Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
mrkib
This is as stereotypical of an isekai you could get. There isn't anything special about this show in terms of story, animation, characters, production; its basic. The biggest problem (arguable if gooner) with this show is the main crew around the mc who are all women purely based on fan service. But even though they are definetly designed with fan service in mind, they don't do anything absurd like shoving their tits and bouncing that shi into the camera so its not that bad. They are all boring and don't have any interesting character type except for maybe Maria and Sofia but thats pushing it. The animation is pretty bad, the battles are actual PowerPoint slide shows; cut attack animation, and then the object is just cut in like two frames. The sound production is somehow worse, especially…
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The anime speedran the light novels. 5 volumes adapted in 12 episodes made it so that a lot of content was missing especially the many interactions, dialogues, side characters & even the dungeon 🤦
But it was interesting in the sense that it didn't have any major antagonists so there wasn't much angst (except for the last 2 eps).
If you want something to watch while relaxing then this might work for you. Even if it speedruns things it's still interesting. But if you want there to be a wide world that the mc actually interacts with rather than 3-5 people then give this up.
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Typical Isekai anime with an OP MC sent by a goddess to save this fantasy world.
The story focuses on Takumi, accidentally caught up in the summons for hero candidates from Japan. He then learns to accept this new world and takes on companions and forms a party ( all-female harem; not a lot of fan service; light romance between Takumi and the rest)
He advances his skills pretty quickly and as the title suggests learns alchemy and together with his knowledge from our modern world brings a lot of changes to the new Isekai world-always in the medival age.
There is a little of other subplots that are being setup which I think makes the anime more interesting.
The art is all great, good character designs and animation.
Overall a decent maybe good isekai watch if you're looking for somethi…
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Possibly the greatest Adventurer/Hero/Simp of all time?
To all alchemy enthusiasts, forget about it, this alchemy has no laws to it they’re just making it up as they go along.
Before you, read my review I implore to read AeroGunz and Eatsik’s reviews which condensed very important parts about this show very well.
First of all slavery is neither good nor bad, is it a fact of life. Slavery is pervasive it may not be obvious who is a slave or not but it’s part of life. If you feel a visceral anger towards it, you may need to expand your knowledge and understanding as you are currently under a brainwashing spell.
Second of all I am sick.
I shall describe my condition:
• I’m sick of being catfished: Here he’s an alchemist, but then becomes primarily an adventurer, then suddenly the hero..…
Read at the sourceEpicyAD
This anime is not bad nor good either it's like a fast food meal that tastes good but has an oily feeling to it this is the best way to describe this anime.
I watched the entire anime and there were moments where I was actually enjoying the show and other where I felt like iam about to drop it.
let's start with the bad points of the anime:
1. It feels like they skipped alot of manga details about the alchemy of the main character
2. The characters often over react to things in a weirdly pointless way especially the main character and there is alot of pointless dialogue in the anime that I can't say I enjoyed.
3. The voice acting gets annoyingly sharp sometimes.
Now for the Good points:
1. The music is great it fits the anime in a nice way.
2. The main character worked hard to use t…
Read at the sourceDemonKingKaneki
An entertaining series with some big problems.
The story follows Takumi Iruma a middle aged salaryman who is mistakenly summoned to another world. However the goddess of the world compensates him by granting great power and blessings to help him along the way. Long story short while he wants to live a quiet life he is dragged into conflicts due to his great power and skills while gaining the usual harem along the way of course.
Story: 6
I honestly enjoyed the story and found it a relaxing watch, however after the first three episodes that pacing becomes quite erratic. The initial arc of getting comfortable with the world and meeting the first two main girls is taken at an easy pace, bits of world building and character building sprinkled in. However after that it seems to progress at break…
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“Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time” is what happens when you put 90% of the most cliche and unoriginal isekai tropes in one place.
Have You ever wondered what would happen if You’d take the alchemy premise from “Fullmetal Alchemist” and turn it into a generic, devoid of originality and bland isekai? Yeah, me neither, but someone actually did. And this is the result of that.
Before we start I would like to explain something. I will be talking about “plot” and “story”. Many people use those terms interchangeably. I’m not one of those people, so to make sure everyone is on the same page…
I use the definitions for “plot” and “story” as Lisa Cron describes them:
“What happens in the story is the PLOT, the surface events.”
“STORY is about how the things that happen affect someone i…
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The anime has a weak storyline. The first season serves as an introduction to the actual story.
With only twelve episodes, the story wastes a lot of potential. Given all the progress made by our hero, Takumi, the content could easily have been doubled, if not tripled. For this reason, the storyline has no significant highs or lows. At an episodic pace, Takumi literally invents new weapons and armor and acquires skills without any mention of the changes. Another criminally neglected aspect is the lack of romance. Although Takumi is surrounded by attractive women, he seems asexual. This is very unrealistic for an adult man reborn in a new world. In contrast, the antagonists are not averse to physical lust. For me, the anime is neither one thing nor the other. Just as things start to get inte…
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This anime was alright, the best part about it would probably be seeing what the main character would come up with and the creative ways he helped the world with his alchemy, but the cliches that were sprinkled in the anime had me bored a lot of time. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind cliches, but when they are so heavily focused on it it gets pretty old after a while and could definitely turn you away from this anime if you don't like that. The characters that accompany the main character were all female and it turned into a harem-esk dynamic between all of them which is way overdone. They became relentlessly positive towards the main character and were very one dimensional because of it.
Characters aside, the world building in this anime is probably it's best quality, it's fun seeing ho…
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I'm not rating this negatively because it's a "generic Isekai." Those are fine, and honestly, most are actually enjoyable.
I'm rating this anime negatively because the main plot of the series starts around 9 episodes in.
Now, from looking over the synopsis alone, I can tell they likely skipped some content, but in a story where you want to see the main premise of time travel work, the most interesting parts ends before it really starts.
What makes this Isekai unique is that the hero was summoned by a Goddess years before a kingdom summoned its heroes. This is because that Kingdom has less than great intentions. This leaves the anime to dedicate most of its episodes to world-building and saving heroines. The heroines are more fleshed-out than some other Isekai anime, as they have attempt…
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Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time
Rating: 5/10
Well, to be honest, *Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time* is just... okay. It’s one of those shows that's neither great nor terrible—it just exists. It falls right into that big pile of typical isekai fantasy where the overpowered MC does out-of-this-world stuff, builds a harem without really trying, and everyone praises him for every little thing he invents. If you’ve seen even a handful of isekai anime, you already know the entire playbook here.
The story had promise at the start. The idea of using alchemy to build a new life and create things that didn’t exist in that world could’ve been really interesting. But sadly, the show never really delivers on that potential. It ends up being super repetitive: the MC finds someth…
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although a standard isekai with an overpower main character the series is great. Takumi your average MC that just what the easy laid back life but like a lot of these MC his cheat skill are just too powerful and his lack the understanding of what is common so he draws the attention of merchants, nobles and others it also a harem anime series with the haremettes start off as slave to the MC although he very uncomfortable with slavery and in the kingdom the goddess dropped him in it more like indentured servitude
the art style if good and animation a little subpar and the voice acting (english dub) us ok
if you like death march to the parallel world rhapsody, by the grace of the gods or The Great Cleric this series maybe worth a watch
Read at the sourcemrfried
If you like Isekai, or rather if you like trash Isekai (which lets face it is most isekai these days) then you will most likely like this.
If you don't like Isekai, or you want something with a great plot, great characters, a serious drama driven anime, then this is not for you, because this is trash isekai through and through.
This series knows what it is, it doesn't take itself seriously, it just wants to have fun
This series doesn't seek to do anything new, but that doesn't mean it's an Isekai paint-by-numbers, what it does it does well, it uses standard tropes, but its not copying other works wholesale, it does its own thing without seeking to reinvent the wheel
The pacing of the series is quite quick but it still works and flows well, the plot is there in the background to a degree…
Read at the sourceZeno_Artaxerxes
An isekai where there are 3 heroes summoned to another world by a kingdom using forbidden magic, and another soul that was mistakenly caught by the summon, which is granted special treatment by the Goddess (for a plot reason), as he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Do you like a 40 years old man that gets isekaied and acts like a 14 y old boy all shy and cannot act normal?
Do you like having your MC having his status page at the end of episode 1 looking like the encyclopedia of skills in that world?
Do you like random time skips that sometimes don't make sense, so much time passing and barely nothing changing, even though before in a short time the MC was able to revolutionize the world?
Do you like unexplained stuff that you just take it like it is because why bother?
Do you…
Read at the sourceSushiSuperLover
Another day another MID-sekai
Looks like we got an MC whose trade revolves around Alchemy and creative skills with fair touches of combat.
This is a 7/10 Anime and it is quite accurate to the manga despite the faster pacing.
The MC himself sticks to good values and ensures to help anyone and everyone over him.
Even though he was kicked from the original reincarnated Hero party for not having a "combat" role, he makes up for it in untility. This bro single handed solved the problems with sewage, sanitation, and magical living utility in mere episodes. There's nothing OP here, the guy is just using his knowledge to combine with the magic world ideals.
Story wise, it's pretty straight forward like any Isekai series. It's a relief to see none of the other characters are bland or generic rep…
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No - even for a trash isekai fan this is not a good isekai. Takumi gets alchemy and literally every other skill and starts making everything from toilets, to inter-dimensional wagons, to pocket storage. There isn't anything he cannot do, but the magic system is all over the place making it annoying to grasp. You never get a very satisfying OP protagonist moment.
The saving grace is that the plot is fast. It felt like every two episodes might be covering a new story arc, sometimes a single episode felt like it covered what a normal LN would take a entire volume to cover. The events themselves might have been acceptable if the animation wasn't abysmal. Every action scene is a shot of a single still frame with movement lines drawn on them. As a viewer there is no excitement brought by watch…
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I have seen a lot of reviews crapping on this show because he is "another OP MC" when in reality the MC of this anime is far from it. From start to finish he is ALWAYS constantly grinding on his craft to up his levels. There is no OP MC in this anime. His knowledge of another world and being an alchemist might give him an advantage monetarily but the ENTIRE series the MC puts in the work to be strong. The only thing that you could say was given to him was the blessing of the goddess and that just made things a little easier. Overall this series was a fun take on the alchemist job where the MC just really wants to live a quiet life. It is VERY SIMILAR to Knights and Magic so if you liked that you will like this!
In conclusion give the anime a try and make your own opinion on whether its a…
Read at the sourceKimikoprincess7
Review: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time
I just finished watching all 12 episodes of Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time in one sitting, and I have to say—it was a fantastic experience! What really stood out to me was how refreshing this anime felt, despite being labeled as a harem. Unlike most harem anime, the main character wasn’t a pervert, and there was no forced romance or awkward ecchi moments. Instead, the story focused on genuine bonds between the characters, which made it feel much more meaningful.
The dynamic between the characters was truly the heart of the show. It felt less like a harem and more like a found family—a group of misfits who helped each other break free from their past struggles. The relationships weren’t about attraction or shallow infatuatio…
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This is good trash isekai, and I say that from a place of love for trash isekai.
This has all the ingredients that make a solid trash isekai in place and a unique-enough story. It's a lighthearted and enjoyable watch if you're looking to throw something on with all the tropes you would expect.
But at the same time there's nothing particularly special about it either. There's the standard OP main character that gets tossed into another world, gets stronger every episode, has a handful of challenges that are easily resolved, and minor struggles throughout. There's a fair amount of world building and some predictable character building.
If you like trash isekei, you'll probably enjoy this. If you're looking for something deeper or highly engaging, you'll probably want to give this a miss.
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Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time - Yet another "Am I Actually the Strongest" derivative of Isekai reincarnation stories, that knows what it does (and does good to a degree)...with the caveat of it being just unwoteworthy at all.
"From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves."
This quote, derived from the University of Houston's head basketball coach Kelvin Sampson of the Houston Cougars, pretty much sums up the oversaturated Isekai landscape of the 2020s. Because when one particular subgenre goes live and makes a hit splash (as is with reincarnation), it truly opens the can of worms to that subgenre to see both the good and the bad of…
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