Audience reviews
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WavePath
Shinka no Mi: The Fruit of Evolution ; is a low budget anime with a lot of high comedy Isekai ; a guility pleasure anime with high humor.
Pro :
- It is a pure brain-off entertainment ; where you want mindless, fast-paced absurdity where an overweight bullied teen eats magic fruit, becomes overpowered, and gains a harem
- Progression is very good paced ; actually it is very fast paced that some people might struggle to keep up ; so fast that the main character, Seiichi, doesn't waste time getting strong; he spirals into god-tier stats almost immediately through sheer comedic escalation.
Cons:
- Unfortunately it is low-budget production , the animation is stiff, combat choreography is practically nonexistent, and it relies heavily on close-ups and cheap camera tricks to hide poor quality…
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I’m not gonna lie—it’s bad. So bad that it actually ends up being funny. Our fat loser MC becomes ultra-OP in minutes, gains every broken skill imaginable, suddenly looks like a model, and somehow every girl (and even animals) magically turn into cute anime waifus for him. Like… what is even going on here?
The “story”? If you can even call it that. It’s bland, directionless, and feels like it’s just making things up as it goes. Depth or world-building? Forget it. Meaningful romance or actual emotions? Nope, not here—who needs that anyway?
Artstyle-wise, it’s mediocre. Sure, some of the girls are drawn with extra detail in very specific places, but that’s typical for shows leaning into ecchi. Nothing special beyond that.
Overall: I don’t think anyone will get much out of this anime besid…
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There are so many issues with this show to be discussed. Let me say this: If you are looking for Isekai slop with an OP MC and insane powerscaling for only him, where he collects a harem of women, then while this show technically meets your standards, there are so many better options for you to consider. I don't strictly suggest you avoid this show, but I will get into the various crucial factors that make this show unbearably boring.
Firstly, all of the characters are extremely bland and fall into tropes that have been run through without any exploration or interest. The only thing that can be said in this shows favor on this front is the sadistic guild receptionist and exhibitionist guildmembers. This is the only bit of halfway decent comedy in the entire show and it gets old fast when…
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This show is so funny—I was laughing so hard my stomach hurt! I don’t get why so many people hate on it because, honestly? I had a blast watching. It never got boring, and it was the perfect escape when I just needed to shut off my brain for a while. And sometimes, that’s all I want from a show!
Look, it’s not some deep, mind-blowing masterpiece. You’ll see every joke and plot twist coming from a mile away. But hey, who cares? I’ve quit tons of shows like this before, but for some reason, I couldn’t stop watching this one. It just… worked for me.
It’s light, silly, cheesy in the best way, and just plain fun. If you’re looking for something easy to binge without overthinking it, I’d totally recommend giving it a shot—just don’t expect anything life-changing.
And hey, I wouldn’t say no to…
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'The Fruit of Evolution' is allegedly an anime television series based off a light novel of the same name, but personally, I take issue with this dubious origin story.
In 1969, Adam Levine published a notoriously controversial text — one that, without doubt, had a substantial impact on perceptions of religion, morality, media censorship, and even on the very substrata of modern culture. There are many factors attributed to our divergence from faith, but none can as succinctly elucidate this drift as a question I asked myself as a child — and one that many people have pondered upon:
"Why?"
Why? Why am I being told this? For what purpose, and with what explanation?
Clearly, the author of this series had similar thoughts. Only a blind man could create something so profoundly devoid of lig…
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If you treat this as a light hearted parody of the isekai genre it's honestly bloody fantastic. It's not a serious show, it doesn't try to be one. It's a bit of light fluff that is making fun of itself and the genre it's in. To the point where the MC is complaining that he doesn't want to be more OP!
The show will of course have it's haters who were looking for a serious self-insert protag. But this isn't the sort of show they were looking for. The art is almost deliberately cheesy at times, reminds me a bit of whoever animated Toriko, (It's not that I don't think, but I can see some stylistic influences here and there.)
Honestly If you liked the "Airplane/Flying High" type stuff from the 80s, and like anime, and are aware of all the isekai tropes, you may enjoy this. If you're looking f…
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I'll be honest, I enjoyed this anime way more than "The Rising of the Shield Hero Season 2" garbage.
Look, most Isekai shows are bad. But you can tell when the director and writer is having fun with it and when it's just designed to be a show to rake in some sales without having any heart. At-least this anime knew it was trash and rolled with it, having fun till the end.
Premise of an OP MC isn't anything new but most anime seem to find it hard to put a spin on it. Fruit of Evolution just kept rolling with one nonsense after another, almost like it was parodying other Isekai anime out there, probably why I never got tired of watching it.
Art is.. bad, but serviceable. Audio is.. generic, but gets the job done. Characters are fun, which is why I kept watching it despite other issues. It…
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I won't lie, this anime is pretty trashy. It's a typical ecchi harem isekai, but man, it made me laugh a lot. It's bad but in a good way. A lot of the developments are so dumb that they make my brain hurt. The show is very self aware and knows that it's trash but makes the most out of it; pretty much just about every moment of the show is excellent meme material. Overall it wouldn't win any awards but as long as you keep an open mind and don't take it too seriously (or actually, don't take it seriously at all), it's a nice enjoyable little guilty pleasure comedy that isn't a complete waste of time unlike a lot of other trashy isekai.
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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 surpri…
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I'm going to be honest: I truly, unironically really enjoyed this anime. I really don't think it deserves all the hate, and as far as I'm concerned, so long as you know what you're getting into, you can really enjoy this anime.
I'm going to be upfront first, though: This anime is exceedingly standard for the isekai genre. It honestly doesn't pull many punches in terms of originality at all (though the bi? gorilla girl is a great touch). But that's okay. This was an anime I watched to relax- it's mindless, and not super deep. It's also not super fanservice-y, which is appreciated. MC is clueless, as usual, but not exceedingly so. He has brain enough to figure out obvious solutions within the episode. And as far as harems are concerned, this is one of my favorite relationships. Personally,…
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I never write reviews because i think that my opinion is already represented good enough in other peoples reviews and because my english is not good enough to fully cover all my thoughts. But this time it is different. This time it feels like a heavy burden lays on my shoulders and i need to guide others around this massive mistake that consumes important lifetime which you could have spend on sharpening pencils or peeling cherries.
I LOOOOVEE Trash-Overpowerd-MC-Fantasy-Harem-Isekais but this one right here made me suffer serious brain damage. I will make it short so you can start with every other activity on this planet besides watching this show.
Trash Story
Trash "worse-than-hentai" Art
lazy sounddesign
trash boring minus one-dimensional characters
But why 3 not 1??
1 point for…
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The worst thing about anime is that the animation is medium regular and so is the soundtrack. But everything else seems perfect to me, it is in the same season as Mushoku Tensei and I also feel that I stand out. As a unique isekai it has many unique characteristics, for example how they justify that this op seems very good to me after the development of characters and how they deal with each other it seems very cute. I highly recommend it if you like elos iseakis.
The animation is very well achieved, the fights are kept trying to be as interesting as possible but when you have a protagonist op it gets complicated because every time he fights seriously, the fight is over. The SOUNDTRACK IS pretty good and the harem that the main character has is very diverse with many animals so if you like…
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I don´t understand why it is so underrated.
The series just tries to make fun of its own genre and it is just funny. It´s not suposed to be anything else.
For anyone who didn´t watch it, if you like konosuba this is probably good for you. There is no depth and the anime doesn´t take anything seriously. But it is fun to watch and for me that is more than enough. I watched a shitload of anime this year and this really one of the best anime that came out 2021.
If you want to watch something serious this will not be anything you like.
Read at the sourceOneiromancy05
This isekai anime changed my life
Before watching this anime, I was a filthy dwarf. After watching this anime, I turned into a 7 feet tall chad isekai fan and my door is flooded with hot anime girls 24/7
Story: 10/10
The story is spectacular with no plot holes and perfect writing, I have never seen such a satisfying story before (other than Isekai Smartphone)
Art: 10/10
The art of this anime is better than the art of animes produced by KyoAni and Studio Ghibli, and I can never look at other animes the same way as before.
Sound: 10/10
The incredible sound recordings of this anime made my ears feel ecstatic even with my crappy 10$ headphones.
Character: 10/10
The character development of this anime is the best I have seen. The main character, Seichi, had more character development than c…
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The first part of this review is just going to be an explanation as to why I gave this show the score I did. The second part is gonna be a rant as to why it's a bad show and what should change (A lot of spoilers). Last part is gonna be a summary for those who want to skim through this.
Story 6/10
Don't you just love a cliche run of the mil Isekai show where the main is op and has a harem, cause I do. I love Isekai whether it be a masterpiece like Overlord or a dumpster fire like The Master of Ragnarok, I think that they all are special. This show has some of the most cliche writing ever. Man is sent to another world, gets harem and has to defeat random enemy (Most of the time demon lord). But just like every other Isekai there is a twist. So, what is this twist you might ask? That is a ve…
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Lot's of hate for this show. I thought it was pretty fun.....and at no point did I want to stop watching. It kept me out of my own head for a little while, which is all that really matters to me.
Nothing new, nothing ground breaking, nothing deep, no emotions evoked, and nothing amazing.
You can see everything coming from a mile a way....but what's wrong with that?
I've dropped many shows that are similar to this, but for some reason I never had the urge with this one. Oddly enough....it actually entertained me.
It was light, simple, cheesy, and fun. I'm glad that I found it and I recommend it as a time killer.....as long as your expectations are realistic you might enjoy it.
I'd like to see another season somewhere down the road.....cause there's always a show hole to be filled.
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Recommendation: On an objective level, there is almost nothing positive to say about this series, and it is easily one of the worst shows I have ever seen. And yet it was so bad that I actually perversely enjoyed it. If you enjoy watching bad shows ironically, this is a fun one, but otherwise steer clear.
Story: Our protagonist Seiichi is a fat loser with no friends when his entire high school class is transported to a fantasy world. The god that transported them takes pity on friendless and bullied Seiichi, giving him the ability to eat Fruits of Evolution, which more or less evolve him beyond being human and make him on par with a god almost instantly. This is a pure power fantasy through and through, and is not to be taken seriously in any way. The show itself knows this, often lampsha…
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This review will contain minor spoilers - however this isnt a particularly plot driven anime so it really doesnt matter.
Fruit of evolution appears like it attempted to be a generic and average isekai, the type you usually see at least 2 of each season, and yet somehow it failed to copy and paste the same standard formula that all the other clique isekai have adopted.
Now full disclosure, I personally enjoy trashy isekai. I know I will go and see a doctor eventually. However, even my underserved love for the standard isekai traits could not make me actually like this anime. In this review I will explain why.
Firstly there is no plot, this isnt particularly surprising for a trashy isekai but it would've been nice to see one nonetheless. Instead the protagonist just seems to wander aroun…
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This show, or rather, this fantasy fufillment of an adaptation lives up to its standards of being one of the biggest jokes this year. Jokes are meant to bring laughter but for Shinka no Mi Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei, that translates to an embarassing testament of exactly what's wrong with the isekai trope. When you have a gorilla as a main character, there's more than red flags than raised.
We live in a world where literally anyone can come up with an idea and put it together to sell a product. I don't know what the author was thinking when they crafted this show's premise but is anyone actually impressed by the promotional material on this MAL page? If you look over the preview videos and promotional poster, what you see is a boring generic main protagonist surrounded by a colorf…
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I love Isekai.
I hate Isekai, when the fantasy world is stale.
I love Isekai, when it's done right.
I hate isekai, when it just feels oh-so-wrong.
I love Isekai, more so in the form of parodies because they are comedic and subvert expectations.
I hate Isekai, when the content amounts to nothingness.
I love Isekai, even when it feels like trolling trash.
I hate Isekai, when it's unbelievably actual trash.
I love Isekai, but Shinka no Mi is legit dysfunctional trash deep down to the very core.
I hate Isekai. And the cycle repeats itself all over again. Where thou art are you, Isekai God???
Hoo boy, where should I really start with this one? It's no doubt yet another one of those shows with the Isekai Reincarnation setting, combined with the story that's very akin to Isekai Spider or even Ar…
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