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Sep 7, 2025
Season one of Shoushimin started as a great, slowly paced exploration of a pair with something not quite right. They were both off, trying to be a little less sociopathic and trying to fit in. Season 2 more or less drops this. They've both become full sociopaths. You could argue that the male lead is still trying to fit in but his way of doing so is beyond broken in how little he actually cares about anything. This is interesting still, if it was the focus. Instead it gets relegated to a side plot while the main story is about a new character on a
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power trip. The plot proceeds to humble him and our characters look awesomer for it! But...
Honestly? That's when it became a boring powerfantasy which is fine there's plenty of that to go around with so many of the isekai slop. For me I was hoping for something a little more out of a mystery anime though, than autism wank where the main character's autism is a superpower. I don't want to spoil anything but its basically two main stories in this season. The first one stretches itself too long, but sets up potentially interesting dynamics for our main characters at the very least. And the second one just drops the ball hard, has probably the worst mystery and motivations of the series. Most of this is in service of trying to make the MCs look cool and smart by instead making everyone else kinda dumb or nonsensical. Instead of exploring these two very destructive people embracing their bad tendencies and the consquences, it celebrates them by making others seem even more insane/worse by comparison and ignoring anyone who's even relatively normal.
Visually it's a step down from the early visuals of the first season. Story telling remains slow when it should be ramping up, and focuses on possibly the weakest aspects of the show. Characters are poorly utilitzed. Don't recommend.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 19, 2024
This show had two interesting ways it could approach this premise.
1. Is use the boys as a plot device to make the girls sad, and then have them grow.
2. Develop their relationships with the boys and show them struggling with their feelings.
Instead it opts for a third, taking the most half baked elements from both those ideas.
3. Use the boys as a plot device to make the girls sad, and them have them struggle with their feelings and their relationship with that plot device.
And for this, its a terrible show.
It has an interesting premise, but beyond that its very cheap and poorly written. The whole
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premise hinges on the girl being the loser in a love triangle, but the love triangles are completely undeveloped that there is nothing to care about. So you would think, in that case, if that's just the plot device to set up the girls moving on it would be about the girls moving on. But its not about that either. Its more about the girls getting sad over and over again about the same things. So the show gets really repetitive, really fast.
It does almost no buildup, and the characters don't really seem to grow. The boys the girls are in love with are as flat as cardboard. The cycle is a bit of comedy, then one of the girls is sad about her unrequited love, repeat. And the girls never actually resolve to move on or do anything to move on so you can have the same 'girl gets sad about unrequited love' sequence with the same girls on repeat. Each girl also does the boring 'I'm gonna be friends with them still and cheer them on'. And then surprise, they get sad again because they haven't moved on. Repeat. It's really just broing as hell. I don't care that none of them get interested in the MC, I wouldn't be either he's boring as fuck too. But none of them move on or grow from loving their designated cardboard guy. So why would I be interested or stay commited?
The average romcom fan may like this show on the simple fact its different, but it's different in that it just cuts to the part of losing girls getting rejected and does nothing else of interest. 5/10 would not recommend.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 31, 2024
Frieren is the most frustrating type of good anime. It was on the edge of greatness and then it took a nose dive off the cliff for the final act. The first 18 or so episodes I give an 9.0 rating. The last 10 or so I give a 7.5. Just kinda averaging it out to an 8.
I really enjoy it, I love travel and adventure anime a lot. Mushishi and Violet Evergarden are among my all time favorites. When the anime is doing that, it's great. The only hiccups are the forced flashbacks for every little thing that it tends to have.
When around episode
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19 rolls around, there's severe tonal whiplash. It becomes a shounen out of nowhere and starts trying to elaborate on how magic works that contradicts previous encounters. It really didn't need any of this and it just makes the anime worse for it. If it wants a system for its magic that is fine, if it wants to be more shounen like that is fine. But it just did this poorly.
Overall I'd still recommend it, was a lot of fun.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Mar 16, 2024
Konosuba mixed with One Punch Man if I had to describe it briefly. But everything that it took from them it just does so much worse. You'll probably enjoy it if you watch a lot of Isekai or Overpower Protagonist anime. If you don't, but still enjoy comedies, you might enjoy it as well.
Overall the good can be really good, the bad isn't completely awful but it does drag it down a lot, and there's a lot of meh. I personally had a lot of fun and enjoyed it a lot. I think it was has a very interesting set up and execution early on,
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but it had a lot of problems that stops me from recommending it to others or even calling it 'good'.
Our protagonist Cid is the only character to get really in-depth with early on. He's quickly established with several character traits in the first two episodes.
1. He wants to be a super hero like in comics/movies/anime.
2. He is obsessed with getting stronger and gaining power.
3. He wants to appear completely normal when he's not in hero mode, and act like an NPC.
After the first 3 or 4 episodes he loses 2 of these traits, and the 3rd takes some hits. He pretty much does nothing heroic or tries to be a super hero through the show, he just LARPs. And he just has the strongest magic in the world for... Reasons. So, he loses his obsession with getting more power. So that leaves him as a guy who wants to act like an NPC, and then occasionally decide he wants to act like a main character or a villain to be more specific.
And it really doesn't make sense. He didn't want to act like a hero, he wanted to be one. And they just... Threw that away.
What I think the series did really well was not take itself too seriously, and have fun with the premise early. The comedy was great, Cid as an NPC is great. The 'harem' can be really funny and get some great development. It's entertaining at least when Cid actively makes things worse because of his LARP, rather than actually helping. His harem thinking he knows everything and is pre-planning everything is definitely a great repeating gag as the world seems to bend to his imagination. And the girls bringing things from his world into the isekai world is so good.
What the series did really poorly is pretty much everything with Cid when he's acting as Shadow. Becoming a harem show was bad, I get it's parodying the genre I guess but a harem's a harem, it could've been better than that. Subplots being set up and just disappearing.
And then finally, a comparison that I kept thinking off. One Punch Man. Namely, the problems that plague the current manga adaptation (not the webcomic), plagues the second half of this show as well. It spends too much time trying to build the deep dark plot up. Both work best with a shorter set up for the gag, without dragging things out. But when you actually try to develop a big grand scale narrative like in the last arc of this show, it just becomes a chore to watch. We already know how its going to end, Cid's going to undercut the whole thing. Just get to it.
There's plenty I was meh on as well, that I don't hate but just didn't hit me right. The English was more cringe than funny. Cid has several inconsistencies where he wanted to be an NPC but forgot the trope he was performing (confessing to a rich girl is an NPC move? Bro thats peak romcom MC right there). I will give it credit that some of the harem is competent on their own, kind of, but as is typical with harem anime most of the girls are just useless without Mr. MC there to literally GIVE them their power ups.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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