Don't get me wrong, this anime isn't bad, in fact I'm enjoying it so far. It's just that I was way overhyped. The way people were talking about this, you'd swear that this was going to be the best anime in a decade. Portals to another dimension in Japan✅. Video game inventory✅. Western fantasy inspiration✅. Protagonist has abnormal powers even in his world✅. Weak Protag gets in a life threatening accident and awakens to new abilities✅. Protag wants to get stronger to prove to himself that he's worth something ✅. Has to provide for his sick relative/younger sibling (it's always a sister)✅.
It's everything we've seen before, but so far this anime does it better than others of a similar genre. So don't go into this show thinking it's going to be groundbreaking. I see why people are fans of the source material, but you shouldn't try to raise peoples expectations through the roof. It usually backfires. (I'll correct myself and update my rating if something interesting happens later, but so far it's just a well polished power fantasy, almost isekai).
Edit: ok I took a break and binged the rest. I upped my vote to 8, mostly because as far as binging goes, this is peak. I definitely was losing interest watching this week to week, only because the story isn't all there for me. Neither is demon slayer, but I love that anime too. The last couple episodes were very well done, I really liked them. (major spoilers) Especially when he classes to necromancer. Its pretty rare for non enemy characters to be necromancers, and it's such a cool power. I hope they really expand on that.
It's everything we've seen before, but so far this anime does it better than others of a similar genre. So don't go into this show thinking it's going to be groundbreaking. I see why people are fans of the source material, but you shouldn't try to raise peoples expectations through the roof. It usually backfires. (I'll correct myself and update my rating if something interesting happens later, but so far it's just a well polished power fantasy, almost isekai).
Edit: ok I took a break and binged the rest. I upped my vote to 8, mostly because as far as binging goes, this is peak. I definitely was losing interest watching this week to week, only because the story isn't all there for me. Neither is demon slayer, but I love that anime too. The last couple episodes were very well done, I really liked them. (major spoilers) Especially when he classes to necromancer. Its pretty rare for non enemy characters to be necromancers, and it's such a cool power. I hope they really expand on that.