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Feb 6, 2026
Pretentious Sloth and the Oddly Specific Leg Dismemberment Fixation: The Anime
In order to give you the best understanding of what this show is like, I'm just
going
to
slow
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this
review
down
some
isn't
it
a
little
tiring
waiting
for
the
next
word
well
that's
what
it's
like
watching
this
show
and
there's
no
payoff
for
your
patience
the art style is decent but that doesn't save your legs from dismemberment now does it
just try to identify with any of these characters, I dare you... MC has the personality of Chinese drywall
the games are ultimately stupid and have no other purpose
watch
this
at
thy
peril
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jan 1, 2026
This review is going to spoil the hell out of this show, both seasons. This is FOR YOUR OWN GOOD because if you make the mistake of watching it like I did you will never get that time back it will be GONE FOREVER.
Let's start with the good, because that's real brief and we can get it out of the way. The basic concept is pretty good: people die, but are copied at the moment of death and turned into involuntary alien-hunting mercenaries for some mysterious power. They get nifty power suits and cool guns to play with in order to do that. Once in
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a while, we also get an interesting plot twist.
And that's where the good ends. Now, onto the bad, and pull up a chair because this is going to take a while.
For starters, we never get any explanation of how or why any of this is happening. Not even the slightest hint of an explanation. Who exactly is Gantz, why is he in that sphere, why is he apparently unconscious and in an oxygen mask? Who are these aliens, and what are they doing on Earth? Why does Gantz want them dead? Does he have an objective or is he just a sadist who likes to mess with people? If he's got this insanely advanced technology that can copy people at the moment of death and reconstitute them whole no matter their injuries, what's he need the clueless idiots to do his dirty work for? What happens if the timer runs out? Why is there a timer in the first place? Why is he choosing these particular people to be his assassins?
If you were hoping for an answer to any of those questions, you can forget it - there's not even the slightest attempt to shed light on any of it.
I could hand-wave all that stuff if the idea was well-executed; the execution here though is historically bad. There's the jarring, irregular camera movements that induce headache and cheap sound tricks such as loud heartbeats to create artificial tension because the script ain't getting the job done.
All right, so now I'm like a page into this and haven't really begun to describe just how bad the script is, but it's got to rank as one of the worst all-time. Something like a third of the screen time is about the protag's sexual frustrations, and they lead you to think that his unrequited lust for another main character is going to go somewhere, but no - it just gets abruptly resolved with the introduction of another female character who takes his virginity and dies not long after and that's the end of that. It has absolutely no story impact, it's just filler between summons by Gantz. It doesn't seem to have any reason to be in the script at all other than as an excuse to throw some nekkid "huge tracts of land" on the screen every now and again.
When they are summoned by Gantz and sent out to kill aliens, they act like total idiots every time. Facing an aggressive, attacking enemy they'll just stand there and talk and fret about the same nonsense over and over and over. There'll be some rampaging alien o' death right in front of them and they won't even bother to take evasive action or shoot back or anything. Everyone's a complete idiot all the time, stuck in whatever mental illness defines their personality, and they pretty much all get killed because of it. In two seasons the only thing that actually causes character growth is when Kato finds out some homo wanted to rape him, and he does a face heel turn and goes on the attack, committing a gruesome surprise attack felony assault while the dude's taking a crap on the toilet.. This character development goes right back into reverse come the next summons and he doesn't want to hurt anything or anyone again.
Nobody else gets any character development because, why bother? They're all dead soon anyway.
As you can see, watching this show will just leave you as a big burning ball of frustration and unanswered questions, unrealistic character reactions to situations, and pissed-offness that this potentially cool idea was mangled like a wayward cat run over by a combine harvester.
To anyone who would tell you that this run-over-by-a-subway-train-quality script is worth your time, all I have to say is this:
WHO PUT THE SUIT ON THE DOG?
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Dec 15, 2025
So my friend says to me I bet you can't make an anime and I says oh yeah and he says oh yeah so I says oh yeah and he says oh yeah right back to me again and I'm like OK I'm going to make an anime so I order a do-it-yourself isekai starter kit from Wal-Mart and it says right on the box it has everything you need to make an anime and I'm like OK this is what I need so I open it and started to make an anime.
I pull the other world out of the box and just select all
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the default options since giving authentic effort to make your creative works interesting to an audience is for chumps. Got the usual: swords, magic, a king, a castle, an evil demon lord. Great. Time to start personalizing this show.
Since I have no experience doing anything but playing video games, my isekai world will have status screens like a role playing game. (everyone will accept this as normal.) I figure I'll do the standard thing where I'm the hero and get to hook up with a hot elf chick. OK so I'll get summoned to this world as part of a whole classroom of retards, and I'll be the most special one which you can see from my stats, but someone ELSE will be called "hero" and that will confuse them. Also I have a magic power that no one else can see my stats or ask questions about why they can't see my stats when they can see everyone else's stats.
OK I'm done, right? What? I need a plot? Well that's annoying. Fine. I'll add in a BL looking dude in shiny armor named Adam and Gary to introduce a plot hook or something.
Now I'm really bad at this story telling thing so even though I'm actually writing the story I still manage to get myself killed repeatedly and I decided that I should just have plot armor that goes ahead and defeats the villain on its own so I don't have to undergo any messy character development or ask ChatGPT to revise the storyline so that it makes sense. OK so I needed an elf, I'll make her a dungeon drop don't ask too many questions. Then I'll go on to "duel" her sister until she can't take any more and starts crying. Elf hottie then falls for me of course since that's why I wrote the story. I'll be in my bunk.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Dec 3, 2025
I know why you are here. We both do. You have already watched every popular, high-rated show in the genre. You have exhausted the entire spectrum of any isekai that could be reasonably construed as a work of art or brings new and interesting ideas to the table. You have descended into the ranks of trash isekai... and you like it. You are now scraping the bottom of the MyAnimeList barrel looking for anything remotely watchable and enjoyable, because that is what you have become - a trash isekai-loving Gollum searching desperately for your precious.
Well, my friends, I am pleased to inform you: this IS
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the trash isekai you are looking for.
There is absolutely nothing in here that you haven't seen before. It doesn't even slightly pretend to originality, creativity or realism. The art is as perfectly generic as they come; the sound, exactly what you would expect from a low-budget production. You get your standard moe harem, your standard OP protagonist, a plot mathematically calculated to be within one standard deviation of the industry average in all respects, executed without a hint of shame or remorse at the total lack of qualities that might distinguish it from every other offering in the industry. The upside to this is that it's hard to mess up things that are so well-tested to please.
Audience-insert yourself as an OP shota getting fawned over by a harem of hotties, binge the whole thing in one night and go to sleep satisfied that your generic slop fetish has - if only for one more day - been satisfied.
If any part of this review made you feel personally attacked, you are the audience I am recommending this show to.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 26, 2025
This show is the definition of a mixed bag. There's a pretty decent story in there, but they buried it under excessive fanservice, a failure to really explain some important worldbuilding elements, and a half-hearted conclusion.
It feels like the show was put together by people with competing and not terribly compatible visions of what they wanted to produce. It's like it had three directors: one who wanted a pure fanservice show; another who wanted to tell an interesting story; and a third who wanted to make a shounen action flick.
I have to stress that the fanservice is really really excessive. They should have cut 90%
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of it and done more worldbuilding exposition instead.
Then there are the characters, who range from deep and complex to entirely forgettable cookie-cutter tropes.
And yet... I'm not quite willing to say that you should totally skip this show. The story is quite unique and the twists and turns thereof are of real interest to people who like storytelling; and for the most part, the watching is enjoyable.
Bottom line: If you're big into storytelling, this is probably one you should see just for its uniqueness; if you're looking for a great work of art this ain't it; if you're just looking for fanservice, it probably won't satisfy.
"mixed feelings" perfectly suits how you're likely to view this show after you see it
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Aug 6, 2025
I freely admit I'm just hatewatching Shield Hero at this point; I was in love with S1; S2 and S3 were an insult; and here we are in S4, hoping it would get back to its original form.
WRONG
S4 is more insult, and it's at least as bad as S2 and S3 were.
Who tuned into this franchise to see white tiger kids be front and center all the time? Nobody. Who tuned into this franchise to see the titular Shield Hero and the primary support character Rapthalia reduced to talking furniture? Nobody. Who tuned into this franchise for the main plot, and was totally fine with
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that plot being entirely forgotten in the following three seasons? Nobody!
And if that weren't bad enough, the pacing is glacial; this story is moving at the speed of a sloth stuck in quicksand.
But wait, there's less! They can't even animate the story consistently. Destroyed floors and walls reappear completely intact at the next camera cut, because that's totally normal and doesn't destroy the suspension of disbelief at all. And the reliance on cheap-out static backgrounds and static shots is rather extreme; you'd think at times you were watching a picture book rather than something allegedly animated.
Did I say I was hatewatching this show? I need to amend that statement. Even indulging in just how bad this show is, the episodes have already become completely unwatchable slop, with awful dialogue and lame, blatantly-forced phony character development at every step.
If I keep watching, I will surely retch at some point. So will you, probably, too.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jul 15, 2025
I probably wouldn't have watched this if I knew it was 90% focused on romance, but I did anyway since I didn't know that going in. It's... not bad, I guess? There are lots of interesting and redeeming features of this show, but for some reason it doesn't quite come together as a satisfying package.
Fresh off completing the show I'm left feeling that the main story, the main characters, and the world building are all quite solid; the animation is good enough. At the same time I'm feeling that a lot of the biggest questions about the world they built are left unresolved, and that
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an awful lot of the show's run time was people sitting around talking, and there was a lot of "tell me" where "show me" would have been better.
In theory there's an untold prequel or sequel story, or both, that could be better than the main story that was told. The thing I'm left wanting to know more about are not the characters but the world they built and its history. They opened up a big can of worms but only put a few on the hook.
In the end, I don't feel like I watched a bad show, but I could have watched a better one.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 13, 2025
I gave this five episodes and found it empty and wanting in virtually every respect.
The titular "game" is extremely simplistic and doesn't offer any intellectual stimulation.
The characters are barely even one dimensional. Maybe half a dimension. In five episodes I haven't seen any character growth at all; nobody even seems to have any personality at all beyond that which is necessary to tell the story.
The animation is plain, minimally serviceable, and nothing to brag about.
I think I'm being generous rating it as a "3" but it didn't quite get bad enough to think it a truly horrible show. There's just no meat here to get
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into. Even if you're into psychological game animes this one should be passed over.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Jun 28, 2025
With a little rebranding this could be a real hit. Instead of that nonsense title they gave it, they should have called this show "Generic Harem Adventure Fantasy" and just rolled with its strengths as a parody of the genre and industry.
Unfortunately we didn't get the self-aware spin so what's left is a generic harem adventure fantasy without a layer of creative humor on top of it. There's a plot but it hardly matters, it gets walked through like an afterthought. The plot actually ain't bad, but again, it's just a backdrop to hareming in the service of a soulless and robotic audience insert protagonist.
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harem features your a legal loli, a redheaded country girl, a sultry tanned elf, a tomboy catgirl, some random blonde chick, and a not legal at all loli, and fortunately they all understand their sole reason to exist quite perfectly. You'll sit through a lot of talking around the table and completely unearned extended tear-jerk-bait scenes along the way, but the art is good and everybody is guaranteed a happy ending, you and your harem. 24 episodes of it. And 24 more coming since they upped for a S2!
The best part of all is that the world will completely stop, and yes this includes the reality-eating dragon, while you get your thoughts together and resolve your personal crises and inner conflict, or heal up and boost the morale of your team. The ruleset is pretty generous since this universe exists to provide a happy ending to you and your harem. They might have explained this in the lore in one of those talky parts I slept through.
You're a hero now, audience insert protagonist, and it's time to harem the multiverse to its salvation!
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Apr 24, 2025
This show is probably best enjoyed by people who have already watched a lot of other isekai and know the tropes.
The plot isn't particularly compelling, but the subtle parodies are. I found myself really appreciating that I didn't have to watch long, drawn-out fight scenes where I knew the protagonist would win at the end anyway. Seeing one uniquely-designed non-generic character after the next, that would easily be a main or primary support character design in any other show, appearing for a very short period of time then and getting killed instantly was drop-dead hilarious in a sly, clever way. One villain after the next
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giving their scary intro monologue and then just getting hit by the off switch, I really feel like this saved a lot of screen time for other things.
The negative on this show would be that they introduced so many plot elements that aren't resolved or explained in any real way, and the isekai world they're in doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. This needs a second season that doesn't look like it's going to happen, in order to resolve most of the opened plot points.
For isekai fans, if you keep your expectations low and realize it's basically making fun of you, the audience, you can enjoy this. Without that background, it's not going to make much sense at all.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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