Review of No Game, No Life: Zero

This is by far the most nonsensical anime I have ever seen. It includes the least likable characters with the most disconnected emotions and motivations. Just a complete cluster fest. Story: 8 I was originally going to give it a 1, but then I realized that it's just the nonsensical characters that's bad. The actual story isn't so bad. MC is the leader of his small tribe of humans just trying to get by on a day by day basis. One day he meets the loli, aka the only hope for humanity. However, the loli isn't exactly all powerful, so MC must use ingenuity to getby. There's also an element of "heart" that humans have which is essentially what magic is in other universes, aka a deus ex machina of sorts. I've always attributed humanity succeeding despite being far weaker and far stupider than other races in these types of tropes to be due to a that they were super clutch and this sort of aligns with this anime's "heart" sort of.

Character: -9001
This is what makes this anime a 1/10 for me. Somehow the greatest and smartest human that's been keeping humanity alive and will soon defeat all the other races is some below average in competence, angsty teen. MC has a great moment in the very very beginning, where he cold heartedly tells his friend to kill himself so that he, the only hope for humanity, can live. If only he kept a similar level of desperation and motivation throughout. Instead, when he meets humanity's first and only hope of survival, the loli, he freaks out and tries to kill her. When he realizes he can't kill her he tries to kill himself. He continues to try to kill her for the next hour or so including the most hidious scene, where he individually names a bunch of dead people, which he later says is 48, as if that somehow matters at all to anyone. Then there's teh cancer of the whole love dynamic, and the loli's obsession with "heart" which can just be summed up as the loli wants to fuck MC, then an hour later she falls in love and gets married. Wait, no that's not the summary, that's the entire subplot.

Art: 6
It's the same great art as No Game No Life, except it doesn't at all fit with the more desperate and sad setting of ngnl zero. The sad moments felt like I was looking at a body pillow irl. Just really out of place

Sound: idk 7
wasn't really paying attention due to terrible characters, but since I didn't notice it I guess it wasn't offensive. Maybe it felt right, idk.

Enjoyment: idk 2
The ending had a nice fight scene, but the motivations, the dialogue, and just everything around the fight was so stupid, that I wasn't really paying attention

Overall: 1
When you're characters are that awful, you can't give it anything above a 1/10