Aniview – I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin

Aniview – I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin

[Music] Coming right out of the gate here, but I’m a Noble on the Brink of Ruin is the worst written anime I’ve ever seen. I’m not exaggerating either, and I’ve seen some truly woeful deaths. So, the story follows a guy who takes over the body of Liam, which is never brought up again, and he goes on to gain more and more magical powers and do the most nonsensical random stuff possible. And that’s it. All of his insanely powerful magic abilities are just handed to him, which he instantly masters. Summoning spirits of each element to craft whatever he wants. No problem. An infinite item box that has an unending artillery gun. Why, of course. A room that he can instantly spawn to trap and destroy any enemy, which also houses his own house. Sure. A similar box that can rapidly age anything non-living, which he gains literally the same day he needed something to defeat the only threat he came across. Well, why not? The ability to clone himself dozens of times, which he immediately kills after their job is done. That’s fine. Wait, no, that’s actually really horrible. What about the ability to give other people, willing or not, more power in exchange for neverending servitude to himself? Do you realize what you’ve done? Oh, yes, the familiar spell. The spell that gives the target a fraction of their caster’s power, but they can never disobey their master, no matter what they ask of them. If Liam asks his followers to kill some orphan puppies, they would immediately have to do that. But what was that thing about the willing or not, you ask? Oh well, the anime forgot the whole kissing hand aspect of it. And so Liam can just turn entire groups into his familiars without even bothering to explain what he’s doing. Some fun facts outright stated in the show. The familiar spell is very wellknown, effortless for mages to use, no laws against it, and 1% of the population can use magic. So naturally, no one else ever bothers to use this insane spell. No evil kings, no evil mages. Nah. Liam’s the only one of literal hundreds of thousands to ever use this widely available spell. Guess that brings me to the world building or lack thereof. Here’s the map which showcases Liam’s nation, which he utterly fails to name, as well as the kingdoms of J, Chrysador, and Paltra with an impossible river and nonsensical naming systems. Jamil with a region called Agi has names such as Liam, Scarlet, Bruno, and Raymond. Speaking of Jamil, there’s this dragon Ray Gun who turns into another girl for Liam who works with the former hero to found the Jamil kingdom. Ray girl then introduced the noble proving system, aka when a family is appointed to the nobility, they must prove their worth to the kingdom every three generations, or else all their power, possessions, and money are stripped away from them. Here’s a fun fact. The early Roman Empire was run by two consoles who had only one year to run their empire before the next election. This meant they would almost always spend their time desperately trying to win battles and achieve glory no matter the risk. Regirl’s system has essentially made an entire third of the kingdom’s nobility, aka everyone who runs anything, desperate beyond all comparison to achieve anything worthy. Communications are back up. Everything is on fire. Incidentally, Rayirl, who founded Jamil, has statues of her everywhere and is currently being woripped by the royal family. So, naturally, when she was sealed away by Liam’s great-grandfather, he was awarded his family status. Um, I think there’s a contradiction there. Liam’s father then tried to kill Rael, but lost 900 men and failed. This is where the whole title noble on the brink of ruin thing comes into play. In episode three, Air Brother unseals Rayel for no reason, and Liam gets blessed with Ray girl for using his easy door power on her children. Because of this, he’s given the Order of the Phoenix, whatever that means, on top of being granted the title of Baron for literal shits and giggles. Neither of which uphold their family’s position for some reason. Good grief, there is so much nonsense here, it’s hard to keep track. And that’s just the intro to the nonsensical slop. With Rego inside of him, Liam goes to the forest, finds some pixies, turns them into familiar elves, goes to the promised land, shoots water from the ground, which somehow makes a river that never turns up again. Finds some wolves, turns them into his familiars, finds some trolls, and makes them into his familiars. Then suddenly, a Dracula shows up. Not the Dracula, a Dracula already undermining this threat. But apparently this is a worldending event that occurs every few centuries to further pummel the world building. Thankfully Liam obtained the aging box the same day so traps him in that. A Dracula had 10,000 zombified followers. So Liam instantly makes them into his familiars without bothering to explain anything. The village then instantly turns into a city but still with no farms. And that’s basically it for the story. There is also the whole load of moronic conventions Liam creates, such as putting bland broth over dry ass noodles to make the bestest noodles ever, or minting not bronze coins with less of the valuable copper in them, which somehow makes them more valuable. Or my personal favorite, taking Miffil, the most precious metal in the entire world, and smooshing it with molten rock and paving every street in and out of his city. Also, every man, woman, and child can use deadly, deadly magic. Not citizens of the city, mind you, but literally anyone within the vicinity of it. Just brilliant. I’m not lying when I say every piece of this anime is truly horrible. Initially, I broke down every episode detailing everything wrong with the show, and that ended up being 33 pages long, or well over an hour video. As stated, the world building is abysmal. The characters outside of Liam only serve a single purpose, which they utterly fail at anyway. Meanwhile, Liam is a moronic ass. He constantly makes stuff that should never conceivably work, constantly saying the bloody obvious, and is insanely self-centered. Hell, he was introduced to Jamil’s court engineer, and Liam immediately and without permission cloned him and teleported him back to his village to make him work indefinitely. There are layers to how [ __ ] up that is. The plot can entirely be shuffled around without any difference whatsoever. There are no themes to speak of, and normally I don’t talk about the animation, but my god, this one is too much. We got 2D barrels, woefully horrible perspectives, wine that doesn’t empty, a village and crowd that entirely changes, and quite possibly the worst drawn city in anime. I mean, just look at this. Good grief. Even the directing is crap in this. This scene has the opening, then a flashback hap-hazardly dumped in the middle of it before the moment later when the title shows up, making it confusingly appear as two or three separate scenes. Liam is walking on stone streets and then is suddenly on dirt. Liam enters his room and the door turns transparent. In the next scene, go for spins around and is suddenly in a different place. I guess even the creators couldn’t stomach to rewatch this either. Everything about I’m a Noble is a clear example of an anime without passion. I can’t believe anyone involved in the making of this shambles gave the tiniest [ __ ] for their work. Not a moment of research was given to the inventions. Not a second look was given to the animation. The directing was slap dash. The world building is completely nonsensical. And the characters couldn’t even achieve two dimensions. In short, I’m a noble is just the worst that anime has to offer. Channel update to close out. So, you know those endofear videos I made? Well, I was making one for last year and was honestly nearly finished with it, but halfway through compiling it all together, I decided no, this thing is just not fun to watch. Briefly reviewing 70 anime, most of which were merely meh, kind of turned into a dry ass list more than anything. So yeah, despite spending a lot of time and energy on that video, it is gone. No more. From now on, I’m going to make much shorter videos and aim to do so every 2 weeks. All of which will concentrate on random anime I find interesting enough to discuss. If, and I do mean if, I have the time between these and my other projects, then I might make longer videos, such as say that 33page script of IMO. And lastly, you may have noticed the channel rebranding. This was a long time coming and I think this will work a hell of a lot better.

I’m a noble is perhaps the worst written anime I’ve ever seen. The characters, world and plot are amongst the worst of the genre and alongside the woeful directing and animation, I believe this anime was entirely made without a shred of passion.

Anyway, as stated in the video I’m gonna aim to publish similar length videos every other Wednesday at around 5pm GMT (little late with this one, woops). I’m confident with the rebranding and will be committed to providing more videos more often.