This review contains spoilers Roll Over and Die started off as just another kicked out of hero party show and stays that way for the most part. You got the usual deal with everyone being dicks to the main girls and them going around with their usual adventuring alongside some nice SoL. Flum and Milkits relationship is pretty cute. The last 3 eps however saw a significant quality increase that banks on previously established plot threads to become something much bigger than what it seemed at first. First was the Ink twist a blind girl with eyes sealed shut. It was previously established that her heart doesnt work and she was taking medicine which seemed to be the treatment for it. You had these eyemonster things running around town alongside. Ep 10 reveals that these eyes actually were coming out of Ink the whole time. This makes a ton of sense because Ink had refused to elaborate upon where she came from so this leading up to her being a church experiment along with her sealed eyes feels inevitable in retrospect. The reason her heart wasnt beating was because she had already been turned inhuman and the medicine was literally just to keep her powers in check. Ep 11 showed us with the Dein fight that people experimented with Origin powers have a core instead of a heart as previously hinted at by Eterna when she inspected Ink. This leads to Flum deducing that the eyeballs are in fact not under Deins control. This is also helped by the ep 4 flashback emphasizing Neigass surprise at Flum breaking the core now cementing that Flums reversal is the one thing that negates Origin powers. What Dein said at the end really stuck. About how Flum was that close to ending up like Dein with their situations being similar. But while Flum got to have good and supportive friends Dein went into the Church. Obviously they arent 1:1 comparable since Dein just sucks but its an interesting parallel to bring up nonetheless. Ep 12 greatly increased my opinion of the whole show and showed how unexpectedly thought out it was the whole time. We are given proper lore for Origin and how this world came around the real reason behind the hero partys formation in the first place Neigass reason to be in Anichidley the mysterious monsters Flum previously fought and the Demons actual role in all of this. Previously it was said that the demons arent actually at odds with the humans or kill them something that stuck with me. They actually are the ones to protect the seal on origin and the ones that attacked Maria/Saras village were conspiring with the church. Like damn... the scale of this world and plot has been set way higher than I estimated. Still dont wanna rate it too highly because it took a damn while to really sell me on itself and the characters themselves are mainly ok at best but if it ever gets a second season I will definitely be there.
50 /100
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