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Jan 11, 2022 8:27 AM

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Holy shit the pacing was so fast I missed an entire month when I blinked LOL
Jan 11, 2022 11:31 AM

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KANLen09 said:


This is just a generically mediocre start. Also, speedrunning through an adaptation is always a no-no, which this episode did (manga or LN-wise).


This will probably lead to anticlimax at the end...
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Jan 11, 2022 12:44 PM

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Isekai speedrun any % defeat the demon king. Seriously this episode was so fast paced I had no idea what was going on. Did they skip like 9 or 10 chapters wtf. He's going into town, gets into school, becomes teacher, teaches students, and goes into a battle arena in one episode. I've never seen this happen before in anime. I'm intrigued from its BS but also scared.
Jan 11, 2022 1:06 PM

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PurpleMagic said:
Isekai speedrun any % defeat the demon king. Seriously this episode was so fast paced I had no idea what was going on. Did they skip like 9 or 10 chapters wtf. He's going into town, gets into school, becomes teacher, teaches students, and goes into a battle arena in one episode. I've never seen this happen before in anime. I'm intrigued from its BS but also scared.

It's not an isekai.
Jan 11, 2022 2:07 PM

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bastek66 said:
PurpleMagic said:
Isekai speedrun any % defeat the demon king. Seriously this episode was so fast paced I had no idea what was going on. Did they skip like 9 or 10 chapters wtf. He's going into town, gets into school, becomes teacher, teaches students, and goes into a battle arena in one episode. I've never seen this happen before in anime. I'm intrigued from its BS but also scared.

It's not an isekai.

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Jan 11, 2022 2:08 PM
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Good first episode.. added to the watching list
Jan 11, 2022 2:29 PM

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PurpleMagic said:
bastek66 said:

It's not an isekai.

Your fun at parties.

"You are" or "You're"
Jan 11, 2022 2:33 PM

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bastek66 said:
PurpleMagic said:

Your fun at parties.

"You are" or "You're"

Congratulations you played yourself.
Jan 11, 2022 3:41 PM

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PurpleMagic said:
bastek66 said:

"You are" or "You're"

Congratulations you played yourself.

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Jan 11, 2022 3:51 PM

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bastek66 said:
PurpleMagic said:

Congratulations you played yourself.

Trolling is a art.

Yes, just like finger painting.
Jan 11, 2022 7:00 PM
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Man talk about about a fantasy speedrun. MC goes to school, gets put as top of his class, wins the school festival, becomes an instructor and handles a demon all in the first episode. Absolute breakneck pacing. This could be good as it could make space for telling a somewhat better story where the MC being OP actually matters or it could all just end up being incoherent. Will have to wait and see.
Jan 11, 2022 7:04 PM
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Man talk about about a fantasy speedrun. MC goes to school, gets put as top of his class, wins the school festival, becomes an instructor and handles a demon all in the first episode. Absolute breakneck pacing. This could be good as it could make space for telling a somewhat better story where the MC being OP actually matters or it could all just end up being incoherent. Will have to wait and see.
thanks I'm sold. I was afraid of the pacing of these kinds of reincarnation.
Jan 11, 2022 8:05 PM

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Very sloppy and rushed anime.

This get like a project that was just quickly written in an afternoon and thrown out there.

The MC is obnoxious and although supposed to be this reborn “great sage” he seems to be addicted to strapping a stupid grin on his face and power flexing on everyone around him and then tries to play this coy friendless loser that we’re supposed to feel sympathy for.

The love interests at this stage don’t look much more interesting then some band groupies and we’re mostly forgettable.

Lastly the pacing feels rushed and any apparent struggles the MC encounters are laughable and do not insight any investment in the show to see what happens.
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Jan 12, 2022 5:24 AM
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Five minutes in and this show already astounds me with how fucking boring, uninspired and terrible this show is. I'm amazed.
Jan 12, 2022 8:36 PM

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Its definitely generic, but its fun for what it is
Jan 13, 2022 2:50 AM
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felt like a whole volume has been adapted instead of a chapter
Jan 13, 2022 3:04 AM

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AltPlusF4 said:
felt like a whole volume has been adapted instead of a chapter


Well... It covered 2 volumes of manga (Though, of course, it skipped most of it)
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Jan 13, 2022 10:48 AM
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looked like they adapted a volume instead of a chapter
Jan 14, 2022 11:24 AM

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The pacing was really fast but it might be a fun show to watch.

Jan 14, 2022 2:41 PM
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They completely skipped over his childhood, they might bring it up as a quick segment when he meets his brother again.
Jan 14, 2022 3:49 PM
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Well, As people already said well much above and other thread, this is truly a generic lamest magical and sword fantasy isekai story, without being literally isekai'ed, but reborn at the same universe whatever years on the future. Its basically Anos, but not Anos, because this mc is an embarassment. The pace also ridiculously flash, for the first episode, which make me can't think anything rather than just saying, oh well, just like that? Ill still watch this for the lol, and cute girls, though. Because idk why the direction seems to be leading into the moe aspect of the girls more rather than story and plot itself, which myself seen it as just the minimal. Interesting. Can't wait for more...
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Jan 14, 2022 5:28 PM
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I'll clarify the mark thing and this guys previous life for anime only watchers because the anime didn't explain it well and seems to have confused a bunch of people. These are not spoilers, just skipped over or poorly explained things.

In actuality, the 4 band mark is the best for combat overall and the 1 band mark is the best for enchanting / professions and not very good for fighting.
In his previous life, the MC had the 1 band mark, but despite this, still became the strongest anyway through effort and intellect, but he was unsatisfied with his limits due to the mark so he reincarnated himself to be born with the 4 band mark because his goal is to literally go into space and fight with gods or something like that.
When he gets reincarnated after a few thousand years with the 4 band mark as a kid, he realizes growing up with his family (all skipped) that human progress has dramatically regressed and everyone has incorrect, backwards knowledge about magic and the marks.
They all think the 4 band mark is trash and the 1 band mark is the best one. They also think chanting is better than non-chanting. That's because the demons deliberately spread those ideas among the humans to stop them from advancing or being a threat to them. The reason the MC can enchant those swords so well is because he was basically the best enchanter in the world in his previous life. So yeah, he was the most OP person before already, now reborn he is even more OP because everyone else has regressed. Also the MC basically wiped out all of the demons by himself in his previous life, which was explained. So yeah, its not hard for him to fight one, basically nothing is hard for him. Most of the things in this story that dont make sense are due to skipping and changes made in the anime from the source material. In the source material the character behaves more like he should as a reborn older man. It's still very generic though with little to no character development, just a power fantasy.
Jan 14, 2022 5:33 PM
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I'll clarify the mark thing and this guys previous life for anime only watchers because the anime didn't explain it well and seems to have confused a bunch of people. These are not spoilers, just skipped over or poorly explained things.

In actuality, the 4 band mark is the best for combat overall and the 1 band mark is the best for enchanting / professions and not very good for fighting.
In his previous life, the MC had the 1 band mark, but despite this, still became the strongest anyway through effort and intellect, but he was unsatisfied with his limits due to the mark so he reincarnated himself to be born with the 4 band mark because his goal is to literally go into space and fight with gods or something like that.
When he gets reincarnated after a few thousand years with the 4 band mark as a kid, he realizes growing up with his family (all skipped) that human progress has dramatically regressed and everyone has incorrect, backwards knowledge about magic and the marks.
They all think the 4 band mark is trash and the 1 band mark is the best one. They also think chanting is better than non-chanting. That's because the demons deliberately spread those ideas among the humans to stop them from advancing or being a threat to them. The reason the MC can enchant those swords so well is because he was basically the best enchanter in the world in his previous life. So yeah, he was the most OP person before already, now reborn he is even more OP because everyone else has regressed. Also the MC basically wiped out all of the demons by himself in his previous life, which was explained. So yeah, its not hard for him to fight one, basically nothing is hard for him. Most of the things in this story that dont make sense are due to skipping and changes made in the anime from the source material. In the source material the character behaves more like he should as a reborn older man. It's still very generic though with little to no character development, just a power fantasy.
whi is he voiced by a girl? Is he of the school of "No killing of humans" principle no matter what they do. By your description, I'm sure he will butt heads with scumbag human noble/mercenaries. He doesn't look like Anos, whom i can forgive because of his Devil may care attitude.
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Jan 14, 2022 7:35 PM

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I've only caught up to vol. 5 of the manga, but this seems rushed to hell. I believe they did a speedrun through the entrie first volume, and half of the second. If they're serious about this adaptation, hopefully they'll backtrack to explain what the hell happened.




Jan 14, 2022 9:29 PM
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It's feel like you watch yt video some anime in nutshell
Jan 15, 2022 10:12 AM
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this show is so predictable,i might have ultra instinct
Jan 15, 2022 10:35 AM

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How does stuff like this keep getting produced?
Jan 15, 2022 7:34 PM

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Kenjo no Mago has a sequel I guess. This is gonna be one of those anime where it's unremarkable and yet you watch it once anyway and then never remember a single characters name afterwards. I literally cannot name a single character from Kenjo no Mago but I know I watched it lmfao

Jan 15, 2022 7:59 PM

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Hmm... I only read a few of Manga

But... as said, it seems like the series is sped up by 50x...

There's so much skips, you would think it's a contender vs "Dragon Quest: My Story"s time skip, LUL

(as can be seen by ppls complains the series sucks cause they didn't read the manga/ novel and doesn't know there's a lot of other story not in the anime)
(same deal as Dragon Quest if ppls didn't know about the game or story beforehand and will be confused cause it's skipping bunch of story and lore)

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Feels like this is going to be a 1 season series...
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Jan 15, 2022 9:08 PM
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This show is so generic and boring, I don't understand why the rating is so high
Jan 16, 2022 8:52 AM

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lKinol said:
This show is so generic and boring, I don't understand why the rating is so high

The rating is low by MAL standards. Even the most mediocra of shows usually average atleast a 7.

Haven't read the novel, but it certainly feels like they decided to shove an entire volume into one episode. Generic story paired with a terrible adaptation, pretty much the standard isekai-esque anime.
Jan 17, 2022 10:28 AM
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Not even gonna bother watching more episodes lmao. You know whats going to happen. This is just another anime were the mc is this omnipotent being that never loses and everyone loves him It's so boring. Why? It doesn't really feel like the protag is making any progress because he's already at peak strength. The whole anime is about him proving that he is strong despite him having the worst crest or whatever. Despite this, he can do pretty much anything with ease. It's just so lame and pointless. Why would anyone watch something like that? There is no build up, no tension, no attachment because the entire show involves some guy showing how overpowered he is while everyone around him are souless husks just there to jerk him off.
Jan 18, 2022 4:11 AM
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This perfectly fits into the vast amount of mediocre/terrible, forgettable fantasy anime out there. And this was poorly paced too on top of this and looks really flat too. Bonus points for ridiculous name for MC that I'll never be able to remember since its like many of its counterparts.
I’ll never understand how people can just come and shit on a show like this. If you guys don’t like it then don’t watch it. Obviously we all know what how the fantasy/ isekai theme will go. Only a few shows can actually do it well but that doesn’t mean that the other ones are garbage. Like damn how about y’all turn off your brains to watch it or just stfu and that goes for everyone in here talking shit


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Jan 18, 2022 8:17 AM
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Unoriginal. Graphics are nothing special. Story is just bad. The only saving grace is that this show is like a synopsis of all other shitty shows of the same genre, so you can watch one show and skip a few dozen bad shows all at once.
Jan 18, 2022 1:37 PM

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Matty is definitely the strongest sage all right
Jan 18, 2022 1:38 PM

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I’ll never understand how people can just come and shit on a show like this. If you guys don’t like it then don’t watch it. Obviously we all know what how the fantasy/ isekai theme will go. Only a few shows can actually do it well but that doesn’t mean that the other ones are garbage. Like damn how about y’all turn off your brains to watch it or just stfu and that goes for everyone in here talking shit


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Jan 21, 2022 7:55 PM
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reincarnation fantasy anime with OP main character...
they TRIED to make the mc looks cool, instead they make me want to puke.
like everyone said, the first ep is really fast paced.
they didn't explain anything about how the magic system work...
they didn't really give a scale of how strong the mc is...
they didn't really show us how the world looks...

the RPG fantasy styled anime now is just trash...
Feb 6, 2022 4:28 PM

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Holy shit, Kenja no Mago 2?


In most cases, the MAL Average Scores don't mean anything, here is a question: were the works made before 2000 all shit?
Why are they so damn scarce in the Top 50? Think about how MAL is quite literally a filtered amount of the Anime fanbase.

Here's a timeline of the Top 15 in which you can check that, almost always, the scores are affected by the freshness, popularity and other factors that have nothing to do with quality.

Feb 11, 2022 4:35 AM

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He was the strongest or one of the strongest then, now he's supposed to be the weakest because of his crest which is the one he actually want way back then before his current reincarnation, and because of covert demon propaganda...time to show them the error of their ways!

Feels and looks rushed but start was just OK.
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Feb 18, 2022 7:15 PM

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Was this an entire novel in one episode? Probably one of the worst episodes of anime I've ever watched.
Feb 24, 2022 12:41 AM
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i dig it

always kind of fun watching op mc's. plus this dude is some type of reincarnated demon-hunting mage? not bad not bad

8/10 to start
Feb 25, 2022 6:50 PM

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This is your average reincarnation isekai, adult MC reincarnates into kid but still gets shy around females. Shows off his powers in day one so he isn't insecure about his bad luck and failure to reincarnate with the best seal. Joins the underdog academy and teaches them incantless spellcasting for free so they can be stronger than the entire nation's military. Prepares for a tournament against egotistical noble academy students. I wonder what's next

going to watch it anyway because it's OPMC lol
Mar 1, 2022 7:09 AM
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Staring at a math book was even better than this shit. it should’ve not been released at all. all I need is 1 episode and it can put me on a sleep for eternity because it gives my brain a stroke and fricking died by trying to process “a story” of this failures.
Mar 1, 2022 10:24 PM
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MR OPPPPPPPPP IS BACKKKKKKK !!!!!!! Loved how he got that Demon to slip up and just annihilated him XDDD LURIE IS SO CUTE TOOOO GONNA LOVE WATCHING THIS :DDD
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Mar 13, 2022 7:23 AM

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I kinda felt is was rushed, but I thought it was decent. Comparing to this season's isekai anime, it has good visuals.
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Mar 21, 2022 5:17 AM
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Uh, reincarnated mage into an OP student that uses silent magic and is already growing an harem on the 1st episode, well it's very basic so far and seen the same in some many other low qualities show, of course he even had to destroy a very powerful demon on the 1st episode xD though that was entertaining so why not
Apr 2, 2022 8:36 PM

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My word, they literally rushed through 2 manga volumes of content in one episode. Even skipping the funny comedy.
Apr 18, 2022 4:39 PM
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Fasted paced anime I've ever seen and that is NOT a good thing in this case. It gave no time to give any shits about our characters.
Apr 23, 2022 2:15 AM
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Ah my fault, I think this is an adaptation of a manga I don't know if there is a big difference between manga and LN but I will give a response from the manga's point of view here there are a lot of problem is in episode one there are a lot of differences from manga like a lot of skipped scenes, character changes, trashy plot changes, it's very disturbing. I don't know why so many people vote "it was ok" do you guys not know how to judge a product or are you hypocrites? , if my words are like dropping the anime adaptation, it's because I care about the manga and if someone disagrees because of my comments, I just want to say one thing that you can defend studio j.c staff just because he wants to make the anime I also want to defending that the result of the decision of the studio j.c staff is very less proud because so many changes have been made and it makes the anime trashy

haven't they made a lot of anime with good story plots but why are the results obtained from this anime so different? Have they changed their minds or something? very trashy
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nakidh said:
Ah my fault, I think this is an adaptation of a manga


The source material is a web novel that was published as both an LN and manga series ~1 year later simultaneously. I don't know why people always assume a manga is the original source when 9 times out of 10 it's a WN/LN.

There's also apparently a second LN/manga series that follows his early life.
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