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Feb 26, 2022 2:13 AM
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I started this show thinking it would be just those regular fantasy shit or something like that but the political battle in this show is really good and kinda unexpected. The show's feeling hella underrated and am not exactly talking about the MAL score. I haven't seen any hype or anything for this. This one deserves at least a bit more recognition.
Feb 26, 2022 2:35 AM
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it doesn't have hype because the first episode suuuuucked. It's gotten better since, and I am absolutely dead certain the first episode's problems were a production crunch issue (note that they didn't have a proper OP until a few episodes in). And also it's kind of speedrunning LN content, apparently. But it's pretty fun, I don't regret watching it, and Ninym alone is 100% worth it. And Wein is a fun main character.
Feb 26, 2022 2:52 AM
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Nope. The rating of this anime is actually perfect for it. I mean it's good, but not that good. 7 is actually a good rating, so it's not underrated.
Feb 26, 2022 5:19 AM
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I think so to. Its definitely more polished and has better pacing than Realist hero (which I think is best anime to compare it to).
Feb 26, 2022 5:25 AM
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Potatoboy11 said:
Nope. The rating of this anime is actually perfect for it. I mean it's good, but not that good. 7 is actually a good rating, so it's not underrated.

Bruh they literally said it's not about the MAL score
サンタクロース?そんなのいるはずがないのだ!馬鹿なのか?ーーあ、あれ?今年はクリスマスプレゼント抜きなのか?ま、待つのだ!ちょっと話すのだ!サンタクロースがもしかしたらいるかもしれないのだー!
Santa Claus? Are you dumb? There's no way something like that could... Huh? There's going to be coal in my stockings this year? W-wait! Let's discuss this! I'm sure there's some possibility that Santa is real!
-雪風様 (Yukikaze-sama)
Feb 26, 2022 6:03 AM
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i don’t think this is underrated at all, it’s complete rubbish. all the stuff in the show is way too complicated to understand.
Feb 26, 2022 6:04 AM
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ArcaSK said:
Potatoboy11 said:
Nope. The rating of this anime is actually perfect for it. I mean it's good, but not that good. 7 is actually a good rating, so it's not underrated.

Bruh they literally said it's not about the MAL score

It's 7 almost everywhere. Mal:7.4 Imdb:7.1 Anilist.co:7.
If y'all aren't talking about these ratings, then idk wtf y'all are on.
Feb 26, 2022 6:30 AM
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Potatoboy11 said:
ArcaSK said:

Bruh they literally said it's not about the MAL score

It's 7 almost everywhere. Mal:7.4 Imdb:7.1 Anilist.co:7.
If y'all aren't talking about these ratings, then idk wtf y'all are on.

They weren't talking about the rating, they were talking about hype, like you never see clips of this show anywhere while other shows from this season are really popular and are basically everywhere
サンタクロース?そんなのいるはずがないのだ!馬鹿なのか?ーーあ、あれ?今年はクリスマスプレゼント抜きなのか?ま、待つのだ!ちょっと話すのだ!サンタクロースがもしかしたらいるかもしれないのだー!
Santa Claus? Are you dumb? There's no way something like that could... Huh? There's going to be coal in my stockings this year? W-wait! Let's discuss this! I'm sure there's some possibility that Santa is real!
-雪風様 (Yukikaze-sama)
Feb 26, 2022 6:31 AM
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ArcaSK said:
Potatoboy11 said:

It's 7 almost everywhere. Mal:7.4 Imdb:7.1 Anilist.co:7.
If y'all aren't talking about these ratings, then idk wtf y'all are on.

They weren't talking about the rating, they were talking about hype, like you never see clips of this show anywhere while other shows from this season are really popular and are basically everywhere


But tbh Idk if it's justified or not, I haven't started watching the show yet
サンタクロース?そんなのいるはずがないのだ!馬鹿なのか?ーーあ、あれ?今年はクリスマスプレゼント抜きなのか?ま、待つのだ!ちょっと話すのだ!サンタクロースがもしかしたらいるかもしれないのだー!
Santa Claus? Are you dumb? There's no way something like that could... Huh? There's going to be coal in my stockings this year? W-wait! Let's discuss this! I'm sure there's some possibility that Santa is real!
-雪風様 (Yukikaze-sama)
Feb 26, 2022 6:37 AM

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ArcaSK said:
Potatoboy11 said:

It's 7 almost everywhere. Mal:7.4 Imdb:7.1 Anilist.co:7.
If y'all aren't talking about these ratings, then idk wtf y'all are on.

They weren't talking about the rating, they were talking about hype, like you never see clips of this show anywhere while other shows from this season are really popular and are basically everywhere

of course they are mate AOT is airing !!!
LoL
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Feb 26, 2022 6:44 AM
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Its better than the Realist hero thats for sure.
Feb 26, 2022 6:52 AM

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ArcaSK said:
Potatoboy11 said:

It's 7 almost everywhere. Mal:7.4 Imdb:7.1 Anilist.co:7.
If y'all aren't talking about these ratings, then idk wtf y'all are on.

They weren't talking about the rating, they were talking about hype, like you never see clips of this show anywhere while other shows from this season are really popular and are basically everywhere

Then why not use the term "underhyped" insted of "underrated"? Rating is entirely different than what you said.
And no, it's not that underhyped. I've been seeing a lot of Ninym posts everywhere since the show started.
Feb 26, 2022 6:53 AM

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-Elevate- said:
i don’t think this is underrated at all, it’s complete rubbish. all the stuff in the show is way too complicated to understand.
you just have a smooth brain and/or complicated shows arent your type of anime
if thats your only point that is
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Feb 26, 2022 7:04 AM
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I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the show, I quite like the more political aspect to fantasy’s. Perhaps that’s why isekais like Tensura and Overlord are my favourite. Also the animation is very clean and the voice acting is excellent, anything with Takahashi, Rie is great.
Along with Fantasy Bishoujo, I think this is a very underrated show of the season.
Feb 26, 2022 7:05 AM
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-Elevate- said:
i don’t think this is underrated at all, it’s complete rubbish. all the stuff in the show is way too complicated to understand.

Perhaps that’s more a damming inditement of you than the quality of the show.
Feb 26, 2022 8:02 AM

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FreshSalmon827 said:
-Elevate- said:
i don’t think this is underrated at all, it’s complete rubbish. all the stuff in the show is way too complicated to understand.

Perhaps that’s more a damming inditement of you than the quality of the show.

L-M-A-O this😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Feb 26, 2022 9:31 AM
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I appreciate this show much more too, I even started reading the light novels. I like the blend of comedy and diplomatic politics. Also, the characters are great and amusing, especially the protagonist. However, it lacks depth and built-up, mostly in the geopolitical, economical, etc environment that the anime relies on - it does way better to the source (LN). It can be jarring to the viewers. Plus, the first episode had production issues and turned some viewers off, as a result to drop it.

There's a similar show called "Realist Hero" which has more depth in terms of politics and economy, but there is no comedy, the pacing is too fast, and the characters are a bit plain. I recommend it if you like these stuff though, it brings on the table interesting views and ideas.
Feb 26, 2022 10:54 AM

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_cyberwarrior_ said:
I started this show thinking it would be just those regular fantasy shit or something like that but the political battle in this show is really good and kinda unexpected. The show's feeling hella underrated and am not exactly talking about the MAL score. I haven't seen any hype or anything for this. This one deserves at least a bit more recognition.

Totally agree, I enjoy this slice of life more than I do my dress up darling. The character designs and character themselves are fun, plot moves on in surprising ways. Quality humor and dialogues. I love the pacing and multiple characters getting introduced. It is definitely time to buy the books, but I'll read after sn 1 finishes airing.
Feb 26, 2022 12:18 PM
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-Elevate- said:
i don’t think this is underrated at all, it’s complete rubbish. all the stuff in the show is way too complicated to understand.
lmao no not at all geopolitics and Economics
Feb 26, 2022 1:30 PM
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Yeah its really underated after finishing the first 2 episodes i rushed to read the lightnovels and must say this series is quite good. But as someone mentioned above it would be even better if they focused more on economics as well instead of just war and diplomacy.

Edit:It would also be great if we got a drawing of the whole continent with all of its current borders instead of just parts of it.
Feb 26, 2022 1:34 PM
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Eren_Cho said:
I appreciate this show much more too, I even started reading the light novels. I like the blend of comedy and diplomatic politics. Also, the characters are great and amusing, especially the protagonist. However, it lacks depth and built-up, mostly in the geopolitical, economical, etc environment that the anime relies on - it does way better to the source (LN). It can be jarring to the viewers. Plus, the first episode had production issues and turned some viewers off, as a result to drop it.

There's a similar show called "Realist Hero" which has more depth in terms of politics and economy, but there is no comedy, the pacing is too fast, and the characters are a bit plain. I recommend it if you like these stuff though, it brings on the table interesting views and ideas.
Must say that the map of the continent of Varno(Genius Prince) and the map of the continent in Realist Hero are pretty similiar.
Feb 26, 2022 1:36 PM
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XTente said:
Eren_Cho said:
I appreciate this show much more too, I even started reading the light novels. I like the blend of comedy and diplomatic politics. Also, the characters are great and amusing, especially the protagonist. However, it lacks depth and built-up, mostly in the geopolitical, economical, etc environment that the anime relies on - it does way better to the source (LN). It can be jarring to the viewers. Plus, the first episode had production issues and turned some viewers off, as a result to drop it.

There's a similar show called "Realist Hero" which has more depth in terms of politics and economy, but there is no comedy, the pacing is too fast, and the characters are a bit plain. I recommend it if you like these stuff though, it brings on the table interesting views and ideas.
<spoiler>Must say that the map of the continent of Varno(Genius Prince) and the map of the continent in Realist Hero are pretty similiar.


To be honest, almost all the maps in anime seem similar to be. Same with the capitals 😅
Feb 26, 2022 6:09 PM

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This show is amazing and I enjoy it lot. I would give this a 10/10 rating.

Seeing people complain so much about so many anime on here makes me seriously wonder what people actually believe is a good anime, and I bet I would probably hate the anime they chose too. 🤣 hahah
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.

Feb 26, 2022 8:00 PM

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Drxcxrys said:
_cyberwarrior_ said:
I started this show thinking it would be just those regular fantasy shit or something like that but the political battle in this show is really good and kinda unexpected. The show's feeling hella underrated and am not exactly talking about the MAL score. I haven't seen any hype or anything for this. This one deserves at least a bit more recognition.

Totally agree, I enjoy this slice of life more than I do my dress up darling. The character designs and character themselves are fun, plot moves on in surprising ways. Quality humor and dialogues. I love the pacing and multiple characters getting introduced. It is definitely time to buy the books, but I'll read after sn 1 finishes airing.

Wait I know you right?? 😂
Feb 27, 2022 1:20 PM
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The first episode kinda sucked, like it was too fast for an episode a lot of things have happend that I just din't bother eatching it entirely, episode 2 came out still with the fast pace; first war then the princess etc within, correct me if I'm wrong 3 episodes.
Feb 27, 2022 10:36 PM

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in a way i think its that people see it as “just like Realist Hero” and didnt bother…and of course the first episode having a meh first impression (tho i do like the banter between Wein and Ninim)
plus add to the fact, as far as streaming in the west is concerned, its on Funimation and not Crunchyroll since usually CR shows get more buzz
Mar 1, 2022 11:37 AM

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its turned out to be a much better show than Realist Hero. the characters are better written espcially the women who seen to actually have a brain unlike realist hero where they stan around waiting to be collected like Pokemon by Souma.

Ninym is a great character and Wien has grown on me as well. the show doesn't rely on massive info dumps to get across what its trying to achieve. I hope the final score is higher than Realist hero even if its only by a small margin as its a far better show.
Mar 2, 2022 3:18 AM

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Ehh. Don't think it's underrated or anything. It's mediocre at best, so mediocre reception is just right. Personally would rate it even lower than what the current score across all sites are rating it now. People on reddit seem to like it but IDK why.
Mar 6, 2022 6:35 AM
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At first I didn't give it a chance, but then I decided to sit down and watch the first episode all the way threw. I'm glad I did. Absolutely hilarious.
Mar 6, 2022 6:35 AM
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At first I didn't give it a chance, but then I decided to sit down and watch the first episode all the way threw. I'm glad I did. Absolutely hilarious.
Mar 6, 2022 6:35 AM
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At first I didn't give it a chance, but then I decided to sit down and watch the first episode all the way threw. I'm glad I did. Absolutely hilarious.
Mar 15, 2022 10:35 AM
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If you liked this, I would recommend https://myanimelist.net/anime/14833/Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha as it has a similar world building story line adding a Demon Queen as well.

Eren_Cho said:
I appreciate this show much more too, I even started reading the light novels. I like the blend of comedy and diplomatic
Eren_Cho said:
I appreciate this show much more too, I even started reading the light novels. I like the blend of comedy and diplomatic politics. Also, the characters are great and amusing, especially the protagonist.
There's a similar show called "Realist Hero" which has more depth in terms of politics and economy, but there is no comedy, the pacing is too fast, and the characters are a bit plain. I recommend it if you like these stuff though, it brings on the table interesting views and ideas.

There's a similar show called "Realist Hero" which has more depth in terms of politics and economy, but there is no comedy, the pacing is too fast, and the characters are a bit plain. I recommend it if you like these stuff though, it brings on the table interesting views and ideas.
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rielly said:
If you liked this, I would recommend https://myanimelist.net/anime/14833/Maoyuu_Maou_Yuusha as it has a similar world building story line adding a Demon Queen as well.


Thank you very much for the recommendation. I added the show to my list.
Mar 15, 2022 3:14 PM
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Valid, It's true!!! This is the best anime
 
Mar 26, 2022 1:49 PM

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I am far more surprised why so much trash LN and manga are being adapted into anime, this was unheard of 15 years ago, but now it seems like mandatory to do at least one.

Whats that got to do with this anime though? Nothing really, its just funny that we are used to seeing so much trash lately, that a 6/10 - 7/10 anime becomes "underrated" its a good anime but it aint an 8 I think people need to stop thinking 6 or 7 are bad scores, cause they aint it just means more people are divided about whether its good or not, which means you just have to watch a bit of it yourself to see if you like it, stop relaying on scores too much, rely more on the two eye balls you got.
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Apr 29, 2023 5:02 AM

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People are comparing this show to Realistic Hero saying that it is better but I think it is not. It definitely has better characters, but the show is worse than the Realistic Hero. Realistic Hero focus on making the kingdom work properly and they explain how they intend to do that, more, they did a lot of things focusing on the evolution of the kingdom, to actually improve their value in economics, society, and political/army and not just the army/political side like this one. 
People that play a lot of games, and see/compare this with their tactics, don't realize this much often but to build an actual functional kingdom/empire/country/other and have powerful Political and military influence it forcefully needs to have a good economy and a stable society. Workforce generates money, and both generate power, which you need to manage (politically), that's the basic, and Realistic Hero tried to focus on all of them. This one, however (so far, I'm on 3rd ep) only focuses on the final end (which is what the major part of the games do), because of this I think this show is worse than the realistic hero (because in an unreal world, it tried to be as realistic as they could), despite the characters of this show being WAY BETTER the premisses lacks a lot of things and for me, it defined its rate.

Now as for being underrated... Nah! I don't think it was. It actually has roughly the same amount of people that watched as the other shows (100k+/-) and an equally average score (7 +/-). People don't make much hype for this kind of show, and as others said, AoT was airing at the same time so it was expected to turn out like this.
For the ones that like to bother others (like me) with "you should read the manga/LN", please stop. I don't read mangas, I will NOT read mangas, I will not listen to what manga readers complain in adaptation to the anime counterpart, I only watch anime except in very few and specific situations.
May 8, 2023 10:15 PM

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I like it to a certain extent (and cute waifus, always a plus), but looking at it wholistically it felt rushed (seems to cover 5 vol in 12 eps, that's a LOT) and it's basically just Wein reacting to crisis after crisis as opposing to taking the initiative and invade another nation, for example. I do appreciate that the author shows Wein's OP intellect not by pitting him against unnaturally dumb villains (except that dumb son character) but actually pitting him against competent rulers.

Maybe more time for the arcs (and only cover, say 3 or 4 vol, or have 2 cour worth of screen time) would've fleshed out the diplomatic conflicts more and make it look like tough negotiations instead of Wein dominating through all negotiations like its child's play. I keep comparing Tensai Ouji to Shoukoku no Altair and Tensai Ouji loses out every time.

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