Review of Chainsaw Man

truly awful. I wanted to like this, it seemed fairly interesting and I liked the art style and it seemed like I'd have a good time for it. But holy shit is this an overrated piece of trash! There isn't a single interesting character in the story, all of them are annoying and the anime tries to add some depth by inserting sentimentalist backstories in between scenes, but it's so lazy (wow, you have to feel attached to this character because.. theyre funny and they have a traumatic past!) and all of the characters are just so one-note and there wasn't a single moment whereI wanted them to stick around for longer. The worst offender of this is the main character, Denji, who may be one of the most annoying characters in anything I've seen. An annoying/silly/morally bad main character isn't necessarily a bad thing, but he is insufferably annoying to the point where I wanted to stop watching it because of him. There's no depth to his psyche, he's a character written to make teenage boys laugh, and normally this wouldn't be that terrible of an offense, but the faux sentimentality and the sudden increase of stakes in the season makes his character so offensively annoying. Another quite dumb element was the 3D animation, which looked uncanny and I predict it won't age well. The world-building is also extremely shallow, uninteresting and derivative.
As for the redeeming elements, the action was somewhat fun but ultimately it's hard to care when it is impossible to care about any of these characters. And the art style is good. There's some fun-to-watch moments every once in a while and it didn't seem to be heading towards a bad direction in the first episodes, and there were some interesting ideas throughout, but this just feels like such a disappointing failure. Sad!