How do you do, fellow gamers.
That princess reincarnation thing is a triple episode. I’ll… deal with it later since I have a couple long meetings soon, but I doubt I’ll survive past the first episode anyway.
Impressions:
Let’s start with a positive. The MMO it purports to be at the start is better than the actual show, even if the dialogue is hilariously godawful. “I will cast the debuff now in order to lower its statistics!” “Leave the healing to me! I’ll make sure that your health points stay topped up because I’m the magical girl priestess!” It’s so bad. People were paid to write it. They also moved the whole schtick about her watching a streamer pan her terrible game to the end instead of starting out with it, though literally the first shot of the OP is them moving in next to each other, so you’re working against yourself already. In any case, rather than the ‘disaster’ followed by her going on a tour of all the local hunks stripping in front of her and revealing that she is not, in fact, an indie developer but a rich brat coddled by her father and doing this just for funsies, it starts out with the hunks and ends on her moment of crisis. That’s actually a better flow rather than putting her drama on hold so she can be fawned over by every other person in the world while lamenting her supposedly terrible social life.
Anything beyond being just shoujo trying to tap into the… uh… streamer CEO demographic though? Not really. It has only the understanding of streamers, video games, and game development that you’d get from three minutes on Wikipedia, so it’s not going to appeal to anybody who actually knows anything about that, which going by certain billionaire attempted gamers attempts to dick wave recently, does seem on point. Certainly no good chemistry between characters, and certainly not the rich executive dude stripping for her while she’s being molested by her insecurity demons. Oh, I guess that’s a thing for all of about four weird seconds. Nothing about this is coherent or even consistent to be honest. Sometimes it’s gawking for the camera in over the top reactions. Other times it’s insecure blushing shoujo. Other times, it’s insecurity demons clawing all over her.
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