Audience reviews
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quezgot
[ Hood Review ]
Okay, so this one has been on my list for a while. After reading the description, I was immediately intrigued. I honestly thought it was gonna be some bs, but this anime is actually REALLY good and does a great job with the plot! 🔥
I will say, though, it’s definitely low-budget 😂 The frame rate is slow, and I swear this shit reminds me of a Tyler Perry film 😭😭😂 You’ll understand what I mean once you watch it. The fights are super mid, nothing crazy or spectacular, and honestly, I can see why it’s not as popular. The fights are really lowbudget and not exhilarating at all. But if they put more money behind it, I can definitely see this anime going far. The STORY makes up for it!
This anime has all the qualities of a great anime. Every ending leaves you with a cliffha…
Read at the sourceNeonNekoNexus
It started well, interesting premise and a lot of potential for good action and mystery. Ended with an episode that might as well be put in the middle of this season and not on the end.
Story -
Started interesting, the MC returns in time and has a second chance to save everyone. They could have put a lot of plot twists and mysteries, for example, what if MC uncovered a lot of secrets while traversing through the second loop -- That would be interesting enough. Unfortunately, they put only one event that changed based on the fact that he travelled through time and in 12 episodes it's pretty underwhelming.
Pacing is slow, you can summarize the entire anime with a checklist that has ten lines. After first few episodes, they really don't give us a lot of action, adventure nor fantasy. Advent…
Read at the sourceRemanTheArchean
This is an OK-to-decent show. It follows a lot of the standard isekai tropes but the premise is a time travel reincarnation instead. Humans lost a war to demons and the MC gets to redo 3 years to try to prevent that.
I enjoy time travel stories and I wish this did more with its premise. The show doesn't totally forget about it, but after the early few episodes it mostly only comes up in an ad-hoc way to introduce new characters or provide deus-ex machina resolution when the MC conveniently "remembers" the solution to a problem.
The cast is a mixed bag. The character designs for the females are excellent (modern anime doesn't typically miss in that department, and this show is no exception), but their personalities are too bland and basic. The show hints that there's more depth to them…
Read at the sourceharionago
Kyle, the hero who managed to defeat the Demon King, but all of his companions died. He is given a second chance to correct his mistakes and rewrite the course of his journey.
The story had the elements needed for success, but the slow narration and pacing made it boring. Instead of being sharper and more tense, it became a journey of reliving the hero’s memories. There was no real sense of danger throughout the journey, and many events could have been shortened because they were not important.
The Karan arc took up half of the anime’s episodes and did not deserve that much time, which significantly slowed the pacing. In contrast the earlier events around two episodes had a much better rhythm.
The characters were also weak. Aside from the hero, the rest of the cast was shallow and under…
Read at the sourceBeware_That_Guy
This left me so frustrated, yet disinterested that I had to write my first review. I don't know what I was expecting from a generically named anime like "New Saga" with the main lead really toting the name of "Kyle."
It started off interesting enough. A bit concerning how blatantly ignorant Kyle is of anything close to empathy, but that isn't too hard to look past. After all, he's mysteriously traveled back in time after losing half what he had, and really just sacrificing the rest. Surely he's become more cold, mature, and experienced, right? Right??
This dude fought in a war for several years, somehow made it to the demon king *Fake cough* likely Theron carrying *Fake cough*, then managed to slay the demon king (with one bullshit sacrifice after another), all to somehow go back in tim…
Read at the sourcemeowmurder
It honestly pretty good. I've seen this time trope and basic fantasy anime used in other animes but there is something about it that really draws me in still. It has a mixed bag MC where he says things and does stupid things occasionally however he really does feel real, navigating the world preparing for the future to come in ways a person would. The Harem part had me worried for a bit but doesn't seem like its goes full throttle or even a a thing, its hard to say. The animation and action isn't really there but im not sure if it really needs it with the story its telling. Would it benefit from having good animation? absolutely.
Will you like it? hard to say, it feels kind of like a refreshing rehash of the familiar stuff with more talking than anything. So it could be boring for some.…
Read at the sourceOtaku_Senpai
*** New Saga ***
I was hooked in the first episode with its time travel and medieval fantasy settings. My early enthusiasm was hampered in later episodes. The story is to my liking but I never could understand why he didn't use the dragon heart as evidence to warn the rulers of the present time about the pending doom but try to solve the problem by keeping the whole thing a secret. I watched it in English dub and its not that good in my opinion. It is an action fantasy anime and yet the animation is lackluster.
For those who are not sure if to start this show or not despite its not so good animation quality. These are some of the elements this show has: Light politics, kingdom wars, sword and magic battles and time loop strategy.
But I do like the worldbuilding enough to look forward to…
Read at the sourceClintyn
So many people here seem to think this is typical “return to the past” slop, but I can assure you it’s definitely NOT.
1. Story - 8/10
This show does a lot of things right, weaving a much more grounded and real take on the familiar trope. A lot of these shows like to use the “returners” idea as a premise for a wholly boring harem anime, but everything that happens in this story is always related back to the MC’s past life. It’s very refreshing to see a character not forget the life-changing events they lived and died through.
2. Characters - 10/10
What blew me away was how every character felt HUMAN, with flaws and issues and a genuine duality that many similar anime lack. The dialogue was extremely well written, while jokes and gags always had extremely good pacing. A lot of the time,…
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The animation is shit and plot is generic but mc and his homie are characters that are devised fine and I could see them making plot intresting in the future. What i mean is that they are a little bit morally ambiguous - the ends justifies the means.
You can safely skip it and maby check if any future seasons actually make something with the story (probb wont happen) in reviews. And thats if this gets more seasons which seems unlikely considering animation looks like (is a) slide show.
You can also forget it or watch it sped up. Either way this aint much but not competly ass. Do as you will.
peace
Read at the sourceAvengers007
So, I recently finished watching “New Saga (2025)” on 18th October 2025, and yep — I binged the entire season in one go 😅. It’s an isekai fantasy anime, but not your usual “get hit by a truck and reincarnate with cheat powers” type. This one mixes time travel and fantasy in a surprisingly emotional way.
The story begins right after the hero defeats the Demon King — sounds like the end, right? But nope, that’s just the beginning. Even after winning, he loses everything — his friends, his comrades, and basically everyone he fought to protect. Just when he’s about to die, he discovers a magical artifact on the throne called the Divine Dragon Heart, and boom — he’s sent back in time with all his memories from the future.
Now his mission changes completely — he’s not just fighting demons any…
Read at the sourceAnime-Lover-Weeb
There are many Anime which appears to be just made for fun (by the reviewers comments) But i would say this was the best underrated anime for the season.
This Anime does have some good story building where we happen to know about this is it but we got taken out by another twist which makes it difficult to predict what gonna happen. Character Development, Side characters cast etc where the best for this tory as the way highlighted where you do not get this type of writing and screen time.
Ultimately Final verdict I would say do watch it as it would keep you hook up with many things comedy, dark and many more elements where you cant think WAS it right? Was it wrong? In the best possible way.
Read at the sourceDaCraziGuy
Well, if you are wondering if you should watch this, I can just tell you stuff while trying to be objective and then my opinion.
Animation: Low average, good enough generally but it's not enough to portrait a good fight scene. We don't have that many battles, so I don't think this is a deal breaker.
Story: a fantasy story that is kinda in the gray area, it's not a dark fantasy but it isn't a normal one either. The main plain plot is to stop or win the war against demons, but there is some shady stuff going and lot of betrayals. It has quite a bit of mystery and some plot twists that catch you off guard.
Characters: well, for this part I have to separate between guys and girls. The guys are kinda cold and get things done, they go with "ends justifies the means", I kinda like that. On th…
Read at the sourcechad001
Disappointing. To preface with a little history: Tsuyokute no New Saga was one of the earlier pioneers of the regression genre, before it caught on in the mainstream. At the time, it stood out for being a tad more grounded than most, focusing on the consequence of Kyle's actions both in the past present. Yes the slapstick was still there but it was balanced just like the character designs which were more history appropriate. Now,, years later the anime comes out and it's not only late to the party, the designs and directing has made it painfully generics. Full of multicolor anime hair, cutesier aesthetics, a pg-13 feel and the same bland design principles as every other isekai-adjacent product of the past decade. And don't even get me started on the downright wacky ridiculous soundtrack th…
Read at the sourceGrandpa_China
Got off to a very good beginning. Hoped this was gonna be one of the top titles from the second half of the year. Then some of the character growth started to feel weaker or chaotic, filler storylines lingered by far, far, far too long and slowed the pacing, the main story felt choppy and jerky. The second half didn’t live up to the momentum of the start.
I’d much rather watch the main characters running away on that carriage and becoming stronger along the way for three episodes than spend five minutes seeing them catch bandits and deal with some local village politics.
It was disappointing to see the characters become caricatures of themselves by the end. There was also this idea flying in the air that your best friends could become your enemies given the right circumstances, and that…
Read at the sourcePhantomRips
In the almost 15 years I've been on this site I haven't seen an anime that's this normal be so hated in reviews and ratings, please don't let negative reviews sway you from taking a chance at watching this anime.
This will be short and sweet since I have work in 20 min of writing this.
Let me start off with animation, I give it an 8 solid because of the fact there were much more promising titles releasing at the same time as this anime and fell flat when they had high expectations, they had still frame fight scenes and terrible pacing in most this season, this anime Infact did not have those flaws as others are stating they're reviews.
The animations were fluid with some static skips but nothing major, not some kind of crap like "The beginning of the end" type crap they laid on us this…
Read at the sourcePanzerIV-J
I can’t say that New Saga is outright terrible, but it’s ultimately not worth your time.
The premise has promise: a heartfelt story about young adventurers who grow stronger thanks to the MC’s knowledge of a doomed timeline where the world is destroyed by a demon horde. Unfortunately, the execution falls flat. The pacing is bloated—so much so that you could probably watch only a third of each episode and still grasp the entire plot. The story feels padded, stretched far beyond what it needs to be, and could have easily been told in half the number of episodes.
The characters don’t do the show any favors either. Most are painfully generic, and the male cast often comes off as uncomfortably creepy toward the female characters, with fanservice that feels shoehorned in and adds nothing. The…
Read at the sourceSuperAdventure
I have reviewed a few fantasy seasonals before, and this one doesn't rank much better than the rest of them. Apart from the opener- but I'll get to that later...
The problem with these light novels is they don't require any actual skill to create, they get illustrated by someone else using anime software with zero art skill, hence why they all look the same. They lean heavily on tropes rather than trying to tell an interesting story and they have nothing new visually to offer. The story here is a plain Quarter Pounder with NO cheese: protag's hero party gets destroyed by the demon king and he gets reincarnated, is reborn back in time, as himself. So he has foreknowledge. That's it, that's the story.
So, the PLOT is self-explanatory...
The CHARACTERS are all cardboard cutouts and I mean th…
Read at the sourceEva_PhoenixAnime
Tsuyokute New Saga does a solid job of telling a familiar “redo the past to save the future” story. We’ve seen the time-rewind setup before, but here it’s handled with decent consistency, and Kyle (the MC) actually makes logical, level-headed decisions instead of running in blindly based off his past experiences, battles and life in his desolate future where he wins but at what cost with everything he fought for is gone... :{
I’d say it’s a must-watch if you enjoy JRPG-inspired worlds, Demon Lord conflicts, and stories where the OP hero gets a second chance to rewrite fate and even if you don’t normally watch these types of anime, it never hurts to give something new a try, right?
The cast itself is fairly well-rounded. Kyle’s companions Theron the swordsman and Kyle’s best friend (my g…
Read at the sourcethewiru
"Tsuyokute New Saga"'s premise somewhat resembles it's situation as an anime: If it could go back in time as it was, things would be different.
I could've had it's niche success and love as a 90's OVA series, a 2000's fantasy series, perhaps even a chance in the early 2010's, being an adaptation of an early-Narou series before the website had solidified it's formulas. As it is, however, it's sadly just a victim of production hell that didn't catch much buzz.
It's initial setting of a world divided into many kingdoms of humanoid races and a whole other part of the continent belonging to a demon race draws comparisons to the much better produced (And also more interesting) "Clevatess" from the same season, which would also release on the same day.
As for the time-traveling premise, it is a…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
Tsuyokute New Saga — Welp, this is just arduously slow and boring as heck...does anyone feel the same??
In the world of light novels and the like, especially series that have their birthplace in the Shousetsuka ni Narou a.k.a. Syosetu space, there's an unwritten rule that Syosetu web novels will inevitably turn into regular LNs for anyone to enjoy, but the translation between the WN and LN can be spotty at best in the realm of stories that truly stand the test of time (a la the best well-known example, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation). However, for one influential series that has its place as the "grandfather" of Isekai, many other series that were just as old as the former, like Winter 2022's Leadale no Daichi nite a.k.a. In the Land of Leadale, and Spring 2024's Re:Monster, which…
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