Darwin Jihen

Saw alot of negative reviews for this anime but personally i found it pretty enjoyable the premise is interesting and the way they handle veganism and subtly go into the philosophy behind animal morality i think is cool because most anime only handle a handful of topics so its kinda nice to see an anime about different ideas and set in a differnt place with more modern takes of characters i guess. I also just find the action pretty good and the way the main character charlie uses his surroundings is also fun to watch and less predictable

With that being said tho the ... dialouge is pretty on the nose at times and the plot moves kinda fast where certain things seem to just get explained to us with pretty lazy setup.

I like everything about this anime except for the fact that it tries to emulate western culture in a realistic way, but fails miserably at it. So it looks like a parody of itself. It seems to me that the author of the manga thinks Twitter is what western culture looks like, so in the anime we have a lot of preaching, basic phylosophical arguments that a 5 year old could have, virtue signaling, and characters acting and speaking in very unnatural ways overall. The protagonist is always spewing some basic phrases, for example I just watched episode 5 and she says stuff like "I'm ... a strong independant woman" or "They are so conservative!", or "They call me a lesbian...not that there's anything wrong with being a lesbian", and then later in the episode we have the obligatory vegan debate but with the most basic arguments you can imagine. it's just a regurgitation of mainstream talking points, catchphrases and virtue signaling but the show expects you to take them seriously somehow. Every conversation they have feels like a Twitter comment section from 10 years ago, in that aspect it's really offputting.

As I mentioned, that's the only part I don't enjoy about this anime, which is important, but there aspects I enjoy, for example, the concept is really interesting and pretty unique for an anime, the pacing is okay, it doesn't really bore me, the artstyle is pretty faithful to the manga and the animation is good as well. So overall I thinks it's a good anime for now.

I'd say give it a try but prepare for the dialogues being pretty cringey.

I’ve watched some bad anime in my time but this takes the cake for me.

The writing (or at least the “localization”) is way too political and reads like a string of nonsensical opinions taken directly from Reddit and 4Chan. The premise is kinda ridiculous to begin with but we live in an era where an anime about a dude being reincarnated as a vending machine is somewhat popular so I was willing to look past that but there really isn’t a shred of substance or deep-thinking (which wouldn’t be an issue if this series wasn’t trying to pretend like there is).

Seriously, don’t waste your time ... with this slop. Go watch Frieren or something.