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Jan 4, 2025
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
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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.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jan 3, 2025
Am torn on this one. Really am. Adult subject, well animated by a respectable studio and acted by excellent voice actors.
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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
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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.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Dec 25, 2024
For a moment I thought I'd be skipping Fall 2024 season of anime. There were very few shows that appealed to me. This one had potential which honestly got squandered in one episode alone and presents the fastest way to get second hand shame.
I hoped to see once powerful and proud character change and overcome obstacles imposed on him by this new modern world. But instead they decided to try and appeal to current-year-audience™ and make him a streamer. Worst thing of all, even in this endeavour he invests no effort or at least one that we can see. And of courses over the 10
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minute period he's world famous.
Disappointing is one word description of this show. Even if the potential wasn't huge it was there.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 19, 2024
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
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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.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Aug 5, 2024
Yet another show with school setting and competition as main event. Yet another character who is blue eyed angel working five jobs, is loved by everyone, making no mistakes what so ever, living his life without a speck of anger even though he's bullied daily. Yet another blatant and obvious love interest for our ever-so-blind main character who is secretly overpowered but people don't know that because they are all judging fish by its ability to climb a tree.
Problem is, this fish is stale and it's starting to smell bad. Same idea regurgitated thousands of times with slightly better execution which is not a result
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of talent but repetition. From episode to episode nothing will happen. We will see a speck of daily life, our main protagonist will get bullied in every episode guaranteed, then we'll get some glimmer of his power and thirst for revenge but he'll once again bend over and make yet another rage inducing cliff hanger.
Art is the biggest trait here. Everything indeed is pretty to look at, but that's about it. The rest is not bad, but it's uninspired and uninteresting. Even predictable because this story has been told hundreds of times. It's "Mashle" but without good humor and self-awareness, it's "The Irregular at Magic High School" but without actual action, it's many shows without their actually interesting parts. It's boring and stale.
Only reason am giving this a mixed feelings review is that show keeps promising something will happen, but then it never does. Who knows if this ends up being 24 episodes and suddenly becomes not boring. Unlikely but possible.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Aug 1, 2024
Mentally challenged middle-aged man goes around and experiences things for the first time. Ooh, look a frog. Ooh a goblin. Oooh, a carriage ride in the middle of the fields. Aaah, oooh, eeeh. This pretty much sums up the behavior of main character, his complete lack of ability to think and lack of experience when it comes to common things. Most importantly lack of self-awareness.
He keeps jumping into every situation without a second of a thought while at the same thinking he's the weak one and everyone else is strong, even though he keeps besting everyone and people keep praising him and giving him rewards.
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Somehow king giving a reward to which everyone objects to is not an indication it's a special reward. Naah, must be shovel for shit, which king conveniently keeps above his throne. Weird habit I suppose. This kind of broken logic works, for entire episode, maybe two. Not half of the season. We are almost half-way through and he's still a meat stick that just reacts to things. And reactions are dull and boring.
In fact none of the characters make you invested in this show. Things happen but without any consequences. Nor do you have history on any of the characters apart from simplistic, almost animal-like, behavior patterns... he saved me, must follow until end of time.
The rest of the aspects are nothing worth praising either. Art is fine until there's an action scene in which they just decide to skip most of the fights or animate whole two frames. At least they had enough self-awareness for him not to keep yelling "parry, parry, parry", like some other shows this season are doing.
Overall it's boring. Nothing to see here. There are no well choreographed battles or stunning vistas. There's no great music or great acting. Things are there, inoffensive but boring and average. It might be okay show to kill the time or have something play in background, but not worth waiting for weekly releases and dedicating my time to it. Might finish it later, but I honestly doubt.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 30, 2024
If you read any of my reviews it becomes immediately obvious how much I hate plot armor and plot conveniences. Shows in which writers for lack of time or creativity will just come up with random thing that solves problem at hand. It's lazy and annoying and most importantly insulting to the viewer.
That said never have I ran into show whose whole premise is based on everything magically developing around main character who tries his best not to do anything. Until now. Episode after episode is him not doing anything and people trampling over each other to please him for no reason what so ever.
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Magic of plot convenience. There is a story somewhere in there but is it really worth following and discussing? We already know whichever direction story goes our main character will show up, do nothing and everything will be according to his wishes.
Not to make a labor of it, in short it's boring. Whatever keeps happening MC is not part of it and things just flow around him as if he's a rock in a stream. People die, love and hate but he's above that. He's chasing for his love to die with. Initially I gave it a 6, thinking it's fine and it'll go somewhere but I decided to lower it. Art is good, music is good, but story doesn't exist and it's anything but average. So it gets not recommended and an immediate drop from me. Really can't imagine whose this story is for.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jul 25, 2024
While story is not all that new, it does have hints of originality sprinkled all over the place. However that is not even close enough to keep the show entertaining. Most jarring aspect for me is the lack of good animation. At first I thought it's just a unique drawing style and while I wasn't completely sold on it I welcomed the change from generic-black-hair protagonist constantly screaming paralyze that seems to be rampart this season. But then after watching some episodes one starts to notice things. Weird body positions, silly physics, plot holes, etc. Then it hits you. Key frames are fine, but animation
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between them is beginner level at best.
To be completely honest I've seen shows with far worse graphics and loved them far more than this one. Visuals are not be all end all but they do contribute a lot whether you end up liking a show. And am not liking this one. While initial setup was okay whole premise has very little sense to me. Characters don't behave like humans. They are either laughingly evil or goody two shoes. No gradient in between.
Gave it a decent chance and am not liking what am seeing. Also I see no redeeming factor in there. Story won't get significantly better all of the sudden. It's safe to drop. We came for the entertainment and no entertainment was found.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 25, 2024
For some reason I didn't have an emotional or physical reaction to this show, even though it's worse than many others which produced such results. Without wanting to sound like I am making a claim that quality of acting, animation and everything else that goes in creative process is actually good here, it's not. Rest assured this is the result of scraping sludge from the bottom of the barrel where all the cliches that no one wants anymore are kept.
This show simply failed to keep my attention. It wasn't the visuals or the acting. Not even the story that repelled me. Just wasn't entertaining. With
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literally every episode I had to go and watch the ending of previous one so I could remind myself what actually happened. It was that forgettable. And while writers tried to produce some sort of drama and conflict it all falls flat. We get no sense of urgency, dread, envy. We get no feeling what so ever. Even MC who is suppose to be a pupil of the best mage ever to walk the planet, you still don't know how good he is.
Overall I'd say not recommended and entirely forgettable. Ultimately a waste of time.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 19, 2024
This show is an example of "dog ate my script so I winged it" because no other thing would explain how poorly the show is written. When writers come up with rules of their own world and then forget about them minutes later you know you are in for some illogical trash.
Resulting story is a mishmash of all the bad and well abused tropes issekai genre can offer. Transported into another world, a hero without seemingly any skill is actually overpowered, current assholes in charge dismiss him only to regret later, he finds and befriends slime, sent to a dungeon to die but manages to
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survive. It's creatively bankrupt and most importantly it's boring.
Should you decide that there's really nothing smarter in this world to be done than watch this show, you are in for very stiff and boring battles where main character will keep yelling "paralyze" constantly. To top this boring way of battling enemies artists thought it would be a smart idea to top this off with very jarring CGI and it's switches between the traditional style and CGI constantly making it super obvious.
To sum things up, since I don't plan spending any more time on it than I have to... it's bad. Somehow they managed to take bunch of average ideas with average art and average acting and combine it in a way where end product is just bad.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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