Before I get into any spoilers, allow me to say this loud and clear. DO NOT WATCH THIS ANIME. IT IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. It sucks so much and makes all the same terrible mistakes that every other generic isekai anime makes. The fact that in 2019 there's people that STILL write this garbage is insulting and just goes to show that people don't watch anime for artistic integrity but for pandering repetitive garbage that is so disposable that you'd lose NOTHING if it never existed. Now that I got that out of the way, here's why the show is bad.
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it's BARELY an isekai. The main character gets hit by a truck in the first couple minutes of episode one, they NEVER go back to that scene in any of the other episodes or explain who the character was or how it relates to his current character in the other world. Maybe when Season Two comes out, it'll make this point outdated but in the long run you can remove the first few minutes and it wouldn't even be an isekai anymore. It'd just be a generic fantasy anime with an overpowered male protagonist which brings me to my next problem, the main character.
Shin is completely unlikable and has little to NO personality. The plot summary states that he lacks common sense on simple things, but the script doesn't follow through with that. It seems like the main character has SOME flaws regarding to his "personality" but after a couple episodes they end up getting resolved quite quickly. He doesn't go through any kind of arc throughout the show, especially when he kills the generic bully character turned Demonoid (yes they're called Demonoids, I know it's the dumbest name ever) and has the slightest bit of shock that he killed a human for the first time but ends up getting over it in the next episode. That was quick, I wonder if it had something to do with the bad writing.
All the other characters aren't up to much either. Sizilien was easily by far the WORST of them not just because her voice acting was so atrocious it made me wanna gouge my eardrums out with a tablespoon but because she has absolutely NO purpose in the anime whatsoever aside from being the main character's generic love interest. She doesn't go through ANY kind of character development and is genuinely annoying in every scene she's in. Even for a generic love interest, she's an awful choice cause her personality lacks ANY kind of originality or standout role that helps influence the main character in ANY kind of way. In fact, it's even proven that she can be easily overlooked due to the main character only liking her cause he thinks she's cute. What a terrible reason for two characters to become a couple.
Going back to what I was saying about the other characters, none of them have any presence in the show either. And one of the key reasons why is simply because there's too many of them. And it only got worse in episodes 7 and 8 where the show/manga decided to add EVEN MORE CHARACTERS THAT NOBODY ASKED FOR to the group which included the Fiance of the MC's best friend and his little sister May who easily outdid Sizilien in being the WORST character in the entire show thus far and purely exists only to be a generic lolicon to get those anime nerds to think about in bed or in the shower. The villain of the show also sucks, he's given nothing to work with and the script doesn't realize it until episode nine where the plot comes to a screeching halt to explain to us why the villain wanted to take over the country. Basically his backstory is that the people in power were jealous of him and decided to trick the people he helped into thinking he's actually a terrible person. And because the plot needs to work for this terrible script, the townspeople are dumb enough to believe them and killed the villain's wife and that's why he became a bad guy. Basically the villain's motivation is generic and insulting to anyone with a brain and the villain himself is extremely bland and is one of the biggest offenders of generic villains in anime history. But the biggest offender in this show when it comes to the characters is the old wise man himself, Merlin. He's made out to be this logical passive old man who's knowledgeable and is willing to do everything he can to keep Shin in check, but the show breaks his character by making him whine and cry a lot for the sole purposes of getting cheap laughs from the viewers of this fecal matter.
Which brings me to the main problem I have with this show, the comedy. Had it not been for the comedy the show would of actually been a halfway decent watch but sadly it's not the case here. Making the character models look cheap and ugly and having people scream their generic dialogue IS NOT A JOKE. Having eyes that turn to white circles with black outlines around them IS NOT A JOKE. Having a PG-13 hot spring scene where naked girls grab each other's boobs IS NOT A JOKE. It's absolute garbage that irritates me and needs to stop, there have been PLENTY of other animes that ACTUALLY TELL JOKES and don't involve characters screaming at other characters for dumb reasons while having chibi animation. But it seems like anime fans are mostly made up of dumb teens that also enjoy generic boring crap like The Big Bang Theory and those pesky Minions movies so of course they'll like this show if it's already been established that they'll laugh at ANYTHING no matter how much it's been overdone or how unfunny it ACTUALLY is.
So in conclusion, those are the KEY REASONS why this anime is terrible and why you shouldn't watch. Other reasons include the awful dialogue, mediocre animation, generic score, and a tone so inconsistent it makes the combination of Manchester By The Sea and Jack & Jill look like a good idea. Again had the comedy not existed and a few characters were reworked and removed, the show would actually be pretty decent. But as far as I can tell, this is one of the most unfunniest most generic most boring and most annoying anime I've experienced in a while. Not even the likes of Sword Art Online and its clones could even come close to being as bad as this. Seriously if you value your time, you will NOT WATCH THIS. Even if Season Two does come out, it will not fix ANY of the issues that Season One made me endure. Stay far far far away and go watch something else.
Feb 27, 2022
Kenja no Mago
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Before I get into any spoilers, allow me to say this loud and clear. DO NOT WATCH THIS ANIME. IT IS A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. It sucks so much and makes all the same terrible mistakes that every other generic isekai anime makes. The fact that in 2019 there's people that STILL write this garbage is insulting and just goes to show that people don't watch anime for artistic integrity but for pandering repetitive garbage that is so disposable that you'd lose NOTHING if it never existed. Now that I got that out of the way, here's why the show is bad.
First of all, ... |
