Seirei Gensouki

When 20-year-old college student Haruto Amakawa dies in a traffic accident, he does not expect to wake up in an unfamiliar world in the body of a young boy named Rio. As their memories and personas fuse, Rio realizes that he now also possesses magical powers. He is relieved to find that his burning passion for revenge against his mother's murderers has not subsided, despite his newly changed identity.

Not soon after, Rio comes across the kidnapped princess of the Bertram Kingdom and saves her without hesitation. To express his gratitude, the king grants him the opportunity to enroll in the Bertram Royal Academy. Believing this to be a new chapter in his life, he is excited to study at this prestigious academy, but life here proves to be difficult for him, a slum-dweller surrounded by the majestic children of nobles.

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Rio Main

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu Japanese

Claire, Celia Main

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Latifa Main

Kusunoki, Tomori Japanese

Aishia Supporting

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Ayase, Miharu Supporting

Harada, Sayaka Japanese

Cretia, Liselotte Supporting

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Ruri Supporting

Omigawa, Chiaki Japanese

Beltrum, Flora Supporting

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Sayo Supporting

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Beltrum, Christina Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Oomori, Shinji Producer

Nishi, Kei Producer

Nagano, Masahiko Producer

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Feb 16, 2025

Zeno_Artaxerxes

Recommended

I'll just get straight to the point, this is what someone can consider a thrash isekai plot, BUT, it has its moments, not enough tho to warrant it to be special... as it still likes to go strong on the generic isekai thrash plot moments.

So is it at least a good thrash isekai? Yes, I would say so. It has a bit of a different approach to the isekai genre, so without spoiling anything, I can say you're gonna be intrigued about the decisions the characters do/take, especially the MC. But unfortunately, you won't be that surprised, as even if at certain points in the ... story you might see interesting things that can develop very nicely, you'll instantly be reminded that it just likes to go onto the generic plot.

The plot seems to have some depth to it, but alas, it is an anime, and I am not sure if the anime just liked to adapt the light novel like this or not (which I think it did, as the light novel is going strong at 26 lns as of writing this review and from what I read online, it won't be stopping soon, as the story just started from ln 20, or so people say...), but man, generic characters that act in generic ways that get into generic situations that get fixed in a generic ways by a generic acting MC. Hard to prop up that tbh. You can instantly see how something will go on and be solved by a mile ahead... at least you won't really guess all the arcs tho and what will come after, that I can say it surprised me at least.

The MC looked like he had depth... until he didn't and became a generic sounding isekai MC. Sad, I really had my hopes up. Some scenes do put some personality in him, but then he's getting right back into default NPC mode. At least he's doing what is right, right? Yes... The other characters are pretty okayish, there are quite a few of them. The villains are too one sided, not depth at all, which is just boring to me at this point... There are quite a few girls that fall for him. Fair enough though. Cool looking very strong dude that is kind and knows how to act, ofc girls would be all over him ig. At least he isn't building himself a harem of girls that follow him everywhere, at least that (which is one aspect that surprised me).

Story: 7 -- The story feels like it has potential, as from my experience with light novels, I feel like this anime skipped a ton of very interesting informations that would have given this anime a way better look. I might be wrong though. Quite a few moments where I didn't really know where the story would go next after the current action will finish, but when I saw what will happen next, I kinda knew what will happen (not 100% always).

Art: 8 -- The art is nice to look at, and no CGI from what I remember, or too little to care about.

Music: 8 -- The songs were nice

Characters: 8 -- There are quite a few characters. MC is mostly generic, even tho at the start I really had my hopes up. The villains are too... basic for my taste. The girls are pretty nice overall.

Enjoyment: 8 -- Overall, I enjoyed it. Even tho it is thrash isekai, it is a nice one.

Overall: 8

Right now it has 7.07 from 212.976 votes Ranked #4041 Popularity #589 Members 416,036 Summer as of 17/02/2025.
I recommend this anime to people that want to see a good feel anime (there are a few moments, but brief moments, where the weak of heart might not like, but overall is feels good), that want to see something that has more of a unique arrangement of conflicts and you won't know where it will go next, nice animation and doesn't mind that it feels like wasted potential sometimes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 2, 2024

MrSlamboni

Mixed Feelings

Average, inoffensive, unassuming, unimpressive. If I could summarize everything, my reaction to this entire show is the neutral face emoji. This isn't a show that just tapes together 60 isekai tropes and calls it a day, but it also never rises above that level of quality. When I finished watching Spirit Chronicles, I wasn't annoyed like when I watch something bad. I also wasn't in a good mood either. I left just like I came, forgetting everything an hour later. In fact, I had to rewatch it just to remember what happened.

The plot was a little boring, but not insulting or painful to watch. It ... just had nothing impressive about it whatsoever. It is the usual formula of: Rio (MC) is secretly cool --> Hogwarts for nobility --> discrimination against Rio for being a peasant featuring the nobles who are comically evil assholes. The deviation here is that the story doesn't follow a line where the MC "proves them wrong by doing some sicko mode moves". It happens, but generally doesn't change much. Then it's the usual isekai from there onwards.

I bring this up to illustrate a larger point that occurs over the entire story. Spirit Chronicles DOES deviate from the norm here and there, but it's not in any way that results in a meaningful improvement for the story. It is different in technicalities, but overall it is just the same. However, you take what you can get. It's better to watch something with differences rather than stock characters repeating stock phrases for 12 episodes in a stock story.

Speaking of the discrimination due to nobles, in this specific example, the lack of any meaningful retribution against the discrimination Rio faces leaves a sour taste in the viewer's mouth. He just gets picked on and nothing happens in return. Rio does nothing about it and doesn't seem to want to do anything about it. There is no hint of ill-will whatsoever. This is unbelievable to the viewer because the main plot is a revenge plot, yet Rio does not seem interested in revenge the first few episodes.

Rio does not have any personality except being the protagonist cardboard cutout. His dialogue is the most boring, standard thing ever. It is not entirely made of the usual isekai one-liners, but it's just either formalities or neutral statements like "What is that? Who are you?" etc. There is no character behind anything he says or does. He also looks like a Final Fantasy character so that's a minus.

As for the characters, the main villain who does things in the background is okay. Some of the important side characters like Celia, the princesses and Latifa were fine. Everyone in the spirit village was boring and unimaginative. That village only exists just to remind you that it is a fantasy show and also to throw anthropomorphic waifus at you. The area which was basically a self-insert of Japan was okay. It makes you think how since isekais are so ass at using the medieval Europe setting, maybe it would have been more interesting to portray Japan. Just food for thought.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 17, 2025

Psi18c

Not Recommended

If you are the type who use their brain, you will see tons and tons of very questionable situations, because clearly the story was made to make things look good and not well though out.

Anyone who is a bad person: uses their brain and their connections

Anyone who is a good person, including the people who are powerful and have social power: … for whatever reason they are all not doing anything, just sacrificing themself, until MC rescue them, just to ensure to not bother anyone, neither MC nor the bad people, and of course, they don't use their brain, they don't use their connection (including ... not asking MC for help), and their statues or whatever they have earned is non existing. Everything is solved by MC. And any character growth is: character has issues, can't do anything so just sits helplessly until MC saves them (aka there is no friends, no comrades, no families, no one who directly helps them, even if they might show up after MC save them), and once MC helps them, if woman, now fully in love with MC for no reason (or what, if next joe is helping her, she needs a reason to fall in love with the next joe, but with mc, just instantly? yeah....)

Other then looking nice here and there, the story and character build, are not good. None existing. To the degree that years pass and you don't see any changes except for MC growing physically.

Anime had some good part, so I kept watching, especially since season 2. But the more I watch, the more I realise that all the plot holes, all the issues in character decision and logic, where not a build up for later development, but really just a bad story that was not clear since the anime itself looked nice and it did have a lot of good moments

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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