You’ve read the title right? So you know that I’m going to answer the question of
if Big Order is worth watching!
Well, short answer:
Long answer:
Let’s start with the positives, shall we? Might as well get this bit out of the way. So
the series…has an interesting concept.
Unfortunately, it’s rather overplayed. We have a wish granting
fairy god who goes around giving people superpowers according to some wish or desire they may
have. This includes our main character Eiji who was only a child and wished for….well,
they are actually rather coy about exactly WHAT he wished for, taking forever to actually
answer the question. but regardless
the result of his wish was that there was a giant calamity and hundreds of thousands
of people died. Tragic backstory, check.
Now, 10 years later, our hero, if you want to call
him that, is attempting to lay low and take care of his wheelchair bound sister. Cliché
character who will no doubt be used as a bargaining chip later, check.
Some other super powered people eventually identify and track him down and then capture his sister
– called it – and then immortal assassin NOT Yuno Gasai character named Rin appears.
She holds a grudge against Eiji for the death of her family. Future romance character, check.
Doesn’t matter that she wants to kill him, I’ll get to that.
Turns out that Eiji’s superpower is that wherever he walks he can add space to his
"domain". This is important because anything and anyone within his domain can be placed
under his absolute control. He more or less becomes a God inside his domain, able to control
even things like air pressure and gravity to an extent.
More importantly, he quickly grabs control of the aforementioned assassin Rin and orders
her never to harm him, or his sister, AND to ever leave his domain. He also offhandedly says that he’ll
marry her in a scene that makes really no damn sense, but apparently counts as an order,
so now Rin gets to have conflicting feelings of wanting to kill Eiji but also potentially
marry him. So yandere, check.
Also, STILL not Yuno Gasai.
The potential here for this series was rather large. You have a character who is basically
a god, who now wants to take over the world in an attempt to bring about world peace,
and we’ve seen other characters with much less OP abilities do quite well, which is
depressing because of how absolutely bad Eiji is at it.
He has nobody in his corner and, even considering his overpowered abilities, there are still
people trying to use him for their own purposes, which makes little sense. In the show, the 10 most powered
people in all of Japan all fall within his domain very early on, in episode 2 no less,
and yet despite being both within Eiji’s domain and supposedly under his control, they
treat HIM as the puppet, and he goes along with it.
HAVE SOME FREAKING BACKBONE MAN. I cannot remember the last time that watching
a series was so painful. At least if I popped in a series from the 80’s or older I could
say, aww well it’s old so most of its flaws make sense. But this is an airing series,
so what the heck? Overall it just screams that it’s a poor
man’s combination of Future Diary and Code Geass, two things that if done right, could
be executed very well, but here they just are not! The main character is not relatable, at all.
Eiji is not someone who I have a reason to care about because with full knowledge of
his abilities, he doesn’t use them to their full potential, and I don't know why. It’s almost like he doesn’t
have a reason for doing anything. Sure, his sister could be motivation, but she’s tucked
away quickly enough to be unmemorable. Maybe it’s because of guilt? He was responsible for the death of thousands of people. But if that was
the case, why wouldn’t he be trying harder to make sure more people don’t die? Like he does try...
he more or less allowing himself to be controlled by others when his powers dictate that HE
should be the one controlling. As a character the not Yuno Gasai, Rin isn’t much better, as her whole purpose
is to be the character who constantly screams I’M GOING TO KILL YOU even though we all
know full well she can’t. At least not directly. But hey, at least she can be about to give
us some needless fan service, right? Because why the hell not at this point.
I don’t have a reason to care. I don’t have a reason to want to enjoy this show.
I don’t have a desire to see where this show is going, except for one.
The only reason why I would continue watching this train wreck, is because like most train
wrecks, they are fascinating to watch just explode. I’ve reached the point where I’m no longer
watching this show because I’m invested in the characters or intrigued by the story.
I’m watching it still because I honestly want to see how much worse this show can get.
Do I think you should watch this show? No. The series appears to be driven by the characters
and their super powers yet, never bothers to give them all proper explanations when
it really should. Multiple times so far the plot has relied on deus ex machina events
to solve problems, which is a horrible way to continually progress your plot. On top of
this, everyone’s motivations are just vague. It’s like the show is trying to be clever
by keeping people’s motivations in the dark, but really it’s just frustrating and
to me, it's giving off this feeling that they are just making it up as they go along.
And you know, I was half hoping to be surprised by how it turned out. Considering that
it was originally written by the same author as Future Diary and that story, well it had
an absolutely shit finale because it just fell apart at the end, but for large chunks
of it, Future Diary was really good! This, not so much.
Anyway, despite being unlicensed at present, if you desire to you can watch the series on Crunchyroll
and if you follow the link in the description (crunchyroll.com/glassreflection) you can have a free trial of their premium service
should you require it. But... I really wanna know, what did you guys think? Let me know down
in the whatchamagig, and for those of you who are further along in the series, as I say every time, no spoilers
please. Not that I think it really should matter, I'm just trying to set president here. So thank you for joining me on this First Reaction.
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are I’m doing it already or by this point have already done it. And until next time, ladies, gentlemen
and others, Stay Frosty.