Review of Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
It's been a couple hours since i finished watching this series. I took a nap and just woke up to update my MAL and add this review. Unfortunately, i cannot remember much and that tells you probably most of what you need to know. Plot MC is super nice guy and an overworked gamedev. He sleeps on company floor after finishing a shift and wakes up in game he was working on. Honestly, most isekai harem plots are the same once they get into the game. OP MC saving girls from monsters/humans, and girls liking him because he's not absolute evil (like not raping slaves, orgiving food to slaves etc..).
All these generic MC also have some sort of OP skill. MC can basically just level his different skills using skill points. So, to get a discount, he levels the haggling skill. to convince people, he levels intimidation skills. to avoid other people reading him, he levels poker face. as one might expect, it all happens pretty much instantly and live, so MC just needs to find the right skill to level. Ofcourse, any attack that hits him also grants some resistance level up and so on.. The anime doesn't even pretend that MC is working or deserving of anything, just that he is OP due to his unique circumstances.
Rest
No point in talking about Art/Music as their are pretty average. But the design of female MC and elf was pretty cute because people rarely use the green color for hair. maybe I got an inner fetish for green hair??
Harem
Well.. lead female MC falls in love because MC catches her from falling after a fight. and basically follows him like a puppy and cries whenever he is missing or in danger.
first 3 slaves are an adult lizard woman, two children (one puppy girl and one cat girl). are basically happy because he freed them from an evil guy. As they are demi human, there's also racism/discrimination.
Another 2 slaves. first is a pure loli who keeps trying to have sex with our MC. second is a asian idol like slave, but apparently in this isekai world she is not considered pretty. As you might imagine, our MC will call her cute.
Then the elf loli is saved by MC from kidnappers. has zero personality, and i don't even know how to describe her.
Ugh, i feel dirty just writing about this anime. To put MC on a moral pedestal, its like every other character is being pushed down to be a cartoonish cruel villain. Girls are just templates who will love MC for no reason or for him being a barely decent human. There is an overarching plot, but we barely see it in this season.