The first episode of the new anime released in 2023 Working for God in a Godless World has made viewers both disappointed and excited.
The brand new series from the fledgling Studio Palette, a Japanese animation studio founded in 2018, that combines 2D and 3D art styles to create shocking effects, is soon a contender for the show. Worst animated film of the year award. The anime community has been rocking the series on Twitter, with one particularly bizarre scene featuring a CGI-animated buffalo-like monster drawing much criticism. While the use of 3D in the pilot episode was seen by some as downright funny, others have pointed out that the underlying 2D art style actually looks good and the anime’s premise looks appealing, making the distracting use of CGI a huge disappointment for the new season. series that would otherwise be promising.
The spring 2023 anime season is off to a strong start with the release of series like Demon Slayer Season 3, the first ashless Pokémon anime, Pokémon Horizons, and many others that have all garnered considerable attention. While there have been series like My Home Hero that both critics and fans alike have rejected, it may be too early to dismiss Working for God as one of this season’s lousy movies based solely on its animation. The original manga by writer Aoi Akashiro and artist Sonshō Hangetsuban, which enjoyed success in the seinen market, recently reached its sixth volume and expanded with a spin-off manga titled, My Sister What to do in a world without gods. Given that Studio Palette is relatively new to the industry, with only a handful of animated movie adaptations to their name, they may just need time and patience to find their footing when it comes to bringing Working for God to fruition. .
Working for God in a world without God is a unique Isekai story
Working for God in a Godless World tells the story of Yukito, a young man whose parents were cult leaders sacrificed him ritually, resulting in Yukito’s reincarnation into a strange new world. Yukito finds herself in a land completely devoid of religion but where an authoritarian nation controls the life and death of its citizens. While trying to save a friend from a state-mandated execution, both of them die, only for the gods of Yukito’s old religion to revive them once more. The series offers a unique twist on the isekai genre, which has become remarkably homogeneous in recent years.
The first episode of the Working for God anime is available to stream on Crunchyroll. The manga currently has no English distributor, but is published in Japanese by Hero’s Inc.
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