getting the setup done in a minute and a half dialogueless montage<\/a>. Here instead we get the protagonist Ryo meeting an angel, who spells it all out for him what happened and where he’s going to, none of which is necessary. We could’ve inferred the same from just seeing him in modern clothing wander into what’s clearly a fantasy world. What also isn’t necessary is him spending much of the rest of the episode laboriously working out how magic works, by using the scientific knowledge he learned in his old world. Now this is better than having him be immediately overpowered, but it’s still not interesting and I have no confidence it will ever amount to more than just some basic science facts cribbed from Wikipedia, misapplied.\n<\/p>\n\nThat’s the frustrating thing about naro slop like this: it’s far more interested in telling rather than showing and often more interested in world building than storytelling. This is fine in light novels or manga in as far as it’s easy to skip this stuff, less so in anime where you can’t. And since most naro authors don’t really have the imagination to create interesting worlds, you get things like this, where you have to spent an episode watching the protagonist hone his water magic and hunting and being hunted by magical monsters. The icing on the cake is when at the end of the episode, it cuts back to the angel who notes that our protagonist is immortal, or at least will stay young forever. That could’ve been a fun little puzzle for our hero to discover! Here just given away because it’s important to never let your audience be surprised by any development in your story ever.\n<\/p>\n
\nVexing too is that there are plot developments that feel undercooked because so much time was wasted with all this exposition and world building. For example, as Ryo explores the forest surrounding his home, he comes across a dullahan, who starts teaching him sword fighting. This is interesting, but it’s all done so haphazardly and quickly that you don’t get a feel for why he does this or what’s going on. Ryo has to explicitly say that this is what he’s doing to make sure you understand it.\n<\/p>\n
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\nSimilarly, there’s his fight with a monstrous eagle, where he barely escapes by blinding it in one eye. The eagle comes back in a mutated form to take revenge and this could’ve been the highlight of the episode, a measure of how much Ryo has grown, but the pacing is horrible and it’s over before you know it, leaving it as just one more incident. It’s immediately overshadowed by the coming of a dragon, which Ryo had just learned are natural disasters you cannot possibly survive. That would’ve made a good cliffhanger, but instead this dragon turns out to be the chatty, misunderstood kind and all the tension is drained from the episode again.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn all than, this is the anime variant on those Netflix shows where the characters tell you what they’re doing on screen, just in case you’re busy cooking spaghetti for dinner and not paying attention. Something that’s there to be half watched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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