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Full Undead Unluck anime writeup since I beat it.

For the most part, I liked the show quite a bit. The cast is pretty good (though Fuuko isn't quite as strong as the others), and the worldbuilding is sublime. I love all the ways this world differs from regular Earth, the Rules are a ton of fun, and the UMAs are really cool too. The show hits some great emotional beats, too. Feels quite a bit darker than most Jump series, with tons of people dying all the time. The powers are really cool, and it's always neat to see a new character show what they can do. I don't think the human villains are that interesting in general, though. Under feels pointless. Why not just have Union fighting the UMAs? There's tons of potential for interesting stuff there. Rip is probably the worst character, basically being an annoying shit for all of his screentime, and incredibly stupid to boot (saying he'll use the Ark anyway after being told that doing so will kill his entire family and fail to save his dead sister lol). That'd be a minor problem if the show kept up its other strengths, since stuff like the Galaxy episode is so good. The Andy's past arc was fun (though I'm sure it's the first of many since he has a lot of past), and the Autumn arc was good too - Anno Un is an excellent character.

The problem is in the adaptation. It'd be great if I could just say this is a bad adaptation so you should skip it and read the manga (you probably should anyway), but it's really mixed. For the first half or so, it's perfect. Decently paced, fantastic animation, great direction, everything you could want. But at some point, it gets really recap heavy. Normally, this wouldn't be a bad thing, since I don't mind skipping recaps at the beginnings of episodes, but these ones are mixed in to the regular content in a bizarre fashion. People will be talking about the past, and then we get like a 15 second or 20 second or 90 second recap of a previous episode. And it happens all the time! They really wanted to stretch the show to end at a certain point I guess, but I wish they'd just done a 20 episode season instead of 24 episodes if they were gonna do that. I still like the show overall, but man, this could've been a classic.