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101. Last Period: The Journey to the End of the Despair
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37254/Last_Period__Owarinaki_Rasen_no_Monogatari
Spring 2018 (12 episodes)
My Score: 6/10, MAL Score: 6.38/10
Best Character: Choco (also special mention to the Wiseman trio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a6ts3eSNxY

Premise: In a world beset by monsters, Haru is just one adventurer of many trying to hold them back. Then someone robs his adventurer guild, forcing them to rebuild it from nothing.

The Good: Plenty of anime are little more than advertisements for gacha mobile games. Last Period, however, is a comedy set in the fantasy world of a gacha mobile game! Theres no fourth wall here. The characters do literal pulls on the gacha and lament how unfair the drop rates are when they get nothing but one-stars. The game is clearly cheaply made because the mayors in each town are all palette-swaps of each other, and this gets called out often too. Last Period is just goofy, stupid fun the whole way through. For example, Haru and friends regularly face off with a bad guy trio known as Wiseman. They always burst into the scene with a dumb intro like theyre Team Rocket, it's amazing. All of this comes together to create a show thats simultaneously super lame and surprisingly hilarious.

The Bad: Last Period doesnt take itself seriously at all. That works for the humor most of the time, but its a bit of a handicap when it comes to crafting a story for the audience to care about. The production quality also isnt the greatest, though the humor makes that work more often than not because the game world itself is characterized as being cheap.

Overall: Last Period is a lame show, but its just so charming in its lameness. I loved it when Choco made a self-aware comment or Haru pulled another one-star with the last bit of currency they had. The greatness of Wiseman also cannot be overstated, I love their theme song in the ED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUFhdk6mR3E

COMING UP TOMORROW:
Actual write-ups for the five airing anime I skipped (Shine Post, Luminous Witches, Call of the Night, Yakuza Babysitting, Mysterious Maid). Technically Shine Post and Maid are still airing but I doubt my opinion on them will dramatically shift at this point. I'll try to do all five, at least. This might end up taking two days.

In any case, we're done the 6/10 Above Average Tier! Next is a bit of a break to finalize the lower portion of the ranking. Then we finally move into my top 100 with the 7/10 Good Tier.