This review is a FULL SPOILERS review. So right away Ill just say that I would not recommend this series in any scenario other than if you want to watch something really really really bad. Like astoundingly and pathetically bad. 440https://i.ur.com/jNWN2xD.png INTERNET ADDICTION. IT IS A PLAGUE AMONG THE MODERN WORLD. IS THE SOLUTION BETTER PARENTING OR SHIPPING YOUR CHILDREN OFF TO A FACILITY WHERE THEYLL GET THEIR SHIT KICKED IN EVERY DAY EVERY NIGHT AS THE INSTRUCTORS PARTAKE IN SEXUAL DEVIANCY AND DRUG TRAFFICKING BEHIND THE SCENES??? SO WHAT IF YOUR CHILD DIES AT ONE OF THESE FACILITIES? THEY WERE ADDICTED TO THE WORST DRUG OF ALL. THE INTERNET. 440https://i.ur.com/r7jd0ti.png DONT WORRY THE SCHOOL IS USED TO THIS KIND OF THING AND CAN GET RID OF YOUR CHILDS CORPSE FOR YOU IF NEEDED. YOU WONT EVEN NEED TO HAVE TO ARRANGE A BURIAL BECAUSE YOUR UNRULY TEENAGER WHO PLAYED TOO MUCH STARCRAFT OR COUNTERSTRIKE WILL BE DISSOLVED IN A TUB OF HYDROFLUORIC ACID. AND AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU THE PARENT. WHAT A BARGAIN YOUD BE A FOOL TO NOT SEND YOUR CHILD TO OUR INTERNET ADDICTION REHABILITATION FACILITY 440https://i.ur.com/qAeAtnY.png 440https://i.ur.com/DYDAdke.png ...The more I think about it maybe the right solution is just better parenting. Introduction 440https://i.ur.com/MVn2x7R.png Evil or Live is a mistake brought to us by the studio Haoliners Animation Leaguehttps://anilist.co/studio/6140/HaolinersAnimationLeague. I dont know who at their studio looked at this and decided it deserved to be animated but they probably should be let go. Nonetheless theres now no undoing their grievous mistake. Now and forever Evil or Live has been added to the continuing sorrowful joke that is the horror genre. 440https://i.ur.com/15MqGtd.png Whereas I could probably argue that there is value to its fellow Fall 2017 brethren Ousama Gamehttps://anilist.co/anime/99698/KingsGame/ there is no redeeming qualities or value to Evil or Live. It is hands down probably one of the most pathetic pieces of shit I have ever watched. 440https://i.ur.com/hFZRPsW.png It was almost so bad that its worth watching just to behold the masterful writing. Like I cannot even wrap my head around it. Its not even like its entertaining in a bad way its just... its just so fucking terrible that I had to see how it could possibly get worse. There are SOME funny bad moments but Id probably say the majority of the show is insufferably awful and misery inducing. Which I guess you could argue was what they were going for. Since the entire show is teenagers getting their faces bashed in after getting launched into a fucking prison environment for using the computer. 440https://i.ur.com/bRMgct3.png 440https://i.ur.com/WWBdEFp.png ...And might I add the fact that apparently INTERNET ADDICTIONhttps://www.verywellmind.com/internetaddiction4157289 is a real thing and there are real life facilitieshttps://www.bbc.com/news/worldasiachina40920488 for it almost makes this series even more laughable. Was the point of the series to actually inform people about internet addiction? Was the point of the series to be about these facilities that were fucked up and corrupt? Or was the point about the story of this instructor and his relationship to his dominatrix or this power conflict between this purple hair guy and his fucking drug smuggling brother??? Its... its just so fucking bad. I watched the first couple of episodes and just stopped for months. I thought it couldnt possibly get any worse and that it was just gonna be a show about buff muscular instructors making teenagers want to kill themselves or just outright beating them to death themselves. 440https://i.ur.com/RXA7xQG.png I mean if it was just stopped at that itd still be pretty fucking terrible but then theres all the other shit. As a matter of fact for this one I dont think this is gonna be a very organized review. I have a lot of ground to cover. Hibiki the fucking Worst Protagonist 440https://i.ur.com/4GNC9cZ.png This fucking guy. I dont even have a list for absolute worst or most unlikable protagonists but if I DID HIBIKI WOULD ABSOLUTELY BE IN THE TOP TEN. Like its not just the fact that the shit writing present through the entire series doesnt know when he should be pathetic or the evil COOL guy but hes just... Hes just unlikable no matter what personality hes rolling with. When hes just like the new guy whos getting his shit kicked in or getting misled hes laughable. When hes supposed to have snapped or hit his low point to force him to take action hes completely fucking pathetic and irritating. 440https://i.ur.com/q025VrQ.png There is actually an episode in this series where Hibikis class has a fight off with one of the girl classes and its only Hibiki who can actually manage to stand up against the girl class. How does he best the strongest girl??? 440https://i.ur.com/1rJMUSM.png 440https://i.ur.com/cKQi1F7.png Certainly the most enjoyable parts of this series is when Hibiki gets physically assaulted or called trash. He immediately grabs one of her breasts to send her into a rage so she would use up all of his stamina and he could beat her. And then when one of the other guy classes come to challenge Hibikis class right after? Hibiki: Yo this motherfucker who has all this fighting experience? Its unfair to make me fight him. Lets have a STAND OFF INSTEAD. 440https://i.ur.com/zEaf0TR.png 440https://i.ur.com/JdAu3CP.png And then they just see who can stand longer for like three hours straight. No really. This is actually what happens. This is actually a real thing that happens in this real series. 440https://i.ur.com/8Afx6Fk.png What was the ultimate purpose of it since it resulted in a goddamned draw? Well Hibiki being the genius he is knew that the other guy would be pissed and come to try and force physical violence upon him. He sends his lackey off to bring him two buckets of water which he uses to cleverly disable the already exhausted thug and then proceeds to send him to the fucking hospital by assaulting him but only when he literally is unable to fight back. 440https://i.ur.com/Ftu5dXU.png 440https://i.ur.com/8B329TX.png 440https://i.ur.com/jj3HzOE.png 440https://i.ur.com/6ZUSFEv.png ...Its fine you CAN do a character like this. Hes weak he doesnt have the brawn so he has to rely on trickery and fighting like a scumbag but... this is probably one of the most pathetic attempts to do that character Ive ever seen. There are clear moments in the show where the show itself is trying to present him as this cool character but its just...its just fucking pathetic. Before I end this review Im gonna count how many times I end up using the word pathetic in total. https://i.ur.com/jnjLSsq.png The show keeps forcing Hibiki and Shiori the main female character to interact with each other and like eventually Shiori not only calls him worthless but outright tells him to never come near her ever again and just one or two episodes after this bam theyre in the same room again. Every single scene with them together was like nails on a fucking chalkboard. 440https://i.ur.com/WSk9bdI.png Hibiki started off as a worthless pathetic whiny sack of shit. Then he hit a low point and started roaming around the school beating up others with a jacket full of bricks but the show then decided that low point wasnt low enough so it smacked him back down to his pathetic state. But then THEN when he has to be in solitary confinement for two weeks thats when he emerges and is the COOLEST MOTHERFUCKER WHO EVER LIVED. 440https://i.ur.com/afLCvtB.png Punching and kicking other guys genitals fighting against girls and sending people who cant even fight back to the hospital. Literally beating himself up when hes cornered and then dousing himself in FUCKING KETCHUP to frame the other students... Hibikis the coolest protagonist Ive ever see PROJECTILE VOMITS 440https://i.ur.com/MZypGF7.png The Female Characters Oh jesus christ. There are four female characters that matter. Five if you count cell phone girl who gets disposed of or let out near the end of the series...? It was honestly kind of unclear and she doesnt matter so who cares. The ones that DO matter though are the trio girl students and the headmistress of the school. The head mistress is... deeply intertwined with the deepest character of this show so lets save her until we get there. So really lets just talk about the trio. Or rather just Shiori because the other two are basically joke characters. 440https://i.ur.com/YozrJbZ.png You have Shiori who is the girl that Hibiki knew from before they were sent to this hellhole. Shiori has an intense disgust for males due to the fact that oh just her uncle sexually abusing her and trying to blackmail her into being fine with it with the knowledge that hell stop paying for her brothers hospital bills. Shiori is basically the punching bag of this series...? 440https://i.ur.com/HkSn724.png 440https://i.ur.com/ZgjKy5g.png 440https://i.ur.com/IPLKJhJ.png The series itself forces her and Hibiki to interact repeatedly Hibiki outright causes her to endure having the rest of her class slap her one after the other and the series ends with Shiori having been savagely beaten by the goon character AND POSSIBLY WORSE BUT THANK CHRIST ITS ONLY IMPLIED. And Hibikis final interaction with her that the show presents to us is Hibiki mocking and laughing at her. Sure hes pretending to do so and does ultimately help her escape but... ugh. 440https://i.ur.com/PAh9VGU.png 440https://i.ur.com/nhZ0Z23.png 440https://i.ur.com/Powkw5K.png The series just outright ends with her in the hospital. We do not get to see her actually finally make it to her brother. Hell maybe her brother is just fucking dead. Why would her uncle continue to pay his hospital bills after sending Shiori to the internet addiction school INDEFINITELY. ...Shioris in the hospital fucked up her brothers probably dead but no we gotta see HIBIKI REUNITE WITH THE PURPLE HAIR GUY. BEST FRIENDS FOREVE PROJECTILE VOMITS 440https://i.ur.com/UejqBAG.png Shin the... Disappointment? 440https://i.ur.com/X5tIR0b.png God damn this motherfucker was almost just about as worthless as Hibiki. If youre gonna make a show about like internet addiction and these messed up facilities for it why do you have to tack on this fucking halfhearted idiotic plot about... Like purple hair guy willingly entered this school to... get revenge on his brother who had his mother killed for some reason??? And Shins brother was using this internet addiction school to... smuggle drugs for some reason??? And Shins entire purpose in this series is hes gonna get this school shut down by having all the fucked up shit and the drug smuggling exposed to the public??? 440https://i.ur.com/7AhpmZZ.png This plot felt so fucking tacked on and half heartedly done it kills me. He literally disappears almost entirely for the last couple of episodes until he sets part of the school on fire... and like the OP of the show shows him and Hibiki fist bumping like theyre BEST FUCKING FRIENDS. 440https://i.ur.com/4ZFoMKU.png But the entire series is Shin shitting on Hibiki and manipulating him and trying to force him to be his dog trying to force him into sleeping with Shiori as well as taking naked pictures... and then when Hibiki refuses he just fucking immediately turns on him and Hibiki apparently after that wants revenge on Shin and that fucking goes nowhere. It literally goes nowhere because Hibiki apparently decides to run through flames so he can be with his friend Shin in his moment of triumph Oh yeah by the way woah Shin was sick and/or dying the ENTIRE FUCKING SHOW what a surprise even though were repeatedly shown him coughing. 440https://i.ur.com/1552Np6.png 440https://i.ur.com/a2oK6Sd.png Shin: Fuck off if youre not going to be my dog and take naked pictures of the girl you like. Hibiki: Im going to get revenge on you YOU ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT. THEYRE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS. ...How can anyone describe this series as anything but miserable? So like what Hibiki and Shin just stood on the roof as the school burned down? I mean at least end the show with them fucking doing the fist bump in the OP if youre gonna insist on the fact that theyre friends even though Hibiki clearly wanted reve PROJECTILE VOMITS 440https://i.ur.com/ggAhQjY.png The Head Instructor 440https://i.ur.com/sTbscoo.png 440https://i.ur.com/Z2DxlXj.png Well definitely the hardest I laughed out of the entire series was when we were shown the Head Instructors deeply tragic past before he joined the schools teaching staff. Thats where the writing transcended bad and became godlike. 440https://i.ur.com/1SrhkKg.png Hes an excop who betrayed his partner by cowardly allowing him to get shot to death in the middle of a narcotics bust while he was hiding away in a hole then following his partners death he decides to try and meet up with his partners family. His partners wife is hospitalized and hates the Head Instructor for being the only person to survive. So he moves on to his partners son who now spends all his time in an internet parlor. The son blows up on him and calls his cop father a waste and failure of a father and then immediately dies from INTERNET OVERDOSE and the Head Instructor witnesses it. 440https://i.ur.com/cFVDdgC.png 440https://i.ur.com/bw7hg1u.png 440https://i.ur.com/NcxeRha.png Everybody else in the building is too focused in their own INTERNET ACTIVITIES to even call for an ambulance. The INTERNET has claimed yet another life this day. On a downward emotional spiral the Head Instructor quits being a cop and goes to find his dead partners lost daughter only to find that she is acting as a DOMINATRIX and he barges in on a session between her and her overweight partner. 440https://i.ur.com/isB69n8.png 440https://i.ur.com/08DUTBL.png She too calls her cop father a FAILURE and then proceeds to throw her overweight husbands heart medicine out of the room as he begins to have a heart attack due to the Head Instructor barging in. The Head Instructor fumbles and tries to get the heart medicine to him but it is too late. He breaks down after witnessing yet another death and begs the dominatrix daughter to punish him and then the daughter proceeds to mention that the only thing the overweight man who just died who turned out to be married to her left her is the property of a failing schoo 440https://i.ur.com/9lXD1NM.png Why. Why is this in the show. We didnt need to see or know how the school got founded. We did not need to see this pathetic guy and his dominatrixs backstory to... we didnt need this. And it just comes out of fucking nowhere and it ends like its just yet another thing that happened. What the FUCK was the POIN PROJECTILE VOMITS 440https://i.ur.com/m7KTJfJ.png The School/Facility Yeah. Yeah lets talk about this now. 440https://i.ur.com/pa77jTv.png This school this facility... it may as well as just be a fucking prison/military camp. But yet it is continually called a school. The students only ever do military training. I feel like a number of this series problems would almost immediately disappear if you just did away with the internet addiction stuff and just outright called it and treated it as a prison rather than a school. Or rather an academy I guess. Its basically a fucking prison. Very early on the show basically presents the instructors as super harsh and super controlling. And true many teenagers had their faces needlessly bashed and smashed in. Like sure go ahead I give you permission to smash my sons face against like a concrete wall as long as you promise that when he comes home he wont overuse the internet. 440https://i.ur.com/lbjwr9O.png But 90 of the time the instructors are almost nowhere to be seen as the various classes of students essentially go at war with each other. Hibiki is just running around at night smacking people with a jacket full of bricks at one point. Like all of the parents in this series are the fucking worst. Because an instructor or someone at one point just outright says something along the lines of: yeah sure students have died before who CARES ...And from the moment that line was spoken I immediately just could not stop thinking about that gigantic plothole. Like the instructors say that the parents dont give two shits about what the instructors do to get the students to be rehabilitated from their internet using ways but... 440https://i.ur.com/ubkcHbV.png I feel like if the students die thats not gonna... be the case. I mean were they just gonna tell them that their child disappeared or ran away? Uh yeah we kind of just lost them sorry. I guess youre never gonna see them again BECAUSE WE DISSOLVED THEIR CORPSE IN A TUB OF ACID. And like there is that moment very close to the end that the outside public actually are informed of the school and all the shit thats happening there and it feels like the big YEAH THESE FUCKED UP PLACES ARE REAL AND THEYRE BAD AND THIS SERIES IS ABOUT THEM but after everything else that has happened its just laughable and pathetic. 440https://i.ur.com/WeXdyXY.png 440https://i.ur.com/ya6CdoR.png Like no fucking school or even a military school Id bet would have a full on solitary confinement priso PROJECTILE VOMITS 440https://i.ur.com/vTRQLnB.png Conclusion Oh god. Im about to black out. I need to drink some water I am SITTING in an ocean of vomit. 440https://i.ur.com/WkYEfg5.png What else even is there to fucking say about this series? I guess I didnt mention how it so strongly felt like the end was rushed? There was a bunch of stuff they showed like flashes of or didnt even include at all. Like when the students that escaped were shown on the outside in a hospital I was just like... Oh... I guess they escaped through the sewer system they talked about...? Weird they... didnt show any of that. Thought escaping would have been a bigger deal but whatever... Then there was also all the stuff that we didnt get satisfactory closure on. Shioris brother. Beyond the possible implication that hes just straight up fucking dead I guess. Hibikis desire to get revenge on Shin. The relationship between Hibiki and Shiori was fucking stupid pointless and not thought out well at all. Shiori probably appreciated Hibiki laughing at her sitting in a prison cell after possibly having been beaten and/or raped...? What even fucking happened there? I would pay money for someone to satisfactorily explain what happened between the scene where shes talking to Jun and her ending up in the prison cell and it NOT including possible rape by Juns boyfriend/Shins brothers goon. To fucking cry and reach out for Hibiki OF ALL PEOPLE something fucking horrible must have happened to her. But the more I think about it I think the implication actually must be that her brother is just fucking dead. Either way just... how absolutely and completely shitty. Shiori actually is the literal punching bag of this entire series. Even though he apparently mattered Shins brother never appeared a single time outside of flashbacks but were supposed to care about Shin getting revenge on him...? Dont get to see the school actually get shut the fuck down. Did Hibiki and Shin really just stay on the goddamned roof as the school burned down? Why would you end the series with them there thats so fucking stupid. What was with the fucking drug smuggling stuff why would they ever also use this school to smuggle drugs in??? Shins brother is an absolute idiot apparently. Like no this corrupt internet rehabilitation school is definitely the perfect way to smuggle drugs somehow? It is just so fucking poorly thought out terribly written awful miserable pathetic stupid abhorrent. It should not exist in this world and yet it does and now we all have to deal with this fact and I have to deal with the fact that I willingly ingested it and... 440https://i.ur.com/sbaPd8a.png I would have genuine problems trying to name a worse series. Theres ones that have been more disappointing ones that have made me angrier but this one was just... something to behold. And unfortunately its another piece of trash that has been attached to the horror genre on top of EVERYTHING ELSE. I give it a glorious 1 out of a 100. Dont watch this unless youre purposely looking for something to injure yourself mentally. There are actually hundreds and hundreds of other shows out there. The only reason anyone should ever actually considering watching this show for is masochi PROJECTILE VOMITShttps://www.inquisitr.com/4724906/evilorliveseason2releasedatelixiangjinqumangamanhuaanimeendingepisode12/ 500https://i.ur.com/UyuMXde.png 500https://i.ur.com/CwONLlV.png