When an anime opens with a scene of child abuse you know its going to be a mess. And a mess this is. To get things out of the way: this anime is not good by any stretch of the imagination. However if you like what its bringing to the table youll probably enjoy it anyway. I know I did. Content warning: This anime contains depictions of child abuse bullying sexual harassment and rape threats against most of the major female characters premeditated murder committed by a protagonist abysmal costcutting CGI and in general a crapsack world where only the worst can ever come out on top and anyone who is nice is going to end up worse off for it. Also this review may contain unmarked spoilers. The general premise is that a bus full of high school students all either terrible people bullied into silence/complicity by the terrible people or both ends up isekaid into a crapsack world. There the goddess Vicius a very fitting name tells them theyre heroes that they have ranks for their power and gets them to turn against the lowestranked person: our protagonist Touka Mimori. He gets banished to certain death but is able to survive because his terrible skill is in fact overpowered. And swears revenge on Vicius for fucking him over. Its my understanding that this is likely the usual tropes of the subgenre though Im not familiar enough with it to know for sure. What I do know is that its not going to appeal to everyone. Expectationsetting spoiler for plot progression with this adaptation: Touka as a character is very edgelordappeal. Hes not particularly empathetic barely hesitating before murdering not just monsters but people and at times seems to enjoy it. What he does have is pragmatism forming mutually beneficial alliances with people he thinks would be useful for his goals. The other isekaid characters are sidelined for large chunks of the story as Touka was forcibly separated from them and hes the protagonist doing protagonist things half a continent away. That said they and Vicius do appear every so often. The plot comes across as contrived in places. Lots of conveniences that benefit Touka so youd probably need some level of turning your brain off to tolerate it. The animation quality is... mediocre at best. Closeup shots are decentenough 2d animation distance shots and also monsters of which there are many are CGI and really noticeably awkward CGI at that. Stiff movement is very obvious in those scenes. But again if you can turn your brain off its close enough to watchable. The music is fine. I did enjoy the opening theme and the rest of it didnt feel out of place to me. In conclusion: If you like revenge stories where everyones a terrible person but the protags at least a sympathetic terrible person and dont mind lowering your standards its possible to enjoy this. Would I recommend it? Not really unless youre looking for exactly this sort of edgelord isekai revenge story for mindless edgy fun. To repeat the review summary: I didnt say it was good I said I liked it.
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