If I had to describe this anime, it's like a laid back Food wars with a fantasy theme. It's fairly repetitive, which, in this case at least, I don't think turned out to be a bad thing, but holds true to what it's meant to be. It's not some action packed shonen (might have spelled that wrong) or some lovey dovey romance. It's a light-hearted watch with a few comedic moments
This show started off
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If I had to describe this anime, it's like a laid back Food wars with a fantasy theme. It's fairly repetitive, which, in this case at least, I don't think turned out to be a bad thing, but holds true to what it's meant to be. It's not some action packed shonen (might have spelled that wrong) or some lovey dovey romance. It's a light-hearted watch with a few comedic moments
This show started off with little plot development, mostly just introduction of characters (Which it is still doing by episode 5) and introduction of their times finding the place. It didn't make me want to stay because of the characters though, it was the aura of the show and it's laid back theme. It made me have an honest smile as I watched and even made a man giggle a few times in just the first episode.
Now to talk about it's repetitiveness. This show didn't make me want to tear off my ears while watching it even though it has the roughly same thought process for each episode for the first couple at least. The new character is introduced with some story, they fin the door and come in, gets confused about the place, eats something and goes into crazy detail about how good it is then leaves with some sort of promise to come back. Seems a bit boring, right? Personally at least, I thought it was nice as they made each character different so it was less of a long run on story and more of a bunch of short stories that enrich the over all development of the show. Later on it changes some with how the rhyme and rhythm go for the repetitiveness but is still generally the same and is still more focused on telling the story of the character that gets introduced.
Here's where a lot of people who dislike this show will probably disagree but this show does add a lot of background about the worlds and the connection between everything like the door and menus but they don't make it super blatant all the time but that doesn't mean it's not blatant at times. Sometimes it's just side conversation as a dish is made, some sort of comment from a character or, like with the menu, a quick flashback that give us those details.
All in all, I feel this isn't meant for everyone as action lovers will fine this a bore and people who dislike repetitive themes will fine the short similar stories to be obnoxious. On the other hand, if you like the short stories or light-hearted theme of this anime, I'd say to try it out. (Note this was made as of ep 5 and may end up being different from then on in some form or fashion)
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