Review of Big Order (TV)

Being made from the creator of the utter monstrosity that is future diary , big order was bound to fail from the start. It's hard to find a writer who fails so hard at telling a story without any form of self awareness. It's somehow even more badly written than future diary but thankfully less annoying. The anime adaptation only expands on the flaws by adding new scenes that are even worse than what happened in the manga. This is what happens when you hire the creator of boku no pico( I'm dead serious) to write the script . To be fair, the series did havepotential to be good. Eiji accidentally caused the apocalypse ( through a dumbly worded wish) and he has to cope with it as well as having to take care of his sister. Could've been a nice character driven drama but nope The first episode/chapter was strong but things just go downhill from there.

A character named Rin appears who's literally a dumber version of yuno but with a homicidal rage against mc. While her wanting to get revenge on eiji after her parents died in the apocalypse, that's her all there is to her character. She acts angry and homicidal towards eiji whenever she's not having forced as hell ship tease moments with him.

Nothing about the story or characters really stood out. Things just happen and the audience is given no reason to care. How is it even possible to make a cast of super powered individuals be boring as a brick wall? At least the cast of future diary could evoke emotion in me even if it was mostly annoyance.the only names here I remember are eiji,Rin and Sena and none of them are interesting at all.These people are just archetypes and tools used to move the garbage plot forward. There's a character called Daisy who's essentially a goddesses but nobody questions her existence and her purpose is very poorly defined. Another character is iyo who gets pregnant when eiji touches her ears and tries to rape him in the anime cause she fell in love with his basic bland unseasoned chicken personality in a heartbeat. Said attempted rape never gets mentioned again after it happens. Not only is it offensively bad but if the genders were reversed, I'm sure male iyo would be portrayed as a villain so seeing her get off Scott free is annoying.

The anime also thought it was a good idea to add disgusting incest subtext that wasn't in the manga. Eiji and sena have a implied sex scene and the show wants viewers to think they're in love. This was nothing more than the director and scriptwriter pleasuring themselves seeing as how said incest does absolutely nothing to develop the two and is never referenced again. Again the lack of self awareness is crazy.

Readers aren't given good explanations on character motivation at all. I read the manga and watched the anime but I still don't understand the reasoning behind most of these characters. A few people wanna take over the world and that's about it . Why has noone made a wish to undo the great destruction. Daisy grants wish to random people and not one of them at least thought of restoring the world? When nobody has any solid motives or decent personalities, the plot will obviously bomb. The story wouldn't have been this bad if the writer didn't try to make it complex. I would much rather have read a JoJo esque battle shonen than this poor excuse of a story. At least then it would've been popcorn entertainment.The story makes no sense because things just happen without clearly defined reasons so the entire series is just a narrative non sequitur..

The most positive thing about the series was definitely the stands er I mean orders. Many people complained that the powers were too op( they're really not) and were confusing. One person even called eiji one of the strongest characters in fiction which honestly made me laugh. Op powers are good when handled well but everything is shit here.

Eiji can control the environment and people around his perimeter with little restrictions yet he always gets his ass kicked. There's literally a 100 of ways he can win any given battle and fails to use any of them. He can condense the air to make a shield but rarely uses that ability and never uses it to suffocate his enemies. He never commands enemies to attack themselves. To make it even worse,. His power is a weakened form of his maximum potential and in the manga he can fuse with other orders to get even stronger. Even then he still gets his ass handed to him😶😑🙄. The sheer lack of creativity from both the creator and character is just marvelous.How is it even possible to be this incompetent?

The other characters are no better. Leader guy has a rip-off order of kumagawa misogi's all fiction from medaka box. Fact from fiction ( even the names are similar) let's him negate events from reality. Unlike kumagawa who marvelously screws over the main cast from his manga with his ability, leader guy doesn't advance the plot at all and does not have any noteworthy battles. You also have a guy who can atomize anything, a girl who shoots lasers, a man who can brainwash others and a terrorist who controls rocks. Besides from the terrorist chick, none of these people use their abilities in innovative ways.The writer could've taken lessons from JoJo, one piece and even law of ueki( so underrated) when it comes to writing superpowers.

The endings of both anime and manga are around just as bad but the manga might be even worse. The anime has a inconclusive ending where the world no longer hates eiji and he just goes to to school. That's it. The climactic battle was him using the full power of his order to manipulate abstract concepts to create a world where Sena can be happy. I'm sure the writers didn't intend for eiji's last order to be as op as I just described but it Is. He wishes for something abstract and it comes true which implies he would be able to manipulate other concepts. And yet , he doesn't do anything about the rundown world he lives in. For a post apocalyptic setting, the apocalyptic event barely had any influence on the characters or plot.

The manga comes up with a dumbass plot twist that sena was the one who caused the great destruction and eiji was just covering up for her. She turns evil and tries to destroy the world cause she's evil. Eiji refuses to let anyone kill the potential mass murderer and constantly protects her. Did I mention Rin and eiji and kinda low key dating at this point? Eiji faces sena in a anticlimactic battle followed by a 1 year timeskip where their current date is unknown. And people thought Naruto had a bad ending..... With how abrupt and lazily put together the ending was, I can't tell if the manga was cancelled or the creator lost interest. Both options seem highly likely.

With it's bland characters, nonsensical plot and poorly thought out powers, big order is a utter clusterfuck if a show that continues to fade into obscurity. Even having a big name creator wasn't enough to keep it within the public eye. I was hoping for a so bad it's good experience but this was just hot garbage .