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Best isekai of the season lol.

Magic Maker is in the same class of isekai as Jobless reincarnation and ascendance of a bookworm where the main character gets by using their Adult 21'st century brain in a medieval fantasy world.

The main premise is that the main character wants to establish magic in a fantasy world where nobody knows about it by using clues from the natural world piece together a magic system.

Honestly if that premise alone interest you then go watch it, the show does a pretty good job at giving the main characters clues about how magic works and the way they decipher them and ... experiment with the given data is compelling and realistic from the 3 episodes we've seen so far.

the characters are also good, they're all pretty distinct and i enjoy watching them bounce of one another, especially their friend who's a commoner girl that acts like a noble, I wish they use her more going forward.

they're not like S tier in depth interesting, but they're interesting enough to keep you entertained, which is a surprisingly a high bar to clear for most modern anime, especially most modern isekai , if we're judging by modern isekai standards then this shows characters are like triple SSS tier.

The animation is wonky and the pacing is a bit slow but not enough to be a detriment to the show.

like with any show where an adult main character gets reincarnated as a child, the show kind of dips it's toes into the icky territory with the way it handles it's relationship, if the contextual implications of that creep you out just don't watch because i feel like it's only going to get worse with how the show is dealing with it.

conversely if you like the contextual implications of that then keep watching because i feel like it's only going to get better with how the show is dealing with it.

tldr, definitely check it out if you like the premise, if you don't like the premise still check it out it's like probably like top 5 best anime's of the season if you're only counting new series

TLDR amazing show if you're into Macroeconomics and City management otherwise eh

There's a subgenre of Isekai that's popped up recently called kingdom building, stuff like slime isekai and Dr Stone.
and i love the shit out of it since i love seeing the march of progress in very tangible structural ways and have a passing interest in economics and political science.

i was completely enthralled by Realist Hero from start to finish just because i think it's hyper-specific to my interest.

absolutely loved how the main character was making the most out of his 21st century sophomore college education to fix the shit outta that kingdom

even if ... you're not into the same things as me you'll probably still have a decent time

the writing is slightly above average but nothing amazing, the characters have good chemistry but the cast gets slightly bloated by the time you reach the end of the second season and the show does drag if you're not into the same things as me.

but I'm into the same things as me so those were the best parts

if you're like me then you'll have a blast every time they mention tax reforms

i give it a 9/10 , i fucking love tax reforms

The animations is nothing to write home about, the designs are ehh, and almost every aspect of the show points to it being another bland generic isekai, but there are a few distinct factors that make it a hidden gem in the isekai genre

Firstly is that the pacing is fucking insane

The show moves at a breakneck speed, new plot points are constantly being started as soon as the previous ones have ended and it's always going to new areas when old ones have gotten dull.

The tone kind of gets fucked in the process as dramatic scenes can be undercut with comedic ones and vice versa, ... but you kind of get used to the fucked up tone as the show progresses

And secondly the main character Kaoru is uniquely Entertaining
She’s a woman in her 50’s in the body of a loli and she’s just constantly lying and fucking with people around her to get what she wants.

99 percent of the time she doesn't even need to lie, she could just get out of the situation with her powers, fucking with people just for the sake of it just kind of how she is and i find that really entertaining.

If you’re more pedantic I can see how that could piss you off, but personally her fuckery is entertaining enough that I could ignore it.

And The show drags a bit at parts, particularly the scenes where she’s chewing out people for being bad or whatever, but even those scenes are only slow if you compare it the rest of the show’s pacing

but overall the show is pretty entertaining and decently enough written, which seem like the bare minimum but you’d but surprised how many shows fuck up at this hurdle if you’ve seen the amount of isekai’s i have

I’d feel pretty comfortable saying this is in my top 10 favorite isekai shows, which may says more to state of the genre than the quality of the show but that’s for you to decide

I’m pretty happy to give it a preliminary 8/10