Review of I'm Standing on a Million Lives

I really enjoyed this show. Reading reviews, you'd be led to believe that it's a completely soulless, just-another-isekai anime, but I really think it goes beyond that, and I question whether many of the reviewers actually watched all 12 episodes. I will also say that I personally have a pet peeve with these people who can't handle isekai being the setting. JUST BECAUSE IT'S AN ISEKAI DOESN'T MEAN IT NEEDS TO BE GENRE-BREAKING OR TRANSFORMATIVE. IT CAN JUST BE AN ELEMENT TO THE STORY. It's a trope used to set the scene. Get over it. "Oh no, not another isekai"--nobody's making your watch it. Packit up.

This is a show about a boy who struggles with the idea that he's not worth anything, and that each human life has a determinable value. Since he's at the bottom, he understands that he can be tossed aside at any moment, that he doesn't matter.

All the main characters struggle with personal growth, and challenges, though it's primarily seen through Yūsuke's eyes. There's also a larger mystery surrounding the exact nature of this world-traveling, and we're continually trying to figure out what exactly is going on.

This seems to be an overarching theme of the anime: too many questions, not enough answers. The reward at the end of each quest is that the characters get to ask the game master one question, and inevitably the resulting answers only lead to more questions, questions that the game master won't answer unless you complete a quest.

PS - it's got good music!