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Never change, Japan.

This is a story about a man who loves magic. Unfortunately in his last life he was but a peasant with no aptitude for magic and was put to death on the whim of a powerful mage whose magic was so fantastic to our protagonist that his last thoughts were of how incredible it is and how he wished he could do the same. This tragic end may have made some divine entity sorry for him and so they decided to reincarnate him, as the seventh prince who has unparalleled talent for magic. In short, he is OP now.

The protagonist is 10 years ... of age at the time of the story. He has very feminine characteristics and is surrounded by older attractive women who are all in love with him. At times you could swear that you're watching shota p*rn. It's very Japan, and I love how weird it is.

As for the story, there isn't really much of it. Most of the run of the Anime is taken by our protagonist hiding his powers as not to attract attention so that he can be left alone to his study of magic. When he does need to use his powers he obviously wins without an effort. It's all very predictable and silly, but also rather entertaining. It made me laugh more than I would have expected. In the last few episodes the story takes a serious-ish turn which doesn't really fit into the whole thing but I guess the anime needed a big finish even though ironically the main character takes the back seat.

All in all it's just dumb fun. Don't think about it too much.
7/10

Unashamed. That's the best way to describe this.

It's a decent adaptation of the manga. There is bits that are cut off but it mostly follows the same path. The protagonist is a man who ate things to gain their power who then died and was reincarnated as a goblin in a fantasy setting. And guess what. He retained his power of munching. And so he does. He eats. He eats everything and learns abilities from whatever he puts in his mouth. Even rocks! This very quickly snowballs out of control making him as the genre demands, overpowered.

The story begins with our protagonist being born ... in a litter of goblins, who are one of the weakest creatures in a fantasy setting, and quickly picking himself up in a new environment. He makes friends with his siblings from the same litter and the comradery and adventure begins! And then the women appear. And more women, and more, and they all love him uncoditionally, aand before you know it half the screen time it taken up by these forced relationships in such a way that I cannot help but admire the production for going along with it. It's unashamed. It's too much. It's ridiculous. And I like it. There is no pretense. It's just pure male fantasy.

Aside from the crazy harem the ?"overarching story"? is just our evolved goblin and his friends making their way in their neck of the woods, and getting stronger, more numerous and more famous. There is battles, there is heavy metal music, there is "I was only using 1/10th of my power", there is some dark stuff that never gets said openly and there is the old goblin.

Overall it's not great, and it's made for a specific audience that I'm not exactly a part of, but I still enjoyed it. 7/10

A decent Anime. It's about a Human who is pretending to be a demon in the service of the Dark Lord as they wage war against humanity.
You can clearly see that it's a low budget anime. The animation is not great, the writing is infantile and the story is all over the place. They also frequently pad up the runtime with unnecessarily long interactions that only serve to annoy the viewer. The first half of the Anime is rife with it.

The main problem is that the anime doesn't know what it wants to be. There are episodes of nonstop combat, "tactics" and grandstanding. ... And then there are lighthearted romcom episodes that feel like fillers. The protagonist is surrounded by silly comic relief characters whenever literally everyone else in the world acts seriously. It can be really jarring at times, especially the "rivals in romance".

The anime really shines I'd say in the last two episodes. It's finally taking itself seriously and delivers a relatively good battle without too many unnecessary distractions. There is a promise of a sequel as well. I guess.

Overall for what I assume is a very low budget production I'd rate it at 6.5/10

As I finished writing this I just realized that this isn't even an ISEKAI. What the hell. I hate it now.

Could have been better.

This anime started off so strong. I was hooked right away. It's rather sad and lonely, but soon the main protagonist finds a companion who is in a similar situation as her. Sora is a treat I didn't know I needed. He is adorable and I'd give anything to see his stoic expression every morning.

Anyway. The first half of the anime is about struggling, survival and wonder. It is this that made me fall in love with it.
Then came in the second half and I still did enjoy my time watching it. It just kind of threw away most of ... what I liked in the first half and replaced it with a "big bad". There is some interesting parts to it, but it's mostly just a very basic story-line with no emotional investment and a whole ONE confrontation. It is so bland the writers themselves forgot to tell us what the motives of the "big bad" even were after all was done and finished. If you think about it a little it just doesn't make any sense at all. They really dropped the ball on that one.

At least the last episode kind of made up for the dullness and gave me a tear jerker of an ending.

Music 9/10
Visuals 8/10
Story 6.5/10
Wholesomeness 10/10

Overall 8/10

Pretty good. A middle aged, very smart pharmaceutist and a research lab worker gets sent to a medieval fantasy world where he replaces the son of an archduke, who is also a brilliant medicine man. On top of it he gets OP magical powers. And yeah, his name is Farma Medicis. Very clever...

There is quite a bit of drama in the first few episodes about his new found powers and knowledge and I really liked the realistic attitude of the people around him. Especially the father. The man is really likeable. Which will be a common theme as there is really only one bad person ... in the whole show and he appears only at the end. Which is my biggest gripe with it. It's just too perfect. People are nice, polite, friendly and even those that aren't outwardly so, are still good on the inside.

Early into the anime the MC befriends the head of the country, because obviously, which also gives him OP political and financial powers, which makes him pretty much socially untouchable and he becomes the go-to person with anything sickness related. (I'm sick so I found all the interactions between them super enticing as I was imagining this powerful woman to be an unredeemable cougar towards our shota protagonist.) Also cosmetically related. Because again, obviously, we can't have an isekai without a Japanese person getting rich off selling shampoo.

Anyway. There is also some touching and well written parts, like the father-daughter plot line which made me shed a tear, some drama related to religion, and at the end we get a big bad guy causing chaos. The last part was really disappointing. The stakes suddenly became way too big as until now we've been treating only common ailments, if barely any at all, and now the whole world is about to crumble and our protagonist is at the centre of it. I guess the creators wanted a big dramatic sendoff, but it doesn't fit in at all. It all felt rushed, ridiculous and bored me out of my mind to the point I was skipping though parts.

So yeah. Pretty good. 6.5/10. Don't expect too much.