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Antipathy
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Is there a new trend where "banishment from the party", "and then later rejected from the party", and such said in this review the new way to say "my party literally tried to murder me, and thought they had"? It also seems the reviewer also only made a token attempt at watching the show with how many details the get wrong. The worst one being when the show explains when he could only summon crap items on the surface vs when he is 1,000 floors deep into the Abyss is because his skill relies on how much ambient magic is around. Very low on the surface vs overwhelmingly dense on floor 1,000 of the worlds largest/hardest dungeon .
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TheAncientOne
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Antipathy covered this but it is worth calling out again.
From the article:
This was explained in the series. The power/favorable odds are related to the density of the mana in the environment. When he was teleported to the bottom of the Abyss, he was in a very dense mana environment (the most dense in the world, according to the source material).[/quote] |
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frubam
 Posts: 138 Location: in Lyria's room |
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Not gonna say "bad review". Everyone is entitled to their opinion after all.
I actually quite liked this story. It felt similar to stories like Overlord and A Wild Last Boss Appeared! due to the nature of him having OP subordinates, his own lands, etc., but unlike those animes, the MC doesn't have the "dual" personality, as if it is a game(though those anime WERE games, and Mugen Gacha is not). I liked how even though MC and his group were way more powerful than the antagonists they fought throughout the season, the fights still managed to maintain a sense of tension, as if something could go wrong and cause our protagonist or his entourage to be defeated. Thoroughly enjoyed this series, and hope/can't wait for another season =03. |
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Blanchimont
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Same, while animation wasn't as good as I hoped(hey, at least it wasn't GoHands, which the Exiled Heavy Knight will have to suffer from later this year) I did quite enjoy the viewing experience as it's an adaptation of one of my must-read novel and manga follows. |
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BalmungHHQ
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I was gonna pop in and mention the mana density of the Abyss pumping up Light's gacha like crazy, but I see others have already pointed that out, lol.
I will say though, I feel like this reviewer was so close to getting the appeal of this series with the stuff explained in the first paragraph, but they don't actually end up understanding that this series does lean into the absurdity of the scenario. Like, you don't have a series with elves as cartoonishly racist and despicable as this show and not realize exactly what you're doing. The show came across as extremely self-aware to me, and that's part of what was fun about it. This reviewer seemed to imply that because the plot had to "take itself seriously" that it somehow meant that this wasn't the case, but I think that's a bit of a limiting view of situational comedy in general. I guess what I'm trying to say is, a series like this can lean into the absurdity of its various situations and have fun with it, and still present its scenario earnestly for the characters in this world, without sacrificing the fun of either aspect. Anyway, needless to say I had a fair bit of fun with this series all told. I watched it on a whim just because I thought its really long title was kind of funny, without really knowing what to expect, and came away decently surprised at how "fun" the series is, when usually revenge tales like this tend to get a bit too gritty. It struck a solid balance, and made for a decent series. If it ever got any sequels I'd be glad to check back in to this world and see this smol boy continue his conquest of revenge. (P.S.- If anyone reading this is a fan of English dubs, definitely check out the dub for this show! You can tell the cast had a ton of fun with it, and some of the choices in character performance really helped highlight this show's situational absurdity I mentioned, lol. Like, I swear whoever is voicing Suzu's talking gun is bordering on a Goofy impression.  )
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Taskforce
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I've read the novels that are out so far, and while I do like them, I found the anime series kind of disappointing. This is one series that could have really done with a bit of skipped content because not all of it worked well in anime form. The entire arc with the kids in the dungeon could have honestly been skipped or rushed for example without really hurting the show in the overall scheme. Maybe we could have then gotten to some better content like the dark elves. The whole ep 2 thing where it covers side stories is another example. It worked a lot better in the light novel compared to being animated. And the final issue I have actually is something I wish the light novel would also tone down. That issue is the constant fawning of all the girls over Light. It is so annoying in the light novel and made worse or maybe more annoying in the anime. It really could have done with some toning down in the anime. There are very few people I would/could recommend the anime or light novel to simply because of that one annoying issue. Did the reviewer get it wrong, yeah but that isn't to say the series was all that good. I can't see it being all that appealing beyond hard core fans of the series. It might find a few new fans but probably won't be too many. Definitely will not move the needle for most of the masses. And remember, this from someone who buys the books and mostly enjoys them. Although, I also can't say I wouldn't rather read something else I enjoy first if both come out at the same time. In the end, the anime definitely could have been a lot better with some tweaks. And the overall review score might be a tad low but even if the author of the review was more invested I don't think it was going to give it much of a boost. Maybe a C- or a C being generous at best.
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MFrontier
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My impression was that this was an underrated fun watch for a lot of people during the season, though it seems like it just wasn't this reviews' type of show.
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Nate148
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nah it just another for the pile lacking in anything new or neat. Also love how the comments have the show excuse for why mc is super powered after getting dumped that means nothing (also it seems the books say no he was always super powered) because its a story it could be a rock fell on his head and awoke his latent power the point is a boring revenge plot that been done 50 times that later gets kind of racist.
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Hiroki not Takuya
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I don't think you have to be a "hard core" fan to appreciate that this is a fun and somewhat interesting watch and maybe novel in that the protag grows from wanting to hurt those who hurt him to realizing the real enemy is fear and prejudice. Also, English dub performer Shannon Emerick has done a stellar job giving Light believable emotion and has not just projected a caricature
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Blanchimont
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It would pay to read first rather than write something incorrect. He would probably have been in the single digits when in the Concord(as humans aside special cases were at most at double-digits in that world), and after falling into Abyss, the thick dungeon mana enabled him to summon higher-tier cards, but it still took him 5 years for him to level up to his current level. |
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Glordit
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Show was great, wish we got more.
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jr240483
 Posts: 4858 Location: New York City,New York,USA |
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well it was a good series. the problem is that ir left out too many materials from the light novels as usuals. for i feel that the reviewer would not have been so harsh in the grade. in addition, your previous comments are so on the money for parts of your comments came to pass in the light novels. but cant say any more since that would violate the rules regarding spoilers!. so just like with other anime that had potential ( new saga ) , i am afraid that you will need to get the source materials to know more what im talking about!
definitely not a coincidence. just like with the light novel author of Seiken Gakuin no Makentsukai , the light novel author of unlimited gacha level 9999 have posted on their twitter pages that they are fans of the danmachi english dub cast so i wasnt surprised sentai decided to do the same here and use the majority of the danmachi dub cast for unlimited level 9999! |
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WizardOfOss
 Posts: 153 Location: Oss, Netherlands |
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Based on the absurdly long title, I kinda hoped this was a parody. First episode made very clear it wasn't. Instead it's just another generic edeglord powerfantasy trash isekai. And with one of the worst first episodes I ever watched in its entirety, not a chance I would have watched any more. Considering this review, good choice..
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theEugAbides
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I feel like you hate this series for all the wrong reasons, this series was never ment for comedy, when clearly this series is darker in tone in everyway possible. I feel you missed how carefully how personable every character side and main characters alike. When light summons his first gacha the maid she truly comforts him and heals his wounds that he suffered at the hands of that greivous group that toyed him along and tried to kill him and deeming him useless. Yes this trope maybe over used and is saturated but you can't deny that a lot of those saturated isekais are very entertaining! When the first revenge mission goes. And you see how far light will go to get his revenge even so mach as to snap even on his own comrades for wanting too make quick work of those people. Light has a vengeance that must be paid in full, the drama is there it's not that he condems slavery it's that he condems the disregard and disrespect of the human race so much so that each of these demi human party members and so far only seen in elven heiarchy that they toy enslave and cruelty in their murder of humans.. you can't help but see these monsters are high on their own arrogance, I'm sure you see thousands and thousands of anime for your lifetime and I feel for you but I feel this series at least deserves a c+ to a b- if not straight b
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Antipathy
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The problem with shows like this, is that at most it can only get through 3 to 4 volumes of the LN. Which means there will always cut content. I really wanted to see how they put the Elf Queendom under their control, then established that humans couldn't be slaves anymore, and also found Light's Sister among the queen of the human realm's entourage. |
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