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REVIEW: Failure Frame: How I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells A




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FilthyCasual



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:00 pm Reply with quote
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Watching the first episode also does little to separate it from other revenge isekai series like Arifureta.
Arifureta's better categorized as betrayal than revenge because Hajime has no interest in the goons who shoved him into the abyss, even when meeting them face to face.
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Just as every male villain is a rapist
Hey now, Civit just wanted to fight and kill Seras! That's one whole less shot to take for the drinking game!

I finished this anime, but boy did it disappoint. The direction was not there to give Touka's manipulations and edgy monologues the gravitas they needed to be properly compelling.
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:16 pm Reply with quote
I'll always remember the show for all the jarring transitions to CG.

Eventually I got pretty bored with Touka just casually streamrolling through everything and copious amounts of CG enemies with the most basic and uninteresting powerset of all time. I mean, Hajime isn't totally different but at least when he's flexing he makes it look cool and isn't just waving his arms around an yelling all the time.

Seras...I mean, she's basically just there for eye candy (her main outfit alone) and to lust after Touka in the most polite way possible. Which, sure, I can appreciate that to some extent but it also means her character is mostly just a lust object by nearly every male character except the MC most of the time. She never gets a single cool action scene despite all appearances that she could and should. She gets more action with her CG sword dance in the OP than she does in the actual show.

Eve deserved to be in a better show.

We didn't even get the satisfaction of watching him finally take on his classmates or Vicious. At least Arifureta and My Instant Death Ability got to that point.

I feel like all the messed up lesbian moments were just a matter of "girl on girl is hot and let's twist it like everything else in the show." Pretty problematic, but it fit the vibe.
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strawberry_milk



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Is this the longest title for an anime?
It's gotta be up there.
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