Audience reviews
19 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Ramun_Flame
It's hard to explain, but this anime feels super flat. Like there's technically interesting stuff happening, but the characters don't stand out and everything feels generic. The main character knows so much from their past life, and people don't really question it at all. IT's dubbed though, so I kind of had it on as a background watch.
The main character has the most overpowered ability, but they don't take advantage of it. Early on they gain the ability to teleport anywhere, and they don't use it in a dire situation, at least not until it's almost too late. Even then they don't use it to it's fullest. Despite how OP they are, the author doesn't have them do anything that grand. It seems they just make sweets to impress people.
Like, many character have generic conflicts, and many plot…
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Surprisingly fun. Though it suffers from generic-Isekai-syndrome, I found the main character rather compelling. It follows more of a medieval civilization-builder type adventure, rather than being a purely food-focused anime, so be mindful if you're looking for something closer to that. Other than, it's a fun quick watch. Fun main character, underdeveloped side characters, somewhat interesting plot, good vibes.
The pacing isn't abysmally bloated, and the finale isn't too flashy, so it does leave you wanting more by the end (in a good way). I don't normally leave reviews, but I saw a lot of very critical reviews up top that I think were too harsh. I've watched a lot of generic bottom-of-the-barrel seasonal fantasy shows, and this tops more than a few of them in terms of concept and a palat…
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Okashi na Tensei is just another cookie cutter isekai coming out with a gimmick to make it worth watching. Normally, I'd give it five or six stars and leave it at that, but for a genre that relies on a gimmick to get by I'd expect more of that gimmick. I feel like the 'Okashi' part of the story is almost completely missing and instead you get a lot of edgy, generic isekai tropes instead. Yes, there is some of the sweetness I was expecting when I started watching this show, but when I was expecting a nice cake to feast upon for twelve episodes, I got a cupcake instead. It's not bad, but the disappointment is significant enough that I'm knocking multiple stars off of my review.
Read at the sourceCatFish21sm
I don't normally write a review on anime but this one I felt it somewhat necessary. This series is very deceptive. I watched it expecting a slow laid back experience about some pastry chef reincarnated into a fantasy world. Something along the lines of other world pharmacy . What I got was a very generic Isekai with a very light coating of sugar. There's more war and fighting in this anime than there is anything about baking. They use a lot of cooking analogies and there are some occasional sweets involved but nothing like what you'd actually expect.
I'm not saying it's terrible but don't expect much more than generic Isekai. The one good thing about it is that the protagonist isn't OP. He is far more powerful than he needs to be in order to overcome any of his challenges making what coul…
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This is perfectly fine anime. Good animation, nice fx, pretty good VA. Bit bland here and there but its a good watch.
However, there is one aspect of this show I despise. It's a fantasy show, with fantasy elements, taking stuff from our world too. Goats are goats, milk is milk, eggs are eggs, but apples are bonkas. They say it repeatedly. it's used in a lot of recipes in the show. This would be charming if the other ingredients were given fantasy names, or maybe if he slipped up and called them apples by mistake. There's a poignant moment full of the history of desserts and relating it to a side characters arc ruined by "its made from bonkas". No point in calling them that, zero purpose.
other than that he has a cool power that doesn't get much use, not forgotten but still... It had a c…
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Review for this anime, many mistakes can be started from the most basic, namely the title and story are not in sync, if you think this anime will tell a story of a pâtissier who will revolutionize the culinary world with knowledge from the modern world then you will be very wrong. The focus of this anime story is more on the military side than the world of pâtissier/culinary, the MC who plays the profession of Patissier is only an occasional interlude that is inserted in this story. So this is the root of the problem of this anime story. The main focus of this anime story does not match the title and prologue that are always inserted at the beginning of this anime aired every episode. This is where the disappointment begins, from the most basic thing in this story. A more reasonable approa…
Read at the sourceSeregosa
Wow, that some trash can even get an anime adaptation is incredible.
I mean, this is just bad enough to deserve such criticism. I don't know how bad the original is, but the adaptation is truly garbage tier.
I kept on cringing and rolling my eyes while watching this, it's as if everyone in this anime is mentally deficient to put it mildly. Hell, the show can't even stick to its own premise, "sweet", it's supposed to be about baking/sweets, the opening and so on is entirely focused on this, so is the initial premise, we're heavily promised this, but when we're thrown in, we realize almost the only baking/patisserie stuff goes on in his empty head as he drools from his own imagination and maybe an apple pie and some minor stuff that wasn't even close to the focus nor properly shown. If a s…
Read at the sourceYagami_Death
This anime is so bad it forced me to write my first review on MAL. The basic outline of the story is the reincarnation of a patissier into a medieval world, where we meet him by the name of Pastry Mille Morteln. Our protagonist is a wanna-be Willy Wonka, since he wants to create a land of sweets (see: Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory and the Room of Sweets).
Plot:
To say the plot deviated from its original pathway is a gross understatement. The original goal of this character is to make sweets, yet we see so little of any sweet making. Pastry made some hard candies, candy apples, apple pies, a tarte tatin, and a cheesecake. There were no intriguing details about why Pastry wants to make a land of sweets except, "I want to see a smile on people's face"
Honestly, this dialogue is repeated s…
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Real disappointment from what I was expecting, looking at the title and artwork for the anime, one might expect it to be about desserts, cakes and cookies..... in the end, it's plot is lost on itself. (if you rather skip the blabber, read the last paragraph, it's a 3/10 :P )
We're introduced to our main accruing characters, Pastry, our protagonist and his father Casserole (also a type of pastry, names are a bit odd, but cute, another character is named Brioche, another pastry dish), being reincarnated after suffering a fatal death by candy sculpture, Pastry is born into a low ranked noble house with a dream of building a world filled with sweets and yummy food. After his father notices his talents after seeing Pastry's vast knowledge to grow more wealth for their family he is brought to t…
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this a standard isekai where a pastry chef kill in the middle of a pastry competition and reincarnated as the only son of a low noble that been breaking is back to turn a wasteland into a fertile land. the young Pas uses his past life knowledge to improve the land for his own goal of making great sweet again this a some romance although the main character a young boy throughout the series, political games, bandit attack and some battles between noble faction
the story is good with some twist and turn and darker moment but overall a laid back easy anime to watch
the artist and animation are good as is the voice acting in the English dub
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A light and crispy anime that can be enjoyed during a relaxed period. The series revolves around the concept of a sweet-loving pastry chef finding nobility in a new world. It is simple, engaging, and soothing, making it easy and enjoyable to watch.
If we talk about the shortcomings: Firstly, there is a rather bland nobility system and confusing aristocrats. Yes, there is a general lack of clarity and meaning in the plot. Look, this baron, that duke, this count—okay, now you've learned about them, and the story throws you into their troubled world. Additionally, while the characters are not explicitly portrayed as overpowered, they somehow manage to overcome every challenge. However, the mind games are significantly lacking and resemble second-rate detective movie style. The whole "I predi…
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This anime was not in the realm of so bad it's good, nor was it in the realm of good anime. It was so bad it's bad.
The story is neither unique nor interesting. It's essentially a carbon copy of any kindom/fief building simulator. The premise is completely ignored, both the reincarnation element and the cooking element. Even up to the final episode I was wondering when he was going to do anything interesting.
The art style is standard and neither good nor bad. Probably the best part of this show.
The characters were so one dimensional I struggled to believe they existed in 2 dimensions. The main character was a typical doormat Japanese MC who also gave off the impression he "liked them young". All side characters were essentially enablers with no personality, cartoonishly evil (even for…
Read at the sourceThiccRaspberry
I was promised anime about baking in isekai instead I got this boring stilted political "talks". Thats probably the reason why they had to put that "he is amazing patissier" schlock in front of every opening - otherwise everyone would probably forget by the 3rd episode. I am a huge fan of cookig/baking anime and I usually rate them higher than they objectively deserve to be rated because I just enjoy them so much. This was just disappointing and a waste of time. Frankly I had to watch the last 4 episodes on 2x speed because it was so boring. Dont watch it unless you want to be put to sleep.
Read at the sourceGorenko
Okashi na Tensei is a light-hearted and enjoyable anime about a young boy who is reincarnated into a world of swords and magic with a dream of becoming a great patissier. The anime follows Pas as he learns to bake sweets, make friends, and fight to defend his land.
The anime's strengths lie in its characters and its humor. Pas is a likable and relatable protagonist, and the supporting cast is also full of fun and quirky characters. The anime's humor is often subtle and understated, but it always hits the mark.
However, the anime does have some weaknesses. The plot is fairly predictable, and the pacing can be slow at times. Additionally, the anime's focus on sweets can be a bit too much for some viewers.
Overall, Okashi na Tensei is a fun and enjoyable anime that is perfect for fans of f…
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The usual copy-pasta isekai. A genius Patissier (pastry chef) dies and reincarnates as the son of a small rank noble. But, sugar is expensive in this world, so his poor ass can't do any baking :(
This show's main focus is about managing (and developing) his lands with the help of isekai tropes and a few baking puns. The plan is to eventually get rich/resourceful enough to provide for his baking needs. As with most Isekai, this is also filled with tropes. The characters are really boring. MC is OP (although he rarely uses his OP skill) and is a smoother talker who can negotiate/deal with even the most experienced nobles. Nobody questions his knowledge (especially HOW this barely 12 year old kid knows baking recipes that nobody ever heard about). All female characters (except one red haire…
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This show takes the standard Isekai tropes and plays them with a level of honesty and groundedness that is hard to come by (and by this I mean any groundedness at all).
There are some concerns about this not being a cooking show, and that there are politics and war instead. I see this as a strength; I appreciated the sort of bait-and-switch of expecting to see a MC living in leisure and doing what they love, but instead seeing them being confronted by the responsibility of being born noble. Desserts are left mostly in the background but they are used as a plot device here and there.
I like to think of this as Ascendance of a Bookworm but with desserts instead. That is probably the highest praise I can give an Isekai series.
Overall, this is an enjoyable show. The elements of Isekai that…
Read at the sourceKodomoKomodo
There’s nothing sweet about the show nor about his reincarnation.
Let's be honest, at first, we surely thought this anime would be that slice of life isekai, where the mc is making pastries and sweets in another world. Just like the "Parallel World Pharmacy" but with sweets and pastry, and with the MC opening a bakery or sweet shop. But sike! It's actually "How a realist hero rebuilt the Kingdom!"
While I don't hate the show for what it was, I can understand why others dislike it for this very reason. The actual story was relatively decent, but it seems to be diverging from its initial premise. After all, the show is called “Sweet Reincarnation” for a reason. We were expecting a cooking and baking show centered around pastries and sweets, not another politics and war isekai.
It's a slo…
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Do they make sweets every episode? No not really. At moments I think it should be just called Reincarnation instead of Sweet Reincarnation. Though, there are moments in the anime where it does shine, like the politics the main protagonist plays in order to make sweets. But there are sometimes too many politics which I consider to be both a positive and a negative of this anime. The reincarnate plays the politics well, but when I watch an anime about making sweets, I expect there to be more sweets than politics. If I wanted to watch a politics anime, I would've watched How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom. Now I did not "not" enjoy this anime, it's good to watch just to pass the time, but I probably would not rewatch this anime in the future.
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Dying from sweets? That's unique...but retracting to the "copy-paste" Isekai formula that's plagued the AniManga industry for years now, that's a lowbrow, bruh.
It's just sad how many authors thought they have a unique premise to the ever so saturated Isekai genre, but forgetting that the premise has to be backed up with the plot, and that's where the entire work is doomed even before the work could get an upstart. Yet, this is exactly the scenario for novelist Nozomu Koryu's only work that is Okashi na Tensei a.k.a Sweet Reincarnation, a perfectly average work that got its start in Syosetu in early 2015, and then spawning with the LN with 24 volumes ever before the anime got its start. And yes, if you're thinking of giving this anime a go, please hear me out first before you do so.
So f…
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