Audience reviews
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Far_Together
A different take from the flood of isekai that has saturated the anime market, The Executioner and Her Way of Life gives us something of a view from the other side of things.
Characters that have arrived in this world in standard isekai fashion are extremely powerful, but have a history of changing too much of the world are feared and seen as a problem to be controlled. The main character through this anime is dealing with the realities of her work as well as trying to develop as a person herself. There were several points where I thought I knew where the story was going only for it to be derailed rather suddenly.
The story as a whole is a pretty slow burn, the few focus characters are revealed over the course of the show, rather than all at once and it's a nice change from the info dump…
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In short this anime is like where the supposed MC comes from another world and is killed by the one girl who decides to help and that one girl is the MC .
Then the FMC makes a yuri harem and kills Isekaied humans and pretends to be "pure", "just" and "Noble" which is pure bullsh** and she was just being a murderer who kills innocent people who is Isekaied from Japan . Just a pure garbage.
The story is very predictable.
The art style was very mid.
The characters were too rushed with absolutely zero development.
I can't believe anyone who is not a hardcore yuri addict can like this series
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Not worth the time, it's a bland story with unlikable characters. The main ones are so boring and it's hard to even try to stay interested or even not outright despise them. Story could have been a decent twist but it's just falls flat from the start. Can't recommend to anyone that I didn't want to torture by wasting their time. I don't think you can really classify this as isekai really? Besides the MC's victims. Art is bad too. Reactions to this show are really hot or miss, not sure how anyone could stomach this seriously. How many more words do I need? I'm not really sure so I'm adding this onto it. Pass.
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A dark storyline in a rich world filled with strong women?
If that sounds like something you'd enjoy, just watch this now, it is so good. It starts off interesting but takes a few episodes to really dig into the world and develop, at that point it becomes excellent. This is a journey through a dark fantasy world and deconstruction of the Isekai genre. Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road, which I would translate more directly as The Executioner Girl's Pure Way of Life, is a journey through one of the richest and most interesting worlds I've seen in a long time. A world still reeling from major disasters that took place around 1000 years ago, called the four human errors. The human errors are some of the most creative and interesting world disasters I have ever seen in a plotline and I hope they w…
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Everything about Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road screams comically bad pseudo-deep isekai to me. An anime that aired last year even did the so-called first episode twist better. Yet, the overall reaction kept saying subversive thriller. It's like Re:Zero, if Re:Zero was cheaper, blander, and lacking any depth.
The English title, The Executioner and Her Way of Life, refers to Menou, the female assassin protagonist, who speaks every line like she's a caricature of a lone wolf killer. Her introduction is agonizingly cliche: A mysterious organization recruits a child to assassinate superpowered teenagers. After witnessing the traumatizing impacts of their powers, she vows to prevent history from repeating itself and becomes a ruthless murderer. Her goal is to murder teenagers who've been mysteri…
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Good concept but some of parts of the story are annoying and unbearable to watch.
The concept of people who got isekaied are too much for the world is interesting.
The magic system is quite good.
World is interesting.
Although yuri is a nice addition, it's just annoying sometimes. Specially the main isekaied girl. It's just unbearable when she is on screen. It ruins anything good about the main concept of the plot.
It's like ecchi ruining a perfect moment.
Everyone else's interactions were fine.
All and all not worth the time, just because it has a new concept. I watched the whole thing just because I happened have all episodes downloaded.
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Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road is bottom of the barrel light novel Isekai garbage that tries to hide the fact that's its not through a premise that seems to be interesting at first, but holds all of the hallmarks of an anime in this genre: awful writing, horrible animation, and women with large breasts.
The premise is actually fairly interesting on its own: in the world of Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road, isekai'd japanese highschoolers are gifted special powers that, instead of giving them a giant harem, threaten to run out of control and cause giant calamities if left unchecked, so it falls to members of the church (Faust) to kill them before this happens. Menou, the PoV character, is one of these members, and the plot details her journey in order to kill the isekai'd Akari, who has the pow…
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Once you take away all of the superfluous and cheap plot details that fly at you to make sure that you’re still engaged and strip the story to its bare bones, all you’re left with is a very typical shounen story. What I really mean is that the story boils down to a generic assassin girl with a tragic backstory that’s been trained since she was little, starts to develop feelings for her target, one way or the other, and the entire story is the romance/friendship that emerges from this what used to be a target. I imagine this type of story is familiar, or rings some bells?
For all of the people that say this show is different because it’s “dark” and edgy. You’re kidding me right? The entire narrative of the story, from Menou’s backstory, to her monologues, her dialogue and relationship with…
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Guys, guys, guys! I figured it out! I know what's wrong with this anime!
If you're gonna tl;dr this review than please just know that Shokei Shoujo is a criminally underrated show on MAL because it missed its international audience target by a long shot and I don't mean just the first episode twist that everyone who bothers to know his isekai is aware of.
Let me elaborate.
This show comes in a season packed with quality content and in an almost post-post-isekai era. It can't create anything new in the concept, we already have had self-aware isekais for years. It can't compete with hype for Kaguya-sama or SPYxFAMILY and it failed to capture hearts of most people invested in regular isekai genre. I mean, I rated it highly but I don't think it comes close to the likes of Re:Zero or Mushok…
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I don't get the hate this show was getting after it's first episode - so it isn't normal take on Isekai genre. Big deal. I actually personally like it, when people are creative. I assume that a lot of people who rated it so low expected one thing and got another.
Anyway, to review:
Story is great (9). Or at least story potential is 10/10, but execution while good, does miss sometimes. f you can avoid watching OP - it basically spoils the whole Season and the next one. Yes - my only major complaint is that this series is too short and we're forced to wait for another Season - if it will ever come. Though at least story ends in a decent place to stop for a while. Imperfect, but I wouldn't call it cliffhanger. We learn some things, we get a double twist in the last scene. Because it will ac…
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In a fantasy world that has long been on the receiving end of countless super-powered isekai protagonists from Japan (so-called Lost Ones), the decision has been made that they all need to be executed on sight. It sounds like a painfully meta, gimmicky concept, and it does come across that way in its bait-and-switch first episode, but once you get past that shaky start the show manages to overcome the hurdles it's set for itself.
It makes this needlessly difficult for itself in the early episodes, and risks alienating viewers. Part of this is because the Japanese high school kids are all whisked away to this world against their will by people who want to manipulate their powers, only for them to be brutally executed shortly thereafter. The other problem is the priestesses (ie. assassins).…
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If you go to my profile, you will see I'm very picky when it comes to giving a 10/10 or even a 9/10 rating. Please try to keep that in mind when reading.
Sound: 9/10, great.
The opening is great. Several singers. Good melodies. Stereo effect to tingle your ears in all places.
The sound effects undeniably go above and beyond, just like in Jojo. There's a deep, rumbling layer to some of them.
The voice acting, while not jaw-dropping, is nothing to be ashamed of. It's good.
The background music could use some improvement. Not that there is anything wrong with them, it's just that I've heard better. They're good enough, but didn't help hype me up.
Art: 9/10. Honestly, I initially rated sound and art 10/10 as there's nothing wrong with it but ultimately decided against it to separate it…
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Isekai Assassin’s Creed.
So, this will be a spoiler for the first episode but, I rolled my eyes when the first episode dropped and I found myself watching another *sigh* light novel isekai with an self-insert, annoying, Japanese high school male protagonist loser with no friends who has the power to nullify anything on an atomic scale. I said to myself “I’ll probably drop this after the 3 episodes.” However, my interest in this anime immediately took a u-turn after Menou, the fake out isekai love interest turned out to be the main protagonist and stabbed the twat in the fucking cranium. For she is a priestess, pure and just, and also a murder wafiu.
If you’re looking for a isekai with interesting concepts which are actually well written and executed then The Executioner and Her Way of L…
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Minor spoiler ahead, Prolly Potential spoiler but i try minimun it
Story : Story pretty simple, follow by a girl who want to kill isekai character to prevent rampage and destroy all over the world, she stumble upon basically impossible to be killed girl who eventually become her partner afterward. The story pretty interesting, its involve so many thing like evil scheme and human experiment. 9/10 Its basic plot but still its only matter is execution
Character : We have Menou who are the mc who basically have dark past and have only 1 reason to live, to prevent dark past happened again. MC have end goal and also she is not isekai char. We have Momo, you know it right? Siscon sister who really love her senior and never stop love her. We have Akari who are isekai char, summon by noble in the…
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The story of the series is great, being capable to include two creative ideas in the isekai genre: 1) A interesting "another world" setting with a "sword and magic" society mixed with "our world" culture and technology; 2) A story focused in the point of view of the people of the "another world".
So much that the first episode has a surprise twist, where the main character position was "switched" from the typical summoned boy with cheat power to the "another world" assassin lady, Menou.
From this point, the story follow Menou, a priestess with the task to kill the summoned people before they lose control of their cheat powers (situation that already caused the destruction of continents in her world).
And the main story is about the journey Menou is forced to go together with her next targ…
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This review is spoiler free.
Shokei Shoujo is a show with a great central concept which is reinforced by wonderful world building. The magical system is one of the most innovative I’ve seen in recent shows; instead of more classic “elements”, it relies on abstract concepts as specializations which enable a range of unique abilities. The “isekaied” people in this world have certain attributes which make it advantageous for various factions with diverging goals to attempt to summon them and over millennia, they have fundamentally altered the isekai world’s society and the mix of magic and technology which permeates the isekai world is something that is worth seeing. The world follows a hierarchical power structure with three states, the Church, the nobility and the common people, which are…
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A unique anime premise with an interesting story. I must say when this anime caught my eye I thought it might just be normal seasonal isekai trash. But as you can tell it is not. It has an interesting story with an interesting concept. The idea of other Lost ones (which are people that got isekaid) having too much power to the point where if they use it too much there minds just get fucked and they wreak havoc and how their are executioners placed to kill them is something I find quite intriguing for the isekai genre. The first episode did made me say ¨WHAT THE FUCK MAN" but after that episode it was a good watch. The animation is not great but good. The battle choreography was a bliss to look at as well. Characters are not that bad either. The conversation between them seems somewhat blan…
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I don't usually write anime reviews on MAL but after seeing the hate this series is getting on here for stupid reasons has forced me to write this.
First of all let me make one thing clear don't believe on the score. The story for this unique Isekai is really good with amazing world building and characters and as a Light Novel and manga reader I can confirm that it gets even better from episode 4 and the final arc of this series is amazing.The pacing for this series is really well done and every episode it adds something to the story or hints at something. As a light novel reader it was good to see them only adapting 2 volumes without skipping most of the stuff.
The characters are really unique and not your normal Isekai characters who feel like every other Isekai character. They have uniq…
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Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road is one of the isekais that come from the new batch of isekai series of this season, however, what made Shokein Shoujo no Virgin Road stand out to me? We’ll see about it. This review has spoilers mostly in the character section.
The story seems your run-of-the-mil isekai series showing a male that is transported to another world, finding a cute girl and having an OP power, however that quickly changes showing us who the true MC is, and that one is the girl that we saw, Menou. We follow her in her travel to kill another girl named Akari, she also comes from another world but her powers make her very difficult to kill forcing Menou to find a way to kill her.
The series has some pretty good world building, the world in which the series occurs gets explored in mul…
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Etheric Connect: Scripture, 19:6 Invoke - Pure Concept of Knowledge [SB Creative's GA Bunko Awards Grand Prix winner, a.k.a this shit is great.]
If you have ever heard of SoftBank Creative's GA Bunko light novel label before, you would have known it for the one sole source material: DanMachi, which has already spawned 3 seasons and going for a 4th in the upcoming Summer 2022 season, all which've been adapted by J.C. Staff. Novelist Fujino Oomori's DanMachi is the label's acclaimed GA Bunko Grand Prix winner, the most recent up until today since its serialization in 2013. But that comes to a stop, for novelist Mato Sato, together with illustrator Nilitsu, have created the next step of that evolution by creating this work that has earned its place as the proceeding GA Bunko Grand Prix winne…
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