toshokan-23522

On the surface it looks very generic. It's your typical childhood friends in medieval magical world want to be adventures. They get powers and become adventurers, the twist is oh oh, the male lead got seemly useless skill "fruitmaster" while girl is OP sward saint. But wait "fruitmaster" not useless MC can get unlimited skills.

This leads to a few sub plots that get resolved fairly quickly. I liked that as many lower quality anime would spend half the season these kind of go nowhere subplots where you know the MC and female lead end up together anyways.

The main plot seems good too but only starts near the end of the anime. I totally get that and I agree with it vs rushing to a conclusion out of nowhere, for the sake of the anime.

Overall I think the anime is good not great a solid B for me, way above my generic expectations I had going in. It has surprisingly good art an animation for such an unknown anime.

I've hear some say " why isn't he OP right away, just eat all the fruit" . It's obvious they are going for a slow build with his powers.

Which I also agree with. Having a OP MC right off the bad is kind of boring unless you go the comedy route with it.

This give a better build. MC eats fruit only when he has too. I still would have liked them to give a reason for this though. Something like " even for a fruit master he's still risking his life" or something.

Main Characters could also be more exciting or have backstories but again. The main storyline barely starts so backstories could be coming.

Well that's my take if still unsure give it a 2 episode test should know by then if anime is for you or not.

This was a very odd anime for sure that I wasn't sure where to place it exactly ....

I found it looking for a generic feel good isekai or maybe generic ecchi trash isekai ... and Um.....It's not either of these.. though it has some of these elements at times.

In hindsight The fact that it was only available on 1 small streaming service should have been a big clue..

The story is rather...... dark It kinda just smacks you with this dark gritty mess up world ( torture, rape (both sexes) , drugging, sexual deviancy , bdsm themes, abuse ( physical , mental sexual) ,abuse of power, betrayal by heroes.....sigh... even just remember is exhausting I'm sure there more I'm forgetting though ...)

For the first few episodes without rest that serve as a prequel to our story... It does ease up on it by around the 4th episode... and become more.. isekai-ish??... .

After that the story doesn't get dragged down as much even though it's still dark and is much more enjoyable to watch.. Which leads me to question why they didn't they just spread all that stuff out or break it up into smaller flashback. So the story wouldn't get so dragged down and depressing in the beginning... It would have been better....

It's also quite... umm pornographic?? Even though it has no sex scenes and even the nudity is censored ( at least in version I watched)... Which sounds strange to say pornographic with no nudity or sex scenes and I can't quite explain it but if watch it you'll see... what I mean..

The main character is quite dark and twisted from all the constant abuse and..... well pretty much seems to only live for revenge at this point. And is still slightly better than the "Heroes" of this world??.. He's also quite unlikable as he does everything for himself and unlike many anti heroes.. he doesn't simply have some twisted sense of Justice... I'd say he has no justice and just after Revenge plain and simple... He has chances to save other but he won't unless for selfish reasons ... For this reason I can't say I like him even as a villain.. much less a hero...

With all that said so why did i give this such a high rating??

Well because it's an interesting story/world and I tend to like darker revenge stories.. I'm also getting Yagami light vibes here ( Death note look it up) and feel the protagonist will met a bad end by end of the series... Not spoiler just my opinion.... So I'm very interested what will happen. Will he somehow change his ways and seek to redo his redo ?? Lol Will he just succumb to his dark desires and meet a bad brought about by his own hate and malice??

Anyways...So if you're up for a dark revenge story and don't mind adult and explicit themes this is pretty good.... ( If you can make it past the first 3 episodes that is)

If you can't stand dark stories or any of the themes I've mentioned above better off skipping this one...