Hangyakusei Million Arthur

Disappointing Story: Terrible. So there are a million excaliburs located in the past. Anyone who can wield an excalibur is given the title of Arthur. These million excaliburs are causing some sort of time dilation so they need to be destroyed. Hence six present day Arthurs' are sent back in time to destroy them. However they don't bother to tell you why there are a million excaliburs, why they are causing time dilation, why the majority of Arthurs/Excaliburs are pathetically weak (defeated with one swing from the hero's excalibur). You are just supposed to accept it. Each excalibur once drawn from stone can change itself into anyitem to suit its wielder. So an excalibur may be a sword, a hammer, a whip, a gun etc. The episodes tend to follow one or two of the heroes at a time, while they are on a hunt for an excalibur. In these episodes we learn a bit more about them, but the back stories aren't really enlightening and there is next to no character growth. Every episode feels like a space filler episode, where the characters do things like work in a mine, attend a school, go to a water park etc. There isn't really a contiguous story line at all. Characters: Generic. The main character and leader of the heroes is a dumb blonde who likes to dress up in slutty cosplay outfits, and then can't understand why everyone looks at her weird. She contributes nothing useful to the story and we barely learn anything about her in the first season. There's also a pre-teen with a hammer as big as she is, a loud mouth young male, the laid back/lazy older male, a stuck up girl and an effeminate looking boy. There are also six faeries who you learn next to nothing about (including why they are even there). Animation: Good. Love the style. Action: Average. The fight scenes are generally short and not particularly entertaining, which is a shame as there was room for some great fight scenes, considering an excalibur could be literally anything. Comedy: Bland The supposed funny moments don't really hit the mark. I can't recall laughing once. Fan Service: Mild Lots of cleavage, as well as hair and hand covered breasts. No actual nudity or panty shots. Only in one episode did I find the amount of FS used excessive. Overall: Ordinary 4.5/10 There is very little chance I will bother watching the second season.

Recommendation: A very fun action comedy. Its type of humor isn't going to work for everyone, but I thought it was hilarious personally. Easily one of the best gacha adaptations I've seen so far. Review covers both seasons. Positives: + It's really funny. It's hard to sell this without explaining jokes, which is never funny, but I found it hilarious and absolutely ridiculous in every way. Episodes are often about fighting an Arthur that has, for example, a sniper rifle that turns people into radishes, or a woman that embarrasses her enemies with a giant paintbrush that creates BL fan art of them.It's very creative and the episodes never get boring even though they're fairly formulaic because there are so many wacky ideas bouncing around. + Fun characters. Each episode tends to put together 2 or 3 of the 6 main characters (along with their fairies) and just let them go off on their own and bounce off each other in funny ways. Everyone gets their moments, but my personal favorites were Tekken, the dumbass Gym Bro that punches everything, and Dancho, the dumbass captain that no one respects. Everyone in this show is at least a little bit of a dumbass and that's part of what makes it so fun. + Surprisingly well-animated for a gacha adaptation. It's not perfect and the seams start to show at times, especially towards the end of season 2, but the action scenes are pretty cool and exciting. They made good use of effects to make things really pop and there are few, if any, CGI shortcuts that I noticed + Strong voice acting. It's pretty much an all star lineup, and even the fairies are stacked with VA talent. + Self-deprecating/parody humor is funny. Sometimes it can be really annoying if a series is too meta, but Million Arthur hits the right balance. Every once in a while, you'll get jokes like a character getting amnesia and saying "It's too confusing" when they try to explain the premise of the series to her, or someone reacting to the introduction of a new character with "12 people is already too much", and it's just subtle enough that it hits in the right way. Negatives: - To say that the worldbuilding is bad would be to wrongly imply that there was any effort put in at all. The setting is supposedly medieval Britain, but in reality it's whatever the hell they want it to be, and they will never even attempt to justify it. Why are there functional security cameras in medieval Britain? Or Japanese-style hot springs? Why is the South Britain soccer team exclusively made up of people with Japanese names? Why are there fucking laser gun fights in a fantasy setting? The answer to all of these questions is "just go with it". If you're the kind of person that is bothered by plot holes, this series will drive you to insanity. - This sort of lack of attention to detail applies across the board. Plot elements like "Invaders" are introduced as though they're going to be a major part of the story, and then immediately dropped and never explained. The rival Arthur Hunter group, Hebrides, is just sort of introduced randomly and then they never do anything but make occasional cameos. There's not really any reason for them to exist. The whole plotting and planning of this series is very sloppy overall. In the end, this is a pretty mild criticism though since the show itself doesn't really care about the plot and treats it exclusively as a launching point for goofy villain of the week episodes. - There are 12 main characters (each of the 6 main protagonists has their own fairy) and the show just throws you straight into the deep end with all of them, again with no explanation of anything. Eventually you get to know them all pretty well, and it's very rare for all 12 to features in the same episode (they usually find a way to sideline all but 4-6 characters), but it can be a bit overwhelming at first. - Dancho can be a bit too weird at times and the show probably deserves an ecchi label for her antics. Making the show's token pervert be the main character and leader of the group is kind of a questionable decision.

You get an Excalibur! And you get an Excalibur! EVERYONE GETS AN EXCALIBUR!!!!! Plot: Sometime in the future, a million Excalibur's appear out of seemingly thin air, and threaten the balance of space and time (somehow) so Britain is sending back 6 veritable 'Arthur's in time in order to destroy these 1,000,000 Excalibur's before they can present a danger for the future. Hangyakusei Million Arthur is just so damn plain that I can't rate it any higher. I honestly struggled with even giving it something as high as a 5, but in reality it's not even bad, it's just extremely average. The characters, while kind ofunique in their own rights, are all extremely forgettable and cliche to the point where I can't see any of them fully resonating as a favorite character for anyone. The power scaling from each episode is so confusing, where in the first episode, the team of 6 manage to easily slaughter 10,000 Excalibur wielders, but then every episode beyond that, they struggle with taking out a single one at a time. I understand that in a world like this, there would be a difference of people who are properly trained with their weapons and those who just flaunt it around, and also that they can't make each and every 1,000,000 wielders a viable and extravagant character, but it just felt like such a boring watch the entire way through. The pacing of each episode also falls off so hard, there are some episodes where a fight with an Arthur takes the entire episode, and some where the fight is over in 4 seconds or one attack. I feel like I'm being robbed of something that could be a lot more interesting. This just fell flat in so many locations that I couldn't actually grab onto it or connect with anything going on. There's too many cliches that aren't done in any unique of fun way. Tsundere, Perverted characters, Isekai, Action, it is all done in such a cookie cutter way that it adds no variety to the watching experience. Art: 5/10 Animation: 4/10 Plot: 4/10 Characters: 3/10 Voice Acting: 6/10

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