where in the world is carmen sandiego show seraph of the end season 3
TLDR The main reason why I have mixed feelings about this anime is it just feels like "what's the point"? It's just a guy leveling up his character and playing a video game, at least in SAO there were stakes and a reason to follow the plot. There's none of that in ShangriLa frontier so it definitely feels like a waste of time in that regard Reviewer’s Rating: 5 What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0More reviews by Trill_Bread (3) Show allRead moreShow lessOpen Gift Report Mar 3, 2024 tokomata Not Recommended Preliminary (3/25 eps) "I'm a bird, Morty"
6/10
Alternative title: I max out Attack and Luck, and Truck-kun never got me, but VRMMO did. Am I actually the Strongest Lvl1 with solo-levelling OP cheat "debuff" skill in Another World?
Are the Visuals great? Yes.
Is it better than Sword Art Online? Yes.
Is Shangri-La just another generic non-tensei isekai without the visuals, and without SAO being the godforsaken benchmark? Also, Yes.
Takt Op Destiny, Lycoris Recoil of this season.
Besides this is also weird with Cid’s character, he doesn’t want to stand out and to be a mob character, but then he goes and stands out again and again making this big clown show that obviously makes him stand out no matter if it is as the idiot that got beaten like a pulp. This is even more jarring to me because I later checked the manga, and while I still have a lot of issues with it, its tone and presentation was a lot better than here in the anime, making me wonder why the hell is the anime trying to be so serious when the source material embraced being absurd, as this adaptation is honestly so somber the times they do attempt a joke, it just sticks out like a sore thumb.
Shadow Garden are a bunch of non-characters, it’s like they don’t exist, they aren’t people, they are plot devices that help Cid do whatever, from gathering information from who knows where to being stupidly strong for the sake of being strong. Like I cannot even remember who most of them are, I can remember Alpha since she had screen time alone and we learned some stuff about her, then like 10 episodes later I could recognize who was Beta since she got an actual character across those episodes, even if ironically Alpha lost her time in the limelight at the same time. But my problem with these girls is not remembering their names, Greek letters aren’t something difficult to remember and I’m guessing that’s why the author didn’t bother to give them actual names, it’s these girls are complete non-characters, sometimes when they appear again I wouldn’t know who they are if they weren’t wearing those outfits everyone in Shadow Garden wear, after all, they aren’t characters I can recognize because they aren’t written to be recognizable, I couldn’t even tell which hair color each of them has or a single personality trait, there’s nothing memorable at all about them because they are never used as anything but a plot device galore.
An anime with a better execution at making an organization with only-girls for who knows what reason (actually, the reason is pretty clear, just look at the ending song video) and that turns out they are very strong too is, and I can’t believe I’m saying this given how the writing in that series is, Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha.