Level 1 dakedo Unique Skill de Saikyou desu

As a corporate slave, Ryouta Satou experiences the worst forms of stress, overwork, and loneliness. Even after he is hospitalized due to exhaustion, his days of toil only become worse. Soon enough, the sheer fatigue catches up to him and kills him in his sleep. However, Ryouta is given a second chance at life: he wakes up in another world as a slime drop—much to the surprise of Emily Brown, the petite blonde girl who defeated said slime.

Acquainting himself with the rules of this RPG-like world, Ryouta finds out that he will never grow past level 1. However, he also discovers that one of his skills is at the maximum level: the skill which determines the rarity of monster drops. This allows him to acquire not only items of the best quality, but also some that are unheard of.

Ryouta sets out to make the most of his ability—meeting new friends, grinding through dungeons, and acquiring unique items along the way. Reveling in his new life seems to be the long-awaited and much-deserved reward for all the tribulations he had suffered.

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Brown, Emily Main

Kusumi, Rin Japanese

Satou, Ryouta Main

Ishikawa, Kaito Japanese

Callusleader, Eve Supporting

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Monsoon, Erza Supporting

Fuchigami, Mai Japanese

Celeste Supporting

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Wonderland, Alice Supporting

Takao, Kanon Japanese

Adalbard Supporting

Akabane, Kenji Japanese

Duke Supporting

Kawada, Shinji Japanese

Clint Supporting

Shioya, Yoku Japanese

Ran Supporting

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Shioya, Yoshiyuki Producer

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Satou, Harumi Producer

Murakami, Sou Producer

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Sep 23, 2023

ExemplarCayman

Recommended

The show has a chill iyashikei atmosphere.
The MC's behavior is logically driven by his experiences in the pre-isekai salaryman life, he empathizes with exploited workers and appreciates sensible managers.
He uses a gun with elemental-affixed ammo, and he heals people by shooting them with healing bullets.
The main girl is a cinnamon roll with a giant hammer that ends her sentences with “nanoja,” and she and the MC have an incredibly wholesome, mutually empowering relationship.
She also can bake a cake or make ice cream over a campfire.
Commercial break eyecatches have characters drive the title of the show around like a car while saying “vroom, vroom.”
There is ... a bunny girl obsessed with carrots.
Said carrots drop from slimes that wear Santa hats, and every single product and material in the world can only be acquired as loot from monsters, and the entire world’s economy revolves around loot from monsters, and entire towns specialize in chosen items like meat or vegetables for economic efficiency, and when there is a dungeon that drops both meat and vegetables then Meat Town and Vegetable Town enter a trade dispute over property rights and devise plans to sabotage each other by sending adventurers with bad drop rate stat to slay rival town’s targets of interest to deny them value, and when the dungeon boss spawns, they deliberately avoid killing it because keeping it alive is more beneficial in the long term, and this keeps going because this is what creativity and originality are.

These all are ostensive examples of good writing.

9/10 for a well-written isekai series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Nov 16, 2024

onespankman

Mixed Feelings

After three days diligently hiding from my roommate that I was watching this crap, I bring a review.

I’m Strong Even though I’m Level 1 (don’t remember the actual title) is the archetypical bad isekai. Every quality you’d expect is on display here. Terrible art and animation, one dimensional characters, a complete lack of meaningful conflict. Everything, all executed in such a bland, uncreative way I’m almost impressed with it.

It‘s lighter on insane moments than similar works, but still has a few bangers. Like when the MC breaks a strike by knocking out all of the workers with magic bullets (the adventurers guild would otherwise have ... had them killed). Or how the MC heals people by shooting them with “healing bullets”. Which yes, is funny every time it happens.

The central plot conceit is that the MC (called Yoda by one character which is funny so I’m using it) has maxed out drop rates, and is isekaied to a world where every resource drops from dungeons. That sounds like it would significantly alter how the world functions, but it's treated as an afterthought. The entirety of the worldbuilding is: anything left alone outside turns into a monster, so garbage has to be burned, and different towns control different resources. That’s it.

The fights illustrate the show’s general approach to writing. Once we move past basic dungeon fodder, the heroes face a big goofy-looking ass gorilla, which they beat by hitting real hard. Yoda gets a sweet revolver out of it, making him slightly more like Hajime Arifureta. Next they fight a bicorn that blocks Yoda’s attacks with a magical barrier, they remove the barrier by hitting it real hard, then kill the bicorn by hitting it real hard. They fight a goblin who grows larger by absorbing attacks, and beat it by hitting it real hard.

The fights are almost all resolved by hitting the enemy harder, and this kind of brute force, low-effort writing defines the show’s atmosphere. It’s not meant to be taken seriously, and is written such that it’s almost impossible to. The show even directly asks you not to think too hard about it (after a character somehow bakes a cake using a campfire). I could take this as insulting, but I’m happy to oblige.

This casual, stupid atmosphere renders the show surprisingly watchable. It seems everyone involved in the production knew what they were making and weren’t taking it too seriously (this is especially evident in the improvised eyecatches). The terrible art direction, off-model characters, and embarrassing animation take on a less offensive character in light of that.

Normally I wouldn't sit through an entire show this bad, but this held me. I wouldn’t recommend it to most, though. You should watch this if, and only if, you’re titrating your bad isekai dose in preparation to binge Arifureta. Or if you’re an insane isekai junkie like me, but these are the trenches my friend.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Oct 6, 2023

Talamare

Not Recommended

Funny

Have you heard about the Isekai in which the guy reincarnates into a Vending Machine? More of that in a minute.

Are you kidding me with this garbage... Talk about destroying your premise within the first two episodes...
Basic idea is that the MC is supposed to be stuck at level 1, which implies that he will be insanely weak...

Which is true for all of like 5 minutes, as the MC discovers that while he is stuck at level 1, he is the only one in the world to have infinite stats allowing him to quickly brute force literally everything; making him stronger than even the ... apparent 'God of Strength' within minutes.

If that wasn't enough to absolutely DESTROY the premise, he then quickly finds a GUN... That's right, this is a classic medieval fantasy and he acquires a gun and proceeds to just shoot everything...

This anime is worse than the Vending Machine anime. THIS ANIME IS WORSE THAN THE VENDING MACHINE ANIME...

Blah blah blah, Harem happens, barely any interesting development, garbage to the left, garbage to the right.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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