English Dub Review: Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! “City of Dead Ends”

Overview(Possible Spoilers):

Mizarisa kills the goblin that was peeping on Hiro. She and Alicia put their differences aside to fight the goblins. Between them and Tesla, they handle the goblin siege. But all is not well in the city of Ted. Turns out Tesla and Queen Govern have been using the goblins to keep the people scared. They kidnap goblin children to make them attack the city and keep people in.

Our Take:

I imagined there would be some sort of twist but Tesla being a bad guy was not one of my predictions. It was all starting to come together for Hiro too. Alicia and Mizarisa were working together to fight the goblins and Hiro thought he had a chance at survival. He did start to think that it seemed a bit too easy, now he knows why. That 0.1% chance of survival is cause now he is facing off against Tesla.

I really hope that in the next episode Hiro gets some sort of moment. I don’t think he can all of a sudden beat Tesla but maybe he can rally Alicia to his side or something? He just hasn’t had anything good happen and the next episode is the last one so he needs a win. Even in this episode, he trusted Reona and told him about the track incident and she just laughed at him. With friends like that who needs enemies right?

To the best of my knowledge, the light novel that this series is based on isn’t licensed in English. I would kind of like to read it just to see if any of the characters ever grow. There hasn’t really been much so far, sure most of them are NPC’s but still. Reona hasn’t changed much at all and Hiro has tried to grow but the world just keeps pushing him back down.

Maybe one episode can change an entire perception of a series but I wouldn’t bet on it. I was really interested in this series when it first was announced but it’s been hard to get through. I just really don’t like it when the main character gets shit on for no reason with no growth or change in sight. Hopefully, the last episode changes my opinion but I highly doubt it. I don’t even know who to recommend this series to. At least  Funimation has been good about getting this one out weekly so I imagine it will all be over next week.