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THIS SHOW IS A PARODY

AND A GOOD ONE AT THAT

So you can immediately ignore all of the people who are bombing this show in reviews and on the forums that are treating this like an ordinary isekai. We've even got people comparing this to Arifueta (a poorly written chuni's power fantasy). This show at no point ever wanted to be taken seriously, and never tried to be taken seriously.

How is it that, the LN readers got this and is reflected on the LN page, but so many people on the anime page didn't get this?


Yes, it is a parody, the show is a comedy. All ... of those people are going, huh duh, generic plot, generic charachters, generic stage setting etc. Yes, thats the whole f**** point. That is what a parody is. You take a story and use that as the setup for your gag. You deliberately exaggerate stuff for comedic effect (and this show does it in abundance). You go off on tangents because you can. Are you going to tell me that Konosuba did not feature a generic Isekai plot, and had no tropes or cliche whatsoever? A parody takes the tropes, it takes the cliches and it turns them into gags.

/end rant and onto the main review.

The premise:
You've got mr MC who is generic bullied kid in class, fat, stinks and has no appealing characteristics (even his status window considers him, and i quote "barely human"). The only thing he has going for him is that he is 'innocent' and nice?. The class gets transported to the other world, but he is left out without a group. The god transporting them takes pity on him and gives him plot armour. He somehow gets accidentally transported into a the most dangerous forest around and must figure out how to survive.

Everytime he beats a monster, he acquires their skills, and a backstory which is a minature gag, often making light of one trope or another.

Art 7/10
The art is solid, and works in concert with the music. There's nothing overly special about the art, but the mix of artstyles and even dropping into pixelated art is notable.

Music 7/10
The music is solid and makes it completely obvious that this show is a comedy. It is comedy music, and works well with what is on screen. There is nothing overtly memorable, but nor does it need to be.

Characters 7/10
There is nothing special about the characters. However, they are purposefully unique. The writer has taken a trope and made that character the definition of that trope. We've got Mr Abs. We've got calamity girl. Most notable is how the demon army is portrayed (as a circus troupe instead of an actual threat). No character is ever taken too seriously.

Story 7/10
The story is generic, but it doesn't need to be a new dramatic story. If we look at one of the greatest parodies of all time on this genre, Konosuba. Would you say anything about Konosuba's story is not generic? What made Konosuba was not the initial premise, it was the comedy within the premise.

Enjoyment 8/10
This is without a doubt a very good parody and parody anime of this genre are quite rare. This is certainly not Konosuba tier parody, but it is better than VR Hell. The comedic timing is very onpoint and the gags don't detract from the flow of the story. The book gags are also hilarious.


If you like'd Hinamatsuri, this is right up your alley.