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Seirei Gensouki is back, with the Harem King himself, Kirito-kun.

As an Isekai, I believe Seirei Gensouki is able to separate itself from its peers in the average bracket, I give it a 7, but not an average kind of 7, more like an enjoyable 7. I would say this 7, is a 7 you can enjoy every week as a good anime to follow up on, not really a ReZero that keeps you at the edge of your chair every episode, but a good vibe anime with some quality in the writing.

First, let's address the elephant in the room, this is a Harem. I personally ... dislike this kind of anime and find it time-wasting and annoying having all those 20 girls taking precious episode time blushing or thirsting over MC because he can breath and walk around. But hey, that's Kirito-kun so it was unavoidable, that's basically a Nen ability at that point.

There are several things I like about this anime. First, it takes an interesting look at Isekai. There are two types of Isekai, one where the MC gets teleported to the world, and one where the MC gets reincarnated into the world. And for the later, I always wondered what happens to the character that already lived in the world ? Seirei Gensouki tries to answer that question by having a duality between Rio, who is the Isekai character, and Haruto, the japanese person who got reincarnated. I think it's a very interesting take on Isekai, with all the clones roaming around nowadays.

Second, the pace is pretty good. The first season spent all its time to get us invested in Rio, with only glimpses of Haruto's character building and ended up on a cliffhanger with Haruto's classmates getting transported to the same world. I think it's really a good move that gives everything it needs for this season 2 to be good. As you followed the life of Rio, he is the MC for you, but this season it gets impacted by Haruto's life. I believe that's a great setup for character and world building, when other Isekai would just throw several character in the other world and it ends up just being the life of Japan but in another world. Here, you are actually invested into the Isekai world because Rio lived in it for a whole season alone, without anybody from Haruto's life.

And finally, third point, I like Rio's character building. He's kind but has a coldness to him, as he lives for vengeance. Not quite a dark sasuke, who will isolate himself and have dark monologs about vengeance and stuff. Rio knows how to live for his new found family and be someone you can count on, but he still has a step back and is focused mainly on getting revenge anyway, that's his drive. I think it's very realistic and much more colder than someone constantly dramatizing their own situation like they are the saddest person in the world.

So yeah, not a great anime, but a good one and a good watch.

Have you ever seen powerpoint football ? Welcome to the second season of Blue Lock.

Blue Lock is the first football anime that gets some recognition since Captain Tsubasa. If in Captain Tsubasa, the players were running 5 kilometers to reach the opponent team's goal, here, you get to hear Isagi's thoughts on the game or the placement of his teammates on the field for half an episode like you are watching an episode of Death Note, while it's supposed to represent half a second of real time in the game.

Blue Lock is for me the biggest robbery of the last few years, and I ... actually respect that. It shows that their technique worked on anime fans. What they did is simple, they invested budget in the first 2 to 3 episodes of season 1, making the animation crispy and fluid, and basically have Kuroko level in terms of game animation and dynamism. Then, they slowly shifted towards CGI for the movements and focused on internal monologs and strategy to save up on animation.

And it worked so well, everybody was excited about watching powerpoint football.

But then, here comes season 2. The first three episode of a 12-episode season are mainly CGI-based animation or Isagi's monolog while time is stopped. The animation consist of players shooting the ball mostly. And even calling that an animation is insulting, it's going at 1 or 2 fps, with a lot of explosion and smokescreen, but in the end, it's just a powerpoint right ? I doubt the fans will accept that again.

Now, I read the Blue Lock manga entirely, it's neither bad nor good in my opinion and it's true that Isagi is spending a lot of time thinking about the game. But in the manga, the pace of switching between Isagi's thoughts and actual gameplay is very fast, so it's not really boring.

The anime can't do that because it needs budget. Or else you are just gonna show disgusting CGI bots running after the ball like you can see in some short time frame in the last episode (3rd). That's why they stretch Isagi's monologs as much as they can while people on the field are frozen in time.

In Conclusion, Blue Lock is already average as a source work in my opinion (I rather read Ao Ashi personally), neither bad nor good, so if you lose the animation that was carrying this anime, it has nothing else.

This is ridiculous, another trash Isekai.

-MC gets OP power ? Check
-MC gets a 20 women harem without doing anything ? Check
-MC is a "loner" and is excluded ? Check
-MC complains about having no luck when the plot is literally breast-feeding the man ? Check
-Animation is trash ? Check
-Delinquents are the bad guys ? Check
-Women are sexualized and average 100-60-100 measurements ? Check

... When you want to copy Arifureta and have the whole class gets transported to another world, the starting line is already messed up as you are trying to copy another trash Isekai, that copy pasted another trash Isekai to begin with.

It's like watching the dream of some teenage boy that has been transported to an Isekai, and everything works out fine for him, he gets all the stuff, all the girls, has the power to reproduce anything he sees, lives in a mansion, is the strongest around, etc. etc.

What's the point of having those Isekai clones, where MC is always the type of guy who acts like he wants to act alone, but still gets a small harem of 3 to 4 girls that are basically his slaves as they are all crazy in love with the man for no reason and do anything he wants. It's always the same garbage that have the same story, the same characters, the same tropes and the same 12-episodes streak of nothingness.

When I watch this and then watch ReZero or Overlord, it pains my heart to put them in the same category.

This was an anime I took on the side as my seasonal trash food you know. Well, it was very dumb until the end.

MC is absurdly OP, he always talks about wanting to die as it seems to be his trademark but just continues his story like your typical shonen protagonist. He's meeting one character after the other that shows him favours right away without the need from him to do anything. He's bypassing any trials or difficult situation either with his OP power, or with his bullshit logic. Just because his theme song is running in the background while he's talking doesn't mean everything ... he says is right. This man brings the whole talk no jutsu to another level.

Basically, the plot is carrying this man through the story.

The story is not interesting, we have the classic demon lord threatens to conquer the world but is beaten by the heroes. The only change here is that the heroes, who are transfered people like MC, become the bad guys and try to conquer the world as well. But it doesn't make any difference as you arrive AFTER it all happened, it's just a settings they told you about in the intro basically.

The women characters are all F cup, Kardashian clones, wearing the least amount of clothes possible. Most are fawning over MC and dream of bearing his children for no apparent reason, even though they knew the guy for like, 5 minutes. MC is the perfect example of the meme "Harassment VS Rizz" you know ? Any other character pulling his lines would only make those girls disgusted or indifferent.

Animation is disgusting, powerpoint battle scenes, Dragon Ball Super character expressions.

The same OST, which is the OP, is used in every scene possible, in every form possible, it's like somebody is earning royalties on this and they had to spam it as much as possible.

This is trash, the same trash that we have every season trying to add a small change to the Isekai genre so it doesn't look like a complete copy/paste of what has been done the last 200 times they did an isekai.

I am a big manga reader and follow more or less all anime I find interesting in the manga medium. I did for Oshi No Ko after season 1. I am not scared to say that Oshi No Ko is probably one of the best manga out there, because the writing is exceptional. Being able to make something so interesting, even if it closes on the 200s and its ending, is something only a very few mangas can do. (sorry for the JJK fans)

And the anime is actually better than the manga.

This season of Oshi No Ko is proof in my opinion that passion can ... really make a difference in regards to adaptation. There always were some places in the manga where a character would shine using their acting skills or having some sort of trigger, but it's very difficult to show on a manga panel. You are mainly able to show that via the audience/side characters reactions. But the anime is different.

They went above and beyond to really try to represent something the character would feel when they have such a moment. This is really adding to the excitement of following the character development because you are really immersed in the creating process.

The scenes of the characters acting and playing are amazing. They incorporated movie filming techniques and realisation to the scenes that are part of the anime scenario. It's like watching a movie inside the anime itself.

Let's take a look at two other good anime about acting, Skip Beat and Kageki Shojo. In those anime, most of the time, you are going to focus on one scene that will have a sort of impact on the characters, and that's it. The focus is mainly the character while the scene they play in is just a tool for the character to have an impact, it's not really worked on, so it's difficult to give any importance to anything beyond the character. But Oshi No Ko is different.

I think that's probably the best thing about Oshi No Ko. Their ability to truly immerse the viewers in the creative process of an artist, be it a mangaka or a movie producer, and truly go in-depths without being boring, because it actually serves the characters and the story in the end. And of course, not hesitating to poor in the budget and the work to have an amazing result at the end.

Aside from that, the drama is also very, very well written. Oshi No Ko is one of the best drama I've read in the manga medium. And, closely approaching the manga's end, the finale is great and well done, which is very rare for a manga, to not screw up the ending. I took the example of JJK at the beginning of the review as a joke as both were at the end of publication and JJK disappointed its fans, but that's true, at the end of the day, a piece of work is remembered from its finale quality. And Oshi No Ko is closing in to be one of the good ones to remember.

I personally think Oshi No Ko is the best anime this season, carrying this season on its back. The only small default I would find is that the voice actors are good, but not really killing it, besides Melt's VA. The trio Aqua, Arima and Akane, that are kind of the MCs this season, had great moments but the VAs didn't go above and beyond to truly reach the hearts of the audience. Melt did and I believe a big part of that is the talent of the VA.

In conclusion, I am happy that Oshi No Ko got the respect it deserves as it is one of the best manga out there. When a great source work gets a great adaptation, it gives anime like Mushoku Tensei or HxH 2011, so I can only be thrilled about what's coming next.

This season is boring. Not in the animation or in the production side of it, but the story itself is very boring.

I see the argument that it's not interesting because there aren't any fights but that's not the case. Writers at the level of Death Note or Code Geass would make episode with people talking all day, it would still be interesting. Because you know there would be consequences, and story level changes, and real risk taking.

Here, the issue is that this season is full of episode only focusing on lore and writing is really in its most basic form, where nothing happens or ... if something happens, it goes fully in the direction of Rimuru and no tension is present. You just know everything will be fine. That's boring. This season is like watching a season of Slime Diaries. It's like I am watching filler.

Then Rimuru being OP as f doesn't really help. When he almost dies, he actually learns new techniques. When he's thinking "I wish I could do that", Raphael says "say less" and creates a new skill. He gets one after another OP follower. All the countries around just bend the knee. Everything just goes his way and it's just annoying, with thousand of scenes praising "The great Rimuru".

You spend 3 to 4 episodes thinking about a situation around a table that gets solved in half an episode with no consequences whatsoever. It's like they want to make you think something is serious but nothing could even graze this man and his OP army. What's the point in spending half a year to discuss something you are going to resolve by just flexing your power anyway ?

Finally, all characters cannot spend 2 minutes without glazing this man and the comedy and interaction are cringed at best. Always the same tropes, glazing this man saying how he's impressive when he breaths, and the same bickering between the side characters to know who is the best glazer.

This is a disappointment, I will finish watching this season by respect to the first season, but we can say that Slime Tensei really fell off.

Here we go again. The same anime where you get half of the scene dedicated to side characters trashing the MC because he's not talented. YES, WE UNDERSTAND. You don't have to make everybody talk shit about him ALL THE TIME, that's so annoying.

This anime is a copy paste of My Hero Academia, just that instead of Quirk you have magic. The MC is this melodramatic boy that everybody trash because he's untalented. You get 1000s flashbacks or scenes of people trashing him and underestimating him. He's got one secret power that makes all those people surprised like crazy so that you think "He showed ... them !" right. Then, you got that one boy that is bullying him but later on becomes his friend I guess ? It's not even a spoiler as I don't even know, but it's so cliché I bet that happens (you know, that Bakugo guy).

Then you get those fight scenes where he's getting rekt, but at one point you have "Never say run" kick in, and the animation becomes crispy while the MC is doing acrobatics, and in the background the side character are commenting what he's doing like it's a football game, while reminiscing his life and traumas just in case you didn't get the memo the last 50 scenes they did that.

Let's stop. It's becoming ridiculous. You won't ever become the Naruto you want to be, either you are My Hero Academia or this one. It's tiring to always have that talentless, goody two shoes, melodramatic ass, bullied ass, crying ass, "I don't have talent but I'm still gonna be King" ass, sorry ass boy MC always using ass pulls to get through his difficulties just because his theme kicked in.

There is a pen on the table. Who could have left this pen ? When touching the pen, it felt a bit cold, but the sun is really hitting today, that must mean it was close to a cold area. It was left on a table close to the door that leads to the kitchen area. My guess is, the lunch lady kept the pen in the fridge and put it back on this table to play a joke or something. I am around 23.61% sure of that theory.

This is more or less this show in a nutshell.

The MC is that dumb, overrated, arrogant student ... who thinks he's great because he can make useless and stupid deductions like that. So, as he is such a great and genius pained soul, all he wants is to become "ordinary". So in this show, we follow the evolution of this overly inflated guy in his quest to humbleness and modesty, because he is so much greater than everybody around.

As you understood, the MC is really hateable, as is the FMC who is constantly comforting the MC's position as she's spitting the same stupid things like she wants to become ordinary too because she's so much greater than everybody else as well. So as a viewer, you need to follow both their point of views, which is really painful and unrelatable.

To add on to the pain that it is to follow those characters, the anime is just a constant chain of useless deduction to know where a wallet is lost or how do you make good coffee. You would find more interesting stuff randomly searching on Youtube. The animation is good though. I find it really interesting how Japanese studios find the worst places to invest budget in.

Animation : 7
Music : 5 (why the mushoku tensei soundtrack on this snoozefest ?)
Character : 1
Story : 1 (what story ?)
Overall : 3

Watch this anime if you want to watch 2 smug kids feeling so much above the rest of humanity because they guessed the preparation of a cocoa drink