All the quality you'd expect of a monkey with a typewriter.
This show was written like terrible anime filler episodes. The main characters constantly attack and villainise the main "villain" with an unhealthy obsession. This story is really about the main villain who is being bullied and betrayed by the main characters. Every character written on the "good" side are over-exaggerated, jester-equivalent archetypes that go through zany and irrelevant side events that can be literally skipped over and you miss nothing. The main character Nam-soon is an aggressive, thoughtless character that is clearly on the spectrum that other people tolerate, for some reason, despite the constant, cringey and awkward moments as she bumbles through the whole story. Her mother is a woman who thinks she's the smartest person in the room and constantly acts like she's 4D-chess-playing James Bond but has all the grace and cunning of Paul Blart the Mall Cop. The writers try so hard to make her a strong female role, but instead made her a cringe-inducing clown. The grandmother is just there. She has no purpose in the story other than to fill air time with something that isn't relevant to the story. She does not add anything to the story other than filling the episode with more mindless, nonsensical events to fill space between the 10 minutes of actual story. The main male character? Hard to notice he's even there. You could have cast a lama in a hat and it would have added as much to the show and they did. The writers wrote this show around the pain and anguish of the main villain and what brought him to do the awful things he does. They made the audience sympathise with him, his story, and his struggle, only to have him be betrayed, bullied, and antagonised by everyone in the show. You feel deeply sorry for the character and it makes the main "good" characters seem like clueless, awful, playground bullies. Even at the end of the show, the characters struggled to understand why the villain would do all those nice and caring things if he was so "evil." Their view was "oh, he was born in the wrong family, I guess, otherwise" and I quote "he might have been smart." If you want a show where you deeply hate the main characters and strongly sympathise with the main villain only to have them be abused and mistreated by people that the world says are "good", all while wasting your time with hours and hours of useless "obligatory anime beach episode" filler with all the filling capabilities of an orangutan throwing poop, then this is the show for you. Otherwise, do yourself the favour and don't watch it.
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