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Roll Over and Die is a series I picked up on a whim based on a reddit post I saw. It is a gritty, dark anime where the main character suffers from unfortunate things happening to her quite a bit, but she never loses hope despite it all. Oh, and it’s also a yuri series as well. Dark yuri battle anime is a very rare concept but that’s exactly what we’re being promised here, and I cannot wait to see more.

Overall: 8.2/10
Music: 9/10
Opening: “Liberator” by PassCode: Dark, gritty metal start with a promise of emotion, darkness, and gore. Has more emotional depth as the song goes on but those opening riffs set the tone for the series as a whole. Definitely worthy of being added to playlists.
Ending: “I need” by Yuki Tanaka Pretty and hopeful, very opposite of what the anime itself is, but that’s of course what’s needed after seeing some depressing stuff. It has the potential to be added to playlists, but I need to sit with it for longer to decide that.
The OST stands out a bit as well. Some unsettling music is good to have for a story like this.

Art Style: 7.5/10
Art Style is unique to a dark, gritty fantasy yuri. They do not shy away from blood and gore and darker themes, which is key for a horror anime. Very excited to see where this goes.

Setting/Worldbuilding: 8/10
Very unique setting, a dark and gritty yuri story doesn’t come around very often. Not only that, but the main character’s ability of reversal is interesting when put in practice and I think there is potential for the story to get much grittier, although I do hope for moments of happiness for the characters, even though the world is designed to work against that.

Characters: 8/10
The protagonist Flum, is plain and unassuming but is resilient and willing to fight for survival.
Her partymates betrayed her and sold her into slavery. Flum thought Cyrill was a kindred spirit and friend, but she stood by as Jean sold her into her horrible fate of slavery. Jean, however is revealed to have lied to the entire party about what happened with Flum. Meanwhile Jean just wants to be with Cyrill and saw Flum as competition.
Milkit is a girl that lived her whole life as a slave, to the point where she doesn’t want to go with Flum unless Flum accepts being her master.

Plot: 8.5/10
Flum Apricot, the MC, is in the hero’s party on a mission to defeat the demon lord but is sold into slavery by one of the party members, Jean, because he sees her as trash. The slaver ends up giving her a choice: die from being eaten by ghouls or fight back with a cursed sword. She chooses to fight back and, without realizing, activates her reversal skill. Freeing herself and fellow slave companion Milkit, she begins the journey to survive in a very screwed up world.
It is revealed that the party is not aware of what Jean did to Flum and that may cause more tension down the road.

In typical isekai fashion, overworked office worker dies (possibly of overwork) and gets reincarnated in another world. Follows a lot of isekai tropes (expulsion while being secretly OP being a major one) but if you like that, this is definitely the series for you! Very reminiscent of Farming in Another World, which I enjoyed quite a bit.

Overall: 7.4/10
Music: 6/10
Opening: “Okirakuze~shon” by Rei Nakashima. Fun but not amazing. Very catchy and can get stuck in your head, as it’s basically a tongue twister. Fun vibes, but doesn’t have much substance. I wouldn’t skip it personally, but it’s not worthy of being added to a playlist either. But it will get stuck in my head if I keep watching.
Ending: “Make It” by Nonoka Obuchi is catchy, fun and lighthearted, and is a lot better than the opening, almost to the point where I wish it was the opening itself. However it is not quite good enough to be added to a playlist for me personally, but I can see others enjoying it more for sure.
The OST itself didn’t stand out too much. Not bad but not quite good either, very standard OST.

Art Style: 7/10
Pretty standard animation quality, everything is simple and clean, and animated with a high quality that most modern anime tend to have nowadays.

Setting/Worldbuilding: 8.5/10
The setting and worldbuilding is where this series shines in my opinion. Yes it is an isekai about an overworked man that passes away somehow, but it takes it’s time building out the world through the eyes of the protagonist as he is reborn and is figuring out what is going on in this world with us.

Characters: 8/10
There is a strong supporting cast immediately introduced to us. The MC has a head maid, a combat trainer, a private tutor, and a boy that he buys to keep him from being sold to a worse fate by his father. The MC has a large family of four brothers and a very rude father who has high expectations for a child enough to want to murder said child because he didn’t meet his expectations.

Plot: 7.5/10
The plot isn’t very complicated. Man gets isekai’ed into a fantasy world with magic, is seen as a genius because he at the age of now 2 recalls everything from his past life and starts learning about the world.
When he turns 8 everything changes, as his father is disappointed by the fact that he has an aptitude not for the main elements, but for production magic and is almost killed but sent to exile instead.

One thing I wish we saw, was better pacing to the point where we got to see at least a little of the development of the MC’s magical abilities, seeing as that’s the main draw of the series. But taking the time to develop the story itself and then proceeding to leave the main dish for the second episode isn’t always a bad strategy, although I do disagree with it being used here a little bit.