With great power comes complete apathy.
I thought I’d make my way through the premiere gauntlet now that morning chores are done by starting at the worst and working my way up. It was a toss-up between this and the realist corporate slave saves the kingdom crap. Both were terrible enough to make me tempted to combine them, but I already sorted out a full set of caps for this, so I guess I have to stop stalling and get on with it.
Impressions:
Of all the terrible things about this, the protagonist is probably the worst. He’s the most powerful being in existence, but obeys the evil overlord because if he put a stop to the evil, demon bureaucrats would name him king, and he would have to accept that for some reason, and that’s bad, again, for some reason. He’s fine being a middle manager in a job he hates for people he hates, but also refuses to make any effort to change things. What resolves this? He sits down, and does nothing. Oh, so it was just the right amount of apathy then. At which point literally everything is resolved off-screen and we can get to the real star of the show, explaining the bureaucracy of the world’s adventure guild. I’m not joking. And it’s the same letter grade crap as every other one.
Don’t worry though, the writing doesn’t only go from terrible to worse, so does the animation, which made the barest token effort at the start, but gave up completely around six minutes into the episode and never returned. Even the booby mom, breastily chesting herself at him didn’t have the jiggle and bounce you’d expect from even half-assed fanservice. Everything else is the same as every other one of these. No status screens or numbers, if you want to dig deep for the slightest positive. That’d probably have taken another two minutes of an artist’s time that they weren’t going to pay for.
