BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense (2020)

[痛いのは嫌なので防御力に極振りしたいと思います。]

Season 1

Director: Shin Onuma, Mirai Minato
Studio: Silver Link
Starring: Kaede Hondo, Ruriko Noguchi, Saori Hayami
Episodes: 12

Synopsis:
A newbie player of a VRMMORPG starts with a character build with maxed out defense stats.

Impressions:
As much as I'd hope more authors would resist the urge to have OP protagonists so there can be actual stakes to the conflict, in the absence of that, at least the author can do something interesting with it and that's what we have here. At first we actually have some significant weaknesses that offset our heroine Maple's broken nature, but a lot of those get compensated for with only a few limitations put in place in response. At least it gets lampshaded by other players and the longsuffering devs. Fortunately, she doesn't just solo everything and actually has guildmates to round things out. The supporting cast is fairly interesting and the rival characters from the leading guilds do actually put up a little bit of a challenge, but more than compelling conflict, the story is about the comedy of how Maple continuously breaks the game. If that sort of thing sounds appealing to you, then it's worth a watch.

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