Audience reviews
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Shirogari
This is a kingdom builder anime but with a twist; instead of having a very intelligent main character, they just made the entire world retarded (This is not a good thing).
The story of realist hero is good because it's a kingdom builder which is a lovely genre. The more you pay attention to detail and the more you know however, the more the story unravels. The 'wise words' that the main character speaks are often extremely obvious and the fact that the other characters didn't realise something before just means they're stupid, not that the main character is smart. Wise quotes from the main character like: "In my world the further north you go the colder it gets" don't do him many favours when you realise that people can live below the equator. The worldbuilding also isn't great with ther…
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Generally,this is 40% a harem and 60% political yap. Its different from other isekai but have the same fundements
I enjoyed it as something to watch in the background while doing other things as some episodes are just repetitions of him figuring out how to solve problems with his worlds solutions.
Season one had a bit more action Vs harem which could've made it more interesting. Overall season one focused on character development and introduced majority of the supporting roles.
Season two was ok however it was focused more on harem and the romance of the anime. Additionally some episodes where boring and quiet confusing however the plot twist at the end added the context needed.
Originally, I wanted to rate it a 6 however a 7 is more fair as it does the job of entertaining you and kee…
Read at the sourceRemanTheArchean
This is a decent-to-good show.
In many ways this is similar to That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. It's about 50% harem and slice-of-life hijinks, and 50% about the politics of (re)building a kingdom. I'm content with the former, and a potential fan of the latter. This show's execution of them is... alright. It's not amazing or anything -- it's not like watching Tyrion's machinations in King's Landing from Game of Thrones -- but it was fun more often than not.
The slice-of-life and harem stuff is the weaker aspect. The characterizations of the girls are middling -- it's not to the highs of Mushoku Tensei, but it's better than many of the total unambitious isekai like Dungeon Depths. There's a cooking show and they all make ahegao faces when they eat food. There's a couple date-nig…
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Realist Hero primarily sets itself apart from the unwashed isekai masses by focusing on international diplomacy and politics over adventuring and slaying demon lords. Does it work at making the series comparatively interesting? Well, it's complicated.
On the one hand, there is an undeniable novelty to treating statecraft as more than an afterthought in a fantasy series like this. It's a largely untapped vein of storytelling that only Tensura has really explored in a satisfying way to this point. The plot moves along nicely rather than being mired in generic dungeon adventuring, and the focus of the story necessitates a more built-out and interesting setting than you get from almost any other isekai.
The downside though, is that if you're going to make a series about diplomacy, you need t…
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TLDR
I really enjoyed this. It's intelligent and focuses on rebuilding and improving rather than heroes and battles. Its funny, smart and really satisfying. I highly recommend this for basically anyone whose looking for something a little more mature than the superkid hero thing.
Cast
The protag is incredibly intelligent, perhaps ridiculously so, but it is believable for a well read, rational person to know this stuff. The 'found family' cast are what really make this show special though, he's not doing this alone and that really helped carry me through the show. Liscia in particular is a rock, quietly carrying the king through his ordeals. They're mature, smart and funny people.
Plot
It's fair to say unless you watch all episodes over both parts I don't think you'll fully appreciate thi…
Read at the sourceSingle_fighter
I like the concept of isekai anime which is relaxed with a little fighting, because according to the title which emphasizes the realist thinking of heroes and improving a kingdom, it is certain that repairing a rotten kingdom is not always by fighting, but in the political economy, customary and cultural policies apply in realizing the concept of the story. this anime. In the story we are shown various things that caused the kingdom to experience a crisis and how the MC handled the situation by quoting several histories and books by famous figures. In my opinion, this isekai anime which is very good does not only provide fan service, Harem, dungeons, adventures etc. which feel bland. but also provides lessons in economic, political and military concepts as well as tactics in solving proble…
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I really wish that there was something that I could pull out of this ungodly boring story that just carried on foreve. It's insanely bland and it drags on and on as the result of it. I think the most important episode should have been moved into a much more relevant place then the finale. There is just too little for me to be able to pull together a lot of positive information.
The characters were actually adequate, a couple were at the top all the time, all of the people he brought in in search of additional cabinet members or food connoisseurs or those that know how to battle. They were good characters.
Out of all of the ones that were brought in, the one of greatest importance at the time, Tomoe, never showed up again until a shopping trip late in from mid season 1 until season 2 for…
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I made a bet with a friend that I would watch one season of an isekai, and I happened to choose the most flavorless one. "Realist Hero" has got to be the isekai of all time. The main hero is such a self-insert that at times the show plays like an Adam Sandler flick. The show meets so many stereotypes of the genre, it practically feels AI-generated. Let's go through the list:
Overpowered MC? Check.
Contrived harem plot? Check.
Terrible exposition and lore dumping? Check.
Emotionless dialogue and tone-deaf voice delivery? Check.
Soft magic system that empowers the characters when needed? Check.
Demon lord? Check.
The gimmick of this show is, the main character has the power of basic social studies knowledge, so instead of action sequences and dramatic battles, we get extremely boring dial…
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I was exptecting, reading the summary, a story about a king taking pragmatic decisions, harsh ones, kind one, good ones, bad ones etc... A good king has never been someone who could act kindly towards everybody.
As such, i was believing that this story could show me mean decisions against people to enable the kingdom to become stronger because the main priority isnt to do social reforms but to be prepared against the demons.
I was wrong. It isnt pragmatic nor deep at all . The MC does random reforms using basic knowledge from his world to help the kingdom with a touch of kindness in it. None of his decisions as a king has ever backfired to him. None of them were double edged sword which is a shame for a story about a king. Even the decisions are just basic choices without any cruel dilem…
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Finished the anime, hoping it would became better.
Never did.
Plot: 0
Story is full of plot holes. Everything that gets added to the plot, adds a plot hole too.
In a realistic period of great famine, the reign was at its most peaceful days? And given it was realistic, the king decided to let people know that even squids could be cooked and ate. I wonder what would have been the case if it wasn't realistic, lol.
Characters: 0 Bland, everyone surrounding MC is a yes... girl with 0 personality. 0 depth to all other characters. There is no persona, just black and white of an emotion.
Once again, another anime that speaks for the industry's todays condition.
Read at the sourceGsarthotegga
Generic-looking isekai becomes acquainted with Niccolò Machiavelli, who is name-dropped all the time. Well, he's an important figure in political philosophy, and his namesake, in addition to the clunky title, give a firm grasp of what this series offers.
I really want to like this one a lot more than I do, because it's one of those rare fantasy/isekai anime that focuses on often overlooked aspects of any city--fantasy or otherwise--namely, statecraft and diplomacy. Usually we get the bog-standard heroes on their journey, dispatching villains like your typical shounen heroes, or two warring kingdoms--one BAD, the other GOOD. There does seem to be a bit of the latter, perhaps, but I suspect the actual situation will become more complex, in light of one of the plot developments unveiled in…
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Let's keep this short...
For a show that is ostensibly about realism, it is ridiculously idealistic.
If idealistic fantasizing is your thing, this show might speak to you. But it doesn't speak to me. To paraphrase a line near the end, "this show and I are like oil and water." Initially, I was fairly optimistic. The main character does appear to act like a realist insofar as he tries to accept situations are they are and deal with them accordingly. However, this realism is quickly undercut by the idealistic way in which events occur and play out. There is no exploration of grey areas and morality. The viewer is presented shallow, black and white interpretations of problems that are resolved with unrealistic ease that often came across to me as almost hyper-nationalistic. In addition to th…
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tl;dr makes for a great soporific
The first two episodes had me hooked. The premise is unique or at the very least specific; while other isekai have economic reforms or geopolitical maneuvering, Genkoku presents itself as focusing specifically on that aspect, with a main character that presumably has no physical talents.
As the show goes on though, its faults become evident. Firstly, the supposed administrative reforms are rather hollow. What little is actually done strikes the viewer as common sense, and it's never properly explained how Souma manages to round up and punish corrupt officials. The feeling you get is that someone took Civics 101 and decided to write about it but never considered the full implications and results of reforms and political positioning. It's as if the creator…
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A good idea, a poor execution.
Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki is plagued by poor pacing.
For those who don't know, pacing is one of the most important things in this medium.
When adapting a series or movie, be it live or animated you are going to have to cut stuff out or adapt the plot, it's one of the hardest things to do and some fans of the original source will be unhappy no matter what, I haven't read the source material but it's clear to me that the choices made of what to cut are... debatable at least.
There is romance, I am fine with it, it's integral part of the story and enhances the plot, or at least it should, it doesn't, it steals screen time from the main plot, the issue with the series is that too much time is given to the building of these relations, with the ma…
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This is an anime that promises one thing then delivers another. Don't be fooled by the nation-builder premise; it's quickly evident after 3 or 4 episodes that this anime is mostly fantasy slice of life, and aside from a brief 2-episode story arc it stays this way throughout the whole series. That combined with an incredible amount of talking head scenes left me incredibly disappointed.
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The overarching plot is fine, and follows the premise of a man transported into a fantasy world and using his earth knowledge to help improve the kingdom. However this really only happens in the background. He declares that he will do one thing, and then the anime shows some filler scenes of people scribbling on sheets with pens and such, then two episodes later we all find out it worked to perfection…
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Quality trumps quantity and I'm sure most of us prefer to watch an anime that is enjoyable than something with tons of never ending episodes or seasons. In the anime industry today, we have countless isekai that adapts all sort of tropes. It's become so common that once you've seen a few, it felt like you've seen them all. What does that say about How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom?
For starters, we have to understand that the show is somewhat atypical with its storytelling standards, at least for an isekai. Rather than presenting a plot with a hero trying to save the world or going on some fantasy adventure, he's trying to save a kingdom by rebuilding it. Think of the series as a kingdom management game where the protagonist is the player and controls assets, resources, and followers…
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Please be advised that while care has been taken to minimize story related spoilers that there might be spoolers within character analysis. You have been warned.
Rebuilding a kingdom not through might but through words, change and diplomacy
Based on a popular light novel series of the same name Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki which is more popularly known among both anime watchers and readers of the light novel as How a Realist Hero rebuilt the kingdom is an action, fantasy and romance genre anime that gives us the unique opportunity to see what will happen if one day Kazuya Souma a 19-year-old college student is suddenly transported to another world after the death of his most cherished grandfather. However, what if instead of being summoned and granted the combat ability of…
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I need a herooooo!!! I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the ni, ight~!
He's gotta be a chick magnet
And he's gotta have no personality
And he's gotta be...a realist!?!?
Realist Hero might seem like it's not worth your time on the surface. The premise certainly sounds familiar. Man gets transported to a fantasy world and is tasked with helping it out with his knowledge and/or power. He meets many impressionable young girls along the way, including a knight and an animal girl loli, and they all fall for him for inexplicable reasons. If this storyline sounds bland and soulless to you, then that's because you've seen this anime before in the form of Death March, Isekai wa Smartphone, and a plethora of others. But wait! This anime does one thing so different, so original, that it com…
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Y'know, I really wanted to believe that this show had at least a calibre of doing things "same same but different". But as it stands, Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki (or its short form "Realist Hero" I'll be referring to from now on) just sorta went downhill as the series progresses for me. Maybe you'd like it, but personally I have watched shows that have similar settings, but just executed a lot more better a.k.a Log Horizon. And also, while I appreciate that there's a variety of Isekai in the Summer season, there's hits and misses, and this sadly falls under the latter.
To be fair, what novelist Dojyomaru has on hand is quite the interesting story plot about an Isekai where politics and power play come into mind: it's basically Kingdom Administration (or more appropraitely Re:…
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Ah, isekai. What was once a promising and delightful genre has now become the punching bag of the anime community. Riddled with memes about truck-kun, harems upon harems, stupidly overpowered perfect MCs, and ridiculously long names, it’s easy to see how this genre has become one of the stalest and over-farmed genres in all of anime.
But when I first read the description for Genjitsu, I was intrigued. I’ve always been a fan of realism and reform through policy, add in my economics minor which I’m studying for uni, and you’ve got me hooked on the concept of a hero saving a world through policy reform.
But at the back of my head, there was a voice warning me against setting my hopes high for this series. And as soon as the first episode concluded, I knew I was in for a trainwreck.
Genjits…
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