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Noukin does just about everything a little bit more than competently. It does feel like it's been paired down to a more manageable size, and things like character development and story can feel a bit shallow because of it. It's episodic, with focus on day-to-day goings on rather than overarching story. With the ending reveal, it feels as though there could be more of a big picture story to be told if the series continued for a second season. Not having read the source material, I don't know if this is ever addressed.

The biggest thing that made this fun for me, more than the average ... Mile so desperately wishes for, is balance (ironically) and consistency. I'm not great at critically picking apart story or characters unless there is something really wrong, and I don't see any of that here. What often breaks a show for me is suspension of disbelief, and somehow this one holds up just fine. TenSura (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) struggled to do that for me at times, even though there's a lot it does just a little bit better. Maybe it's because Noukin doesn't take itself as seriously as an Isekai deconstruction, so I don't have to, either. It's just light-hearted fun; no more, no less.