Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru

After passing away, a Japanese office worker finds himself reincarnated in another world as Ars, the newborn son of the noble Louvent family. The Summerforth Empire, where the Louvents rule over a small territory of a few thousand people, is a medieval-like land plagued by social inequality and political instability. As Ars grows older and learns more and more about his new environment, he becomes convinced that war will soon erupt.

Fortunately, though Ars was not blessed with unrivaled strength or extraordinary magical aptitude, he does possess Appraisal: a seemingly unique skill that allows him to instantly grasp someone's current abilities and latent talents merely by looking at them. In an effort to prepare his domain for the imminent strife, Ars resolves to enlist the most exceptional people he can find, paying no attention to superficial qualities like race or social status.

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Reis, Charlotte Main

Kaho, Narumi Japanese

Louvent, Ars Main

Fujiwara, Natsumi Japanese

Muses, Rietz Main

Ban, Taito Japanese

Kischa, Rosell Main

Okasaki, Miho Japanese

Grangeon, Mireille Supporting

Nabatame, Hitomi Japanese

Pleide, Licia Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Fam Supporting

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Louvent, Raven Supporting

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Pyres, Lumeire Supporting

Terasoma, Masaki Japanese

Salamakhia, Couran Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Kurosu, Nobuhiko Producer

Miyamoto, Emi Producer

Shibata, Tomohiro Producer

Tachibana, Kou Producer

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Nov 3, 2024

FelineCircuitry

Recommended

I've watched dozens of isekai anime and read even more, and this series feels like a rare gem. Although it starts a bit slowly, it truly finds its stride around episode six. It’s actually more of an anti-isekai: rather than showcasing an overpowered protagonist dominating a new world, it’s about how a group of people grow stronger together, with the protagonist acting as the unifying force. The focus is on human connection rather than individual ego.

The music is wonderful, and the emotional scenes hit deeply. I agree with some of the genre criticisms, though. This isn't so much an isekai or even an adventure series; ... it feels more like a character-driven drama set in a fantasy world. The fact that the protagonist comes from another world feels completely forgotten. More early emphasis on character development could have made the series even stronger.

This series filled a hole I rarely see filled by other series for me and I will definitely rewatch it in the future.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 22, 2024

MewsicMagic

Mixed Feelings

Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru, is an anime that is quite a bit better than the average Isekai you'll see every anime season these days, but it's certainly not without it's fair share of flaws. On the whole it's an alright show that you might like if you don't take it's story too seriously or go into it with high expectations. The short version is, you'd probably like this as a side watch as it works very well as simple entertainment but can't give you too much more as it does a decent job but doesn't excel at anything it does either.


Starting things off ... with the premise and story, and on the whole it's actually not half bad but certainly has it's fair share of flaws. The Isekai portion of it is a gimmick at best and has basically no purpose or point to the story. If you watch this you'd probably think that the show would've been better if they just removed it and that wouldn't be wrong. On the whole the MC being from another world serves literally no purpose, he doesn't do anything with the fact he's from another world and doesn't even act like it either. This show is basically a fantasy that became an Isekai just so it could be part of the genre. The main focus is on his skill which basically let's him see peoples abilities and strengths as a "skill screen" like one you'd see in a game. The MC is pretty pathetic outside of that ability skill wise, but at least he realizes that and makes some attempt to overcome it. However the shows main purpose is him gathering talented allies using his skill, and on the whole it's just "ok" not bad, not good, just ok. The show tries to put some back story and such behind every character he recruits and in general it'll leave you feeling underwhelmed. It's not outright bad, but it's just the prime example of a mediocre to average backstory for pretty much every single one. Ars is from a very small domain and his father is the lord of it, and I mean it's REALLY small. So as the future lord of the domain Ars is gathering capable allies to help him make up for some of his lack of ability so he can take over one day. The premise is actually really good, but it's execution of it's story ranges from pretty good to really mediocre, not outright bad just really mediocre.


The characters on the whole are the shows biggest strength. On the whole they have a lot of areas they do fall flat in, the backstory and such being the main offender. However there's no denying that they all make for pretty entertaining characters. Except Rosell, this kid is by far the worst character in the show. His backstory is pathetically bad compared to everyone else's, he's an absurdly shy kid who also hates doing anything he doesn't want to do and would almost come off as being a brat if it weren't for the other characters. He likes spending all of his time reading books and that's how he got his intelligence, except he makes one REALLY simple animal trap for the hunters and they're like "you're a genius" and he gets recruited by Ars. Making matters even worse, 95% of the time the way they make him smarter is by suddenly making all the other characters suddenly get stupider to make his idea seem smarter. On the whole the problem isn't that his ideas are dumb necessarily, the problem is the ideas are more often than not something that anyone literally anyone with average intelligence should've been able to think about doing. I have no problem with characters making smart decisions but when the decision is about something that should be common sense 95% of the time and the show suddenly makes all the other characters too stupid to be capable of doing that so Rosell can seem smart just irks you the wrong way. Despite the stupid flaws this show has, it's characters do at least end up having one of the most important things right which is they're entertaining to watch at the very least, although they're really most held back from being good by the flaws. The character development on the other hand is actually pretty decent, mostly for Ars though, I'm not gonna go into detail to avoid spoilers but essentially the guy does at least make some growth and improve over time and while it's nothing top tier it's does it's job quite decently and is actually held back by his "Isekai" origins more than anything making some of it seem rather dumb for his character.


Lastly the production, on the whole it's "OK" which seems to be a big theme with this show. It doesn't do anything outright bad but it doesn't do anything great either. The art style is actually very unique and nice to see. The art quality is OK, I certainly felt at times the studio had trouble drawing the art "correctly" in a sense or consistently but it certainly wasn't bad. The animation is just OK also, many less important scenes are quite still or lack motion but they do more for the action scenes. On the whole it screams "low budget" they put movement where necessary and don't where it's not. On the whole it's not bad and doesn't have any crappy CGI put in to make it worse either but it could've been better. Music is fine, it's really nothing special but it gets the job done well enough. Voice acting is up to standard for what you'd expect from Japan's anime industry.


Well that's that, on the whole this show is really just "OK" it does nothing really well but it doesn't do anything really badly either, except maybe Rosell. It's generally going to be a decently entertaining watch, especially the character development parts of it and while it's flaws don't ruin the show they certainly hold it back a fair bit. 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Sep 3, 2024

AeroGunz

Not Recommended

Well-written

“As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I'll Use My Appraisal Skill to Rise in the World”(aka Kanseiskill), I guess short titles are out of fashion, is what happens when You play pokemon with black jack and whoo… I mean… with people.

This show at first glance has a unique twist on the isekai genre in the form that our MC isn’t a walking apocalypse capable of one-shotting entire battalions of enemies. I say “at the first glance” because despite the fact he has no combat skills he is absolutely capable of one-shotting entire battalions, just not in the “normal” way. I’ll get to that.

Before we start I ... would like to explain something. I will be talking about “plot” and “story”. Many people use those terms interchangeably. I’m not one of those people, so to make sure everyone is on the same page…
I use the definitions for “plot” and “story” as Lisa Cron describes them:
“What happens in the story is the PLOT, the surface events.”
“STORY is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes internally as a result”.

I’ll start with this. I really like the story. It’s not very original but is solid. It’s a story about a young (reincarnated) boy who steps up to succeed his father in the time of turmoil, despite his very young age. It’s not exactly a coming of age story but it is close. So why did I give it just 5? Well… everything else in this show is pretty much bottom tier. From writing to logic, characters and worldbuilding. Everything is just so subpar.

Let me explain.

The premise itself is pretty interesting. A normal, hard working man dies of a heart attack, probably from overworking, another point for karoshi. Instead of the great beyond or the blessed annihilation he is reborn in another world. Of course, because we can’t have anything original, it’s a fantasy world. In this season it’s a bit more on the low fantasy side of things but don’t worry, there is still magic just not as prevalent as in some other isekais. He also has a special skill, he is able to appraise (I bet You’re shocked, nothing, especially not the title, could prepare You for such a twist) people to find out their… stats. Yes. Stats. Like in a video game. Another game logic bullshit. How original. Still… It appears that only he has such a game related bullshit skill so that’s a small blessing I guess. You don’t get bombarded by RPG crap from every corner. Because he’s the heir to a noble family he intends to use this OP skill to gather the most powerful people to serve him (Do You see why I said he still is able to one-shot everything? Yeah… he gets OP minions that are 100% loyal to him and have no intention to betray him in any way, shape or form). So far, so cliche but it’s not total travesty and I would even say it’s interesting.

For 12 episodes we see Ars - our MC, grow both figuratively and literally, from a kid to a teenager who has responsibilities thrusted upon him. Good thing for his band of diamonds in the rough. Shame they don’t stay in the rough longer, it would make for a far better story and plot. This is my main complaint about the show: It mixes pretty solid, sometimes even very good story beats with a really shitty plot. If I had to give numbers I would say it’s a 7/10 story held back by 3/10 plot.

The first episode (don’t worry I wont be talking about each episode but I need to talk about the first two in a spoiler free way) is actually good. We start from a pretty shitty (for our MC, for the viewer it’s pretty solid) place, yes his father commands a small army but as we later find out it’s not all burritos and strippers. There is a war coming and his troops lack mages and most of them are solid, but not great, as soldiers. We even get a scene where the MC sees that one of the soldiers is terribly miscast as a melee fighter but has pretty high skills in archery. Being a 3 year old child he uses his baby charm to manipulate the soldier to try a bow. It of course goes awesome and the soldier becomes an archer. That is actually a pretty solid scene. We get to see how his appraisal skill works and what kind of stats he actually sees. The thing I’m a bit iffy about is that some stats have numerical values and others just plain old letters (from D to S). Also there is something really badly explained. One of the stats he sees is called “prowess” and appears to be related to combat and has numerical value. But… he also sees proficiencies in things like archer, infantry, navy etc. and those use letters as their value. It’s never explained how those two stats interact with each other. Can someone with high prowess but D in archery be a skilled archer? Can someone with very little in prowess but with S in infantry be a killing machine with a sword? It’s never explained and bugged me every time it was mentioned. Back to our scene with the soldier. Apart from showing us how the skill works it also is used as a way to show the soldiers that Ars is capable of “sensing” someone's talents. I can actually appreciate the show don’t tell approach. The soldiers aren’t told by someone that this 3 year old kid has a knack for telling people's skills. They are shown that. He is even questioned about the incident by his father. It’s a nice piece of setting things up for later. So in the first episode we get a goal for our MC, setting up his reputation for later and in the second half we see how normal people see him and even get the first OP follower - Rietz (an ultimate non-magic weapon in a form of a teenage ex mercenary)for the protagonist and his faction. All in all it’s a solid first episode. If I had to change anything I think I would make the father be more reluctant to test out the teenager that his son brought to join his faction, after all the father seems to be at least a bit racist towards him and I would like that aspect be more explored.

The second episode is both my favourite and ,unfortunately, the episode that heralds the fall of good plot writing. Don’t worry, the story is still there and even has some good moments but plot wise… It’s all downhill from here. Ars visits a nearby city and witnesses the social disparity between the poor and the rest of the denizens. It gives him some much needed perspective on the world and that perspective is even more reassured at the end of the episode. The second thing he learns is that finding people who would actually be useful in his endeavour is hard. Extremely hard. He is able to find a girl with S rank magic skill but she refuses to work with him. I loved that. It gives him something he wants - the girl to join his faction, and a very solid obstacle for achieving that goal - she’s taking care of some young kids on the street. I was actually hoping that making her join would be an arc in of itself. Something to show both her character and his devotion to his goal. Something to make him work for an amazing reward. Yeah… no. That would mean the writers have skill and intellect to actually create something meaningful and we can’t have that in an isekai. He actually recruits her in the next episode after Rietz solos an entire slave organisation and Ars gives a half assed, feel good monologue that is absolutely misplaced in this scene (by the way, slavery seems to be legal, because of course it is). It is there just to show what a good egg Ars is. And just like that he gets an OP mage on his team. Does anyone still harbour illusions that this show will give him any kind of challenge? Back to the mage - Charlotte. Why did she decide to go with them? Because of the save? That’s not exactly a good reason when You are responsible for four very young kids. Both she and those kids are orphans, beggars who live on the street. There were no scenes indicating that those kids are competent enough to be left without a babysitter. Yes, she asks Ars to send her pay to those kids but, send where? The orphanage that we see in a later episode didn’t exist yet. It’s stated that Ars was the one who built it. You don’t build things just like that, there was some time when those kids were left alone to their own devices and with the slavers in town I have a hard time believing they weren’t sold by the time the orphanage was fully functioning. Of course the kids were fine because the world revolves around Ars and his decisions and we can’t have him make a bad one. Even as a goddamn 3 year old child. No. Because he's the MC of an isekai he must be the embodiment of perfect decision making from the get go. Now You understand why I say that the writing goes downhill after this.

Now, for the main problem. The goddamn repetitiveness of the process that’s shown when he recruits someone. It’s the same 3 out of 4 times. He meets someone who has OP AF stats. He wants them to serve him. They start iffy and usually have a reason why they don’t want to. It sounds solid and I would agree but the solutions to those problems are almost all banal and cheap. Plus they rarely solve the main problem, they just mask it with a bandaid but it seems that's enough for people to change their minds. Well… that and a metric shit ton of plot conveniences topped with the fact that 4 out of 5 of his closest allies are far beneath his social status. The only person that is his equal is his fiance but I wouldn’t call her a full fledged member of his coterie. All others are either beggars or just simple people. Why? If it is some kind of effed up social commentary that people below a certain status can be amazing it misses the mark completely because it’s classist in the opposite direction. Apart from his father and maybe 3 more characters, everyone that has a noble status is portrayed as mediocre at best and total waste of space or cannon fodder at worst. Why? Nobles have far more opportunities to train, learn and gain skills. Why would only the poor have OP skill levels? My guess is, recruiting someone who is closer in status to Ars would require a writer who actually knows about logic and has enough imagination to make it believable.

My second gripe with the show is Ars himself. I know I praised some scenes with him and the fact he has a goal. The problem? He has zero plan to achieve it. His idea of creating his naive-ville is to just recruit people with amazing skills. That’s it. I’m not even talking about a long term plan. He doesn't even have a short term one. About half way through the series he becomes the lord of his domain and… changes absolutely nothing. No new edicts, no attempts at social changes, no economic revolutions (something that maybe a little he would know about from his past life). Nothing. He just goes through the motions. When he’s presented with an obstacle he asks his coterie what to do and does that they say with little thought. I get it, it shows that his followers are competent and have skills and insight that he lacks but for fucks sake. He was shown to study hard everything about this world. He should at least present them with his own plan. He is supposed to be a leader, he has to show initiative. Nope. He always acts like a naive moron. He has no personality whatsoever. All he is is kind, and the worst kind of kind. The kind that can do nothing wrong and for whom the world bends over backwards. In all 12 episodes he made zero bad decisions. Every decision he made was ultimately a good one. Even if they were stupid as fuck like assaulting a slavers shop with just one man. Because that man was Rietz it all turned out dandy but the plan itself was idiotic. Without Rietz he would have nothing to “convince” the slaver to “sell” Charlotte.

And that brings me to his coterie. They are absurd. Each and everyone of them is a god-like creature in their expertise. Rietz is basically unrivalled in melee combat to the point where he can just solo an entire slave organisation. Charlotte, despite never using magic, can create an amazing explosion on her very first try. Rosell is intelligent and has knowledge about almost anything. He even taught himself to read. Apart from some artificial crap they all go through when they meet Ars they also have little to no character and are embodiments of perfection. Why? Why the fuck would anyone think that’s a good idea. A character at the end of their journey that is OP AF is a solid choice. Once we see all his hard work. His being OP is a reward for his suffering, hard work and all the tears, blood and sweat that he sheds. Main thing. AT THE END OF HIS JOURNEY (not life mind You). Charlotte, Rietz and Rosell had some inconveniences but we did not see them work for anything they have. They are all just naturals at what they do.
Why not show Charlotte struggling to control her magic? Make her hurt someone, preferably Ars or his father. Let her have a crisis about that and show her struggling with her inner thoughts and feelings. Let her fall and show us how she gets up. She doesn’t have to do it alone. Let Ars help her, but make her do most of the work.
Why not have Ars injured after being assaulted when Rietz is away fighting? Let Rietz have his own crisis and show how he wants to be punished for something that’s not his fault. Let me see how he deals with the fact that he can’t always protect everyone and maybe has a different approach to serving and protecting Ars.
Risell is a kid. A kid who goes to war and sees things that he shouldn’t Give him PTSD.
No. What we get are 3 fully functioning powerful adults in teenage and kid forms. It’s all so… boring. There are no stakes at all. Why would I care about a show that has no stakes?

Like I said. I like the story. A story about a young boy who wants to create something (even if it’s naive) and has to step up in times of turmoil is a solid idea. Hell… the moment when his father shows him how inadequate he is to go to war and command his forces is amazing. It breaks Ars mentally. It proves the point in the most painful way possible. It changes the way our MC sees himself and it’s awesome. It’s a brutal wakeup call, something that he really needed. This is the moment when plot serves the story and it’s damn good. If the whole show had this kind of relation between story and plot it would be amazing. Unfortunately what we got is a story that is mostly separated from the plot. A lot of things use the “And then this happened” and not the “And because of that, this happened” way of telling its plot and story. There is also no good reason for this to be an isekai. Ars previous life never comes up and changes nothing. Despite being an adult trapped in a kid's body he acts like a kid almost all the time.

To be fair I can see why someone would like this show. It’s a bit different at least on the surface to be considered a breath of fresh air in the stale isekai genre. It uses a lot of cheap tricks to invoice emotions in scenes that don’t really deserve them but a lot of people don’t have a problem with those kinds of tricks. I do.

At the end of the day I stick to what I wrote earlier:
It's a 7/10 story held back by a 3/10 plot.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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