I honestly don’t even know how to start this review. There’s so much bad stuff to say about this anime that I can’t even organize my thoughts properly.

First of all, let me make one thing clear: if you enjoy anime and would like to continue enjoying anime, stay as far away from this series as possible, because it might leave you so frustrated that you develop actual trauma preventing you from pressing play on another anime ever again.

Let’s go step by step.

The Art#

It’s the standard modern anime look: nothing special. Clean designs with zero personality. The animation in several scenes looks like a PowerPoint presentation, and whenever they suddenly decide to animate something properly, the quality becomes so wildly different from the rest of the anime that it feels like it was outsourced to an entirely different studio.

The Fights#

There are moments where I genuinely wished I didn’t possess the gift of sight (and sometimes hearing too... but we’ll save that for the dubbing section).

What irritates me most about this anime is that the fights make absolutely no sense. The animation is sloppy, and the fight choreography is downright horrifying. There are scenes where the characters are literally attacking the air. And they absolutely LOVE using that cliché “final strike” moment where both characters attack, freeze in place dramatically, and the tension comes from waiting to see who bleeds first. Which normally isn’t a problem when executed well, but here? Here they use that same gimmick like three times per fight. And when they’re not doing that, they’re throwing random visual effects directly into your face to pretend there’s action happening while those dreadful PowerPoint slides keep flashing across the screen.

The Voice Acting (original)#

As mentioned above, the voice acting is another painful topic. Some characters are absurdly over-the-top. The protagonist’s partner does nothing except scream like some sweaty otaku trying to imitate fucking Bakugo. There’s also a villain who screams nonstop like one of those rock singers from Dan Da Dan (Season 2), except in Dan Da Dan it was clearly played for comedy, but here they genuinely want to convince you that this guy is some terrifying, dangerous villain (who, believe it or not, is basically a $1.99 knockoff version of Hidan).

And that’s not even mentioning some of the side characters who speak in this painfully forced way that’s clearly supposed to sound “funny.” Spoiler: it doesn’t, It’s just embarrassing.

The Story#

There honestly isn’t much to say. It’s just bad. It uses the classic cliché of “the strongest member of the hero’s party gets kicked out because the idiot hero failed to recognize his worth.” And again, that trope isn’t inherently bad when done properly. But considering this absolute disaster of a show, obviously that’s not the case here.

I could probably write an entire thesis on how terrible this anime is and how many hours of my life I lost watching this garbage because I physically cannot abandon something halfway through. But I’ll spare you all from that and summarize everything with this:

I WOULD RATHER EAT SHARDS OF GLASS THAN WATCH THIS SHIT AGAIN.

I left the link to watch it up there, but honestly, I recommend loving yourself a little more and not clicking it.

Date: 05/20/2026

Leave a comment if you agree or if I forgot to mention any other terrible aspect of this masterpiece of suffering.