Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Ramun_Flame
Well, for an isekai, it's pretty unique in my opinion. The fantasy world is your bog standard isekai world, but the real world has it's won surprises. Splitting within them was enjoyable, and kept me wondering what's going to happen.
The main character is pushing 40, and has dedicated himself to work without getting much recognition. I think this is meant to be a self insert for middle aged guys, which I'm not sure I can complain about. There is a problematic factor of every young teen girl wanting him/blushing when he's around. Like there's 3 (although technically one is over 100, of course). Like it didn't need that, but I guess the author liked the idea that teen girls might like single middle aged men. It's cringe, but not a huge plot point.
Anyway, with that out of the way, the main…
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Typical incident of promising beginning, poor execution...I think this phrase is fairly accurate for that show. Even though I actually like main character Sasaki for his reactions, maturity, problem solving abilities and other many aspects that notion simply isn't enough. During the story, so many new themes and narratives are introduced that after a while, inevitably getting the impression that writers are stuck unclear, and it can't be said that they've managed to strike a balance between them. There's nothing wrong with saying, "Let's add a little bit of this and a little bit of that, it'll look a bit like a soup, but it'll also resemble a carnival," but when it's not put in order, we're left with this kind of inconsistent work.
I think it's been accepted for a second season. If it man…
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This anime is criminally underrated, and some of the reviewers here are on some straight haterade.
Id say this show is easily a solid 7.5, it has fantastic visuals, a great sound track, and an insanely interesting premise.
Normal near 40 year old guy in a normal corporate office life, you think this is going to a be a chill and slow going slice o life- just as you get comfortable BAM its a fantasy world-hopping isekai that leans on the money and resource management side. Then BOOM it's a fantasy cooking show then BOOM it's all about magic BOOM psychics and espers and espionage BOOM you got a war and BOOM now thrs magical girls!!!!
The pacing is handled very well, my curiosity continually roused as i considered the ever increasing factors involved. The magic systems are interesting, the…
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The middle aged power fantasy: financial stability and a cute pet that likes you!
This show has fun with the some classic anime tropes and keeps things fresh by introducing lots of events to the plot. It's a lighthearted fantasy romp, and a enjoyable season perfect for a casual watch.
It has received a lot of poor reviews, which I personally don't understand. The show is simply a lighthearted comedy with some action highlights, and I fear people are taking the fantasy and combat aspects of it too seriously and expecting some expanded universe or charismatic protagonist.
This is the story of two middle aged men enjoying an isekai portal fueled psuedo-retirement, who then find themselves getting into wacky hijinks as a result of being parts of both worlds. Sit down, enjoy the show, and ha…
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Wait for season 2.
The themes opened so far would suffice for at least 4 completely different animes. Spice&Wolf meets Mushoku Tensei meets Saving 80,000 Gold meets Jujutsu Kaisen meets Sailor Moon. There's not nearly enough time and space to let any of them take shape and spread wings, it's not so much a cliffhanger, as a 12-episode teaser for an upcoming series.
It's an awesome anime but it doesn't have an end. It feels like it was aborted mid-season, mid story arc, with so many threads open and hardly any even moderately developed. A chekov gun hanged in ep 1 and reminded of every other episode, is shown to be hanging there right at the end of ep12. Wait for S2, and if it's not 24+ episodes, also wait for season 3.
(also, flashy action is toned down in favor of strategy, economy, sub…
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This is an anime with truely so much going on. There are so, so many storylines and they all interweve. I didn't find it intimidating, in fact I dropped the show for about 2 months and didn't have a problem jumping back in when life allowed. If you like shows that stay in their lane move on, this is weird and interesting and trying to spin many plates. A couple drop, sure, but mostly it's incredible to watch.
The show revolves and Sasaki balancing his life in two world and his pet bird whose secretly a powerful magic user. He's an older protag and interesting guy. He's got a reasonable skillset and it's fun to watch him rationalise and work his way into and out of things using the skills he's picked up, for me I found it refreshing to have someone whose way more realistic than some overpo…
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Sasaki no Pii-chan is a story about Sasaki, a 30ish old man that lives in an apparently normal world, after he meets Pii-chan a mystical and magical creature of another world, he and his friend start an adventurous life in both Sasaki and Pii-chan world.Also the main reason sasaki travels to another world is simple to gain some money and makes his life better. Cause you know … living like a salaryman nowadays is not that special or confortable .
This anime looks like inuyasha, kagome and inuyasha are almost the same as sasaki and pii-chan, but unlike inuyasha, pii-chan can travel to sasaki world and really enjoy living there. The way that both of them interact with the two worlds are in a more political and non heroic way. But Sasaki and Pii-chan both play important roles in both worlds.…
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When I watched the first episode I was very interested in how an employee got into isekai because of his pet bird, and he started learning magic, doing business, and participating in noble politics there.
But I started to feel 'less like' when there was the concept of superpowers in the 'first world' especially with the government superpower organization, I think it just messed up my interest.
I started to get interested again during Marc's rescue mission, where it was shown how Sasaki could solve big problems on his own without Pi-chan's help. However, again and again even at the end of this anime I was disappointed with the story in the first world which was boring to watch.
Yes maybe this is just my selfishness, I'm just telling my impression of watching this series without knowing w…
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Eehhh? Why is the rating so low? I feel compelled to make a review..
I appreciate anime like this where the MC is calm, collected, and mature.
There is a certain charm to it. I don’t need to be stressed about stupid actions, decisions, and words~ which escalates simple plot..
MC’s actions are witty, cunning but professional, and mature but at the same time not too overly complicated since the events/plot itself is not too convoluted. The MC’s typical sales person character is quite appealing to me as well since 1. It’s realistic 2. its a breath of fresh air from the usual bullish type MCs.
One of the comedy aspects of the anime dwells around mahou shoujos… well… weird but it’s not overly dwelled on so it doesn’t bother me that much.
Anime’s title is Sasaki and Pii-chan, so it’s mainly a…
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Entertaining and interesting, but lacking and shallow.
Sasaki and Peeps is the perfect show for when you're mid-flight on Southwest airline going from coast to coast in the US on a Boeing 747 that may or may not have had its emergency exit door blown off a month ago due to "mechanical failure" and "poor maintenance". While in the middle seat between an egregiously overweight couple who are spilling over into your personal space, covering you in their tricep sweat, you can snuggle up comfortably in your warm moist cocoon as you place your phone on your laptable next to your peanuts and coke to immerse yourself in the wacky and wonderful world of Sasaki and Peeps.
Why is it the perfect show for such an oddly specific and mildly nauseating situation? This is because neither you nor the coup…
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Interesting premise, average isekai.
Characters other than MC and Peeps might as well not exist. World itself is trying to do too much while somehow still having so little. It's impressive how generic it all feels. The worst are the "psychics" and how they hilarious fight using their.. guns.. not any psychic abilities. Dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Also, can I just say how fake the "aww so cute" moments of Sasaki feel like with Peeps? They feel forced and fake.
Art is fine, no complaints. Sound is there, I guess, nothing stood out to me in the anime concerning audio.
Anyway, watch it to see how a good premise is squandered.
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Score 7 - This score is based on my enjoyment and not reflective of an 'objective' evaluation.
I actually really quite like the show and if there's something I enjoy about the in-his-40's something protagonist Sasaki, it's that he behaves not just like an adult, but he goes so much out of his way to be a sneaky drone in the most cordial way possible that you'll feel like pulling your hair out at how insipid and mild mannered he comes off, when in reality he's just a calm person who thinks things through and makes measured decisions.
On that note, while things do pan out for him when he does something, he doesn't come off as some sort of genius, he just does his best.
Meaning... Sasaki's just a good dude that you enjoy getting ahead in life for once. Good on you Sasaki, now what's that th…
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Sasaki to Pii-Chan is an anime which brings together isekai,fantasy,kind of reverse isekai and most absurd magical girl.
We have a main character Sasaki, a middle age man who works for a company and lives a boring daily life then he adopts a bird who later we learn that is a Wizard (kind of) from another world and he can take himself and Sasaki to that world whenever he wants and he discarded to sell things from our universe in the other one .This anime has two different stories one from the Sasaki’s world and the other is Peeps world.
The Sasaki’s world have fantasy,adventure,magical girl and humans who has magical power. This parts has more fights we see Sasaki in he’s work and how he try to keep he’s second life in secret. While the Peep’s world is more about politics and I guess busin…
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Sasaki to Pii-chan is uniquely a mish-mash of isekai-reverse isekai, which involves magical power system + Men in Black plot + Medieval type politics + corporate negotiation elements all in one anime. It's frankly a double edge sword - it either intrigues you or confuses the hell out of the viewers. In my case, I actually kind of enjoyed this anime and this unique premise.
The supporting characters are kind of generic but developed just enough to keep the plot going without appearing too jarring - and the MC is an ex-corporate salaryman with a decent moral compass but without appearing dumb, naive or annoying - and has the intelligence to draw upon his experience or stop to think before making crucial decisions.
Animation-wise, it is not terrible but neither is it anything to be impresse…
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Sasaki to Pii-chan has a good begining like a decent isekai anime where the MC is the one who obtain a superpower, but the poor execution of the story were disappointing. This anime failed to entertain me even though it started with something interesting.
Here is the only thing I like about this show is the main character Sasaki and his pet Pii-chan, other than that is not in my interest. I'm losing interest at the first 3 episode, the world building is weird, the pacing is messed up like they didn't really care about the progress and skip it to the aftermath, too many plot hole and questionable things. If you wanted to watch some light and enjoyable slice of life anime, this one is not recommended because the plot contain a weird political stuff and a lot of weird characters which has no…
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Sasaki to Pii-chan started out interesting enough: You have a first episode that looked like typical isekai slop only for it to shift gears completely into urban fantasy with espers in the second half. Count me sold I thought at the time. But no, alas, it's yet another case of "interesting premise, bad execution".
Actually no, it's worse than that. Bad execution can sometimes lead to amusing trainwrecks, this is just overly bland. I had just finished watching the last episode a few hours ago and already I'm forgetting plot details.
One of the main issues with this is how it lacks any sort of focus. Even within the Isekai stuff which takes up like half of the season, it jumps between slow life, business management, (boring) political intrigue, and there are some battles in there too. I…
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Sasaki and Peeps is definitely something. This anime tries to be so many things all at once: a supernatural, a fantasy, a slice of life, a gourmet, etc. To be brutually honest, I don't think this show knows what it wants to be. The main selling point behind Saski and Peeps is the fact that the MC, Sasaki, travels between his world and the fantasy one, thanks to his Peeps, his magical pet. This anime is at its best when the two worlds actually have some benefit to one another, whether that be Sasaki taking his business expertise from the real world into the fantasy one, or when he uses the magic he learns in the fantasy one to fight other magicians in the real one. Outside of that, Sasaki and Peeps struggles to balance the plotlines that happen in the two worlds. There's very little cohesio…
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An anime that has a middle-aged main character that actually acts his age will always get my attention.
That said, the first episode was interesting, but it felt like the author was throwing a lot of stuff to the wall to see what sticks. It certainly could be confusing, as the show seemed to change genres with each episode. However, it managed to strike a balance with all the elements it was juggling with as the season progressed.
At its heart, it's a fantasy that fulfills every wish a middle-aged salary man wants of having a nice job, while able to travel to another world and have a second fulfilling career. There's no harem, but the author does seem to populate his stories with teenaged girls and lolis. That fact is not enough to make it problematic because the main character likes to…
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Sasapi came out the gate with one of the most original pilot episodes I’ve seen, implementing aspects of 4-5 different genres, a cool magical system, a talking bird, hot girls, I was wowed. Sadly, it never really matched those highs again. Still, I enjoyed it for what it was and would recommend it. There’s definitely more than enough to separate it from your run of the mill fantasy seasonal. It does have a fun cast of characters and an interesting world, it just felt underutilised at times and chaotic.
Sasapi doesn’t really do anything new. Just recently, we’ve had shows like Roukin8 that featured working age MCs going back and forth between worlds to make money selling goods. But, Sasapi is the first show to have that element mixed with magical girls, a secret government organisation and…
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Sasaki and Peeps - Is this show an Isekai, Reverse-Isekai, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, all wrapped into one? This feels like an over-convoluted and a fictional existential mistake...
Let's all be true to ourselves: Isekai, in the traditional sense, can be easy to write. It's the creativity portion that is the hardest to keep the entire story consistent and interesting and can even send authors scrambling for the next plot device that no matter how orthodox the story can go; it must remain entertaining. And this is what happens when you encounter a work like novelist Buncololi's Sasaki to Pii-chan a.k.a Sasaki and Peeps, the LN series where the mundaneness of one leads him to find new entertainment, and that entertainment spans worlds and characters of many proportions alike, with the work…
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