Not gonna mince words here. It's repugnant, juvenile, fetishistic crap. You like it? Fine whatever, you do you. But don't try to parlay some philosophic crap to try and play up a show that's essentially a juvenile edgelord power fantasy as something other than that. The series has no issue fetishizing it's most horrific moments of rape with how it frames them on top of them being there essentially for shock value(The Thermian Arguement -
https://mxplx.com/meme/4363/)*, it suffers from HUGE tonal dissonance in that it can't seem to decide if it's a shonen SoL type series at times with gags and humor or a brutal misanthropic horror-fest, it's MASSIVELY blatant in it's power fantasy pandering*(Last three paragraphs -
https://www.animenewsnetwor..., and it really isn't hard dark fantasy. Berserk is hard dark fantasy. This is just juvenile dark fantasy. The kind of stuff a moody angsty teenager going through, "The Phase" would think is "adult" and "mature" no different than every pretender back in the late 80's and 90's thought when they tried to follow in Watchmen's foot steps.
I'll just leave some choice links on some reviews and posts.
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https://myanimelist.net/for... - Users ShadowMonkey, KasutoSaki, and papsoshea pretty much express my thoughts better than I could ever write them out and that goes for the series as a whole not.
* Please don't even use the Sword Priest lady as an argument of it addressing rape victims coping given that her most defining feature is how busty she is with pretty much every thread about the recent episode pointing out her boobs every other post.
*To add to this point, apparently there are official pinups of the female characters? Part of me wants to confirm instead of just basing, but if true it's just so fucking tasteless given how often violent rape is used as gimmick.
