Danmachi has multiple RPG elements to it but a lot of rule breaking cheats to help the plot go forward. The lore/world building is expansive, most story arcs are good. It’s better than it looks overall. And the OST is beautiful.
You’ll have to make do with cheap animation, some fan-service (thankfully a lot less than the title would suggests), a pointless harem (MC is fixated on one girl and the story would fall apart if not) and plot armor.
Nice write-up!
Personally, I can’t tell whether I disliked the anime or whether the sour taste it left was precisely the objective it aimed to achieve. I felt it just wanted to show everything bleak in our world, but after a while I felt saturated and it took me out. Also, Rei my girl, I won’t forgive the authors for your fate, I guess I’m just too soft for tragedies.
Shinji seemed a little spineless at times, which is fine as a character trait, but then it should have been acknowledged and discussed more as part of the plot I think.
I thoroughly despised Gendo since the very beginning though. The scale of modern science projects and past knowledge dwarfs individual geniuses, anyone acting superior is just indulging their ego. I’m not usually good at this, but I somehow expected how bad he would turn out to be.
I personally never recommend Made in Abyss without a strong disclaimer. Don’t mind the torture and gore, but the pedo stuff is just too much to bare. Apart from that it’s a pure masterpiece (characters, story, art, soundtrack).
It’s more poetic with short independent stories, but a great anime indeed.
GnuPG is one of those tools I never got around to use. How could something designed for human communication be so utterly cumbersome and confusing ?
To a point. The heat has to go somewhere.