… Frustrating.
To be clear, I knew from the beginning that this was a wish-fulfillment show, but it had enough charm and solid CG that I was willing to put up with it. I’ve always loved the medieval mecha aesthetic and we get some pretty nice designs here, not to mention an isekai plot with a halfway decent gimmick unlike Isekai Smartphone.
But honestly, four episodes in and I’ve just lost all my enthusiasm. Literally nothing plot-related happens in the first three episodes and then when we finally get a fight in the fourth, our hero starts demonstrating abilities and knowledge he shouldn’t have in what I’m going to call Herosplaining. With that, my disbelief was shattered and Ernesti pretty much became a happier version of Kirito.
So I can’t continue this. I can no longer imagine myself getting anything out of this show.
4/10.
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