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Alright, I see all these people calling this show garbage, and I can't really blame them, but for personal preference I disagree, for one main reason.

I enjoyed it well enough.

This season is kind of disappointing since it's just a collection of the main bulk of hopeless romantic or silly harem members for the show. I spent the whole season waiting for him to meet back up with his classmates to show them what for. You see, in these shows, what really matters are reactions. Isekais are mostly self insert focused shows where the main character isn't too difficult to get inside the head of for ... the audience, that way it's for easy for the audience to feel like they're the hero of fantasy world with cool powers. Because of that, people love seeing reactions, they want to see people get surprised at the power of the main character, and praise them, and continue to be surprised and impressed at the main character, because that's what feels good for the audience. However, in this show, there's barely anything shown, the only person that has really seen the main character's true strength is the level 700 gorilla wife, who fell in love with him for his strength and is never surprised by it after the first couple episodes. Arifureta is a show I enjoy a lot really (excited for the next season too), it has a very similar situation, though vastly different main characters, but the premise is the same. There's a character bullied by his class, who then gets OP in the new world after being separated from his class. Both this show and Arifureta benefit greatly from the tension created by the story leading itself towards a reunion between the class that bullied the now handsome and overpowered main character, and that same main character. Keeping the tension from being cut before a second season is released is probably the only way this show would survive for more than one season, and they didn't cut the tension, which is good for the show.

I hope the second season comes out without a hitch, because I do want to re experience that tension from Arifureta, but otherwise, it's a pretty bang on average Isekai Harem, if you've got time then you can watch it I suppose.

This is an Isekai that won't quench your thirst for a unique experience by any means.

The main character is thrown into a fantasy world where he is rejected by the goddess and left at the edge of the wasteland, where the goddess hopes he'll die or stay away from any other humans or something like that. However, in typical Isekai fashion, this guy has a level of power beyond anything in the world except the goddess herself. The goddess granted him the ability to speak to any species except common, or in other words, human language, so he manages to meet some orcs while he's ... on the brink of starvation and it goes on from there.

The show isn't unique by any means, but where it lacks in original ideas, it makes up for in quality of execution for such ideas. The main character isn't just generically strong or anything like that, he can do a variety of sick things like open dimensional portals into a personal pocket dimension he can just chill in, or *SPOILERS* he can move his consciousness into inanimate objects which causes him to accidentally consciously reincarnate several times, brings his mana level up to finally be on par with the goddess herself (but that's a slippery situation in and of itself since humans are terrified of the main character if he can't compress his mana) *SPOILERS END*, or even his affinity for archery due to his archery club training. He's not just a generic jack of all trades master of all kind of guy some fantasy or Isekai shows come up with who can punch a hole through reality with his pure strength while also being able to cast a lightning strike the size of half the planet with his magical ability. He has fun abilities, and his companions, despite being sorta stereotypical, a Yandere and an excitable tomboy, are good fun as well.

There's also the extra problem of the whole thing of the goddess valuing beauty above all else, which is why she rejected him the first place, so this average looking guy is tossed into a world where everyone is born beautiful, and because of this, people tend to think he's not fully human as he's supposedly pretty ugly by this world's human standards.

On top of all this, I love Isekais with city building elements, this show, Overlord, Reincarnated as a Slime, these all have city building elements, and I love all three of them. City building elements not only give main characters large customizable bases of operation, but also allow for the potential of large scale war battles to occur, which is always super fun to watch.

Lastly, they patched up the whole not-being-able-to-speak-to-humans thing way to quickly, they could have had the chick that looks like his crush he turned down in Japan do a whole educating him on how to talk, giving him a second chance to be with the girl he loves kind of trope, but also kind of not really at the same time since Tomoe and Mio are a couple of guard dogs, which would allow an opening for cat fight comedy between an energetic personality and a more subdued personality, rather than all the cat fight comedy being between two energetic personality types, which isn't that interesting when executed in my opinion. Instead, they kind of wasted Toe's existence as a person that looks like the person Makoto had a crush on in Japan, and just had him have minimal interaction with her after they finished their wagon ride to Tsilge.

All I'm saying is that the two main heroines are both energetic type personalities, which can be very tiring, even just to watch. Having a more subdued love interest to break up the bouts of fighting between the other two heroines might do the story some good, and I think Toe would be good for that. It's a problem I notice a lot in shows, and I don't know if it's just the author projecting traits they find attractive onto every love interest in the story, but stories with multiple love interests really need to have more variety every now and then. In this show it's a problem of the two main love interests being way to energetic and not taking advantage of opportunities to have non-energetic love interests (like honestly, Toa is just a simple, nice, normal girl to have around, not to mention the fact that Makoto already had a thing for her look alike, and he was responsible for her escape and her sister's safety while she was captured. All the pieces are there, but the story leaves them strewn across the ground instead of starting to put the puzzle together). Another example of this "imposing specific traits onto all love interests of the main character" thing is Log Horizon, where both the girls that have a crush on the main character are fun sized. I don't understand Log Horizon's fascination with girls that are either kids, or have bodies like a kid's. All I'm asking for is a bit of variety from authors so that not every love interest has a quality that is the exact same as all the other love interests.

*Spoilers that haven't even happened in the anime yet, also a continued rant, you can just ignore this if you want*

On the continued topic of Toa (Sorry, I'm really fixated on this), why tf does she and the other two female members of their adventuring party, the elf lady and the dwarf lady, all apparently start a relationship with Hazal? The only male member of the adventuring party and the clumsy alchemist gets a better and more diverse harem than the main character, and it all happens "off screen"? I don't care about Hazal, and I don't care about the other two girls, but Toa has significance to the MC, and, considering all the stuff he does for her and her sister when they first meet, there's no reason for her to just be some side character thrown away. Toa deserves and should be treated better than the other members of her party who have absolutely no significance to the main character. I mean, come on, once again, this is set up perfectly for Toa to be the buffer love interest between the two energy cyclones that are Mio and Tomoe. Makoto had Mio and Tomoe save Toa and her party when they were captured, he protected and helped her sister while she was captured, even after he found out she was tricking him, she looks exactly like the girl who confessed her love to him (and despite Makoto turning her down when she told him she liked him, he is obviously attracted to her considering the memory he was trapped in when he first met Tomoe). Basically, like I said before, Toa would make a great buffer for the two whirlwind love interests the story already has, she could easily also be his gateway into being able to form relationships with other humans as well, she could have helped Makoto with his inability to speak, and been the first human he feels really comfortable around in the new world, which would have been set up by her looking like the girl who had a crush on him in the old world. Instead, Makoto decides to forget about all of them the moment they reach Tsilge, and all the girls from the party, including Toa, end up falling in love with Hazal 300 chapters later, and they all have sex too. Like honestly, I don't care that Hazal has a harem, I don't think every female character should fall in love with the main character in every anime, but bunching Toa in with the rest is such a waste. The author could have easily made it so Toa didn't look like Hasegawa from the old world, and Makoto could have done everything the same, just with the motivation of trying to help out Toa's little sister instead. But no, Toa looks like Hasegawa, and then they do nothing with it, and end up bunching her in with the other nearly nameless characters from her party as a harem for a clumsy, oblivious, alchemist.

All I'm saying is that it doesn't seem right to me, like wasted potential taken to the extreme, and I really want a third love interest to break up the tornado crew that is Tomoe and Mio in terms of how energetic they are.

I mean, they could always take a page out of Seirei Gensouki and have Hasegawa herself be transported to the new world by some means, but despite how appealing that would be, I'm pretty sure it'd never happen.

*Rant, and spoilers, ended*

I'm looking forward to the next season of this show already, and I'll gladly recommend the show to anyone not yet sick of the Isekai genre.

This is one of those "Beautiful Dumpster Fire" type animes.

This show is filled to the brim with nonsense and stupidity, and half of the show's mysteries are left unexplained. This show would, much to the dismay of many people who have reviewed it, actually benefit from another season, specifically because of how nonsensical and, therefore, mediocre the story ends up being. Having another season to clear up some misunderstanding and lack-of-info would be a huge benefit to one of this show's main downsides, that being the story makes no ()ing sense. Despite that, I enjoyed the show, it has the same crappy art style ... as all of the 2005-2015 NSFW series, which is a downside, and the voices, especially in the dub, are all pretty atrocious, but everything else is fine. It has a unique concept that has been nearly completely untouched since, since I guess people are uncomfortable with sexual or romantic shows involving genderbending? Or maybe people are just uncomfortable making shows on that topic, either way, it works fine in this show I think.

The story, sound and art are all either nonsense or mediocre, but for the most part it's enjoyable, horny tomfoolery I think would actually benefit from some sort of sequel season (though if that were to happen please commit to at least a bit better of an art style, and better voice actors as well), though I don't know if there's enough written content for that to even be a possibility.

Alright, this is a very opinionated review, so don't say I didn't warn you.

This show is just depressing, like goddamn, the show is basically about a guy that has periods of time he's almost fated to die within (since even if he avoids dying something else happens to either hurt those he cares about or he gets killed by another source). I have problems with this show because it's formula thus far has been starting by ending up in a situation where he gets killed or dies, starting over from a week or so before he dies, try to find a way to keep himself ... and everyone he cares about from dying while they also don't hate him by the end of it, getting diagnosed with clinical depression because he can't figure it out, getting lucky or having some sort of revelation, on to the next arc.

There's absolutely no exploration, three to five episodes in a row can be made up of the guy just trying to make it past a period of time he's stuck in, he's pretty boring other than his clinical obsession with the half elf girl and his ability to come back from the dead. He has no other powers or abilities, he's not especially good at anything even without his lack of cool magical or supernatural abilities, he's just a very boring, generic, normal guy who can come back from the dead and try to make it past the same four days in a row for four episodes straight.

This show is an artificially injected breath of fresh air in the fantasy world genre that's become so over saturated with echi and isekai shows nowadays. The show follows a man who, after being convinced he was a burden to the hero's party due to the other members of the party surpassing him in combat, leaves the hero's party in secret and begins a simple life in the corner of nowhere.

*Spoilers*

In that corner of nowhere, with one side of the kingdom being the known world border, an endless mountain range, another side being the sea, and the other two borders being marshlands, Sir Gideon ... begins his life as Red. A low ranking adventurer who refuses to take on combat jobs in order to avoid drawing attention to himself. Instead, he uses the common skills granted by his blessing of The Guide to effectively find and harvest herbs.

His life begins picking up when he's forced to forage for a rare herb during a forest fire in order to save the child of his friend from becoming blinded by an illness. His friend offers him any reward he can grant, and with that he finally brings his dream of owning an apothecary to reality. Shortly after, a woman named Rit, someone whom Red knew from his life in the hero's party, appears at his shop and decides to retire from being an adventurer in order to live a life with Red and run his shop with him.

While all of this is occurring, especially near the beginning of the show, many episodes are half taken up by flashbacks used to give contexts to relationships or situations. As well as this, at the end of each episode the story turns to the present day hero's party to show their situation without Gideon, which, surprisingly, is not an ideal situation, with the man who convinced Gideon to leave the party trying to control the other party members by filling Gideon's previous roll (that being a strategist and mediator of normalcy among the odd extremes of personalities the members of the party all bear, as well as the person who keeps the Hero herself grounded).

*End Spoiler*

Despite telling you a bit about the story, I'm not spoiling anything too extreme, just the first three or four episodes, so feel free to read my summary even if you do care for spoilers, it has nothing about the end or anything close to the end of the series.

This show is about a man who tries to leave everything behind, but while living his dream is eventually forced to confront his past in order to protect the people he loves, not just from external forces, but from themselves as well. There's no world saving, no grand adventure forged by destiny, and no demon lord the protagonist defeats. The show is all about being able to live the life you want and create a life meant for you, by you, instead of succumbing to the pressures of those around you and slowly losing your ability to live your own life in order to please those other than yourself.

Before I finish this review, don't be fooled, this is, in essence, the same formula as an isekai, it's just that the world the main character comes from happens to be part of the same physical existence as the world he's in throughout the series. It's still a guy who's way more powerful than he should be for the kind of place he's in, and he comes from a completely different "world" than the one he's living in now. So, though not technically an isekai, it contains much of the same elements. Not to say this is an isekai in all ways except technicality, that's not it at all, however, if you happen to enjoy isekai style shows, you will probably enjoy this show as well.

It's really a great show, with a great message, and a great story. There are long stretches of slow parts in this show, so don't go into it expecting a fantasy show like an isekai where the protagonist gains a new ability and has a major battle every two episodes or so. There's only one major fight in the entire show. If you're alright with that then I sincerely recommend this show to anyone willing to watch it.

The show's fine, that's about it. It's a good watch for anyone coming off of a High School DxD wave to help you cool off, but it's not nearly as good as High School DxD, and you can clearly tell HSDxD was the show's inspiration.

How about a section comparing the two series?
The show tries to differentiate itself a bit with the main character's personality, but despite Issei being a complete moron who falls perfectly into the "I do it to protect my friends" protagonist field, he's at least more interesting than Basara. Basara doesn't just fall into that field, he is that field. Outside his ... desire to protect his friends and family, he has as much a personality as a pebble. When his power goes out of control it's much less satisfying, and his unique abilities are much less exciting.
Mio is a red haired female protagonist who's also part of a demon/devil royal family that technically has her own power, but basically sits in the shadow of the male protagonist the whole time, only being useful in combat when she thinks the male protagonist has been injured or killed. Sound familiar? That's Rias baby! The biggest difference is that she's much more cowardly in comparison to Rias, Rias has a personality in that she feels responsible and cares deeply for each member of her devil family, Mio however is incredibly timid and isn't just weak in battle like Rias, but also a weak character out of battle unlike Rias. In HSDxD, sure, there's sex scenes and nsfw stuff that's obvious catering, however, unlike in this series, they don't overstay their welcome nearly as much, and they're not the only things that happen outside of battle. Outside of being a damsel for Basara to save, Mio, and basically all the female protagonists, are instruments of the series to use in nudity scenes that don't result in an character progression, and these nudity scenes are about 80% of this show's non-combat parts.
The nudity scenes are too over used, and if you're not feeling especially horny at the time you're watching the anime, they become unbearably tedious to constantly be subjected to. HSDxD has more exciting combat, longer bouts of combat, and character development outside of its combat. This series, on the other hand, has too much unsatisfying nudity, too little character development, and the combat is unexciting, unsatisfying, and short.

The girls technically have their own personalities, but they rarely come into play because they spend most of their time being used for NSFW scenes. Mio is super timid, but also defensive and protective of Basara, which causes her Master-Servant pact to activate pretty often, leading to, you guessed it, a drawn out NSFW scene. Maria is just a little girl whose entire purpose is to rope the series into more NSFW scenes since she's a succubus. Yuki is meant to be one of those medium length hair girls with deadpan personalities and flat chests who fall in love with the main character and act super defensively against other girls while keeping up the deadpan schtick, you know, like Origami from Date A Live, or Saya from The Asterisk War, but that kind of goes out of the window part way through because she just loses her personality to become sex starved in the NSFW scenes, or in an act of defensiveness against other girls who are close to Basara, which ends up leading to another NSFW scene. Kurumi is Yuki's little sister, who participates in NSFW scenes once she moves in with Basara and the other girls. Kurumi is meant to be Tsundere but that falls off by the time she moves in with Basara, and she's replaced with a stock generic personality instead. I remind you that Basara, as well as Mio and Yuki, are sixteen during this season and the first season of this show, which means there's someone who's almost certainly the age of a middle schooler participating in the NSFW scenes in this series, even without a Master-Servant pact for plot's sake, and with their biological older sister, all of which feels kind of gross to me. Zest is just a demon with abandonment issues and an identity crisis the show threw into Basara's harem because they didn't know what to do with her, she's not relevant to any of the characters in the main party, and could have just disappeared after season one, but instead they added her to the sex party because tanned girls are hot I guess. Basara is differentiated from HSDxD by not being a pervert like Issei, however, very soon into the series his unease in having to do so many sexual acts with a bunch of women melts away, so instead of him being nervous or innocent, as well as not being on the other end of the scale being a big pervert like Issei, he just treats the show's sex parties like a job, so there isn't even any generic funny moments, he just sees the girls' necklaces light up and he gets to it without seeming to feel any way about it, making it pretty boring and reinforcing the image of the NSFW scenes being there just to be there.

Like I said, it's not a bad show really, but the lack of progression from the characters, and the over use of NSFW scenes instead of spending time building actual characters really ends up putting it down quite a bit unfortunately. If you're fine with watching an NSFW series, then I'd say HSDxD is just a straight upgraded version of this, so watch that if you haven't already and are looking for series that are similar in concept to this one.

This series is something I can't bring myself to finish, there's been a buffer between writing this and dropping the series, so I can't really explain fully as to why I can't bring myself to finish this series, but I can't.

This complexity of characters' inner workings in this series are a masterclass, with more silence than not, it doesn't fill in quiet space with a reverberated voice telling you exactly what a character is thinking. It's the type of show that's mature and isn't afraid to bare its teeth, the complexity of emotions this show conveys will have you wrapped around its finger in no ... time if you aren't careful. Despite its lackluster protagonist (because Japanese media makes the most safe and generic protagonists ever so people have an easier time self-inserting).

The odd thing is, though I don't know why I can't finish the show, I know I'd be able to watch it if there were a season 2, at least that's what I think. I just don't think I can handle whatever ending this show has in store, regardless of what it is, without knowing I can see what happens after.

Honestly, this is one of those shows I desperately wish would have a continuation, despite knowing full well that chances are the show would get worse and worse as it progressed. It's such a great concept to work with, it feels like a waste to only have twelve episodes, not to mention the amount of lost material to work with in the comics.

As far as I've seen, the comics get way more complicated than necessary, and that jumbles things a lot. However, even if they're jumbled and progressively get worse and worse in quality according to people, I feel like many people forget that things ... don't have to be perfect. This show is by no means perfect, though it's very unique for the genres it inhabits. Since the show, as well as its ending, are already imperfect, what's the harm in making more of it. Even if it gets worse according to some people, just having content to consume that you can steadily count on being interesting and enjoyable, even if it's not perfect, is a gift in and of itself. It's rare to come across an interesting gem like this show within these genres, and when you do come across one, you rarely forget it, at least for a long time. This show deserves more than what it has, and though I'm sure it'll never happen, I'll always be waiting for more content about this world to come out.

About the show, if you've ever experienced a review of mine, I'm an absolute lover of character progression, I'm rarely finishing a show if the protagonists are the same people half way through as they are in the beginning. This show is very generic in its form of character progression, though due to the magic aspect of the show there's some points the expected path goes awry, which is very fun. It has a lot of excitement for a show of this genre, which is something I'm not complaining about, I love shows that take familiar and easy to deal with environments and genres, but sprinkle a slight bit of otherworldlyness on top of that, not enough to make it stop feeling like its genres, but enough to give it not only a unique taste, but also more interesting paths for the story to take. Another example of this familiar environment with a bit of mysticism is Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, which has the whole genre deal of high school romance, down to the deadpan self-insert protagonist, but also has a bit of magic or fake "quantum sciences" mixed in to keep it more interesting than other series of the same genre. All in all, this series makes me sad to only see twelve episodes, and I wish we'd stop losing long-plotted comic series to twelve or thirteen episode shows that capture only the start of a story.

Fun show. Five personalities as love interests. The outwardly hardened and strict teacher who's actually soft, innocent, and kind of helpless on the inside. The small punk girl who likes teasing boys and has a cutesy job where she acts completely different from her usual self in order to pay for her dreams to come to fruition. The slim, beautiful, and classy literary genius who suffers in other fields but wants to become an astrologist to be closer to her late mother. The short, busty, and short tempered mathematical genius who suffers in other fields as well, but has trouble reading people's emotions, so she ... wants to go into psychology. Last of all the hyper childhood friend who's an athletic genius, but requires proficiency in English for a recommendation to the university she wants to go with.

These are all kind of classic personality types, and of course they all have issues at home or in their past, but the kicker is its ending.
Harem shows often have a lot of trouble establishing a satisfying ending, with chosen formats for such endings often being complete ambiguity, or perhaps making it obvious who the protagonist will end up with in the end from the very beginning, like season 1 of Oreshura. An example of a well done ending to a harem-style show that leaves it without someone's favourite pick being left in the dust as the story author chose at random which of the girls the protagonist would end up with is the ending of season 1 of the Quintessential Quintuplets, where it works in complete ambiguity but still casts a short line in order to keep everyone satisfied.
The ending of this show gives a pretty affirmative answer as to who, in the far off future, the protagonist will probably end up with, and honestly they chose the best girl, don't get me wrong. However it also throws enough obstacles in the way of that answer for there to be hope for the other female protagonists. Where as the end of season one of Quintessential Quintuplets is good because it's a lot of ambiguity with a sliver of certainty, this show's ending is good because it's a lot of certainty with a sliver of ambiguity.

Last of all, near the end of the show there's actual character development for the male protagonist, which is very rare for harem shows, so that's always a huge plus.

Man I hope there's a season two, I wanna see Kaori Asoi in the show.

Not my usual type of review, I just want a season two because of the above reason, if you want my honest opinion apart from that, it's a run of the mill high school romance harem show. None of the characters are especially interesting or unique, due to all the trickery there's an excess of cringe comedy in this show, which is really bad for someone like me who suffers heavily from vicarious embarrassment, but otherwise it's pretty run of the mill "trying not to deal with a bunch of girls ... who like you and are always around you" kind of ordeal. It's not especially bad, hence the good rating, but it's not like it's unique or had enough of an effect on me for me to spend too long on this review.

If a sequel comes out with a lovely secretive and subdued tomboy girl, I'll absolutely be back for more because that stuff is incredible. However, this season is a pretty decent watch for anyone who likes the genre and has free time.