While the animation is decent quality, the irl story is intriguing and captivating enough, the main character, despite being in a video game, only uses 2 fighting moves in the entirety of 5 episodes. Excluding the opening and credits, which leaves about 1 hour and 40 minutes of content with the main character having the equivalent of a DCU movie where batman only uses the moves, punch and kick. With acrobatics on par with the moves of jump and run. Within this video game world, none of the Japanese text is translated. All the while where the show supposedly shines in the irl story is rather convoluted and not explained any further outside of the minuscule amount of interactions between the main cast every 10 - 15 minutes. Often having extremely awkward and downright plot irrelevant interactions that are all needlessly aggressive or tragic to give the interaction "meaning". To supposedly "Build Character" all the while not explaining the reasoning behind or for said actions, leaving the majority of characters to be summed up into the words, "Aggressive", "Reclusive", and "Narcissistic". The only exception being a rag tag group of 6 people, of which are only explained as to be where they are, because of past reasons that aren't explained in the slightest. Overall the 2 stars goes to the animation team for trying to make a flubbed story and even more flubbed cast of main characters seem to be cool and emotionally expressive. While the other 2 goes to the voice acting team for making it through the most cringe dialogue scenes I've seen in the last 10 years of watching various anime.
If you think differently, you have low standards. You can also eat my shorts.
If you think differently, you have low standards. You can also eat my shorts.