I had high hopes for this anime, since I’d read the manga quite a bit and liked it a lot. It had all these cool terms and designations for different types of lords and beasts.
Something I really liked about the story was how the main character would build things which would end up making a huge difference for MC and his crew. I thought this was really nice to see since innovation was set on high pedestal and this is often true in real life as well.
But I did not like the harem like nature of the show, it seemed childish and lame.
The anime however did not live up to my expectations and while it was engaging, it was nothing to write home about.
Several cool details like the awakeners of god were simply mentioned and forgotten. The original manga contains much more details and world building.
In the anime I was able to notice important points like how the MC wasn’t truly a very good person, not the typical protagonist. He was manipulative and calculating.
He would beat up and kill fellows to make an example out of them. Favor women over men, so that he could eventually sleep with the women and eat the men. Give captured enemy soldier the freedom to leave, but later go and kill them once they’re far enough away from headquarters. In every step the main character is thinking about how something can benefit himself or his familiars. And it’s truly evident that the crew only matters to him because it becomes an extension of himself after a while.
He and only he mattered to the MC for much of the beginning of the show. And that really made the show quite unique.
This is a good adaptation, but perhaps not the best series to adapt into an anime. Without better script keeping it interesting, it becomes rather boring a show.