This was not what I expected it to be. I expected it to be a comedy isekai where someone is developing products and maybe each episode is a different product?
No, I don’t research my animes before watching them.
Here’s a trailer for yall:
The anime ended up being more serious than I thought, but not to the degree of a game isekai like .hack//. It finds itself squarely in the middle of comedy and drama, so it reads to be an almost textbook shounen anime.
There is comedy, but in unexpected ways:
I actually really want to read the manga now. There’s a lot of heart and an interesting amount of knowledge of game bugs that plays into it. The main character fascinates me: Haga is super dedicated to the job, and he’s staunchly in the camp of no using debug mode (what would be the “cheat skills” trope). It’s fascinating to see that rather than using “cheat skills” that most isekai rely on to give their hero an edge, Haga relies on using the game mechanics and knowledge of specific bugs to defeat enemies.
It feels weirdly tragic, the entire premise. The game is supposed to evolve with the players, and these bug testers are all trapped until the game is considered to be bug free. They’re literally living in this world, forging bonds, changing things, and as time progresses… what will happen? They were only able to remove a single death flag and created their own bug. In the end… won’t they have to watch everything they’ve worked hard on reset to allow players in? And what’s the deal with the various bug testing companies bringing people in and then having them trapped for so long? Someone is on the outside fixing things, obviously! So what is going on???
