Bye Bye, Earth

This is a great show, one of my favorite of the year so far. The take on the isekai setting is fresh and imaginative. The story clips along, making impressive progress without feeling rushed, and while building a satisfying sense of deep mystery. Who are the nomads? Why are they cursed, and what blessings will their curses yield? What is the nature of Belle's sword? Where will her journey take her?


Belle is a fresh protagonist. Strong, egotistical, who feels deeply for her loved ones but remains focused, canny and aloof. The show also offers an impressively broad cast ... of interesting characters, from wizened beetles to two-headed kings. They move through this broad world softly, their own histories and motivations hinted at but hidden, building the drama, playing their role and leaving the stage. The writer clearly loves their world and their characters; it makes the show shine.

If you're on the fence, this is worth watching.

I really don't understand what's happening in this show, it feels like i'm watching something from the middle onward, where they had already introduced several deep complex topics and concepts, and i'm missing out of crucial information about the story and world... But they actually haven't done anything of that yet.

3 episodes in and i'm more confused about what's happening than what i was on the start, you can even disconsider what happens on the first episode, because as a first episode it fails miserably, they don't properly introduce us about anything crucial in the story and world, nor give us any hook other than ... the main protagonist being the only human a demi-human world, and only on the second and third episode they actually introduce hooks and motivations, but even then its all mixed up with several other unrelated topics that makes this feels like an out of order/out of direction complex mess.

Its even worse considering that the thing they were supposed to introduce, elaborate and contextualize early on, from the first episode, still haven't received any kind of proper build up, the sword attuning/spirit thing that feels like its going to be a major event/tie, motivation for story development, progress, reasoning, etc. By the third episode i only know that people in this world really, really like their swords for some unknown reason.

I can't keep watching this because it feels like i'm being forced to do their own hard work, linking and tying things properly in my head, when the people that was responsible for properly introducing, producing and directing this didn't cared enough to do their jobs. Its kinda sad to say that, because if things happen like i imagined in my head, this was supposed to be a very promising show, with some very interesting concepts and developments, but they just fumbled it all down.

Utter nonsense. This show makes shows like The Misfit of Demon King Academy seem coherent by comparison. There is no context prior to the mountains of gibberish crap that you're dropped into in episode 1 and as it progresses clarity never comes. It actually manages to get more confusing each episode. The feeling this show creates is what I imagine a toddler feels like. Everything is new, bizarre, and all basic concepts are entirely unknown. Things on the same level as don't touch the hot stove, for example, are just completely foreign. There's no explanation for anything. The viewer is just left to dangle cluelessly.

If ... that wasn't bad enough, the story also progresses like Unamed Memory. Just like Unamed Memory, each episode creates the feeling that an episode or two was skipped by mistake. It's like a book with random pages torn out. It's unacceptable work. It boggles the mind that the resources, amount of work, and time required to create an animated series was put into a show like this and Unamed Memory. The writing is God awful. Series like this and Unamed Memory belong in the circular filing bin.