Mi Bao Zhi Guo

Sigh.

I am writing this in hopes of preventing you from watching this show, or at least helping you decide about it.

This has been truly abysmal. Not only is the story bland, confusing, and just meaningless, but the art and animation are low-quality and consistently distracting. The basic premise of the story is how a man enters an isekai world of anthropomorphic museum relics and somehow takes up the job of curing them from a weird kind of disease while also trying to learn where it comes from. This premise is already cliché and problematic, but the show ruins it further by being boring and relying ... too much on convenient narration to explain the isekai world which no one really cares about. As if this isn’t enough to torture the viewer, weird stuff like a game of tetris that appears out of nowhere and spider-shaped moeblobs jumping into a giant hourglass are just there for no reason at all. Finally, the abrupt ending does not provide a sense of closure to the plot, instead leaving many plot holes. Its bittersweet nature seems to point more at lazy writing rather than any intention of the writers to make the story emotionally richer.

Another issue is that despite the supposed seriousness of the subject matter, the show is literally a thinly-disguised harem story. Over time, you come to realize that its only focus is about collecting waifus and pretty boys from different worlds, who eventually form this big team of cute ghosts or spirits or whatever it is that they are. It's actually worse than other true harem shows because this show tries to hide this fact, as if it realizes that having the harem is something to be ashamed of. Stuff like this really makes you wonder what the writers were smoking when they made this.

All of these problems are truly exacerbated by the consistently terrible art and animation. Throughout the show, we can see the individual frames like it's some kind of PowerPoint presentation. Characters travel in obvious straight lines and the movements of objects are stiff. The only exception to this is the CGI which looks bad anyways. The background images and the layout of scenes are basic, lazily done, and devoid of any real detail. Overall, this is the most glaring issue and something that you can notice from the onset. It is an especially fatal blow since the animation aspect is what defines this medium and makes it special. If an animated show like this one can't even execute this part properly, is it still an animation? If it's not an animation, then why should we, as fans of animation, watch it?

Ok, that was a mouthful. I'm tired. I'm going to stop typing…

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Ha! You thought wrong! I'm back with my conclusion! What is it, you ask?

Don’t waste your time on this show; everything about it is bad! Only watch it if you're an animation producer and want to know what to NOT do in your work. Or if you like torturing yourself.