With the courtroom being noisy, a judge yells out, “Order! Order in the court!”. Then some guy starts to place his order and wants a rib eye steak that is medium rare plus beer. HAHAHAHA!!! Sorry. I just wanted to make a joke out of that as I watched Big Order. Sorry if the name felt misleading but I guess that was only me as I thought this was going to be some sort of cooking show or related to food. If not, a futuristic dystopian police state whereby the persecuted people live under a 24/7 surveillance state. How wrong I was. Instead, be careful what you wish for because as one kid would carelessly wish for the destruction of the world, he got what he wanted. And now we got strange people with strange powers and ordinary people hating those powerful people for f*cking up their lives. I guess wishing for the generic money and power don’t seem all that bad now, eh?
OVA
Another bored day in class for Eiji Hoshimiya. Until the teacher introduces a new transfer student, Rin Kurenai. Hot chick alert. When he goes home, he is shocked Rin is pleading for his help as she has lost her key. As he does so, she pushes him back and bite his ear? She confesses she loves him. Next day, it seems like the duo are dating. Lovely lunch at the school rooftop. She invites him to come to her place. Her parents are not home. Get the hint? As he is about to open her door, he feels a strange sensation. Thinking nothing much of it, he carries on but Rin tasers him. But when he wakes up, he realizes he is naked in bed with Rin. Was that a dream? Can’t remember. Oh well, Rin may help jog his memories with another round of sex! More strange visions. Eiji kissing Rin in another place. Then he is with some shrine priestess, Iyo. He finds her ribbon amusing but she warns him too late as he tries to touch it. Another change of scene. Eiji meets with up his younger sister, Sena. She hugs him but another scene change. In a café in which Daisy the waitress asking him for his order. He wants to wait till Sena arrives. A faint Sena voice telling him to run as she has already given up. Eiji feels strange. He cannot remember. Now he is with Sena and she thinks it is because Rin kept him from sleeping every night. Yes, Rin admits to it, much to Iyo’s dismay. As he feels strange over all this, Daisy tells him it is his turn. He is in the current world of his own. He left his past behind and the dreams he imagine are no more than illusions. His past and dreams are merely drawn out from his current world. So now she is asking for his wish.
Eiji wakes up to his usual life. In class, Rin as the new transfer student is introduced. Same thing plays out except that instead of flirting with him when she asks for help the first time, she tasers him. In a weird place, he sees many corpses filled with hatred and wanting him dead. They blame him for being the Order who destroyed the world 10 years ago and they have died from it. Now Rin introduces herself as an assassin. Long story short, she is out for revenge as her parents died in a fire in Great Destruction. As he tries to plead for mercy, she skewers her sword into his palm. Desperate and before he knows it, suddenly her sword pierces through her own stomach. Panic, he runs away but strangely, Rin is before him as she orders the military helicopter to fire at him as he falls off the roof. Finding himself back at the café again, Daisy is asking him for his wish. His order. Now we see a chaotic scene of Eiji engaging in what I believe are battles with other Orders. Many are against him and have a grudge against him. Then he uses his power to skewer them all? Daisy is happy he has finally remembered. He wakes up to his normal life and then finds himself back in the café. WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?!
Episode 1
I guess we need a proper series to explain what sh*t f*ckery happened in the OVA. As narrated by the teacher, the world was almost destroyed 10 years ago by an event known as the Great Destruction. Although the cause is unknown, during that period, many Orders appeared and they are known to turn his/her wish into great power. Currently there are about 2000 Orders as the teacher personally opines they are the ones who caused Great Destruction. Eiji leaves class on pretence he isn’t well. We hear him narrate that he is an Order and the one who caused Great Destruction all because he made a wish for the world to be destroyed. He is now hiding his identity as public resentment against Orders are high. He returns home, shocked to see Daisy. She is the one who gave him such powers and turning him into an Order. That is after all, her job as a wish granting fairy. Daisy points out he misremembered what happened 10 years ago and that world destruction was not his wish. However she is unsure of his power but looks forward to the day he finally uses it. A confused Eiji remembers his wish for world destruction was only because he was mimicking a cartoon character called Evil Ranger who had a similar wish. Eiji visits the hospital where Sena is staying. She is unaware he is an Order but thinks if she had such powers, she would love to stay with him forever along with their resurrected parents.
In class, Rin is a new transfer student. Eiji returns home and is surprised Rin is asking him for help. But little does he know, she suddenly tasers him out. When he wakes up, Rin introduces herself as an assassin out to kill him. As seen in the OVA, she is out for revenge as her parents died in a fire in Great Destruction. She blames him and has been waiting for this day. Without the help of her superiors, she would never have achieved this dream. Then the similar part of her skewering her sword into his palm but suddenly her sword pierces through her own stomach. Panic Eiji runs as he worries if the police finds Rin’s corpse, they will link it to him and in no time they will find out he is an Order. Abraham Louis Fran receives reports of Rin disobeying order just for revenge. This report is also received by a group of weirdoes who are having their own meeting on the matter.
When Eiji goes to the hospital, he is shocked to see Rin alive and taking Sena hostage. Knowing she cannot best him by conventional means, she is taking her hostage. She stabs her sword into Sena and dares him to quickly come save her. Rin lets the guards deal with him. The anger wells up in Eiji but before he knows it, he is in the car park as Daisy confirms he did not kill the guards but his brute strength knocked them out. She confirms that Rin is also an Order and although she was also burnt along with her parents, before she died, she made a wish for regeneration. That is her power. Daisy still longs for him to use his real power and puts a limiter in his palm so as not for it to go out of control like it did 10 years ago. Forcing him to remember his real wish, Eiji goes to confront Rin who has the guards fire at him. However he is still alive as he remembers Evil Ranger’s wish wasn’t to destroy the world but to rule the world for peace. That is also his wish now. Rin is shocked that she uses her own powers to heal Sena as Eiji reveals his true power that has everyone in his domain bend to his will. With Bind Dominator, he has turned this entire building into his domain. Unless you escape his domain, no laws of physics or logic will work against him. He is going to make Rin his first victim by making her submit to her. Uhm, why this look like tentacle rape?!
Episode 2
Eiji makes his orders clear. As he wants a world where Sena can live happily, he orders Rin shall not harm him or Sena. Unamused with this disgrace, she tries to kill him but she just cannot. She falls into despair. Her dreams for this day are dashed. Although Eiji tries to give her hope that she can find other dreams. Like marrying someone? Surprisingly she accepts because as long as she stays by his side, she may get a chance to kill you. Flirting interrupted as Fran uses his time stopping powers to rein in both of them to Dazaifu City Government Office. As Eiji is held in solitary confinement there, he is surprised Rin comes to see him. In fact, she has disabled all the guards to rescue him! No, she’s not in love with him to break him out. Rather, she can’t have anyone else kill him. She tries to kill him but once again cannot. As she leads him through various strange places as excuse of a way out, it is part of her ploy to indirectly kill him. Like in the vent, she shoots randomly but the bullet strikes back at her! Crossing this dangerous pipeline? She falls instead! And then she gets bloodily clobbered by all the traps. Thank goodness for her regeneration, eh? As Eiji still wants to go save Sena, Rin advises him not to because Fran is guarding her. However Eiji wants to grant Sena’s wish to stay together forever. As explained, Eiji’s father a divorcee married another divorcee who has a daughter AKA Sena. So yeah, not blood related. At first he wasn’t interested in her but the more he visited her, the more he realizes her genuine wish that she is happy to have him as her older brother. He laments his wish destroyed all that 10 years ago. Had he continued acting as her brother a little bit longer, everything would’ve been fine. Sena has a blood disease and has less than 6 months to live. He laments had he kept his wish hidden a bit longer, he wouldn’t have cared what happened to him.
With guards now in the picture, Eiji uses his powers to stop them. Then he makes haste to face off with Fran and throws his grenades? Fran throws it back at him! Now it becomes a chicken race because Eiji needs to race to get the grenades not to explode in his domain while Fran races to stop Eiji’s time. If both fail, both die from the explosion. This is stopped by Fuwa Raidou whose power is wanting peace. Popping up are the top 10 officers from Dazaifu. All of them are Orders. They are in descending order: 1) Raidou; 2) Benkei Narukami; 3) Yoshitsune Hiiragi; 4: Iyo; 5) Taikei Nehara; 6) Lorin Wright; 7) Kokudo Soumoku; 8) Nene Minamoto; 9) Mari Kunou; 10) Ayahito Sundan. Hiiragi explains Sena’s condition is being halted by Fran’s time until they find a cure. They also never intended to harm him as this was all just to test him. 10 years ago after Great Destruction, Japan lost the ability to govern as a nation and was placed under the rule of UN Interim Governance Mechanism (UNIGM). Noting the destruction is all part to end old humanity, the humanity is where Orders will lead the new world. Thanks to Iyo’s divination, that’s how they found Eiji. Announcing Eiji as their king to the world, their first order is to take over the world. As Kyuushuu is Dazaifu’s HQ, they are going to target the Yamaguchi base. Yes, they have declared war. If Eiji refuses, he will be fighting the entire world himself as now everyone knows he is the cause behind Great Destruction. Eiji is not happy with this blackmail but Hiiragi believes it benefits both of them as he may find someone with the ability to cure Sena. So become the king of the new world and our puppet! Awaiting for his decision, Eiji binds them all under his domain and all are glad to serve him.
Episode 3
With no choice, Eiji agrees to play along in this game since he can no longer turn back. He plans to use them for his own gains. Once a new world order is built, they will focus in finding a cure for Sena. In a strategy meeting, Mari discusses operations to take Yamaguchi. To Eiji’s shock, he will be going into the frontlines and not the officers. When he opines of trying to place the coastal areas of Kyuushuu under his domain, Mari calls this defensive strategy too weak. When he wants to hear her strategy, she claims she cannot go further! She shuts him up he is just playing king and should follow her orders because she is the strategist master! Confused Eiji rues that his power is not enough to control them. Surprisingly, Iyo passes him a handgun. As part of the plan, Eiji has a live conference with the PM of Japan. He accuses Eiji of brainwashing Dazaifu officers and they are following him against their will. As such, the PM now presents family members of the Dazaifu officers and they will be beheaded for conspiring to commit treason. If they are truly under Eiji’s rule, then they can only watch in silence as their family gets executed. As one by one get beheaded, Eiji reels in shock of this madness. But the PM blames him for creating this mad world. Before they kill the next child (supposedly related to Mari), Eiji stands and warns that he can kill as many but it won’t matter. Because Eiji takes out his handgun and shoots all his own men! This shocks the PM as he now has doubts about Dazaifu buggers rebelling. Eiji warns if they don’t want to end up like them, then surrender. After broadcast is cut off, we see it was all an act as Eiji used his power to stop the bullet before it kills.
The mission to infiltrate Yamaguchi begins. Eiji is paired with Rin to head into some tunnel. But when the tunnel starts crumbling, Eiji’s domain isn’t big enough to prevent it from collapsing. It is then Iyo uses her power of divination, to follow her steps and safely reach out of the tunnel. As Eiji thanks her, he also can’t help be curious about her ribbon. Or rabbit ears? Before he could touch it, Iyo escapes and cowers in fear. It seems she fears she will get impregnate if he touches it! As a priestess, her divination power is only because she is a virgin. If she loses that, she’ll lose that power. Okay. If you say so. Suddenly Rock God is in the vicinity. This stumps Mari not many know about this operation to take down Rock God and it is not supposed to cross paths with Eiji. Unfortunately, Eiji can’t dominate this avatar so with Iyo, they hide. Iyo’s legs are weakened as Eiji helps her to stand. She tries to hint something about him but as she trips, he accidentally grabs her ribbon. Suddenly she gets impregnated! OMFG WHAT THE HELL???!!! Rin encounters Kagekiyo Tairano who is the master of Rock God and ruler of Yamaguchi. Iyo can’t hold on much longer. She is gonna give birth! OMFG WHAT THE HELL???!!!
Episode 4
Kagekiyo is trying to convince Rin to switch sides. She also shares her same goal to kill Eiji. She reveals a nuclear missile from UN is going to strike Yamaguchi and it will wipe the entire city off the map and poison the area. That is the real reason why Dazaifu sent Eiji to Yamaguchi. So the only way is to kill him before the missile is launched. Rin is shocked that there is a traitor among them who leaked this intel. Iyo tells Eiji of this strike too. He leaves her in a hospital as Iyo warns Eiji that ordinary people who are not Orders cannot see his domain and he must still take care of his identity. At this rate the missile will hit here. She wants him to abandon her and run but he won’t. Realizing Dazaifu chased him out was the only way to defend Kyuushuu, he tries to contact his comrades but notices something jamming the signal. Rin doesn’t care all about the complicated stuffs and refuses to work with Kagekiyo. All she cares is killing Eiji with her own hands. Kagekiyo shocked this girl is an even bigger idiot. Eiji destroys a jamming antenna and contact Rin to defeat whoever is controlling Rock God. He believes this mission is to confirm his identity and whereabouts. Defeating Kagekiyo will buy them some time before the missile’s launch. If they don’t know where he is, they can’t fire. Unfortunately the missile is launched. Because if Eiji has managed to destroy a jamming antenna, this pinpoints his location. Rin is now petrified by Kagekiyo. Kagekiyo goes to meet Eiji. She then reveals him to the rest of the people and wants them to help her kill him. The people start to get angry and recognize the guy who destroyed their world. They start pelting rocks as Eiji could see the dead from Rock God. Kagekiyo says this is made from the tombstones of those who died. Eiji tells them to hate him later but now he wants them to evacuate. Problem gets worse as the nurse stabs him from the back. Kagekiyo relishes everything will end now and thanks Ayahito for the intel. So he is the mole?
Eiji won’t give up and uses his power to have everyone including Rock God obey him to corporate. They can hate him for all they want but he won’t let anyone get hurt from now on. He will not run this time. I don’t know about Eiji using gravity to stop the missile? Rock God grabs it but the force is too great. Just in time, Benkei drops in to pulverize it to an atomic level. That’s his power. But another missile is launched. Kagekiyo is left confused that Eiji saved them. But she psycho herself claiming they failed to kill Eiji instead. She blames him this will not absolve him for his sins and all those who left behind with the pain of losing their loved ones will continue to hate him. Before Eiji thinks he is alone and no one is on his side, Benkei thanks him for doing his part to save the hostages during the broadcast. Even Lorin reveals Mari is thankful to him for saving her nephew. Trying to use the same Rock God trick, however the first impact is causing it to break apart. Eiji uses his power to protect the people from the falling debris. This further shocks Kagekiyo because she was willing to sacrifice her land and the people just to kill him. She thought that would be for the best for the world’s revenge. Even though all hate him, he is still trying to protect. She is so confused now! Eiji probably has everyone change their minds to not be petty about the past. Do something about the present! Show that your power is more than just hatred! Ayahito manages to free Rin from her petrification and send her to Eiji’s side. As she regenerates Rock God, it grabs the missile again before Benkei smashing it. Meanwhile Hiiragi contacts those UNSC guys to negotiate a deal. He wants them to withdraw in exchange for learning the truth. Ayahito returns to Hiiragi’s side as the later reveals he is a double spy. Hiiragi says Eiji was just a diversion and the real target has been secured. Hikari Tarutama whose power is to neutralize all nukes. Yeah, it doesn’t matter how many nukes they have. It won’t work anymore.
Episode 5
Fanservice reward and boobs galore! F*ck yeah! As Rin continues to ponder about her own conflicting circumstances, Kagekiyo tries to convince Rin to team up with her to kill Eiji. However Kagekiyo is on a personal mission to ‘climb every huge mountain’! OMFG this b*tch is trying to molest all the free tits she can get her hands on!!! Thank you for the great fanservice! And somehow, Iyo’s pregnancy is gone! WTF I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON!!! Soon, Eiji received word from Lorin that Hiiragi has ordered Fran to awaken Sena. They rush back as Hiiragi tells him to play along to start her treatment. As her memories are still fuzzy, Eiji thinks of playing along with the lie so as not to let her get involved. But when Hiiragi reads out that Sena has an incurable disease and will die within 6 months, Eiji is devastated. He tries to spin things but it seems Sena has known this due to way Eiji has been acting. She lectures him about trying to shoulder everything by himself. Hiiragi gives hope there may be a cure. This Order known as Kamimusubi in Izumo. You bet Eiji wants to go now! Later Hiiragi sees the test results that Sena is not an Order as expected. This should determine how they handle her. With the number of Orders increasing, it is only a matter of time before the second Great Destruction happens. Dazaifu must conquer the world by then. We see Sena wanting Eiji to promise never to leave her alone. And then they make out???!!! Oh well, they’re not blood related to begin with… Eiji then hears Hiiragi is trying to conduct some experiment on Sena to see if she has an aptitude to become an Order. Eiji tries to defy him and take Sena but to his surprise, Sena goes right back to Hiiragi’s side. Hiiragi wants Eiji to steal Japan for them.
Thus the next mission begins with Eiji and Rin heading down to Hiroshima region to turn it into Eiji’s domain. The mission looks like a success. Iyo then has a strange premonition as she asks a question if Eiji’s domination power were to confront with another similar power, who would dominate? The newer wish would overwrite and take priority. As Rin is still conflicted about her goal, Hanzou Hattori will be glad to have her fulfil her wish. She puts him under his spell. Eiji is running away from a few punks as he is stumped his power isn’t working. Eiji then stumbles into Hattori who orders Rin to kill him. Because his power doesn’t work on her, she manages to cut off his hand. Benkei and Iyo to the rescue. Eiji refuses to retreat as he wants to save Rin as Iyo reveals the real reason Dazaifu was created. It was to fight him. That is why they know about his domination powers that activates upon physical contact. With Benkei and Iyo down, Eiji targets Hattori himself. However Hattori says he is only a pawn and an extension of that man’s power. That man shows up and tries to take Eiji. Luckily Hiiragi shows up in time and shows us his power to rewrite fact into fiction. This means all truths are turned into lies as Eiji’s capture is undone and his wounds completely healed. Benkei and Iyo revive too. However Rin escapes with the enemy as Eiji presses for answers. Daisy answers that man is Eiji’s biological father, Gennai.
Episode 6
Eiji calls out to Daisy’s lies because his father died in the Great Destruction. Daisy says they’re heading to Izumo. Do you want to go or not? Using her divination, Iyo travels with Eiji to Izumo. Iyo’s feelings for him has grown but Eiji keeps talking about Rin. When she tries to hint about it, he assures he will never make her worry anymore by not touching her ribbon! He will never get her pregnant again? That shock face is priceless. As they trek into a cave, Iyo is torn about her predictions because if it turns out wrong and she follows it, she will never be with Eiji. Eventually as the cave caves in, they fall into an underground river. To her disappointment, she woke up too fast before he could administer mouth to mouth CPR. As they dry, because he keeps talking about Rin and apologizing for dragging her into this, Iyo has finally had it. She starts crying and forces him to notice her feelings by stripping naked! Look at all you want! Her father always refused her to be near men but she always kept thinking about her future husband because that was what her first divination was. And then she met him. Laughter is heard. All the gods showing to laugh at this shameful love story? Also showing up is the Izumo priestess, Kuroko Shirabyoushi AKA Kamimusubi. She can help adlib some steamy romance between them. Although she will support their love, she refuses to help Eiji cure Sena. Because she doesn’t like boring men. If he plays and beats her in this kemari game, she might change her mind. Challenge accepted.
At first, Eiji finds it hard to face off with her because of her vitality from all the gods. Even with Iyo’s prediction, it is a huge challenge. This is because despite her perfect divination on where to go, Iyo’s communication to him sucks. So the only way is to play this together holding hands? Well, if she taps her finger, it signals a certain direction, making the communication more direct and faster. Thanks to that, they are able to beat Kamimusubi in this ball game. When the area starts to flood, Fumai Matsudaira from Public Safety Division 6 (PS6) is here with orders to kill Kamimusubi. As his avatar is water based, Eiji cannot dominate it. Kamimusubi wants Eiji and Iyo to unite their feelings and beat this guy. Eiji wants to be the bait to let the ladies get away. This won’t do because they’re all going back to Sena. Don’t leave your sister alone, remember! Eiji and Iyo’s avatar merge to defeat Matsudaira. However he isn’t cowed as agents of PS6 will continue this mission. He then summons Daisy whom he reveals was originally an intel management system designed to gather and reveal info about Orders. Ordering her to reveal both sides, now we see Rin siding with PS6 as Hattori orders Juubei Yagyuu to finish them off. His sword slices through the dimension to reach them.
Episode 7
Hiiragi congratulates Eiji for a job well done. Really? Despite taking over Izumo and having minimizing casualties, Kamimusubi actually died. Eiji thought he can turn truth into lie and reverse her death but looks like he can only do it in a small time frame. To Eiji’s shock, Hiiragi wants him to withdraw from Dazaifu. Confused Eiji hounds for answers as Ayahito lets it slip that Gennai may cause another Great Destruction. As Hiiragi remains tight lipped, Eiji will go himself if they continue to hide from him. Hiiragi then pins him down to make him listen. Over 10 years ago, Hiiragi was a researcher in Gennai’s agency. Gennai was always kind to him and giving him motivation. Hiiragi created Volition Energy Converter Coil AKA VECON Coil that converts people’s will into energy. But one day all that changed. Gennai became a very different men when he successfully used VECON Coil to give birth to a system that manifests and manages people’s desires: Desire Accessible Information System AKA Daisy. So yes, Gennai created Daisy and she started giving out wishes that led to Eiji destroying the world. Now he is trying to do that again. That is why Dazaifu needs to dominate the world before he can spread his influence. Later as Eiji ponders if his own memories are false and being planted by someone, he tries to summon Daisy for answers. Too bad Rin beats him to it because she wants to talk. But this is just a distraction as Hattori sends Momotarou to infiltrate Dazaifu to kidnap Sena. So when Hiiragi finds out about this, he sends some of his Dazaifu officers to take care of this. However with Hattori providing directions, Momotarou is able to get the better of them. Hiiragi realizes there is a traitor among them giving out intel. He wants Eiji to take over command but Iyo warns Hiiragi not to or this operation fails. When Momotarou fails, Hiiragi thinks he has the last laugh as he thought he has outsmarted Hattori. But there is another twist: Fran the traitor takes Sena away. Gennai communicates to mock Hiiragi losing sight of his surroundings when he is too focused on 1 thing. As a parent, he vows to take care of his children and for now, he will take care of Sena. Bye. Surprised Eiji doesn’t remember his father like this.
With Sena waking up in PS6’s HQ, Rin is left to babysit her. She tells Sena about what is happening, from Eiji trying to dominate the world and the fall of nations as rebellions sprang up resulting in more deaths. Fran is one of the many who watched his family die. He wanted to save them but couldn’t. That’s why his wish was to be able to stop time. Speaking of him, Hattori confronts Fran. Some deal may have gone sour so Hattori plans to eliminate him. As Eiji wants to go save Sena, Hiiragi knows it is a ploy by Gennai to lure him out. They can’t hand Eiji over as he is the key for the next Great Destruction. Eiji remains stubborn. Don’t care what happens to the world? Maybe. But Sena is the world to him! He unbinds his domain on all the Dazaifu officers. This proves there is nothing more between them. Even if Hiiragi said not to betray him, Eiji never thought they were allies to begin with. Rin continues that the world hates Eiji as the source of their misery. He should have just killed himself. But Sena believes that way, she cannot take revenge on him. Knowing Eiji, he would gladly die for her. So if he really dies with satisfaction, will she actually get her revenge? So if she wants him to suffer, she should kill her instead. That will put him through more agony than death. Sena still remembers how Rin stabbed her back then. Will she do it again? Ayahito follows Eiji and mocks him as a pedo so Eiji beats the sh*t out of him, reminding this jerk Sena is the world to him. Sena stops the fight between Hattori and Fran. She mocks Fran about getting in this predicament for relying on others. It’s like he wants to die. For her, she doesn’t care. She’s going to die anyway. Her death means less trouble for Eiji. But she is not going to die now. Instead of wishing, she is seizing. She makes a deal to threaten them with her death if he dies. It will prevent them from acting. For now, she wants him to protect her and their first order to meet the enemy commander. All she wants is to protect Eiji. Rin in shock that Sena is an absolute perfect villain!
Episode 8
Fran tells Sena that Gennai is the real enemy. He is also the vice director of UNIGM’s public safety division. Sena feels weird because her father died 10 years ago but why does she remember seeing her father die if she wasn’t home at that time? As Hiiragi predicted, 5 spiritual locations across Japan are connected to form a reverse pentagram that are positioned perfectly with the ley lines. This forms a giant natural VECON Coil. Thus it is true that Gennai plans to cause the second Great Destruction and Eiji and Sena are most likely keys to the system. Hattori tells Sena that he will grant her an audience with Gennai later and at that same time, they will announce the truth behind Eiji and Great Destruction. Sena knows he is planning to alter the footage and turn Eiji into a bad guy. So later when Sena goes to meet with Gennai at the Osaka castle, a lot of people from the mass media are here. This is part of Sena’s plan to have their meeting in public so facts cannot be altered. Gennai plays the concerned father reunited with his daughter. Sena clearly knows this is not how her real father looks like and he is a fraud. She plays along but finds it confusing that he knows memories of the family’s time together here. Trying to use this to her advantage, she plans to shift the blame from Eiji to Gennai as she announces that his agency’s research gave birth to Orders. Shockingly, he admits to it. But he also points out it was Eiji who ultimately killed millions. As Gennai continues about Eiji’s shocking plan to recreate Great Destruction, Sena is shocked to agree with him despite her heart is not. She realizes all this has been part of his plan. Now the world truly hates Eiji and this will fuel VECON Coil.
Eiji arrives outside Osaka castle with the help of Ayahito and Momotarou. After giving Juubei the slip, he is a step too late to save Sena as Gennai takes her away. Juubei’s dimension sword slices off his limbs! So what can Eiji do if he realizes Gennai is not his real father? Gennai wants him to join their side. This way, he can be with Sena. After all Sena is going to die and he will use her life for his research. Sena was the cornerstone to open the gate 10 years ago and now he will use her life to unlock the door. Eiji doesn’t get all this as Sena tells him to run because she has already given up. A confused Eiji wonders if saving Sena doesn’t amount to anything. However he still wants to rescue Sena and uses his avatar to fight back and bests Juubei. Gennai is impressed and never expected he has grown so much because this means he is fit to unleash the other side. If he wishes for Sena’s happiness, then follow him. Time is up because the castle collapses. When Eiji wakes up, he is in a safe house underneath Osaka. Iyo is with him as she says Hiiragi healed all his wounds. Dazaifu is now mounting an attack on Gennai’s HQ at Nara to stop him and rescue Sena. The only condition is that Eiji will stay put. Eiji can’t put his sister’s safety in the hands of others so Iyo pins him down. Oh, want to make their baby the old fashion way now???!!!
Episode 9
Dazaifu officers are at Nara and some have secured priestesses at the spiritual locations to prevent Gennai from opening the gate. In the meantime, it is getting steamy between Eiji and Iyo! But what’s this? Sex ends because he can’t get it up?! All because he is a lolicon. Yeah, his mind is only about Sena. He talks about how they lost everything and Sena is the only thing he has left. Sorry Iyo. Sena > Iyo. She frees him but notes that Gennai is his real father. There is a picture proof of him with the family. She worked for him in his agency before so she knows. A very confused Eiji wonders if that real father of his is fake. A voice keeps telling him not to remember. It belongs to this small avatar clinging onto his head?! Daisy pops up to remind him about misremembering events. More importantly, she warns him about Gennai using Sena to cause another Great Destruction. Sena and Rin are held in a cell. Sena knows that both of them are under Gennai’s control. She wants to know if Rin can kill Eiji and her feelings for him. Time is up as Gennai comes to pick Sena. Sena tells Rin she cannot kill Eiji because he belongs to her.
Gennai shows Sena the gate. She finds it familiar as he explains how he was trying to secure funds to continue his research when Eiji visited the lab hoping his research would save Sena. Gennai put all his effort into research and lost track of time until a voice reached him. So now this confusing sh*t explanation! From what I understand, this world as we know it, physical properties take priority. The other side of the gate, a mental world where physical properties are created by the mind’s desires. So basically a dream world? Using Sena’s wish as a power, the first wish granted to open this gate and Orders were born. Before Sena blames herself as the cause of Great Destruction, Gennai says he is the source. As Sena was the first to open the gate, she made contact with her. She is the only one who can contact her again. To do so, she must remember everything. But the avatar on her head is telling her not to. He destroys it. Rin manages to break free and tries to kill Gennai but is pushed off. So much about that! WTF?! At the same time, all the priestesses get killed. Eiji has jumped into Nara as Hiiragi fears if father and son meet, another condition for Great Destruction will be in place.
Eiji is before Sena and refutes Gennai’s claims that she agreed to cooperate with him. Gennai explains about his theory about sending everyone to the mental world, converting them to physical phenomena and returning them here. Daisy is a relay device to transfer those power and wishes. But once the gate is opened, Daisy won’t be needed. All humans will be Orders and even more. Oh, you mean like God? This will become a world where everyone has their wish fulfilled, no more suffering or death. Eiji rebukes this because what if 2 people have 2 conflicting wishes? Daisy shows him by sending him to that café. See this normal life with Sena? That is a world he wished. So basically, a parallel world. All of your versions in all these worlds are real. The universe will multiply infinitely to the number of those who wish. For each wish, a new universe will be born. This includes Eiji’s wish for the world to return to 10 years ago. So isn’t it wonderful? Everyone’s wish coming true. Eiji still refutes his other versions and they are not the real him. He doesn’t agree that is real happiness when wishes are so easily granted. Happiness cannot exist if anything can come true just by wishing! Even if the cured Sena is real in terms of atomic and molecular structure, Eiji believes she is not the real Sena! Don’t spew stuffs you don’t know! Don’t f*cking confused me some more!!! Gennai needs Eiji’s domination power as the key to open the gate. Eiji refuses as he has accepted his sin for killing millions and will die for it. Thinking Sena is now out of Gennai’s control, he goes to get her but she suddenly stabs him! She remembers everything now. She is the one who caused Great Destruction. Not him.
Episode 10
Flashback shows Daisy asking Sena for her wish. Wow, is this called love when Sena stabs Eiji and says I love you? Even when Gennai confirms Sena as the cause of Great Destruction, Eiji refuses to believe it. Daisy reminds him he misremembered. That avatar on his heads is visible because it proves the seal on his memories are weakening. Gennai destroys it to have him remember the truth. When Sena wished to be with her family, it also birthed a great power that was too much for her to control, resulting in Great Destruction. She blamed herself for causing this and although Gennai was surprised she wished so instead of being cured, he was more focused on the opened gate that is closing. Eiji didn’t care about all that because seeing Sena in pain and Daisy asking for Eiji’s wish, he wished to take on Sena’s sins. He also created those avatar to seal and rewrote the memories. As Sena didn’t want her parents to divorce and tear them apart, she tried to mimic Evil Ranger. But Great Destruction happened and now she will take responsibility for this. That’s why she’ll help Gennai to make everyone’s wish come true. She will not mess up this time. Eiji claims it will all be a lie. That’s rich coming from a guy who made her life a lie! Even if it was to stop her suffering, it doesn’t change the fact that it was still a lie. Great Destruction brought misery to everyone. Now she will open the gate to bring happiness to all. Yes, such lies can also bring happiness. After kissing him, he tries to stop her but she cuts off his hand and pushes him off. Gennai takes Bind Dominator that belonged to Sena to begin with, to open the gate. Eiji still lives as Rin is full of regrets. Her revenge against him was a lie and now she laments doing horrible things to him. It might not make up for it, she blinds her eye to free herself from Gennai’s spell. She will do anything he asks so please come back. It seems Eiji has given up on Sena because she pushed him away. But Rin will not accept this since Sena is trying to atone by dying. And he has to guts to say he loves her? Then fight all the way even if she rejects you! This time, Rin will dominate him so when they kiss, they got a brand new avatar. I don’t know how this sh*t works anymore.
Hiiragi and his Dazaifu officers confront Gennai. Hiiragi disappointed in him because he respected him. So, he is sad he didn’t use him as the first subject in this experiment? As they begin attacking, Fran stops time. Gennai sends Juubei to deal with them but Eiji and Rin return in time. Eiji and Gennai try to dominate each other while Fran stops Rin from advancing. Gennai argues the Sena he wants to save is no more. Plus, even if he saves her, she doesn’t have any more time left and the world still hates him. However Eiji can see Sena crying as she believes her illness is hurting them. She is blaming herself. She is crying for them. That’s why he wants to protect this Sena who is here now and not the Sena in his fantasy land. Accept that you have failed! With Fran’s time stopping faltering, this allows Hiiragi and Ayahito to move. Hiiragi fires a shot into Ayahito’s portal to hit Fran. Another bullet right into Gennai as he falls off. Gennai accepts his foolishness and passes the baton to Eiji to take care of Sena. But with the gate open, she has starting to come out. So big she is that only her fingers are propping out. Basically she is God! Hattori and Juubei accidentally touch her and they vanish! Others try to use their avatar to stop but the mere touch has all vanish. Thus Eiji calls upon Daisy. Remembering she said he was only using a fraction of his power, he wants her to return it to normal. The risk is might he may cause another Great Destruction. Screw that because now he wants to dominate the world! He makes his order for a world to be a place where Sena can be happy. Well, I don’t know how but it’s enough to push God back into the gate and close it! So uhm, a world where Sena can be happy is one where without God? Got it. As long as Eiji is in it. In the aftermath, the world is made known that Gennai’s agency is the cause of Great Destruction. Eiji has become a hero. Life returns to normal for all and with the gate closed, this means no more Orders. Those who are have lost their powers. Normal life indeed. Eiji, Rin and Iyo ponder what present to get for Sena’s upcoming birthday. Daisy spotted as a waitress…
Big Deal! Is This Order A Big Mess?
Uhm… Erm… Uh… Oh… I see… That is how it ends. Well, I can’t be sure if this normal world is one of those fantasy worlds created. After all, the people here have no more powers to check on whether the mental side is real or whether other parallel worlds exist. Who cares? Because living the normal life is what is best for everybody, right? Truth or lie, everything is back to normalcy! Is this what you folks want? I don’t know, I have a feeling it is not majority decision because I would think that everybody would still be mad and continue to see Eiji as a villain for cutting off their dreams forever. Imagine your only ticket to live the blissful life and the way you want, all no longer feasible thanks to Eiji shutting off the gate. You poor as f*ck people will remain poor. You sick people dying of an incurable disease will still die. Yeah, thanks a lot, Eiji. Thank goodness the general public do not know about the truth behind the gate and Orders. Carry on with your normal lives, folks!
Now, I don’t blame you if you find the story to be somewhat confusing and rushed. Because I felt it too. Yeah, it was all over the place as the revelations and twists felt more like plot convenience and shock factor. It feel’s like they’re making sh*t up! Don’t spew stuff you don’t f*cking know! To quote from Eiji, that is. After all, a lot of chapters were cut from the manga when they tried to adapt and cram it here. That is why some parts felt so rushed and didn’t make sense. Worst of all, that ending. Why? Because I read briefly somewhere that the second Great Destruction actually happened! But the anime cut all that out and gave us a generic happy ending! Oh well, with all the crappy garbage confusion going on, I bet the producers didn’t want to spend more time animating another cour of this nonsense. Yeah, save us all the confusion! When you have a story all over the place, people with powers able to make their wish seemingly come true, Eiji being roped in to take over Japan and the world which suddenly turned into a fight against Gennai, I think this jump confused the hell out of all of us and that was the last straw we could take. So yeah, despite having the number of episodes equal to the number of fingers a normal person would have on both hands, I’d say this truncated version is for the best. Despite being the worst too. Heh.
Furthermore, this Order thingy felt so flimsy and it feels like anything goes. Take for instance Eiji’s Order. Wow. Sounds like some sort of ultimate wish to do as his wish as long as you are under his domain. Sounds like a God-like power that nobody can overcome. But alas, as we have seen, there are so many shortcomings that makes his Order somewhat powerless and useless. All part of what I like to call plot convenience. Yeah, and to think they came up with this rule that if both Orders have overlapping or contradicting powers, the newer one gets priority. So I guess the longer you are being an Order, the more you are in risk of getting f*cked over. Brilliant. Otherwise, Eiji would have just dominate the whole of Earth by, I don’t know how. Yeah, I’m still confused by all the shortcomings. Especially Hiiragi’s turning fiction to fact. Oh right, there’s a time limit on how far he can use his Order. Otherwise, could’ve just f*cking undo the whole Great Destruction, eh? So much about getting your wish. And that God from the mental world, I bet she isn’t so mighty after all because can’t she just break through the gate without all these puny humans doing the roundabout setup? I guess not. And are there other worlds beyond this mental and physical world? Crappy world maybe, HAHAHA!!! Sighs…
Of course as some would notice there were some similarities to Mirai Nikki. Yeah, both crappy series were written by the same author. This was supposed to be something better than Mirai Nikki but it turned out to be as sh*tty as that previous one. Mirai Nikki is ironically still more ‘popular’ than Big Order anyway. Otherwise, why would the credits put Mirai Nikki’s website? Doesn’t Big Order have its own website? Oh, to make us think that this came from the same creator as Mirai Nikki so this must be good, right? How I’d wish! And that’s how I knew it had references to Mirai Nikki otherwise this would have likely flown over my head and I wouldn’t have bothered doing a bit of (lazy) Google research. So yeah, having a few obscure Mirai Nikki references doesn’t help because it’s more of the same thing as you have your future diary turned into flimsy wish making mechanism called Orders. Still crappy. Now you know why Rin looks similar to Yuno. Even a few seiyuus who were in Mirai Nikki made had roles here (Norio Wakamoto, HUH???!!!). And did you spot a mask bearing Kamado’s face?! Blink or you’ll miss! Sighs. It’s like the author wished for some sort of alternate spinoff of Mirai Nikki but got this crap. I suppose I can’t blame God or Daisy for this.
Characters, it is a big mess and some don’t even really matter. I guess I don’t want to further confuse myself with the strange family affair between Eiji, Sena and Gennai. All are equal to blame for creating this goddamn mess. In some ways it is understandable that Eiji wants to protect Sena so the whole world has to be screwed for that. But at the same time for the sake of plot twist and revelation, all those lies and cover up as we have seen. Memory manipulation, memory sealing. Oh yeah. You know the deal. With that happy feel good ending, I am going to assume that Sena is totally being cured of her illness and not just delaying the inevitable. What a wonderful world when your little sister gets to live and the whole world just easily brushed off their anger. Uh huh. The same people who quickly became mad at Eiji after being told he is the villain, now treats him like a hero. Are you sure the rest of the world aren’t NPCs?
Sadly for Rin, I guess she is no Yuno Gasai, anime’s favourite and most popular yandere. Heh. She’s another confusing mess only because she hates him and wants to kill him but thanks to the strange dominating powers from Eiji on her, her hands are very much tied. It looked like they wanted to turn her into a strange love interest with Eiji because every guy like him needs to have a hot chick by his side no matter her intentions, right? Unfortunately ever since she turned to the side of PS6, she has become quite insignificant. I don’t see her do anything much ever since. And with all the messy revelation in the end, she ended being super confused and regretting her hatred over Eiji. So in the end, I don’t know if she is just staying as his friend, being engaged or already married. You decide.
Will it be a threesome since Iyo has feelings for Eiji? I don’t know. It looks like she has given up ever since Eiji declared that Sena is more important to him. Oh well, you had your chance. But it still boggles my mind to this day how the f*ck she got pregnant when her ribbon was touched! I really want to know! Did they skip the explanation here or it was one of those bizarre Twilight Zone moments?! Unless all that was for shock value because I am sure many viewers would be flabbergasted of this phenomenon. As good as the old wives’ tale that you will get pregnant just by kissing. Good lord.
Daisy, oh Daisy. She’s another strange, confusing and underutilized character and she’s no Murmur either. She’s a system to grant wishes and make more Orders and then suddenly towards the end, it’s like she’s every Orders’ call girl or something. She pops up when you just f*cking call her name. She doesn’t do anything useful except float around, speaks in riddles and I don’t know what else to say. It’s like she was biding her time to have Eiji remember his true memories as she mocked him about misremembering things. I mean, this shows she knows what truly happened, right? But yet she can’t tell him because that would be too easy. Better he remember it on his own accord than only it is worth something. And now that she’s a waitress, the irony that she is now taking orders instead of giving them. Heh. She better not meet a f*cking Karen…
For the Dazaifu officers, some are a miss especially that Soumoku guy who has never been seen doing anything! I wonder if he was some backup or the author just forgot to include him. Because he is voiced by Norio Wakamoto, it only further aggravates my conspiracy theory that this guy is Deus in disguise! Though, I bet he isn’t anywhere near like Deus. This is one wasted and forgotten character among the officers. Even Nene at least has 1 small task in securing Hikari and that is it. Speaking of that loli, once again I felt her character was just freaking redundant. They could’ve put an unnamed character for this part but I guess that will confuse us. Just like Fuwa, looks like he went MIA after stopping Eiji and Fran’s fight in the early episode.
And the rest of the officers, I don’t know what else to say. Hiiragi trying to play it tough but turns out he was a disappointed staff under Gennai. You need somebody who punches a lot, Benkei is your man. Why couldn’t he just pummel everything into molecular level since that is his Order? Oh well, I may not understand some stuffs. If you need some flying, Lorin is your man. If you need some sort of teleportation, Ayahito is your man. Convenient, right? Kagekiyo seems to have turned into a Dazaifu lackey after Yamaguchi got saved. Which makes her pretty redundant and that’s why she is best remembered for that hotspring fanservice of climbing all sorts of mountains! Mountains are there for you to climb! F*ck yeah! Can we have more bath scenes with Kagekiyo in the future?
Although the action parts are fast paced, because of the way Orders are made and their strange rules, sometimes I have a hard time understanding them. Like I said, you thought Eiji’s domination would have everything under his domain and command but turns out there are some limitations. This stops him from going all out and gung ho because otherwise this kid would’ve already taken over the world for the sake of his Sena and let you motherf*ckers die. Oh sorry, he gonna save everybody. And so with all the Orders with the strange and unique powers, you can see where this is going, right? But be warned, there are a few graphic violence of blood and limbs getting cut off. While a veteran like me won’t get traumatized, it is still shocking to see limbs getting dismembered and blood all over. Oh well, I guess they have to compensate for the confusing story and sh*tty characters. On a trivial note, when the Orders fight each other and scream out “Order!” left and right to use their powers in order to dominate each other, I was so damn inclined to make puns and order some food! A cheeseburger with extra fries please! HAHAHA!!! Sighs.
In the art and animation department, sad to say that many would notice the inconsistent animation quality and that is why it sometimes contributes to the unsatisfying action. I know I said that there’s blood and gore, but a lot of power fight scenes look like they lack animation and that’s why it is hardly a masterpiece thrill. And of course there’s the damn sh*tty CGI. Well, no wonder Bind Dominator can’t dominate a lot of things because he is rendered by sh*tty CGI! HAHAHA! But yeah, what the hell is this weird freaky looking mummy?! Did they run out of design ideas for this avatar? And there’s lots of special effects when the Orders use their powers so get ready for a kaleidoscope affair. And of course, some character designs look a bit familiar like Rin to Yuno because we need some sort of hot chick. I think they split Yuno’s design between Rin and Daisy because I see shades of her in them. I’m sure many characters here look suspiciously similar to those in Mirai Nikki but I’m going to skip that. But I’ll just point out Ayahito looks like a discount version of Naruto’s Orochimaru and likewise, Gennai a discount Gennosuke of Basilisk. Is it me or does Nehara look like Yugioh’s Jinzo?
Last but not least, there are bare tits fanservice and we all will mostly remember the glorious hotspring moment as the best scene in the entire adaptation! Hah. But that’s not the only fanservice scene as we have Rin in sexy underwear and naked Iyo trying to fornicate with Eiji. So as not to turn this into hentai, some scenes show frontal nudity but no actual crotch or pubic hair are drawn. Yeah, just a blank space there. Gawk all you want. There is your loophole. So better go back up and stare at those 2D tits. Hell yeah! This anime is done by Asread who also did Mirai Nikki. So yeah, see the similarities and ‘consistencies’? Yeah, they also done some other sh*tty shows like Arifureta Shokugyou De Sekai Saikyou (yes it is draggy and sh*tty in my books!) and Lord of Vermilion.
Voice acting is pretty standard. Nothing much for me to comment. Well, maybe for Masakazu Morita as Eiji because he doesn’t sound like Bleach’s Ichigo. Sorry, that’s what happen when you pigeonhole people. The rest are Shiori Mikami as Rin (heck, how the hell did I think it was Aya Hirano?!), Misaki Kuno as Sena, Azusa Tadakoro as Iyo, Mari Misaki as Daisy, Satoshi Tsuruoka as Gennai, Shinnosuke Tachibana as Hiiragi, Saori Hayami as Mari, Fumihiko Tachiki as Benkei, Makoto Ishii as Lorin, Yuu Hayashi as Ayahito, Hirokazu Hiramatsu as Nehara, Mitsuru Miyamoto as Raidou, Aya Uchida as Nene, Norio Wakamoto as Soumoku, Hitomi Harada as Kagekiyo, Tarusuke Shingaki as Fran, Ryoutarou Okiayu as Hattori, Tetsu Inada as Juubei, Mitsuo Iwata as Momotarou and Mayumi Asano as Kamimusubi.
The opening theme is Disorder by Yousei Teikoku. While I understand that heavy rock music to get you into the pace and grove of the series, sometimes I feel that the singer’s voice is too weak and sweet to sing such a song. I thought at least some hard rocker dude should be letting loose a coarse rocker scream in the background! But instead we get this mismatch between her voice and the song. But it isn’t as strange as the ending theme, Kirei Sekai Tsuiware by Aki Hata. I don’t know if this song is supposed to calm you and give you the creeps at the same time. Especially the strings are played to a dramatic effect to enhance it. Once again, I feel the singer’s sweet voice is a mismatch here as she is supposed to be singing a happy anime song or a ballad. Not this strange f*ck. Some of the BGMs especially during the fight scenes, they’re quite lively and jazzy. Personally I think Dominate sounds better than both the opener and ending songs. From what I sampled the OST, many of the BGMs are jazzy and fast or slow and dramatic or slow-cum-calming.
Overall, this is unfortunately a confusing and disappointing anime. Action can only do so much as the confusing story and characters drag it down. So much so it has made Mirai Nikki looking like a God instead! The fact that Big Order’s manga had way less chapters than Mirai Nikki tells us everything we need to know. So I guess the series failed to live up or being better than its so called spiritual predecessor, huh? Looks like somebody didn’t get their wish come true! You can all thank Eiji for closing the gate and not allowing us to live out our wildest and favourite dreams. I could have had a harem of beautiful 2D anime maids flanking and serving me all day! Also, somewhere out there in those infinite parallel universe, bad animes do not exist! Instead, I’m just a poor loner otaku guy who is doomed to watch crappy and garbage animes every season. Heh. Maybe deep down, that is truly my wish after all. I only have myself to blame if that’s true. Big sh*t!
