Gleipnir Anime was a Letdown

 I recently finished Gleipnir and it made me so baffled, I had to write this so yeah. Contains spoilers

This had so much potential to be a very good anime and when I say that I mean it, think of how good Parasyte, Parasite was and this could have been at the tier, but of course, the main character is too wimpy for that. Do you love wimpy shrimp main characters or, aka the Shinji syndrome, do you love a show that keeps on making you question every decision? Then “oh boy, do I have a show for you”. I can see why some people liked this, but after finishing it, I have a lot more dissatisfaction than anything. Have you ever wanted to like something, but it keeps on disappointing, well that’s what I felt watching this all the way through.

This anime had a fascinating and eye-catching beginning, the concept of the show I really loved; with the whole collecting coins for wishes, but as I saw more and more, the whole thing left more to be desired and questions than a coherent story. Now, it’s hard to know where to begin with a blog of an anime that makes you so frustrated, but I guess we can start with Shuuichi Kagaya. There is one thing that annoys more than anything in anime, more than generic isekai, more than lolicons - which are wimpy ass characters. Shuuichi is one. I do believe that sometimes the troupe can work in certain anime like Evangelion, but Gleipnir did it terribly and for me ruined the enjoyment, even ruined the anime too. What really was lacking in this “action anime” was action, well… There was action, but it was a weak excuse for one, as our “not main character” Shuuichi was so shrimpy that it couldn’t provide a full fight, which is what I disliked because the fights felt very lacklustre.

This disaster, known as Gleipnir, had a concise start to the anime; a good mystery element to his past, which I was invested in, interested in the Elena character, on board with the goals and hoped to see it pan out, but it started to decrease in score when they met the group. This is when the brain-dead decisions came from the plot that baffled me. Firstly, the wallet incident; Chihiro the furry meets Shuuichi the insecure furry, and she gets inside him without consent because he is a wimp, already annoyed by the weird sexual overtones of this anime which this part made it apparent that it became annoying. Nevertheless, they go off to find the wallet, then go into extreme danger and are willing to die from the enemy's way stronger just for some wallet with not even anything worth inside. Then, plot armor saves them and gets the upper hand, but we don’t even get the enjoyment of winning because Elena shows up to save.

Shuuichi not having any exciting fights except for the first episode, I could come to terms that won’t happen halfway through, so it was still annoying to experience, but I’d put that aside to get onto the other priorities of the anime. After being found, they go to the forest to journey for the coins after our bimbo chick gets near fiddled with the raging lesbian. You know, when people said they hate overpowered characters; I think this show took it literally and made our main characters extremely underpowered. They find themselves in the river bank to get ambushed by the next foe, our main character is the most useless character I’ve seen as they get pushed around by everyone and the show is even self-conscious about it too which just adds to the frustration. However, it redeems itself with the genius plan to gas the monsters, which felt kind of random and half assed; the idea was out of nowhere but added some enjoyment to their situation for the meantime.

The story doesn’t feel coherent after this because they were progressing to their goal, right? But after this, they go back to the school, of all things? I don’t understand why they would go back to school to go back to normality when it seemed like they were missing school, anyway; it felt unneeded and irrelevant. It was just an excuse to segway the story along. After going back to the alien and finishing some loose ends, it then has a backstory, which was a breather from the stupidity that had occurred through the show. I feel like out of all the episodes, only four of them were actually good and half of it was a backstory. Every other one, I felt, had plot holes, terrible troupes and meaningless or dumb storytelling. I liked Youta’s storyline and where he is now, but the future of the anime seems to me. It had locked itself for disaster and would be an awkward start for season two.

What stands out to me, especially during the end, is how they are going to get the 100 coins to end the tragedy. As, fursuit cannot reach the end by himself as he is too weak to even try unless he blacks out or merges with the blonde girl but Youta seems like in a way different league from anything else, even with the buffs he could get there is no way he could beat him. Then the ending had a final fight with Elena, which Shuuichi somehow randomly pops up, and then they fought. Bimbo makes him remember. Elena defeats him by making him forget.

After going to some random ending that was probably rushed, saying they are not the main characters; I felt like even who made this was self-aware at a shoddy job they did so made light of it in the end. The end made me just lose my mind at how bad it was and how disarrayed the whole show was, the uneventfulness that took place throughout the anime was remarkable at how much of nothing it came to; the laughable dubstep bgms, the annoying mc, all over the place plot. In conclusion, don’t bother with the anime. Read the manga if you want. Biggest disappointment that you will get if you finish this or have. I’m sorry on behalf of everyone who actually faith when this aired, me included!

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