Review of Blood Blockade Battlefront

This anime is fairly good, there's monsters, superpowers, fantasy creatures of all kinds and pretty much action. The comedy is half-arsed and this doesn't deserve to have the comedy tag just because some characters are walking retards and act like idiots. The drama is overdone, spending entire episodes sometimes to explain a backstory that no one should really care about instead of giving us a fast summary. Now, the thing that I hated the most is the mc, his personality is kind of annoying and he's a freaking pushover just like the rest of these people. This is why japanese people can't write proper half-serious stuff.Anything that isn't plain out horror and tragedy tagged would usually always have mc's that are idiots with sh*t for brains and flowery views on the world.

This guy is a wimp with no real powers except for good sight(being able to see things normal people can't) and being able to manipulate what people see(mind you, not huge illusions but rather single-person specific illusions that only they see). Even the powers he has isn't utilized properly since he's clearly not interested in learning to fight in any way whatsoever despite pretty much living in a hell where you can die at a second's notice, like many other japanese protagonists, he just goes with the flow and keeps on being an useless prick, even in season 2 random punks with no skill beat him up easily as he acts like a total amateur and can't do anything but stand there.

He can't bear to kill people(surprise, surprise, he's the type who'd choose a stun gun instead of a sword or gun when his life is on the line), he's way too kind to everyone and meek to the point of being a doormat for people to step on. When he gets assaulted by people privately, he just takes a beating because he claims that he doesn't like using his powers for himself. He beats himself up over some bullsh*t past where his sister sacrificed her vision for him out of her own volition, so he feels like it's his fault despite having no guilt at all in the whole matter. Hell, his character is stupid to a flaw. When he's offered increased wages, which isn't more than right considering the extreme danger and the work he does for them, he denies and says he just wants the basic wages even when he needs/wants to send money back to his sister and he needs money to live, especially as his apartments keeps on getting blown into the air, he spends most of his time living in the office of their organization. But of course he can't accept the amount of money he should be getting! I mean, is he retarded or something?

He's honestly a very boring and pretty frustrating, even obnoxious character. He's a "normal" person with exaggerated, extreme "courage","self-sacrifice spirit" and "kindness" thrown into that hellish place. It's just stupid. He can only be protected by everyone, or he'd die instantly. Even when he should be able to handle himself if he learned some proper abilities, but since he never showed the initiative or motivation to get stronger or use his powers, it's all for naught. It's so damn mushy. Mind you, this "japanese shounen protagonist personality" wouldn't be an issue in a normal manga/novel/anime. The issue is that fighting is kind of the whole thing here. If you don't fight, you die. If you don't strive to get better, you should die. Everyone is killing everyone and it's supposed to be a brutal world. A mc like that DOESN'T WORK in an environment like this. Leave that type of crap for the romcom and slice-of-life stuff. Not saying he has to be a brutal monster, even if that would be hilarious and kind of awesome/fresh for a japanese work, but at the very least he should be cold-hearted enough to pull the trigger and kill people when needed, to not get pushed around and whine about every single little detail. He's already devoid of care when it comes to seeing dead people(he doesn't even wince when people get blown to bits or hundreds/thousands of people are dead in front of him), why force things and make him so kind etc?

You know what I thought when I saw this was a story about a mc with super vision and special eyes? Yeah, I thought he would become a gun user. Especially a sniper+pistol user, that'd be awesome. Now that'd be a mc I can get behind, a super-powered fantasy sniper rifle and handgun combo. Using his eyes to find flaws and critical points and shooting them like a sniper god. I mean, wouldn't that be a kind of obvious use of his otherwise fairly non-combat eyes, especially since he's not the athletic and muscular type who can go close-combat? So many possibilities, he could even use his eyes to temporarily blind others/show them illusions and then in that opening shoot. But of course he won't do so, because he might as well not have his eyes, he's not using them properly at all, not even once did I see him firing a gun, not even at first when he was given one. It feels like an useless gimmick. This author is clearly not that good at writing an interesting and awesome story. This story would easily shoot up to the heavens if the mc was more awesome and used his eyes like a badass.

So enough about the fact that the mc is a dimwit. The other people in this story are often kind of boring as well, especially since a lot of time is spent on the backgrounds on characters that hardly matter and less time is spent on those we actually want to know about. I wanted to know more about the background of the boss, the werewolf girl etc, but we don't know who they are or even truly what they are. Nothing much is explained here, so I can't feel attached to any of the characters, although I honestly liked that fanged werewolf-like boss the most, not that I was that fond of his overly simple personality and straightforwardness. Some people are there only for comedic relief, such as the white-haired, tanned guy who is nothing but a retard that can't wait to show off how foolish he is and how much he can overreact.

Sorry, me rating this 5/10 is because it wasn't THAT bad, it was mediocre. It's worth watching if you don't have anything much left to watch, it's sure to kill several hours of your life with nothing exceptional yet something that doesn't bore you to death unlike some stuff out there that you'd rather drop than keep on watching. I have to say that after several episodes of season 2 though, I dropped it. It had the same premise, the same type of story, the same type of jokes and events etc, only filled even more with how worthless the mc is and more half-arsed drama. It takes a turn for the worse and is only worth a 3/10 at season 2. The mc hasn't matured and nothing seems to really happen. Truly bland. Even if you watch this stuff, don't watch season 2, it's got nothing to offer. Pretend the show ended at season 1, which I guess it kind of did since they summed up the entire manga with season one and went on to the sequel manga with season 2. I seem to have read that the plot diverges a lot from the manga and there seems to be way more story in the manga, so maybe the manga is much better than this anime version.