Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Zeno_Artaxerxes
A story about a people being transported in a VRMMORPG that they were playing for quite some time, a game which was the kind where anything could happen if players found the way to do it.
To be honest, this anime is not that good, it's mediocre at best, with shitty CGI fights and lot of skipped content and unanswered questions, even basic ones, that just take away from the overall experience. This anime truly felt like just an ad for the source material... But I lowkey enjoyed it. It made me curious about the light novels and to see more of that world, as everything it showed made me think that this story has a big and good worldbuilding, and because the story goes more on the way of the MC/FMC (whatever you want to call it, it's a gender bent from male to female MC) going on adventures…
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A basically interesting storyline that is poorly executed.
The anime begins by not explaining to the viewer what actually happened. In episode 1 he is the Wise Man and towards the end you only see the girl waking up in the grass and making her way ‘back’.
One wonders whether he has been transferred into the world? But she doesn't seem to worry about it. There is also no ‘logging out’ and if you are in a VMMORPG, why do you have to sleep, drink/eat or go to the toilet at all.
In the same way, the 30-year period raises questions. Is that 30 years rl or ig? What relevance does this time period have and why are the other sages shown as online but are not accessible? - Actually, no interesting questions are really answered.
This is rounded off by the faulty animation. There are a few places…
Read at the sourceGilded
Another fine example why "Studio A-CAT" should just cease to exist.
However i rather have them stay around so they dont taint other studios that actually manage to make something consistent and linear instead of butchering the material.
Sadly the cost of keeping them around is that some simple fun little stories get mangled adaptations while they have more potential even if you want to make a budget show.
I have not even read the material but could tell that there are so many cuts it would make people in self harm groups jealous....
As far as ive seen anime adapts 4 Light novel volumes into 12 episodes which is already a red flag considering usually its 12/13 episodes per 2 LN volumes....
My god episode 1 was just tragic, last 5 minutes gives you a 1890's cinema experience with some "wh…
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This is a forgettable but fun anime. It's like Land of Leadale with the VRMMO setting and overpowered protagonist who develops a close network on this game they're trapped in. The plot is largely irrelevant but it's simple, fun trash that I highly recommend for those who like relaxing shows, or something simple while your tired and laying on the sofa because you don't have the energy for anything else. No prizes for guessing which category I was in.
If you like mid-tier Isekai that's designed to be simple relaxing fun with no romance nonsense or edgelord garbage then this is for you. Bofuri is the top-tier example for this kind of show, and while this isn't up to that standard it is fun and I really enjoyed all the characters you meet along the journey. There really isn't a lot more to sa…
Read at the sourceHorseOnFire66
The player spent time and resources building one of the most powerful characters, based on his two favorite movie wizards, in a VRMMO that allows users to affect the world. He plays a very venerable and dignified summoner, and stays in character as much as possible. Just to use it before he losses it, he plays with an online vanity box and changes his avatar to a cute little girl. Then he falls asleep before he can change it back.
The player wakes up to find he is his character with the new vanity changes and 30 years in the future (giant shock). The "game" is real; she can smell and taste food and even has to pee. Another shock is that the NPCs have developed personalities and complex lives that seem almost indistinguishable from players. She/he is fortunate that she retains the charact…
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So I watched five episodes and wrote this review. Now I've seen all of it and while I at first I thought that writing a review after only seeing five episodes that perhaps it was a bit early to make a review of the series I have retained most of the old one.
Why is that, you ask? Well...
-- Story & Writing
The premise is pretty good and has the quality of being the kind of premise you can do quite a lot with. Not much is actually done with it, however. The writing is cookie cutter and bland with a bunch of the usual tropes. Not enough to be off putting, but also not enough to be engaging. Most of the time we either see characters talking about things that don't really further the plot or build upon relationships in any interesting way or we see the main character using powerful magic and…
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Why am I even reviewing this?
I have to say that this is a prime example of one of the worst shows I have ever seen to this day, and I purposely watch shows that are the lowest rated on MAL from time to time.
First I’ll go over the one redeeming factor for this entire show. The main character is cute, and they make a point to force the story to dress her up in as many ways as they can in a short timeframe.
Outside of that, I cannot think of a single thing that someone would really enjoy about it. If you like power fantasies then this might work out, but you also require other perspectives to enjoy it too:
1. Ignoring terrible cgi and horrible fights that reuse nameless monsters
2. Don’t mind lack of characterization and 1-dimensional stock characters everywhere
3. Watching the epitome of…
Read at the sourceVelisatra
I'm not sure why there are so many abysmal reviews here on MAL. I thought it was a wholesome enjoyable little series. Fun to watch and easily bingeable.
I do wish they'd made somewhat of a bigger deal about everyone being trapped in the isekai world, not being to log out, what's surely happened to their bodies in 30 years, and so on. Those facts are utterly glossed over and all but ignored. And I don't really like that.
That aside, it was an enjoyable watch. Though expect somewhat more of a wholesome entertaining experience like Bofuri rather than something hardcore and super serious like Overlord.
I can understand why some people complain, as not a whole lot happens if you're looking for X and Y major plot points and resolutions and such. It's somewhat more of an adventure, and still v…
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Story (3): "A powerful magician after mysteriously disappearing becomes a cute magician, who is still powerful. Now she has to search for her missing companions all over the world." You see, this sounds like the short description of the anime, but in truth the story revolves around this narrative with vague arguments about what happens or what happened. Don't expect there to be any more plot development than this.
Art (8): The design of the world, the characters and in general the visual aspects I liked a lot. Although there will come times when you will think that the plot really does not match the level of animation.
Sound (7): The voice actors do it well, their roles are understood and the background music conveys the emotion of the situations.
Characters (6): I can't say they're mem…
Read at the sourceSeabury
Seeing all of these negative reviews, I just want to defend this show a little bit. This won't be a full review, more just a bit of a suggestion for who might want to watch this show.
The long story short is that you might as well watch the first episode. There is no need for a 3-episode test on this series. If you actually enjoy the first episode, then I think that guarantees that you'll like the show. If you don't, then I can't predict how much enjoyment you'll eke out of the show, but no point wasting your time on a "maybe", so I say in that case you should skip this show.
Now, with that litmus test out of the way, what can I actually say about the show itself? First off, it is clearly low budget. If you are offended by still frames and CGI, then avoid this series by all means. If you…
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Now before my review, I had no expectations in finishing this anime, I had in mind to drop it after watching the 3rd episode.
When watching the first episode I was practically sure that I would drop this anime after not even watching the 3rd episode.
Now let's talk about the story that will probably lead to all other important topics, the story is kinda generic in the scene, and you've probably seen this somehow, there's nothing big about the story itself, if you're trying to watch something original, you'll probably dislike it. Somehow I liked the anime, and why?! because of Mira/Dunbalf of course, the whole anime is suposed to of course focus in one character itself, as it is the main character, I can say that clearly after watching the anime (I might be wrong, but that's what they act…
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Well, here's an anime that has caused some contention, but it's easy to see why.
Our protagonist is gender-switched into becoming a loli, it's a comedy so much of the humour can be hit or miss, the main character is overpowered (to be fair, all player characters are overpowered) it's a 'trapped in a game' / isekai type
What I like about this anime is that it has 'personality' there are a lot of anime that are generic, and don't do enough to try and stand out.
This takes it's concepts, it's ideas, understands that they are dumb, but then runs with them. It doesn't try to be smart, it doesn't try to take itself seriously, and as such you can have fun watching this.
I will say, if I have one big issue with this, then it's the CGI, I assume it was a cost saving thing to have all the monster…
Read at the sourceIllegalSpaceman
There are standouts in every season. Good shows that faithfully adapt their source material or deliver on a concept. On the other hand, there are bad shows, incoherent messes or poor adaptations that blatantly serve as an advertisement for their source material. Then there are shows like Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja.
Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja (I will be referring to it as Double Kenja from now on) is neither a good or a bad show. Rather, it’s one of the many shows that air every season that barely leaves an impression and is forgotten as soon as it finishes airing.
That is Double Kenja’s biggest problem, it is neither good nor bad enough to stand out among an increasingly crowded field of mediocre shows, which makes reviewing it difficult.
But one can try. Double Kenja stars Dun…
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Alot of people said that this series have a bad CGI, generic plot and bad anime adaptation(compared with manga or LN).
Frankly speaking I've found myself fell in love with this series. The plot doesn't feel generic to me unlike the other people, it's pretty interesting. Of course the plot is overlap with other anime series such as Log Horizon where the player entered inside the game world and experience the changes happened between the game and reality. The TS part also very appeal to me, of course I don't mind if the MC avatar stays the same but it would've been more pleasing to the eye to see a girl as the MC. Unlike Shoujo Senki, this series shows more fanservice and the plot is not that heavy to consume even though the plot is on a war world scale but it's very lightweight so I always…
Read at the sourceKale_VI
I really wanted to like this show, I seriously did, it was however just plain bad.
Animation quality was fairly low effort, lots of CG for the monaters and summoned beasts, overall it would be passable if other elements of the show had come together better.
The scenerey and background art was often times very awkward and generic. There was never a moment in the show where I thought the art was particularly good.
The character design and art were ok, fairly straightforward adaptations from the manga. Mira in particular has a character design that I still really love, though sometimes they would randomly give her a different hairstyle that didn't quite work with the design or seeked out of character or out of place. Overall passable but not outstanding.
The music and sound design could h…
Read at the sourceTomorukaMR
In original manga story from first chapter, I really like this title like getting hype when this one got adaptation.
Who knows that the first episode it's true might some people will drop it off because almost about half-quarter is just no conversation, only "he" going home with "his" new body. To be a fair reviewer, I've straight ahead and decide to watch through until it's finish aired. The next about half, I see this have dropping to 5 score for a bit. Keeping try to positive and I finished it.
It's just get only one point up, honestly as fan of this work is quite bit off expectation. Many going missing such skipped story making many hole thorough the series, when I can smile my self for reading the manga, here I got just "pathetic grin(?)" like how this one turned this.
The intensi…
Read at the sourceClobbopus
Generic. That's a word your going to see a lot in this review because that perfectly describes it.
Going into the season this was honestly one of my most anticipated shows. I had discovered this show when I had just finished reading “The boy who cried wolf tells a lie today also”(which to this date is one of my favorite manga) which got me a bit interested in the Gender Bender genre. The premise for this show sounded intriguing and I was excited to see what it had to offer. As you might have guessed I was disappointed with the result.
The show makes little to no attempt to take advantage of its Gender Bender gimmick. It's mainly used to help hide the MC’s identity which he didn’t have to be gender-bent to do anyways. Other than that it's just used for some bad fanservice scenes. Added…
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TLDR
I watched this since it was there in Muse Asia, and I had never thought id ever have a more enjoyable time watching YT ads than anime.
Bad CGI is forgivable but the laughable amount of still frames, the same soundtrack being used everywhere even though it does not even fit, convoluted storytelling with several boring infodumps that only get MORE convoluted and stupid as the show progresses. everything about this show is lazy. The only plus I could see is MC having a pretty nice wardrobe and looking anywhere from slightly adorable, to the borderline-hentai-manga-loli type of cute in her numerous outfits.
Full review:-
I feel bad for people who are using subscription services since this is clearly not what they signed up for.
The new feeling of my internet bandwidth being “wasted”…
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The show where the "old man transforms into a loli" story plot becomes a reality, and all that nuttiness...amounts to nothing.
Tuesdays in the Winter 2022 season are allocated to gender-bender Isekai (well, except for Tensai Ouji) shows, and having 2 series go head-to-head against each other and airing one after the next, was a real treat: Fantasy Bishoujo a.k.a FabiNiku vs. Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja a.k.a She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man. While FabiNiku ultimately won the battle being the better executed show, Kenja no Deshi lost the war badly by being a somewhat worse adaptation of the source material, and it's not for lack of trying consider the staff behind this.
The story in a nutshell, is that if you take the SAO narrative, pureed it in a similar fashion to this sea…
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A good way to judge the quality of a show is seeing how many characters or plot points you can name off the top of your head. The fact that the only character I remember is Mira, and I don’t remember any plot points except the utter abomination of the first episode speaks volumes about how forgettable this series was to me.
The first episode of any series is an extremely important one, you hit it, the watcher will be hooked, but if you miss it, the watcher will either leave, or continue with less enthusiasm. I would be someone in that latter category. I was so put off by the back half of the first episode that the sour taste it left lingered on throughout the rest of the show, but even if I overlooked the first episode, there’s not much to praise about the show. The jokes don’t land, the…
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