Hitorijime My Hero

mdchan Nov 10, 2018

1

Normally, I break anime down into story, plot, and overall (occasionally touching on sound and animation if there's something sensational or terrible about it). This anime...don't.  Just don't.  Don't waste your time with it.  I want the time I spent on this back from my life...and I don't usually say things like that at the start of a review, even for a really crappy anime. The plot was nonexistant.  There was a possibility of one at the beginning with the "protagonist" being saved from living as a sort of dog for a gang, but wasn't elaborated on soon enough.  The first episode also skipped around to the point of being confusing (a good portion of it from the protagonist in middle school, then jump to middle school graduation/high school entrance, then back to when he met the guy who became his hero and saved him from hanging out with the gangs). After that, it jumps into the most toxic, abusive, and creepy relationship between two side characters I've seen in a while.  If they were going for "sweet" with the music and animation, they failed to do so because one of the characters was one step below raping the other.  It was disgusting and creepy.  Is the viewer supposed to feel sorry for this sexually repressed character?  Are we supposed to go "aww, now they made up and are lovers, how cute!"? Their high school life just started, and things went from 0 to 100 in the span of a couple episodes. The pacing is terrible, the characters are flat and uninteresting, and the plot is as cliched as you can get while managing to be one of the most boring BL anime I've seen. I've seen a couple...the most memorable being Gravitation.  Gravitation pulled me in, wasn't creepy, and was a gradual falling in love (for one of the characters; the other was nearly immediate) with drama thrown in. This...this is just porn without a plot, but minus the porn. So basically, characters on a screen with some music and voice acting. The rest of the anime is just hackneyed and predictable with unnecessary (and flat) drama and just... Look, if you want a good BL series, go watch Gravitation.  My suggestion would be to not waste your time on this; that's what those of us who write reviews do:  Waste hours of our lives so that you don't have to if something is crap. Granted, this is just my opinion, but this is so below average that it shouldn't have even been produced. The only reason why "characters" managed a "2" is because one character out of the entire cast actually has a freaking personality.

HisokaTheMagician Jul 20, 2017

10

This is pure trash in the absolute best possible way. I'm so invested. Why. This is bad. I love it. 10/10 would recommend. 

Zozo27 Oct 31, 2019

2

this anime .. sucks ass  are you fucking kidding me .,,...? what ACTUALLY pisses me off is that THIS anime , yes ThIs anime is being promoted in other animes and like why? thers so many more bl anime out there which ActuallY HAVE A STORY TO THEM. the plot in this anime is non existent so dont waste your time like i did because it feels like this was written by someone who started losing their ideas/ imagination after a couple chapters coz even though the anime starts off looking alright .. it all just leads to nothing like idk how to explain it but just.. no i guess the animation is the only gud thing about this  oh also the side couple was actually more interesing (when you compare) than the main one coz it actually felt more realistic? idk dont watch this