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okay I'm gonna need to do some
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make me feel like I've been a bit too
harsh on shows like sword art online in
another world with my smartphone and
Knights ampersand magic but boy the
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Harry ah sure is a lot I mean it's a lot
of nothing but it's a lot of nothing
master of Ragnarok and blesser of ein
Harry R or more bow for short is yet
another ISA Kai or trapped in another
world show and if smartphone and Knights
ampersand magic were scraping the bottom
of that particular barrel then more bows
bloody gnarled finger stumps are clawing
through the dirt several feet below it
if someone made a list of everything
wrong with trashy paint-by-numbers light
novel adaptations and bargain-basement
harem anime and then some anime studio
found it and mistook it for a plot
synopsis then this would be the dollar
store knockoff of whatever they made I'm
gonna summarize the plot of this show
and you're gonna think that I'm
exaggerating some of the deets
for comedic effect but I promise you I
am NOT Yuto is an ordinary teenager
living in modern-day Japan until one
night against the protests of his stock
factory model childhood friend he takes
a selfie with a cursed mirror and is
transported into another world which is
really the distant past with his
smartphone also the world's called a
drizzle because if you're gonna give up
you may as well give up all the way
right after you TOA Rives in this
magical land we jump forward two years
which makes sense to me I mean time
skips are obviously everyone's favorite
part of anime so why not start with one
future Yuto has become the patriarch of
a warrior clan aided by a harem of hot
fantasy babes with crazy magic
superpowers called ein Harry are all of
whom by technicality of a sacred ritual
are also his little sisters and
daughters and all of whom for reasons
that I'm sure are purely aesthetic and
historically accurate call him some
variation of father Big Brother super
amazing exalted Big Brother or master
when they're not busy talking about how
great he is which is literally all the
time there's not a single conversation
in this show that goes by without
somebody getting sidetracked by how
smart and handsome and humble and
hard-working Yuto is and also did they
mention how badly they want to [ __ ] him
because it's really badly I have never
in my life seen a piece of video content
that feels more like the creator is just
jackin himself off in front of me and
I've watched Darkseid fill stream 6
episodes in the series is consisted
mostly of Yuto collecting new little
sisters and daughters like Pokemon
stumbling into some of the most awkward
and laughably contrived Etsy scenes in
anime history and winning even worse
battle scenes by looking up tactics on
Wikipedia using his smartphone which is
solar-powered and gets a radio signal
through the magic mirror to more Bose
credit it must have been hard to come up
with something even dumber than God
magically enchanted my phone to make it
work in a fantasy land and I'm kind of
impressed they pulled it off by this
point I think I've demonstrated how on a
purely conceptual level this story had
all the makings of a hot and noxious
dumpster fire but concepts are not
be all and end all of anime it's how a
studio executes on those concepts that
ultimately determines a show's final
quality and it's thanks to the hard work
of Koski Kobayashi and EMT squared the
same director and studio team who gave
us last season's siscon trainwreck Alice
or Alice that morbo manages to be as
spectacularly awful as it is now as
you've been watching this video you may
have noticed something a little off
about this show if you haven't been
looking too closely at the screen you
might have missed it so I'll give you a
second to take a guess what it is I'm
talking about do you think you have it
the correct answer is it looks like
[ __ ] garbage most of the artwork in
this show is deviantART tear
amateur-hour stuff half the backgrounds
are static ugly brick walls and the
other half are terrible low poly or even
single plain CGI with textures so muddy
that they'd look rough on n64
the characters are outlined with these
distracting colored borders that I think
are meant to help them be composited
more seamlessly into scenes but end up
having the opposite effect making them
stick out like sore thumbs and drawn
with almost zero grasp of accurate
perspective or Anatomy half the time the
animators cheat their faces into a side
view so that they'll only have to draw
one eye this is a seriously lazy or
seriously rushed production and to be
clear I'm not pausing the screen to
complain about messy in-betweens here
that would be totally unfair these
problems are everywhere in the key
frames which are supposed to be at least
somewhat polished and even static images
that the show uses when scenes are too
hard to actually animate like this
despite looking like broken necks Sasuke
is not a frame of animation it is a
single piece of complete detailed
artwork that several people looked at
and said yeah that's acceptable to
broadcast on television what the [ __ ] is
even going on here even ignoring the
thumb monsters passing for humans in the
background stain Thor the central figure
in the image is a mess I have no idea
how he's supposed to be swinging his
hammer to hit those guys behind him
either he's whipping it around the back
of his head sideways or he was bent over
backwards limbo style a second ago with
it on the grin
behind him and he's swinging it overhead
from that position either way it just
looks stupid and the line of action
doesn't even carry through his whole
body it curves down through his arm and
torso but then it stops at a hard angle
at his legs which are squatting like
he's gonna take a poop or something it
almost looks like a scrapped draft of
this slightly less embarrassing action
pose from a couple seconds ago that they
threw back in the fill time which I
wouldn't put past them considering they
followed up by repeating this image from
less than a minute earlier in the
episode slowed down slightly in case you
missed his half drawn bird face and
broken neck the first time and do I even
need to say that it looks worse in
motion the action scenes in this anime
are so bad that I'd honestly be more
embarrassed if my mom or roommate walked
in on me watching one of them than I
would with the ecchi scenes the copy
pasted CGI soldiers look awful on their
own and they appear to be way too sharp
against the often blurry background art
one action scene is literally just
yellow dots on a blue background I also
can't think of any anime that I've ever
seen with horses that look this janky
but they don't just cut corners with the
unimportant elements this is the big
climactic fight animation that's
supposed to punctuate the opie it's used
at the front of every episode so logic
would dictate that it would be one of
the show's more impressive sakuga
moments but the characters movement on
this flat stretched out ground texture
is so choppy and poorly composited that
it looks more like an early FMV from a
90s point-and-click adventure or like a
Newgrounds animation than a professional
anime production from 2018 and the fight
that this is supposed to represent is
even worse
in the anime itself ask yourself how
would you choreograph a fight between a
lady on horseback with a katana and a
man in a chariot with a giant hammer
perhaps some sort of wild chase over
uneven terrain with lots of collateral
damage no that's too expensive but maybe
we could have them circle each other
trading blows no that's still too much
how about we have their horses stand
perfectly still next to each other while
they swing their weapons using only
their upper bodies and then add some
blur effects and camera shakes in post
to make it look a bit
last shitty yeah it's not great and
that's probably the best action shot in
the series so far most fights are a blur
of close-ups and other cheats used to
avoid any complex motions at all costs
because when they try anything complex
you get nonsense like this of course
this is ostensibly a harem comedy not an
action series so this low quality
animation would be somewhat forgivable
if the characters were interesting or
the writing was good but then you know
that this video wouldn't exist if that
was the case Yuto himself is not so much
a character as he is a cipher for the
audience a vehicle through which they
can vicariously have their wishes
fulfilled and while this is true of a
lot of ISA Kai and harem protagonists
morbo is insultingly transparent about
it he has basically no personality
between being hard-working really smart
really nice and um well his flaws are
that he's not physically strong and he
thinks too lowly of himself not taking
enough credit for what he achieves by
applying his historical knowledge from
the internet yeah you heard me right his
chief character flaw is that he's not
aware enough of how gosh darn great he
is and that's even more [ __ ]
insufferable than it sounds every time
someone complements him on one of his
achievements he wins to himself no it
was just a cheat in an obnoxious
pantomime of fake humility that makes me
want to just punch him in the face and
the male supporting cast so far is no
better it consists entirely of dumb old
men who exists solely so that Yuto can
yell at them for being dumb to impress
girls
jerky confident guys who all die instead
of being given a chance to submit to the
wolf clan like the girls are for some
reason that I can't put my finger on and
this dollar store knockoff of Gilgamesh
from fate oh and a couple of nicer older
guys who offer a bit of good advice and
help the girls and fight sometimes but
most importantly are way too old to
potentially move in on the harem
essentially every man in the show is
written to be as unthreatening to Yuto
and the audience members projecting
themselves onto him by proxy as humanly
possible
and as for the women folk well this is a
lazy harem anime
so you know the drill by now you've got
the serious violent one with a secret
crush on youto the big-titted [ __ ] one
with a secret crush on youto the meek
little sister type with a secret crush
on you toe and the awkward engineer type
girl with a secret crush on you toe and
these twins one of whom does the deadpan
stark thing while the other one is
literally too [ __ ] stupid to function
and also their actual children because
of course they are and yeah that's not
even the worst of it in one of the
show's bids to demonstrate what a great
friggin gyuto is we see him stop in the
middle of the town's market to glower at
a slave trader selling a mother and her
little girl after a bit of thought our
kind-hearted hero from a century where
literally nobody thinks this practice is
OK purchases these two humans thereby
supporting the evil business that as the
city's leader he could easily just been
and decides to keep owning them but
promises to be really nice about it at
first this mother and daughter are
treated as forgettable background
characters but of course we know that
they'll be back because one of them
appears in the harem roll call for the
opie which one I'll give you a hint it's
not the mom that puts this all incest
harem lolly count at 3 which is the
threshold where Nobuhiro Watsuki
officially endorses your show but let's
put a pause on that for a second we have
one more prop girl to talk about here
when he's not using it too irresponsibly
[ __ ] up the timeline by introducing
modern science to the Bronze Age and
probably creating a future where Trump
becomes the president or something
ridiculous like that Yuto uses his
smartphone to make nightly calls to his
childhood friend just to make sure she
knows he's okay but not to his parents
they're just left to assume that he's
dead or whatever I guess well ok to be
fair it is vital that he regularly talks
to meets Keith because even though she
doesn't have a personality to speak of
she serves as his all-important excuse
to not bang all the hot girls who are
constantly telling him how much they
want to have sex with him the series
really wants to sell that indulgent
fantasy of harem girls throwing
themselves at you but it's a light novel
series so actual sex is off the table
I call this the highschool DxD principal
or having your cake and not
[ __ ] it too but as pg-13 excuses go
this has got to be one of the all-time
dumbest remember you toes a teenager
with zero sexual experience he hasn't
actually seen this girl in two years and
he may never see her again and he never
actually told her how he feels so he's
placing all of these invisible
expectations on her to wait for him
through the best years of her life based
on a crush that we as an audience can
clearly see as required but he doesn't
know that while ignoring a bunch of
girls who he's clearly attracted to and
who've told him they're attracted to him
the way that this is all framed is about
as unhealthy and selfish as teenage
sexuality and anime gets and that's
saying a lot although on the bright side
it means that you toes not trying
anything with those three literal
children in his harem instead we just
see them get naked and throw themselves
at him and the show goes out of its way
to make this even more uncomfortable
than it usually is
in anime because not only do we see two
of the lollies the twin sisters push
each other down to share germs as their
character introduction in other ecchi
scenes they have dialogue to actively
and explicitly remind us that they are
too young for this [ __ ] which I guess
makes it better for the lolly cons in
the audience but it's more what's the
word I'm looking for
horrifying and off-putting for everyone
else as flimsy as excuses like she's
actually 800 years old our for token
lolly fanservice and harem and ecchi
shows they really do help for people who
just want to squint past that
unfortunate aspect of the culture and
enjoy all of the other fun sexy nonsense
that anime gets up to repeatedly calling
attention to the fact that say your
protagonist is having his toes sucked
while getting a non-consensual boobie
backwash in front of a horrified and
embarrassed child who is his slave
is to put it mildly a bit of a mood
killer not that there's much of a mood
to kill in the first place because the
art and animation and the fanservice
scenes is just as terrible as it is in
the action I'm not gonna spend too long
breaking down the problems because we're
on YouTube and what I've said so far if
not edited very carefully is already a
recipe for demonetised
but to put it flatly it's just awkward
to look at the characters barely move
and when they do their poses and
movements are stiff and decidedly unsexy
and unnatural stuff that's supposed to
be soft and jiggly is practically rigid
and on top of their heads being turned
to the side awkwardly half the time
their faces are so flat and dead most of
the time that nobody even looks like
they're enjoying it which is weird
because when you look at just the dialog
these are some of the most openly DTF
girls in harem anime I've said this many
times but I can forgive or at least
forget a lot of nonsense and harem and
edgy comedies even the really creepy
[ __ ] as long as it's clear that the
creator's actually care about what
they're making and are having fun making
it it sucks when these shows get overly
prudish or take themselves too seriously
but it equally sucks when the people
making them have clearly just given up
like I couldn't really find a place to
organically insert it into the main body
of this rant but even the sound design
in this show is laughably lazy in one
scene in Episode two the music needs to
swell dramatically but the song they're
using is just a flat instrumental track
so whoever was mixing the sound just
raised the volume of the track it's such
a half-assed solution that I'm kind of
impressed with it competent director and
passionate studio could have turned this
light novels mediocre and questionable
premise into a dumb fun sleazy romp like
how not to summon a demon lord or at
least something passively mindless like
in another world with my smartphone the
bars for both the harem and Issa
kai-shan rizzardo stressing lilo yet
morbo manages to fall well short of both
of them well I've seen worse harem anime
you'll have your day Morocco I honestly
can't think of a single youkai show that
I have enjoyed less than this one and I
guess in a sense that's kind of an
impressive achievement I really don't
know what else to say
after last week's pick-me-up video I
sure chose a hell of a show to bring me
right back down I'm just gonna go stare
at a wall and think for
a bit but while I'm over there you guys
should feel free to tell me what other
anime you think represent the absolute
worst of their respective genres or the
best when I can feel positive emotions
again I might enjoy those I tell you to
hit like and subscribe while you're down
there but life's meaningless so whatever
I'm Jeff through professional [ __ ]
signing out from my mother's basement