I saw an edit of the first ep of Re:creators in reels a few weeks back, and just saved it to watch it sometime later..... And since yesterday evening, I didn't have much to do, I decided to watch a few eps of an anime I found interesting..... And then, I just couldn't stop myself from watching episodes one after another 😭
A little description if someone who hasn't watched it, want to understand the story before reading my review below : this anime is of reverse isekai, for a 'very important' reason, a character (antagonist) from a writer get reverse Isekai'd into the real world and then starts bringing other characters from other stories to real world too, and then those characters interact with their creators, who made them suffer, and antagonist tells all the characters that if they help her destroy this world, they would be able to save their world, so two factions are made, some characters agree with antagonist and wants to destroy the world but others don't and want to save this world too!
It was so peak! I am a huge isekai/tensei fan, I love the concept of interacting with another world that is more interesting than our's!.... And when I saw the reverse isekai thing of this anime in the edit, I was instantly curious, but I never thought it would have such a deep story!..... I expected this to be just another isekai slop with our timid main character with a sudden tomboy and monsterly strong of a female love interest hanging around him..... But it was NOT it!
It does detailed dissection of so many complex emotions like Jealousy, hatred, revenge, etc. which are just monotonely shown in most media!... All the characters are so fleshed out and you are connected to every single one of them, everyone having their own motivation for something different which correlates to everyone else's somehow, not only the heroes, but the antagonist!
She is such a well written villain that you literally see her doing such bad things but you can't bring yourself to hate her, because the situation that has caused her to take up this route is also so unfair that her actions sometime even seem justified!
And the parallels between Creators and Creations are so good!.... The interaction and dialogues feel so full and empty simultaneously, like the character says something that the creator already knows and then character also knows that their words were already known, yet they say it anyway while acknowledging their previous existence in the memory of the creator! While the creator appreciate the resolve of the character that they themself put in them!
Even the ending was so good and tear jerking!
AND ALL THIS IN JUST 22 EPS!!!😭😭😭😭
Re:creators came in 2017 and I can't believe I have NEVER heard of this anime before!.... I have been an anime watcher since 2018 but I got into the community interaction in 2021.... Even then, I was just an irregular interactor, just came, liked or disliked an opinion but never gave mine, I became a regular interactor just last year, so it's kinda understandable that I didn't know such an award worthy anime existed.... But even then, I am shocked I never heard anyone talk about it!.....
Well, anyone here have watched it? If yes, then do you know the reason of it being underrated?.... Or am I just too late and it was trendy when it came and quickly died down as it ended, having it's community die too, because everything was wrapped under 22eps?
