Audience reviews
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JrDetectiveUBet
Unpretentious Reviews
Management of a Novice Alchemist is an odd anime, and unfortunately not in a good way. Still it has some nuggets of harvest-able experience. After all, I have watched it twice, so it isn't TERRIBLE. The show has both "Wow!" and "What?" elements--unusual for most shows, especially ones that aren't the best like this one.
First, the "What?": In like, the first episode, there's this weird capitalist semi-soliloquy in the middle of a life saving procedure that doesn't fit at all. And throughout the show there's a capitalist theme about profits and such. It feels like the creator of the show has some strong feelings about wealth, and they bolted an anime to it. It might as well have said "brought to you by United Healthcare". It especially doesn't make sense in a world w…
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Review (short ver):
In a nutshell: I Am NoVIcE ALcheMIST
PROS
+Very relaxing and cute
+Cute girls doing cute stuff and Alchemy combination done right
+surprisingly good alchemy genre, if it remembers that part
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CONS
-wish they wouldn’t forget being alchemy genre at times
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Story
I mean, there isn’t much to really talk about story. We have a premise, where young girl had a situation in a life, had a lucky encounter, had strong innate ability and then everything got served on a silver plate. We pretty much got a cute girl managing a alchemy store on a country side with cute girls, creating cool stuff with sometimes cool logic and we have the whole alchemy fiasco. Material gathering, magic infusion, making stuff and so on. Whilst just chilling around, talki…
Read at the sourceMisterBonez
Look, if you're here you probably already aren;'t interested in an astounding plot or complex character development.
For all intents and purposes, it's a cute seratonin booster anime that follows the mc as she makes random nonsense, tries to earn money, and helps make her community a bit better or saves them entirely.
The characters are cute, the story is enjoyable to follow if it's in your taste area, and the tempo is often quite relaxed.
It's not going to be anyone's top anime of the year, let alone the decade, but it's definitely worth a watch if you just want something to relax and enjoy.
Don't take it seriously and it'll be a 10/10 for the evening binge. If you want to critique everything and want a serious fantasy anime it's a 4/10. Seriously, if you came here expecting anythi…
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It's not just a slice of life, it's about the first steps into adulthood.
In the very first episode, we see what it's like to start your own business, to be part of a new community, and then in the following ones to change other people's lives out of simple charity. This does not stop others from trying to destroy your business, con you or eat you alive with debts. Kindness is not enough, in this life you gotta be smart.
One of the disadvantages of not keeping up with several anime during the season, regardless of the score, is to miss certain adaptations that hide some gems. This anime may not have good animation, it may get repetitive at times, and it may simply be tedious. Sometimes I had to force myself to keep watching it, but I'm glad I did. But for those who seek something beyond…
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Story: The story is rather bland but it's great as a palate cleanser from other shows. Everything goes the main character's way, which isn't bad in what feels like a fantasy slice of life.
Characters: while there isn't much character development in the show, I enjoyed the characters for what they are. The supporting cast made me laugh with their antics and I wanted to root for the main character to solve the issue of the episode.
Art Style: Pretty colorful with from what I can tell little CGI. No real gritty scenes shown in this show.
Wrap-up: While nothing to write home about, this show works as a great palate cleanser from some darker or sadder shows. Which is why I gave it a 7/10.
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the story is nothing impressive a young girl going out on her own to do alchemy in a rural village, the story does have a couple of fight scenes but not the focus, also no major villains or anything like that, its a good anime when you're bored and want to just watch some nice relaxing story with nothing really going on, I really liked it 9/10 would recommend for people who don't really like action anime and have nothing better to watch. recommend for the targeted audience
other than that, its girls just living together, working to improve the rural village, and just lots of nice and relaxing content
Read at the sourceAhumaniguess
Isekai this, fantasy that, every season has them nowadays. It's not surprising that the viewers are beginning to get bored by them. Therefore, these anime are trying to become 'special', in such a way that people do get interested, a way to separate them from the other anime.
Recently, fantasy or Isekai anime where the protagonist opens a shop are becoming relatively popular, bringing contrast to the usual action that most have. These shows are mostly cute little shows, letting the viewer enjoy the mundane life of a new store owner. This show, Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei, is one of them.
So, did this show manage to become 'special'? Yes, in terms of concept, and no, in terms of execution. I'm honestly surprised that this anime managed to make a show unique, and clichéd at the…
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8.5-, Wasn't just a moe anime.
This anime was quite a mix of things. I was expecting a more moe happy cgdct anime, but right off the bat you get this sad to depressing backstory of Sarasa, which while it fortunately turns around for her and things are great. It continue when as other reviews have mentioned there is a bit of a tonal shift episodes later and continues to happen throughout the anime periodically. You get an interesting mix of things like Slice of Life and Action, Moe and gore/blood, Happy Village and Brutal Capitalist, and way more with a good part revolving around economics of goods and services. Still it keeps it mostly lighthearted often moving past those feelings to focus on more about the ingredients for alchemy which give it a good introduction to the fantasy elements…
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Oh god i almost commited seppuku while watching this...
At first it looked like normal cgdct but then it came out like absolute nonsense.
Characters are flat like animal on highway and story is practicaly none. Almost 3/4 of time you watch infantile dialogues and the rest is ultimate walk in the park for mc. Oh and not to forget you know how its named "Management of a Novice Alchemist"? It has really nothing to do with any management or being novice and its not even about alchemy. Yea you will see some some kind of transmutation circle 2-3 times and some scenes with cauldron but thats all.
"Hey you forgot rate things like animation and music" - Nah it was mediocre through and through.
For me its 3/10 and nothing can convince me otherwise.
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Full Moé Alchemist.
Management of a Novice Alchemist is fine. Inoffensive, mediocre *sigh* light novel anime like this are a dim a dozen these days, and whilst some of them are poorly written, animated crudely or accidentally indorse slavery in some way, Management of a Novice Alchemist is just a show about a cute girl and her cute friends doing cute, fantasy world things whilst running a fantasy world shop.
Just to clarify, whilst it’s writing is on the whole inoffensive, it’s art and animation can use some work. It looks like every other half baked light novel adaptation despite is poor lighting, shading and awful line art which only highlight the genericness of the supporting casts character designs. Sometimes the animation will randomly crank it up to 11 during an action scene, but…
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It was a decent series, I didn't like it that much so I am giving it 4/10. It's only revolving around the store and not even any good business strategies are showed it could have made it better. There is no action at all and doesn't even have any valuable Slice of life moments or values. The characters weren't interesting to me, the art style and animation was OK, nothing special/spectacular. There is no merit in watching this, so I don't recommend this series. It could have been a lot better, it had a promising potential, hope if season 2 ever comes it would get a much needed improvement.
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Wow, the new Atelier game is looking great! Oh wait...wrong material, we're talking about the anime version if there ever was an imitation of it, but in all the good and bad ways possible...which was just a plain ol' fantasy snoozefest.
It's almost a given that the SoL a.k.a Slice-of-Life genre can do no wrong, only except that the other genres overshadow it to showcase a bunch of features that ultimately weigh to nothing. And this is such the case for novelist Mizuho Itsuki's series that is Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei a.k.a Management of a Novice Alchemist. As one of the many stories under the Shousetsuka ni Narou a.k.a Syosetu banner, this does feel like a stereotypical adventure-cum-fantasy setting that there're so many copycats like it floating around, but how this source ma…
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Ever seen an anime where the protagonist has things go their way? Well look no further than Shinmai Renkinjutsushi no Tenpo Keiei, or Management of a Novice Alchemist. Management of a Novice Alchemist has NOTHING to offer. The animation’s average, the story is terrible, and the characters are absolute cardboard flat. If you’d like to waste your time, here’s your first step forward.
The story? Terrible. The protagonist, Sarasa, has everything go her way. If she’s in a predicament, she’ll always save the day. Totally not use of cliche tropes. If there’s a villain, she’ll save the day. Expect nothing but a predictable storyline from Management of a Novice Alchemist.
In addition, the characters are cardboard flat. Sarasa is the same old “nice and kind” protagonist. Side characters act all…
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