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Am ashamed of myself for critiquing shows for being repetitive, and yet they reiterate the same story so often my reviews are getting repetitive as well. Not to mention running out of silly comparisons and insider jokes. I guess this is some next level meta stuff.

But yes, yet another show where main character is god-like capable and yet he doesn't know it and keeps acting as if it's nothing special. Which as I said in my other reviews, tee-hee, might work for a while but at some point unless main character is a rabbit, they have no other choice but to realize that constant surprises ... from others mean he's full of it, as a simple result of ability to retain memories. Remaining characters are not worth mentioning, they are there to act surprised at literally everything MC does.

Other than one dimensional character (not plural, others don't matter), the remaining aspects are fine. Art is pretty to look at and competent but average. Sound design as well. Story doesn't exist and it's there as a vehicle for main character to bring out some more "oooh" and "aaah" from the rest of the bunch. You couldn't spoil this show even if you tried because it's so generic it sound like thousands of other shows.

The problem, and the reason for "not recommended", lies in the fact I've watched third of the episodes and there's no hint of anything happening or any story developing. Literally every episode so far was MC doing something and everyone else being surprised. So this show is beyond redemption in my eyes since they don't have enough time to properly develop anything now. Am not even going to bother mentioning a list of other shows this one feels like for comparison. Simply not worth the watch and not worth the effort.

It's a mixed bag really. First season left us wanting for more with its good choreography, animation style and quite novel idea for a story if a bit shallow. But it was good enough to hold attention and action filled up the missing parts.

New season rolls in and it's a disappointment. From stiff CGI animation to predictable characters and senseless beatings you really have nothing going on at the moment. For three episodes now we watched a group fight because two other gang members fought and other than rage inducing bits there's nothing else. Just shots of punches thrown around for almost three episodes. With ... only 12 episodes planned I don't know how they plan on introducing the story, if there's any.

I have mixed feelings instead of directly not recommending this one simply because I expect more from Cloverworks. That said, if we are to judge what we've seen so far objectively this season has Ninja Kamui written all over it. All action and no substance. This whole thing might change in upcoming 9 episodes, but I doubt because trend was set in season one and it didn't budge. Hopefully it gets better for the fans, but for me it's a drop. Hopefully am proven wrong since we are in a dire need for some good shows to watch.

Absolute garbage of a show. This show has a structure of a teenager's shower session in which he imagines arguments with everyone and wins each one through sheer brilliance and zero effort. Every single character is either absolute saint or absolute evil. No in between.

There is, however, a hidden blessing. It's painfully obvious how big of a failure this will end up being from first episode alone. Rarely is it ever telegraphed so clearly that they have no idea what a compelling story or character design is. Within first 15 minutes 75 different things will happen, all in favor of our main character who is ... as blank as they come. From becoming omnipotent and unique to world building and supporting characters introduced to him not having food but being a good guy... All of it in 10-15 minutes. That's world building complete. Invest emotion into all this now. Thank you.

It's not even average issekai. I'd at least chuckle if we had truck-kun appear out of nowhere and hit main character while he's framing. As it stands it is just a festival of conveniences held in a swamp of mediocrity and absence of imagination. At least it's colorful.

A beacon of hope in damp cellar of ideas where anime shows are born. While others are playing the game of testing the limits of audiences when it comes to repetition this show decided to tell their own story. It's not a great story and it's most likely an ad for the game of the same name but it's good enough and we are certainly not being spoon-fed any content by force.

While story is not the one to ever get leather-bound hardback edition for some noble's library it is serviceable enough to provide good entertaining. With its supremely tuned pacing in combination with really well ... coordinated fights and good animation every episode leaves you craving for more. Characters, even though not as deep as they could be, are well designed and written in a way that gives you enough to understand them without making them hard to empathize with.

Overall it's a good, solid and entertaining show.

Shows are starting to blur. Each season brings up number of them which, if not for the name, you could have sworn you have already watched not so long ago. Similar looking characters, with same voices, same temperament, same behavior patterns forming a harem and following in same footsteps as many of them before did.

But it seems writers and directors have gained sentience this time as this show is not as boring and not as bad as the others. It's not good or creative either. Story is still the same from that one show from last season, and season prior to that, and one before ... it, and one before that one, ... But boy are they playing it safe. There's no drama and certainly no suspense. Nothing phases our one main character who has been copied from other shows. He is always on top of everything, best of the best, most knowledgeable and desirable. Man it gets tiring even writing about it, let alone watching him.

Show is not offensively bad or poorly produced, but it is offensively boring since everything always goes his way. And every episode is they go on another dungeon crawling adventure where you get to see how untouchable he is. But this time there's a modern touch where he streams everything for others to see. Why such device is never used for scouting purposes is anyone's guess. Most offensive thing however is attempt by the writers to present main character as someone who uses ordinary spells creatively to fight, but fights are some of the most boring things I've ever watched in my life, and I've watches fights in ExArm.

There's more I could rant about this, but am tiring myself as well. It's boring and predictable. Every episode starts the same way where they go into the dungeon, then there's a 2 minute fight, and the rest is spent strengthening harem bonds of female warriors who thought the proper choice of attire for damp place ridden with sharp metals, orcs and spear traps is miniskirts.

This show is developing the way we all seem to develop stories in our head moments upon waking up after a great dream we had. Story in which everything goes your way and you only need imagine something to be granted. Where things magically fall into their own place and no one is better looking, stronger or smarter than you.

First few episodes go somewhat slow but in a very predictable and well trodden path of issekai shows. Then things start speeding up and all of the sudden you find yourself challenged to accept even the simplest of stupid things of which there's plenty. Left and ... right things appear and go in favor of our main character who is supposedly under the influence of starter's luck. But even then it's too much.

Skills appear out of nowhere, leveling happens because, things of importance happen off-screen, etc. Episode 4 broke me. Whole town, it seems, is busy oooing and aaahing main character and being generally stumped at his greatness. Not only that, every action he takes dials things up to 11 again. And again. And again. By the end of this episode he already has a harem, people envy him, he screams like a degenerate goat in attempts to invoke feeling of humor, he already beat hard quest and is giving immediate jump in ranks.

Are we serious? Is this how low things have fallen? This is borderline unwatchable even though animation is okay, as is character and sound design. But story... immensely stupid. By the end of the episode he was screaming so much, I had to drop the show and write this review while promising myself I will start spending my life in smarter ways. I've given it a 5 because it's average. It's not bad, but simply put it's not... anything. Faceless and lacking character. Watch at your own risk.

Show which can be easily described in few sentences. It's a world filled with mentally challenged kids and adults who never skip a single opportunity to jump to 100% always wrong conclusions. This plot convenience is the main driver for everything, story, drama, so-called humor and character development. For anything to progress there absolutely needs to be misunderstanding of sorts and then you repeat the same process on every character involved since everyone will also have wrong opinion about everyone. A recursion of misunderstandings.

It's just a mess which they tried to hide using the old "tee hee look how silly they are" method. Main character ... is the biggest offender here since he is suppose to be the most powerful, as hinted by everyone. To add in-salt (haha, using humor from the show, pun intended) to injury he never realizes how strong he is which is a trait that has become popular recently and is okay to have for an episode, maybe two.

Of course we can't skip the whole harem thing either. From such a show we can't expect anything more than to walk a very trodden path of common cliches which only makes it blend easier in haystack of similar shows.

It's a brain dead show with cliche characters in cliche magical world and cliche city with circular walls in which cliche blue eyed perfect main character without sexual drive resides slowly gathering his harem which he never does anything with. I'd say it might pass as a time waster show, but there are others that suit the role far better and don't require you to suffer from constantly screaming "acting".

Pretty average show with nothing interesting going on and with pretty insulting way of telling the story. Just another run of the mill issekai where main character is subtly overpowered and has everyone in awe constantly. This time the shtick is him being a loner, although at no point is he surrounded by fewer than half a dozen scantly dressed girls, about which he complains constantly.

This is a teenagers dream turned into TV show, who also happens to be a virgin. Main character is overpowered and strongest of all, but at the same time controlled by the love interest. He's a loner but always takes ... commands from this girl and keeps following them around. There isn't a single episode in which show doesn't contradict itself is most logic defying ways. Biggest offense is of course constant screaming which is suppose to be humorous.

It's stale, boring and repetitive. However I am giving it a mixed feelings simply because if you are younger than 15, this show might just be entertaining enough. For the older audience, skip it. There's nothing to be found here of value.

Am torn on this one. Really am. Adult subject, well animated by a respectable studio and acted by excellent voice actors.

But...

While story is an interesting one, it's being told in round-about and very tedious way. Characters come and go, or rather appear out of nowhere without any hint only to slowly fade away over episode or two worth of time without providing us with any time to relate to any of them. I understand what they were going for but end result is just annoying rapid fire of meaningless characters we suffer through to get to the next bit of story. Each one of the ... has a slight backstory but ultimately it doesn't matter they won't be there next episode so why bother?

Another major annoyance are contradictions in story telling itself. Person who is not a monk will go around telling people killing is sin while he leaves a trail of blood and death only to later be surprised when someone is okay with dying. Meanwhile literally every other character, apart from current-MC of the set, will just ignore death and destruction while keeping their mount shut without a single comment, sentence or reaction. Church killing people over idea of studying astronomy, but there's a college that teaches it on which only the smartest and wealthiest can apply. It keeps going like that.

As it stands I am of mixed feelings. If what I told you doesn't sound like irritating way to tell a story, go for it and you'll probably have fun. For me at this point it's just frustrating and hard to watch. So it's going into the corner and set on hold until further notice, if ever.

Another installment in increasingly popular "dumb but overpowered main protagonist" theme that has been like a plague of shows this season. Saying it's good or bad would be an act of dishonesty. It's neither. Average to a fault in a forest of cliche's and predictability. At least Rick figures out pretty fast that he is indeed to powerful and tries to control himself, which writers used as source of comedy. First few "oops I broke this" jokes were entertaining but like any cheap humor it gets boring fast.

Overall, it is decently animated and acted. Story doesn't really matter and main goal will change every few ... episodes anyway. Only value this show holds in my opinion is something to kill the time or make noise in background while you play a game.