Series in one sentence:
"Every single person who's dumb enough to be tricked into killing, deserves to die." said the hypocrite who killed a man because he thought he was a video game character.
Series in more sentences:
An introverted outcast suddenly finds himself inside another world with two random girls from school, and learns they need to finish a quest within the given time limit every time they're summoned, or else death is the punishment.
Since this world and the way they fight are inspired by RPG video games, the concept of morality becomes an issue at times; and not everyone in the team agrees that the lives of virtual characters need to be respected.
Good watch, but the (assumed) ending is not of the adventure I sat through, which is a shame. My brief top description is of a way more consistent story. Which, to clarify again, isn't this anime.
The idea of a dumb teenager going around carelessly killing "NPCs" inside a world he thinks is an actual video game is fantastic, him realizing at the end those were real people and going insane because of it is fantastic, but the series wasn't about this journey. Only one casualty was made, and the guy was a dangerous enemy, which allows for our main character -and us the audience- to excuse it somewhat.
The series is mostly about this group of children discussing with each other how to complete their current quest. The awesome and thought-provoking scenes were few and far between.
I didn't mind all the talking, I'm just saying it didn't fit with the course the anime took in the end. The main character also seemed inconsistent with his views and morality. Sometimes he acted normal and kind, while at other times he randomly took on the role of a crazed villain who doesn't value any life at all. It confused me.
Anyway, about the "assumed ending"; the series originally ended after episode 12, and I expected a second season would come eventually, but this sudden break appeared to be a hiatus. Many other animes I was watching at the time were also abruptly paused, so I guess there was something going on in the animation business?
So, the first 12 episodes made me interested to see more, but now that I've watched more, I'm not impressed.
The main character still didn't make sense to me -I definitely didn't see a logical follow-up to episode 12- and this island mission the team was on was a mess. Plenty of new faces were introduced, but basically as background characters, making their "emotional" scenes stupid and a waste of time.
I was also disgusted by the argument that the island's original inhabitants were in the wrong for breaking a deal they made with the family of orcs that suddenly showed up. A deal meant to save their ass from the human-eating violent beasts. A deal that stopped being sustainable, because these orcs won't stop fucking and there're not enough cows to offer as food.
The idea of a dumb teenager going around carelessly killing "NPCs" inside a world he thinks is an actual video game is fantastic, him realizing at the end those were real people and going insane because of it is fantastic, but the series wasn't about this journey. Only one casualty was made, and the guy was a dangerous enemy, which allows for our main character -and us the audience- to excuse it somewhat.
The series is mostly about this group of children discussing with each other how to complete their current quest. The awesome and thought-provoking scenes were few and far between.
I didn't mind all the talking, I'm just saying it didn't fit with the course the anime took in the end. The main character also seemed inconsistent with his views and morality. Sometimes he acted normal and kind, while at other times he randomly took on the role of a crazed villain who doesn't value any life at all. It confused me.
Anyway, about the "assumed ending"; the series originally ended after episode 12, and I expected a second season would come eventually, but this sudden break appeared to be a hiatus. Many other animes I was watching at the time were also abruptly paused, so I guess there was something going on in the animation business?
So, the first 12 episodes made me interested to see more, but now that I've watched more, I'm not impressed.
The main character still didn't make sense to me -I definitely didn't see a logical follow-up to episode 12- and this island mission the team was on was a mess. Plenty of new faces were introduced, but basically as background characters, making their "emotional" scenes stupid and a waste of time.
I was also disgusted by the argument that the island's original inhabitants were in the wrong for breaking a deal they made with the family of orcs that suddenly showed up. A deal meant to save their ass from the human-eating violent beasts. A deal that stopped being sustainable, because these orcs won't stop fucking and there're not enough cows to offer as food.
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