Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread - Nominations Edition [2026, Week 07]
ReluctantlyZen@ani.social 4 days agoShiboyugi it has an oddly serene atmosphere to it violence and death are constants.
Yeah, I really dug the atmosphere, but the horrrifying violence and deaths really put me off.
I wanted to know if there was going to be a purpose to it other than “it’s a death game” and “it’s a bizarre world”, because I don’t really deal well with that kinda thing. I looked into it a bit and couldn’t really find any, so I decided not to continue past ep 1.
Rottcodd@ani.social 3 days ago
I’ll let you know if it redeems itself down the line. I still suspect it will - there has to be some more meat to this if they’re going to go as far as they do to take the edge off of the violence. If they don’t get into some political intrigue or psychological suspense or something, then it’s just going to be violent, but not really, which is sort of dumb and pointless.
Not that it would be the first dumb and pointless anime, but still…
ReluctantlyZen@ani.social 3 days ago
Absolotely and I don’t really trust it will if it hasn’t shown a hint of that yet.
Tbh, the gore isn’t usually my issue with this type of thing. It’s the psychological aspect of the hyperviolence that gets to me. And they didn’t really take the edge off there.