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*WARNING: This review contains spoilers. Read at your own risk - but I'll be honest, it's not like you should be watching this one anyway*

If MAL had a 0/10, this would get a 0/10.

Not high on words for this one, but extremely high on disappointment. I couldn't explain why I watched this nonsense through till the end. Perhaps it was hope, perhaps it was pure obstinacy, but I was let down thoroughly. Every year, mayhaps every season, there is without doubt at least one crappy isekai that is a disappointment to the genre and one of the reasons everybody hates isekai. Me personally, I love ... isekai, so seeing anime like this makes me furious. Let's go over what exactly makes this anime such a disaster, shall we?

Hachi-nan tte Sore wa Nai Deshou is a story about Wendelin von Benno Baumeister, a child born into a family of lower-class nobility. However, he is actually a reincarnation of a 25-year-old salaryman. This is a world where magic is extremely rare, but surprise surprise, Wendelin aka Well has prodigious magical abilities surpassing

CHARACTERS: 0/10
A laughably written MC. He's such a stereotypical isekai MC that it's almost amusing. This is a grown man in the workforce reborn in another world, a 30+ year old in the body of a 6 year old, and yet he behaves like he's just been born? Fast forward to when he's 15 and it's like he's just been regressing. The only thing he's actually used his knowledge of his past life for is to create soy sauce. And why would he go out of his way? He's one of the few people who can use magic, more powerful than any of the other magicians, so he's automatically at the apex of this world. He doesn't need to work for anything. Don't get me wrong. I don't usually hate on power fantasies. But a power fantasy with a shitshow of an MC who seems more lost than a child? Why, just why? It isn't possible for someone to be this hopeless of a human being. They try portraying him as someone who is a shrewd nobleman at times with things that he does, but every second of screentime that he has does exactly the opposite.

And the heroines. Wordless. Speechless. They're as tasteless as stale bread. The two female MCs we're first introduced to are obsessed with the MC just because they want status and the easy way through life (well, that's the only reason everyone's obsessed with him). Meanwhile the one female character who doesn't seem to be trying to use him is simply so bland and stereotypical as the 'seemingly perfect character with insecurities' that it makes me want to hurl. And the final female character that they introduce is so random, so hopelessly introduced, it's like, why in heavens were they even trying to do this? It's not even like they develop the characters properly - if they did, then perhaps there may have been something to redeem. But nope. No saving them.

PLOT: ???
What plot? Where plot? There's literally no plot. This is a story about the MC and his companions simply breezing through life riding the coattails of Wendelin's ridiculous isekai magic powers while making the occasional salaryman reference joke.

MUSIC: 3/10
Eh.

ART: 3/10
Eh.

If the Ehs weren't obvious, this was a thoroughly horrific anime. I've seen nearly every relatively recent crappy isekai and action fantasy there is, and this really takes the cake. Considering that there are anime like Isekai Smartphone and Kenja no Mago which are infamous for being absolutely crappy isekai, the fact that something like this could possibly exist is honestly amazing. How is it possible for an author to ignore their own premise and forget even simple details like this? I'll never understand. The lesson here is that you have absolutely nothing to gain and everything to lose by watching this. Don't make the same mistake that I did by wasting a good four hours of your time on this when you could be watching something a million times better. Or, well, really, a million times zero is still a million, so it's hard to say. Point is, y'all, stay away from this. As far away as possible from this.

This is a good anime.

Literally the only complaint I have with it is that the episodes are so ridiculously short and I wanted more from each episode. I honestly wouldn't even have complained if all the shorts were merged into one long episode. This is wholesomeness at its peak, and I feel like people don't realize that it is a REAL THING for a person to not be able to express their real feelings unless they are drunk. Osake wa Fuufu ni Natte kara is meant to be watched solely for the aspect of cuteness and wholesomeness that the shorts give with their characters and ... settings. I will say that if you're watching this with heavier expectations then leave while you still can, because it's a lighthearted and wholesome romantic short series that's meant to be watched, enjoyed, appreciated and allow you to move on with the rest of your day with a fluffy feeling in your heart. (Maybe you'll feel very sadly single, sorry, that's a you problem. You shouldn't be watching romance at all if that's the case)

Story: ~ (how you gonna expect me to rate the story of an anime that doesn't have a plot?)
Art: 8
Sound: 8
Character: 10
Enjoyment: 10
Overall: 10/10 without a doubt.

I honestly don't even know what to say about this. I don't have a habit of writing reviews because I usually enjoy whatever I see, but this was just...an overall nonsense fest. Everyone's a simp - let's start with that. The MC is such a hardcore simp. Kaede is a simp too, like, why? None of it makes sense. When you have a character who loves the female version of a dude but can't even give the time of day to the dude's actual form, you really need to start rethinking what you're doing with your character, because that's just simp. As a premise, it's ... not bad, and definitely gives a lot of space for comedy. Ordinary guy that doesn't stand out one day gets the ability to transform into a magical girl, becomes famous and popular because of how hot she is, gets transferred to the girls' side of this split-up co-ed college and comedy ensues. Plenty of stereotypical situations, and admitted some of the female MCs have acceptable appeal. Shizuku is an A-tier waifu in my eyes. But this entire show would honestly have been better if A) Kaede didn't exist and B) Natsuru was a girl to begin with. The show would genuinely have been ten times better if it was flat out a yuri anime with female Natsuru at its core and if it wasn't a hastily put-together harem. Maybe make one other female character part of the main focus and have the other two become deuteragonists, and then absolutely ERASE Kaede from the story. She's a hindrance to any sort of emotional development. Even the action scenes are low-effort towards the latter half, with no real substance - it's like they just decided to put all the budget into the fanservice. Can't complain, but at the same time, don't have action at all then. This gets a 5/10 only because Shizuku is an acceptable waifu.