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Mild spoilers ahead

Honestly when I watched the first 3 episode of this anime, I wasn't thrilled. The show seemed calm and chill, and that kind of genre is just not my thing. BUT I kept watching because C2C has yet to disappoint me with their stuff and so I pushed through. And boy I'm glad I did.

Handyman Saito starts as a slice of life isekai where an average replaceable guy gets isekai'd by truck-kun into a DnD type world. Saito joins a party with a gold digger fairy, amnesiac high level sorcerer grandpa and a str build girl, and it shows how slowly he ... finally finds a place in this world where he is actually needed by people and is irreplaceable for them.

If the anime had been just going for only slice of life stuff, I think tbh they could have pulled that off properly too. The jokes are actually funny and the cast is actual fun to see interacting with each other. My favourites are the hero party and the demon king-human king party. Won't spoil you their funny moments because I think you should actually see them yourselves because this is actual comedy.

Another tough to achieve thing this anime pulls off seemingly so effortlessly are the branched out stories which come together. Yes, the show is not only about Saito and his party but actually follows many different people and their stories. For example, a glass canon teen and a gay thief or a meele claw build elf along with a perverted priest. This format of the show seems like its biggest strength and its weakness. But the way it was handled, it is very enjoyable.

Each character seems to have their own stories and they are actually interesting instead of being generic pointless filler.

The animation is great, C2C as a studio is leveling up their standard's with every adaptation they're doing. Don't expect animation like on level with The Eminence In Shadow or such but it's definitely better than most recent anime nowadays imo.

And so what happened? What exactly happened that completely changed my mind which thought this was a generic isekai? Everything went off rails. One moment we were having a dick suckin skit, and now it turns out to be an important plot point. One moment our amnesiac grandpa was telling us about a dick size being used a measurement unit and now that same grandpa is one shotting someone/something and making the coolest pose ever. Basically this show just did an entire 180 and I'm all for it.

The backstories are sad af, I think they're going to explore on every weird specific characteristic the cast has, just like they did with the amnesia of grandpa Crome and gold-digging of fairy Lafanpan.


This show is a 8-9ish/10 for me if comparing to everything I've seen. But if comparing to only isekai, an easy 9 so far.