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Ok so this is going to sound real fucking boomer but I've been watching anime for the better part of the past 25 or so years and rarely have I seen stuff which was as over the top absurd and funny as this show.

It's like a parody of other isekai anime without actually making references. The main character has more personality than the rest of the cast + the combined casts of the past three shows I've watched and truly carries the show over it's weaknesses.

Half of the time I was pissing myself laughing over Kumoko.

The art and animation is mediocre and takes a ... notable dip in quality later which however in an absurd way fits the over the top impression of the show.

Story isn't that bad actually and even has potential despite starting seemingly off as just another generic isekai. Sound is whatever.

It's not a great show by any objective metric but frankly I've enjoyed it way more than I probably should have and definitely way more than most shows of the past few years for shure.

Overrated.

Well this anime certainly has become a surprise hit in many metrics apparently striking the right nerve in the community using the ever same overused formula of Romcom and some made-to-be-cute characters. Objectively speaking though there's very little positive which you could actually say about this show.

You can sum up the anime like this: Dude and Girl are into each other but due to some poorly constructed excuse of a delusion both suffer from which makes them believe that confessing first puts you into an inferior position in a relationship, they strive to make each other confess first. Since both of them are considered "geniusses" ... (which when watching this show would make you start doubting the intelligence of the original mangaka) they try to make the other confess using "elaborate" ploys which really are not that elaborate at all. Add in the occasional fluffy embarrassed internal girly talk moment or the male equivalent of that in order to get the audience to empathize with the main protagonists and some side characters, particularly Fujiwara, Ishigami, Hayasaka and the Narrator who are actually carrying most of the shows comedic parts and you got your average Romcom anime.

Rest:

Story: Welp basically none

Art: Fair but nothing to be excited about

Sound: Nothing stands out in particular (neither good or bad)

Characters: Fujiwara probably the best character in that show. The rest is as average as they come.

Enjoyment: Welp, not terrible but also nothing which would ever justify the good ratings.

Overall: It's just another plain average romcom anime with no real redeeming features, plot twists, characters, originality or anything really. It's one of those which makes people fawn over it long enough to write a good review but they will very likely have forgotten within a years time of finishing it.

Well so this is based on the current state of the Anime as I write this review (EP 112):

It's a fighting shounen type of anime quite similar to the likes of One Piece, Fairy Tail or Naruto. More or less two main characters who receive gradual power ups while fighting stronger enemies.

The Art is kinda mediocre and defo not one of the series' strong points even if you want to give them credit for their own "style" it won't change the fact that it's just not good.

Sound is ok and almost always fitting so no complaining here.

The things which I want to talk about ... most are story/characters and format. First off the characters: Thanks to the long running format and similar to the aforementioned other anime even more minor characters get their own background story which makes them way more relatable and human and I strongly believe this generally to be a good thing since it adds more depth to the actual show compared to those characters being a glorified wallpaper as you can often see in other anime.

Story: The underlying story and the arcs are quite well narrated and interesting. The "bad" guys usually have some sort of at least to some degree understandable reasoning and it's not just plain black and white archetypes. However the story progression is quite slow which usually wouldn't be a huge point of critic but is a problem for this show due to other factors as elaborated below.

Finally the format: The thing which I hate the most on this show. Recap, Intro and the introductory narration about the wizard king are taking up to 4 or 5 minutes off each episode. Throw that together with the already kinda slow story telling and you don't really see any progress made on a story set up which otherwise could be very interesting and entertaining.

This kills the show a lot for me. It takes a lot out of the anticipation of the latest episode since you know that very likely not much is going to happen.
This is also the main reason as to why I give this show a 5/10.

Cut out the bullshit mandatory recap and narration and speed up the story progress a little bit and I'd instantly jump that rating to at least a 7/10.

TLDR: Could have been a good relief of the nowadays very sucked dry Isekai-Guy becomes hero- type of anime but fails.

Story: Whole class with teacher gets beamed over to other world where they're being turned into heroes to fight blabla whatever you get it. One dude, the protagonist gets intentionally friendly fired into the depth of the dungeon by another dude from the class where he then has to resort to eating monster meat and other stuff to survive but making him quite the badass in return vowing to not give a shit about the other people in his class no more.

Spoiler: He does anyways.

Picks ... up some vampir chick along the way and later a bunny chick, a dragon chick, some mermaid child and finally at the end one classmate chick.

Characters: As for the side chicks: Generic characters with no mentionable traits.

As for the protagonist: Good guy with bad boy attitude sadly. This is like the biggest disappointment of the show. Could have been so good. Guy turning semi crazy from getting betrayed by some other dude and having to survive alone feasting on monster meat etc. The show was killed off here imho, the rest was just adding a harem of generic chicks around him.

Overall: Huge disappointment. Not the worst show ever sadly but nothing worth watching. Actual bad guy shows stay the exception with a huge untapped potential. Guess production firms don't wanna do those considering that even more worthless shit like bokutachi wa benkyou ga dekinai gets higher scores than this sad excuse of an anime.

TL/DR first: It's trash

This anime is so bad I actually went ahead and looked up my old MAL login credentials just so I could login and talk about how bad this series is.

Let's start with Setting/Story:

Setting: Dude starts tutoring a bunch of generic chicks coming straight out of a bullshit bingo of stereotypes in regards to character traits, background and looks.

Dude is a generic glasses intelligent guy and obviously a total pushover and goody-two shoes who cannot ever refuse anybody. In any other anime he would be like Minor side character C with a tendency to die first depending on the genre.

You got the ... flat-breasted (and very conscious about it who would've guessed) blue haired chick who sucks at math but is a genius at linguistics or whatever

Then you have the opposite big tiddy math chick who apparentl seems to have some form of undiagnosed asperger or another form of autism given how bad she sucks at both social interactions and any subject related to that.

Finally you the sports chick which is bad at English but can swim. yay. Her most notable features are probably her tan lines oh and the childhood friend wave gets ridden a little bit but only back to middle school.

These are the main "heroines". There are two notable side character, one being the graduated senpai chick who currently fails at getting enrolled at uni and ronins around and the pink haired teacher who would've failed to get a teaching license in any anime not being a complete pile of garbage since she too seems to have some form of autism impairing her communication skills to one word lines or one liners at best which as we all know is the most desirable trait in a teacher. But common sense or any sense really is the last thing you're going to find in this anime so just don't bother looking for it.

Oh yeah before I forget: All three main chicks have an obvious crush on the bimbo protagonist but you probably figured that out by the harem tag already you sneaky smart person you.

As for the story:


There is none really. No notable development aside from some basic adjustments to the premise like pink haired teacher chick changing her mind from previously against him tutoring to acknowledging him. It's basically episodical.

Dude tries to teach these so-called geniuses their bad subjects. The rest of the show you can imagine as someone checking off every item on the unofficial list of mishaps, misunderstandings and other generic anime events all of which would've not even being a thing if only one of the involved characters respectively showed the slightest amount of common sense (including the blue haired social"genius" chick). This is apparently supposed to be funny and entertaining but unless this is your first anime ever you probably have seen this shit like 50 times by now. There is frankly nothing original in the entire series and the implemented and re-used stuff is just badly done.

Art: Talking about badly done so is the Art. Animations are poor. Backgrounds are poor. Characters are poor. Not really much to say except that it's incredibly poor quality. You can probably produce the show with MS Paint as your only tool and it wouldn't be much of a downgrade if at all in regards to the art.

Sound: Well probably the best about the series which means that the sound at least isn't horrible but also nothing worth of praise. It's just a big whatever.

Characters: Yeah as already stated above. Just a boring patchwork of generic stereotypes with a disposition towards one or another form of slight to heavy autism and if you'd take the combined common sense of all characters involved it would amount to around the level of a cow. You can probably take any (not even so much) advanced AI, give it a database of traits and tell it to come up with some characters. Probably wouldn't be worse than the characters in this show but at least a couple dozen times more entertaining.

Enjoyment: None. It's bad and cringe.

Overall: See TL/DR at the top: It's trash. It's bad. It's boring. It's unoriginal. Nobody ever should be forced to watch this waste of time and ressources. It's an insult that this pile of garbage got a 2nd season.

Thanks for reading and have a good time (you won't with this anime though)