zondag 3 september 2023

(Average) Liar, Liar

NOTE: Stopped watching after episode 3.

Series in one sentence:

Come to a fake school where everyone fucks around and no one studies.

Series in more sentences:
Hiroto visits an island with special academies to find a lost childhood friend, but accidentally meets and beats one of the most revered students in a school-approved competition.
In order not to embarrass her, his head master suggests he pretends to be a prestige student himself, pushing him into a life of always having to battle and perform against other students.


An easy premise, but bad choices all around.

It throws this boring, short-lived mystery at you and doesn't even let the boy fight his own battles. His work is done for him every time by this hacker team his school master assigned to him. Why can't he figure it out himself or just be one of those stupidly lucky main characters? This is the least interesting route they could've taken this anime.
It's not like any of these games have anything to do with intelligence, anyway. In fact, they're a waste of time, why are they allowed and deemed important? What does racing and stare contests have to do with education?

The special abilities students can enable are always random shit they pull out of their ass whenever it's convenient. None of the competitions I've seen were exciting because of this alone.

Things got laughably overdramatic in episode 3, and of course, the two girls he just met are already in love with him. Man, I'm just not in the mood for it.


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