Review of I'm Standing on a Million Lives

Tl;dr Awful characters, okay world, mediocre story, and bad action scenes. I'll preface with saying that I have not read the manga, but I do understand this is basically an intro to the story. I do see some potential for decency as they expand on the world itself, but honestly with how sub-par the characters themselves are I wouldn't bet on it improving that much. The show started out okay imo, but the more they tried to do exposition on the characters the more I disliked it. They try to give backstories to evoke sympathy towards the characters, and give reason to their quirks or shitty choices,but all of it falls flat. Pretty much everyone is irritating and incredibly useless throughout the show, with only the mc doing anything of worth aside from one moment of legitimate usefulness from one of the main crew. To me the MC is the most palatable of the main cast, but he flip flops back and forth between cheery and psychopathic in his reasonings; and nothing in his backstory (so far) has shown any sort of legitimate reason for his hatred of Tokyo and people.

The world it's set in is so-so. Them going back and forth between worlds is interesting, and the potential of seeing what events led to such vast differences between the two worlds makes the possibility of the story going forwards being a bit better. All that said, it's still not that good.

The story itself...well there really isn't that much story outside of what the alternate world is and how it relates to the "real" world. Other than that they just go back and forth finishing quests and gaining another party member each time.

The drawing part of the artwork isn't really bad, but the action scenes are abysmal. Honestly little to nothing happens on screen during fights. The majority of the time it is just attack stills/camera cuts, the crew falling down dead over and over, and then a finishing blow after MC has had an "aha" moment.