dinsdag 28 mei 2024

(Average+) The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen

Series in one sentence:
Um. That's a busty 11-year-old..

Series in more sentences:
A teenage girl is hit by a truck and awakens inside the body of the cruel and psychopathic villain from her favourite video game, destined to die. Feeling invested in the game and the characters, she tries her best not to retrace the villain's steps and be kind to her struggling surroundings.

Another anime about a faceless girl dying and getting soul-swapped with an unfortunate fictional character from her favourite piece of media, which helps her to predict every little thing that's going to happen. The main difference is that she isn't changing the story with the end goal to survive, which was interesting, but it didn't necessarily make the story itself interesting.

"Pride", or really, the girl that inhabits her body, seems to be genuinely disgusted by her character and will tell every other main character that they may kill her if they think she's becoming a danger to the land, which is a selfish thing to request, since killing a monarch doesn't lead to a good future for the perpetrator. Unless they're globally hated like the original Pride was, I suppose, but that's irrelevant now. Evil Pride never existed in this reality.

The emotional scenes were decent. The girl shows a good level of care for those around her, but honestly, I think it would've made more sense if this was a time reversion story instead of an isekai, because why cry heavy tears for what's just a game world, as far as you're concerned. I don't think I could. Every day of my life, I'd wonder if I'm stuck in some kind of dream or simulation, theoretically able to awaken at any moment. I'd doubt that what I'm seeing is real.

Why not have the story be about the real Pride, living through her despicable life, having enjoyed moments of kindness from those she discarded, betrayed, or worse, and when she's assassinated with no friends around to shed a tear for her, that's when the realization hits she's gone off the deep end. Time suddenly goes back to when she was 8 years old and she decides to properly explore all those given chances over the years, resulting to a better life than the one she had as a spoiled and feared monarch.

Anyway, lol at episode 3, where Pride doesn't think of sending over her kidnapped (???) fake brother with the transportation powers to move the boulder off of the army captain's foot, and the room doesn't think of cutting off the video call so his son doesn't have to watch him get slaughtered by dozens of enemy men. And what kind of world is this where you have swordsmen and normal, present-day guns. "Never bring a knife to a sword fight" is a saying for a reason.

The fake brother is also given glasses further on the episode, and I don't know why anyone would do that or accept such a gift. He was never claimed to have bad eye sight, so these are obviously props. He looks stupid, a pointless addition.


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