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TLDR; Watch this if you're interested in Okinawan culture and don't focus too heavily on the romance aspect, and you might enjoy this.

Okitsura is yet another addition to the semi-edutainment style of anime that we've been starting to see pop up over the last few years, but with this one set in Okinawa.

The show has surprisingly good animation for what it is and only really falters consistently any time they use CG animation. The main characters are well animated using a sort of Konosuba-esque style with loose and funny shapes for faces during comedic moments and more detailed faces during more serious or focused ... moments. The rest of the supporting cast is also decently drawn and reasonably distinct from one another most of the time, although you'll be hard-pressed to remember anyone's name, unfortunately.

The music is pleasant sounding and feels mostly appropriate to the setting and circumstances. It uses a lot of steel drum and Japanese string instruments to make a nice tropical-Japanese sound. The OP is decent, but I personally preferred the EDs, which occasionally change depending on the plot of the given episode. I preferred the default one personally, which shows the main girls trying to ride a bike as a peaceful song (which sounds like it might've been sung by the girls' VAs) plays in the background.

Unless you're very familiar with Okinawan culture and activities or the source material (which I'm not), it's difficult to tell how well the show does at introducing and explaining the various references and dialect aspects. For what it's worth though, I found the show both informative and somewhat entertaining.

The show gets a little messier from here though. The character and story writing are quite lackluster. The lead character, Teru, in particular, as other reviewers have mentioned, is boring and receives almost no development throughout the show. It's not always clear as to why he's attracted to the "main" girl, Hina, either. The show instead seems to instead spend more time fleshing out the ever-growing romantic feelings of the other main girl, Kana, who acts as a translator for the male lead and the other characters.

Teru, naturally, is meant to be a vessel for the audience, so he's understandably not going to know Okinawan right away, but he never even tries to learn enough Okinawan to be able to talk to his crush himself. Instead, Kana is nearly always around to translate for them. Learning a new language, even a dialect, can be challenging and time-consuming, but the fact that it doesn't seem like he tries to learn much beyond what is translated for him, despite being in love with someone he can barely understand, is disappointing.

What's left are characters whose minimal and confusing development left me disappointed. The show even spends more time info-dumping with the Shisaa mascot than it does developing the lead characters relationship, despite said relationship being the namesake of the show.

The bottom line is, if you can temper your expectations for the romantic subplot and focus on the informative aspects of the show about Okinawa, it's people, and it's culture, you might enjoy this show. If you thought you'd be getting a cute romance on top of that though, you'll be a bit disappointed, unfortunately.

TLDR: Read the Visual Novels if you want the full experience. Otherwise, this is a passable, if overly condensed, slightly altered, entry point into the series.

I don't envy anyone that has to adapt a lengthy, acclaimed visual novel like Fruit of Grisaia into a single 13 episode anime season while having it turn out as good or as fleshed out as the source material, so for what it is, this adaptation tried it's best with moderate success.

Most of the core story beats from each route are present, albeit in a heavily watered down and somewhat altered form. This unfortunately means, however, that Yumiko's story, ... which relies heavily on the romance plot between her and Yuuji, lost the vast majority of it's story progression and interested viewers will need to read the visual novel to truly experience it.

The other routes falter similarly, as none of them get the screen time to truly explore the events and the traumas that caused these characters to behave as they do or the resulting consequences of their actions in many cases.

Amane's route gets the most screen time, and thus ,fares the best. Much of her story involves being immersed over an extended period of time in the struggles and suffering she experienced during that time. Naturally, such an experience is difficult to truly capture in such a short time and so the VN is, again, essential to truly experience this gut punch of a route, but the anime does a decent job of adapting it.

What this show does well is give viewers a compact, animated summary of the comedy and the incredible story that the visual novel does so well.

Overall, this is a decent entry point into the series if you don't want to read the visual novels, but if readers do have any interest at all in the VNs, I would highly recommend skipping this anime and reading the VNs instead, as the stories and characters are far more fleshed out and will have a much greater impact than can be experienced through the very heavily condensed version shown in the anime.

I'd love it if they could take another crack at this in the future with an extended season or maybe several feature length episodes, but I doubt that'll happen. Also, maybe tone down the panty shots too.

Detective stories are pretty interesting most of the time and I thought this would be a great addition to the sort of forensic detective anime that we don't seem to get a lot of anymore with the more medical twist this show adds. Sadly, the show falls into a common pitfall within this genre that may make it less appealing for some, as it did for me.

There hasn't been a lot of character development as of when I stopped watching, but the show did seem to give most of its main cast a bit of backstory and fleshed out some of their relationships with the ... other main and supporting characters. I haven't watched far enough in to see how well that progresses though, so your mileage may vary.

Sound and music was alright, but fairly forgettable overall. Nothing especially noteworthy to comment on, which was a bit disappointing for a mystery show where anything and everything could be either a clue or contributing to the atmosphere. Maybe that improves further in, but I wasn't impressed when I stopped watching.

Voice acting was believable and well done overall. Definitely leaning more on the comedic side, which I appreciated, but it did seem to know when things should get a bit more serious too. As a nice bonus, it's always amusing to hear the classic Scooby-Doo villain line after the end of the mystery.

Unfortunately, it's pretty clear that this show isn't for me, as it might be for many others. The entire show is designed around, and hangs on the idea that you enjoy watching shows where most of the clues are barely noticeable at best, or outright only explained ex post facto by the genius protagonist while the audience is left in the dark until the mystery is solved. Without going into spoilers, there are definitely instances where the show is clearly directing the audience towards certain characters or objects, but the connections are subtle or confusing to the point where it's easy to make an incorrect prediction, if one can be made at all. It's possible that folks with more in-depth knowledge of the specific subject matter serving as a clue will catch onto things better than I did, but as a layman with only a working knowledge of some of these topics at best, most of the clues flew over my head, if they were there to begin with.

Personally, I like being able to piece together clues to solve the mystery myself, so I would personally recommend The Apothecary Diaries instead for folks like me who prefer that style of mystery show.

It's the third season of one of the best isekai shows ever. That's it. That's the review. You're probably already watching it anyways. If you're not, what are you doing?! It's great!

If I have one complaint about it, it's that there's only 16 episodes this season. On the other hand though, I'm glad the studio didn't try to pad it out with 8 more potentially unnecessary episodes if they thought this arc only needed 16.

My only genuine complaint is that they've slightly changed the art style and some of the character designs for some reason. ***cough*** Emilia ***cough*** Despite the changes to the art ... and characters, the show still looks great.

I'm hoping that we're going to see more development of some of the villains as the season goes on, since we don't know a lot about most of them (unless you've read ahead, I'm assuming)

TLDR: Some might like this, but there are plenty of other more interesting shows in this genre that forgo the "ick" factor.

It's basically Campfire Cooking in Another World, but it's boring, forgettable, and the protagonist is a creepy, wishfulfilly, amorous, old guy with almost no interesting personality quirks other than that he somehow attracts, and beds a bunch of younger women for some reason. I know the show doesn't linger on those scenes for long, but the fact that they come up repeatedly, even multiple times in the same episode, is just uncomfortable to watch.

Seriously, in the first episode I'm pretty sure the innkeeper ... girl just throws herself at him because he shows her how to read or something. Then in the third episode he gets the cat girl that's been all over him and the blonde merchant girl is just one short step away from going that direction too. It's not nearly as bad as that awful Goblin show from last year (No, I'm not mentioning the name. If you know, you know unfortunately), but Yeesh.

Even if you can get past the aforementioned weirdness, the rest of the show so far has been pretty forgettable. There's been little in the way of a story to tell so far beyond make money and build a home using and selling things bought from this magic online store connected to modern Japan. I know it's early on still, but I don't think it's for me. Maybe if it pivots away from the harem stuff and the story and characters improve, I'll consider picking it back up again.

This show actually made me angry. I can forgive inconsistencies and some poor plot and world-building, but I can only suspend my disbelief for so long. This show is an insult to anyone with any knowledge of medical practices, history, fantasy, etc. Buckle up folks. Time to dissect this trash piece by piece.

Spoilers in case you actually want to watch this. You've been warned.

Doctor protag is the best doctor in the world apparently and gets called to Germany to perform some surgery on someone because she's so incredible and is a polyglot too. On her way though plane-kun crash lands and somehow she and all ... the other passengers survive, many of whom are in critical condition. She proceeds to successfully treat or perform emergency surgery on every single one of them.

Here's where my first and second major problems come in. After finishing treating the passengers, we find out that she herself sustained a severe abdominal wound and dies after succumbing to blood loss and falling dramatically out of the broken airframe. So she somehow managed to, first, successfully treat every single passenger in that plane with just the plane's first aid kit and a piece of broken glass for a scalpel, no proper surgical tools, all while, second, bleeding out through a massive abdominal wound without any hint of suffering or difficulty on her part. Makes sense. Moving on.

She then gets isekai'd back to the same world that she was originally reverse isekai'd from, making this essentially a reverse reverse isekai. In her first life she was a brat who treated her family and virtually everyone around her poorly. Here's problem number 3. In her newly reborn self with all her memories from her past two lives, she has a near complete personality change from her original self. Nobody questions this sudden extreme personality change for very long and quickly accepts her new behaviour.

Problem number 4. She decides that to avoid the future that ended her first life, she's going to become a doctor and fix all this world's problems. Naturally, she's challenged on this by several people throughout the story that I've seen so far, but all of them quickly relent before long despite being effectively blindsided by this newfound goal. Remember she'd never shown any interest in medicine before now in her life in this world. She's then sent to a really unforgiving hospital as part of the condition of allowing her to study and practice medicine with the expectation that she'll quickly give up.

Here's where things really start to get bad. She shows up at this hospital and is sent by the "genius" resident surgeon to the ward with the worst conditions in the whole hospital to try and scare her off. She immediately cleans the dirty room in record time until it's spotless and then, problem number 5, proceeds to perfectly treat every patient and, worse still, perform unsupervised emergency surgery on one of them to which none of the nurses present offer any substantial resistance. Problem number 6, she performs this surgery using extremely modern tools and modern looking operating gowns in what has up until now appeared to be a early semi-Victorian era fantasy setting. She succeeds, shows up the resident "genius" doctor, and receives very little resistance or punishment on top of everything.

It gets worse though. Problem number 7. In another emergency procedure, one of the staff brings in a patient who's clearly still breathing, albeit with difficulty, and suggests using an AED/defibrillator on them. As far as I know, you don't use a defibrillator on a patient whose heart is beating when the problem isn't the heart's rhythm. Problem 8. AEDs didn't exist in Victorian times. Problem 9. There's no explanation of where the power for the AED or anything else in this world comes from. Problem number 10. The protag again successfully performs the surgery herself with minimal resistance or supervision, shows up the "genius" doctor again, and receives no punishment afterward.

Later on we see a patient who was shot in the spleen. Shot, not stabbed. So they've added guns now. Fine. Guns did exist in Victorian times in more primitive forms, so that by itself isn't a problem. No, problems 11, 12, and 13 are how, with what, and by whom the patient was shot. We see a flashback showing the classic trope of these two characters being assaulted in a sketchy back alley. The bad guy charges at the two guys with a knife and the one guy defends the other with his sword and disarms the bad guy and knocks him down. What happened next blew my mind. The bad guy pulls out a modern-looking revolver and shoots the guy with the sword. First of all, why didn't the bad guy use the revolver from the start? Second, why is there a modern revolver in an early Victorian setting. At best, they had old looking black powder cartridge revolvers. Look them up if you're interested. Third, there's absolutely no way that this bad guy could have had a gun anyways given the way he's presumably been living. Revolvers back then were generally things that only military or police officers and wealthy people owned, and this bad guy was clearly none of those things given his living situation and lack of combat ability. Flashback to the present and once again, protag performs the surgery perfectly, receives little resistance from even the other doctors this time, saves the guy's life, shows up the "genius" resident yet again along with all the other doctors in the room, receives no punishment for disobeying orders, and everything is sunshine and rainbows.

Here's another one. In one scene the protag helps set a patient's dislocated shoulder using a method named after the person who created it IRL. Problem number 14. The "genius" resident doctor recognizes and specifically says the name of the technique. There's absolutely no way that he could have known the name of a technique created by, and named after, a person from a completely different world. It would be one thing if the technique was named after a person who created it in the fantasy world, but the fact that they just used the name of the real person who created the technique in our Earth is just plain lazy writing. Such an obvious logical fallacy that could've easily been fixed.

Last before I completely stopped paying attention. Problem number 15, every single surgery the protag has performed through every episode so far, and likely going forward too, has seen her and someone else spilling mindless, argumentative exposition over top of the patient as the patient is suffering/bleeding out instead of performing the surgery, wasting valuable time that could determine whether or not the patient survives. It would be one thing if that time was spent identifying the problem and how to fix it or doing anything else meaningful, but in every instance so far, it's just characters creating conflict for the sake of dramatization.

This show is downright insulting to watch and a complete waste of time. Don't watch it unless you can laugh at how bad it is. I certainly couldn't. Screw this show.

TLDR; Good OP and ED, decent animation sometimes, horrible plot and character progression, nonsensical world-building and magic systems. Don't waste your time unless you want to hate watch or completely turn your brain off.

The Good:
The best part about this show is the music. The OP and ED are both pretty good, and may deceive you into thinking this show is worth your time as they did for me.

The Meh:
The animation is passable most of the time, and even occasionally decent, just don't go in expecting to have your socks blown off.

The Ugly:
At the beginning I thought this could be an interesting Harry Potter meets ... anime sort of deal, but as the episodes came and went, it became increasingly clear to me that this wasn't a good anime. The plot was extremely difficult to follow throughout the show. Key moments would suddenly appear and then be dealt with just as suddenly when it felt like they really needed more development time.

The same can be said of the characters. I don't remember the names of most of the cast and most likely neither will you. None of them receive substantial development during the show, or the development is rushed to the point that I mostly forgot what happened to them. There are also a few "important" plot and character development points that you would think, by looking at them, would totally alter the story and genre of the show. Most of these are rarely if ever mentioned again, especially one tied to one of the main protagonists.

Also this is absolutely one of the most poorly-built worlds and magic systems I've seen in recent anime. Things feel like they happen or don't happen entirely because the barely-cognizant plot demands it. The same can be said of the magic system, which is almost never explained in general, and when it is, there's barely any semblance of logical cohesion to the rules governing it. If you want a good magical system and a far better world, watch something like Mushoku Tensei instead.

Don't waste your time on this show unless, like me, you're purposely looking for something to hate-watch and criticize the living you-know-what out of.