Anime

This is definitely the most creative art direction I've ever seen... I'm scared to think what they have for next week...

I'm really enjoying this one.

The stories and character dynamics are great by themselves - the MMC basically has no fear and no concern for much of anything beyond whatever is right in front of him, so there's no telling what he'll do in a given situation. And he's relentlessly honest about everything - not only what he's done but why, and no matter how bad it makes him look. Or more precisely, how bad it would make him look if he cared, but he doesn't, so somehow it doesn't. And that's the other half of it - the goddess is brilliantly snide and low key, and has some pointed comment to make about everything he says. And he just takes it all in stride and keeps on going. And you can tell that she's warming up to him - that she's starting to find his eternal optimism and complete honesty appealing.

But then there's that whole other layer with the art style. It was already interesting enough when they were doing things like making the MCs pretty standard puni plush, the enemies late 90s spikey shounen action and the goddess' computer/mascot creature thing thick lined Doraemon style, but that was just the faintest hint of what was to come. I would've never dreamed that I'd see a story told through live action film of a series of heavy paper pages with drawings and ingenious windows and slots and separate sliding pieces and such being manipulated by a pair of hands in white gloves. It was very strange, but very impressive. And I can't wait to see what's next.

Can this still be considered anime? This feels more like a show that happens to heavily feature Japanese cartoon.

I thought being a clock and going around shocking lovey-dovey couples was already a wild adventure… but the guy turning into the “LEVEL UP” voice inside the hero’s head was completely next level.

Poor hero had to put up with all the nonsense from our idiot protagonist… the dude literally went inside his own mind to throw hands with him and still didn’t fix anything. Even the Demon King couldn’t tank it, he lost too lol.

And after all that… ALL that madness… our genius protag gets defeated by… an “off” button.