Review of I'm Standing on a Million Lives

When I first started this anime, it wasn’t what I expected in the slightest. I thought it was gonna sort of be like Sheild Hero in which this loner of a main character hated the real world and decided to make a living in this new world, not caring about his “companions” or saving the world he came from. But this was sadly not the case. Instead, it became a simple or sort of generic adventure anime. Even the MC’s main reason for hating the real world is bland and doesn’t really make that much of an emotional impact. It just came across that onebad thing happened to him and he blew it out of proportion, taking it out on the world instead. There was a sort of moral issue near the end of the season and yet this still fell flat through the MC’s reaction, one that didn’t seem to fit the personality built throughout the episodes. Even the art style was sort of generic, sadly. Really, the only saving grace of this anime was one of the plot points, how the MC gets these seemingly useless roles instead of say warrior or wizard. They take these roles such as farmer and figure out a way to tweak it slightly to where he can actually stand a chance in a world full of monsters. All in all, this anime wasn’t bad but it also wasn’t all that good. It’s a nice middle ground, I suppose, if you’re just looking for something to watch. Who knows, if they make a second season, maybe it will be really great!