A blind boy overcomes adversity… in the first episode… and then is busy being popular and doted on by everyone.
I thought this was interesting in the first episode, and they immediately dumped everything I liked about it by episode two. The main character is an insufferable womanizer and the story consisted of him being a genius and impressing all the doubters over and over and over again all the way to new doubters in the final episode.
- Storytelling – F – Boring…
- Voice – C – He does have a personality. It sucks but…
- Characters – D – All forgettable except the main dude.
- Attention Grab – D – Lost interest by the end.
- Production – C – Meh.
- Overall – D
Recommendations – Don’t watch bad anime like me. Life is short and we are all dying every moment.
I’d agree to a degree that it kind of drops that initial premise, but he is still technically blind and relies on, apart from that eye he made that still needs work, what seems to be a limited area of effect where he can see ala Daredevil or such and probably also is utilizing some magical synesthesia, if I had to guess, since it seems like he hears and will just be able to tell if someone is a woman, though he mistakenly attributes one to not being a woman because of what appears to be a limited standard that he’s then challenged on (the “heart of a woman” thing was interesting, if rushed, but the character will get more focus if this gets another season, which is unlikely)
The eye itself is incomplete, they kept it interesting for me on 2 factors: 1, he’s still blind, he didn’t magically grant himself sight, moreso created magical accommodations and assistive devices, plus whatever he figured out early on where he can read text by tactile contact with it. 2: They didn’t exactly make it clear, but they also left it unknown exactly why he was seeing those weird hallucinations
The magic in the world feels unique to me, but I haven’t taken in a huge amount of stuff where they build up the magic system and usage this much. Only 7 elements, but there are levels of spells they allude to, plus the complexity of magic circles, which while he’s a prodigy in some ways, he’s also limited to 2 spells atm
As for the womanizing, I didn’t really see it that way, but I can also understand how it might be perceived that way. I feel like he took the idea of being a “gentleman” from his maid so literally and yet also seems to not quite understand the social boundaries expected from someone that’s betrothed, which we see his fiancee is understandably concerned from what she knows of him.
He’s not even just nice to women in a way that could be taken as odd, he barely seems to care about guys, to the point it seems like he plays favorites, which is probably intended as humor for the audience
The series definitely has played its hand in a way that makes it lean more towards a slice of life kind of series and the magic is more grounded and constrained by their version of physics and such regarding such things.