 2025 as opposed to once a week on TV made me feel like I was accidentally skipping entire episodes. I'd start the next episode where they'd be a completely different situation, and I'd be left wondering "wait, how did they get here???". I vacillated on whether I should look up episode details on the wiki to ground myself a bit at the risk of spoilers, or if I should just lay back and vibe with the show in a state of semi-obliviousness. I went the "vibing" route for the first 8 episodes or so. The show is OK like this -- it does a good enough job in the cinematography and the characters that I found it pleasant enough, although it was of course let down somewhat by the fact that I didn't have a clue what some scenes were about. Eventually I gave up and started looking up details, which let me have a solid grasp on what was going on, although it cost me through some spoilers. I found that there was still too much vagueness for me to really enjoy the overarching plot even when I did finally start to understand. In the end, I'm not sure what I should have done. It seems like at least some of the vagueness is there to get you to rewatch it, but I don't like feeling forced to do that. A show should be at least a 90% complete package on the first run through, but this felt closer to 70%.
Re-l is a charismatic protagonist. I mean, she's clearly a total bitch, but she's still interesting to watch. I'm sure some people like her simply for being a hot goth chick with blue eye shadow, but the animation style made her look frumpy and awkward about half the time in my eyes. What I really enjoyed was her driven, relatively calm demeanor -- it reminded me a lot of Serie from Frieren. Vincent is far less charismatic. Just a typical Joe Average protagonist in terms of personality, he's arguably the real protagonist which is disappointing. He's constantly whining and complaining, which is obviously justified given his predicament, but which is still annoying to watch. Pino is alright. I normally don't like kid characters, but she kind of grew on me.
The cinematography is quite good, although it can go overboard like every other part of the show. There's an artful use of "camera" angles to drive in the emotional undertones of scenes, and I found the presentation to be enjoyable a majority of the time. That said, a few scenes were so dark I could hardly tell what was going on. There's also a lot of close-ups and weird angles. A bit of that to make a point can improve a show, but Ergo Proxy overuses it to the point of parody. Many episodes feature a single proxy serving as the antagonist, and they each have their own special power. It just happens that almost all of the proxies have powers that coincidentally manifest as the ability to cause severe hallucinations, which the show's creators then use to go down whatever rabbithole they wanted to. Sometimes that's just an artsy mindfuck episode with lots of abrupt camera cuts, while other times we do a full genre-shift and become a Saturday morning cartoon or a goofy game show.
In fact, the game show of episode 15 encapsulates my feeling of this series as a whole. It comes out of nowhere, as episode 14 ended on a completely different note. Looking back, the point of the episode is to serve as the lore-dump of what happened to humanity, why the world is post-apocalyptic, the backstory behind the proxies, etc. Bad shows would tell you all this with a character just doing a bland straightforward explanation. Good shows would show rather than tell, probably with a detailed flashback. Ergo Proxy chooses neither option, and instead goes completely batshit crazy with a hallucinatory game show, and then tries to slide in the relevant details as trivia questions. This is the type of thing I appreciate more in hindsight than when I was watching it. It wasn't *awful*, but the execution was a little over the top and I was a bit exhausted by that point of the other crazy tricks the show had been pulling.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Sep 18, 2025
This show has two main components: the worldbuilding, and the action. The worldbuilding is great, while the action ranges from passable to mediocre.
The lore, backstory, and mysteries that Clevatess is building are quite interesting. This is a relatively dark and gritty world, but it doesn't devolve into grimdark excess. The basic gist is that there's a prophecy of humans killing some great beasts to "expand the world". However, the show hints that not everything is as it seems, and that there might be something rotten at the heart of all this. While that's the undercurrent, attention is quickly redirected the many human factions as
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well as many demon factions, as they're all competing against each other for their own aims. It's not to the level of Game of Thrones, but it's still decent stuff and had me wanting more. We only get to see a small slice in season 1 without much in the way of answers. It's possible we might not get an S2 or it might fumble it badly if things devolve to tired cliches, like "the prophecy is true, you just need to believe in yourself and kill God through the power of friendship". Regardless, there's promise here and I hope to see it capitalized on.
The action is more lackluster. I'm not generally a fan of action in anime, although I was willing to tolerate most of the fights. That said, the fight against bugs in episode 8 really tested my patience. It's the old shonen nonsense of the bad guy doing an overly-lengthy monologue, the good guy going "oh man oh crap this is sooooo bad, for real though!" for several minutes before the fight is arbitrarily ended in one swing. There's no pacing, there's no tension, it doesn't even look particularly good except for a few seconds. I don't understand how people enjoy this crap.
The characters are a mixed bag. Clevatess himself is the highlight, as he's discerning, calm, and powerful. He's supposed to be pretentious as a great beast god, but he's not unreasonable. Alicia is so-so. She's driven, but also somewhat shouty and stupid at times. Nelluru is the tiresome "ugh I'm so worthless" type. Then there's Luna, the baby that's annoying in the way that babies usually are in television -- he can't do anything by himself and he cries a lot. It's realistic, but it's also not super fun to watch a small useless lump have so much screentime.
Season 1 was decent enough, and there's potential here for something great.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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