Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Panda_Roll
Cliff notes, the anime.
So it took me awhile to understand this show. See the first few episodes were ok, they speedrun the developmental arc and forcefully highlight the important people the MC interacts with.
Those were the best of the show. Now that our MC is officially OP status lets move him to Noobsville where he looks really OP in comparison. Also lets speedrun that as well as, and this is in the show's own words, a fantasy staple trope. AKA generic.
Art and animation take a hit after the first three episodes but the real drop is after episode 8. They were really front loading this anime.
I actually got confused a few times because of this cliffnotes style, the show itself thinks this is generic so just shows you highlights before moving on so you feel like you missed somethi…
Read at the sourceZeno_Artaxerxes
Typical isekai, someone dies and gets reincarnated and wants to live the peaceful life, and while the MC is not op from the beginning... after like 2 episodes, he's already OP.
In short, a disappointment of an anime. Not worth the time at all.
To be honest, I don't really have good things to say about this anime, as everything I think about that might be good is still ending up to be a bad aspect of it, so I'll just start saying the negatives (with no order to them, just as they came to me):
- the presentation of the story is very choppy, literally, like they just keep skipping scenes in an unnatural way. From the first episode you can see that the story is being presented like it's some compilation of random scenes or like it's the events from a journal in which the owner kept forgetti…
Read at the sourceSaianara
If someone asks you to difine mid, show this anime to him, is so completely mid about EVERYTHING that its kinda inhuman, I really believe that this was all made by AI, everything looks so opaque that's the only explanation is that was made by AI.
Characters design, the most simplistic medieval design you could ever imagine.
Isekai.
Powers, just the standard magic medieval rpg system.
World, dungeons and adventures guild at the most basic level.
MC, the full package of "you can't go wrong with" isekaied MC that can use magic without incantations and its overpower, and his personality is just the good guy that everyone is tired to see
Secondary characters, they have such a boring design that you can't remember them.
The only thing this anime has that is not average is the animation wi…
Read at the sourceVelisatra
You probably read the title "The Water Magician" and thought this anime was about the titular character. It isn't. Ryō is actually a background NPC with an elaborate backstory that takes up the first 4 episodes to establish. After that you'll almost only see Abel, and the other members of Room 10 (aside from Ryō). By episode 4 you'll probably be thinking this is a 7/10 anime. But after episode 4 you'll slowly slide into despair and end up at a 4/10 - and that's being overly generous.
Ryō will be aimlessly wandering around town meandering, or casually in the library blissfully unaware, even during critical major events. He won't ask or be asked to tag along with the groups actually doing those major events. It won't even be shown what he's doing. He will be off screen, presumed to be at th…
Read at the sourcegamingluna901722
This anime was just average. Not much characters development and the story line is just basic. The world building wasn't even that good.However it's okay enough to enjoy it since theirs not much fan service like in the typical isekai genre but the last few episodes was a disappointment.Especially the last episode it was full of miscommunication and in my opinion I feel like the MC was out of character. I would recommend you watch it if you enjoy typical isekai anime with overpower MC with no personality or else it would be a waste of time. I have hight expectations to this anime only to finished it in disappointment.
Read at the sourceBanana-Pudding
Basic isekai storyline. Check. Brain dead MC with no personaly. Check. First spell is water/fire ball. Check. Elf girl as love interest. Check. Guilds. Check. Demons and monsters. Check.
Despite all that- I still would've given it a higher score...if not for how boring Ryo is as the MC. Absolutely no personality and the comprehension of a literal child. Seriously. This is basically Ryo the entire time- training arc, wow this looks cool, okay imma do nothing now, wow food, okay back to nothing, oh a bad guy, fight, yay easy, okay back to being a literal sock.
Why the literal hell did they decide to reincarnate the most uesless mofo ever? I get their trying to portray him as some "innoncent and pure" guy like kid Goku, but man kid Goku has 100x the personality of Ryo. Hell, even Subaru's d…
Read at the sourceTokyoNomad
-Hello, uh, can I get a water magician anime?
-here, do you want anything else?
-good, but who is Abel? Is he also a water magician?
-no.
-Is he some kind of servant? They get on adventures, have fun?
-no, he is friend of him. Nevertheless, he is irrelevant to the water magician, and he has arcs which does not even relate to water magician. And, let me give you a heads up since you are interested in other people than water magician, you will also get anybody who is the friend of water magician in your screen and sometimes if you're lucky enough maybe, water magician. And he will completely obliterate everything. We also made him to look like he is the main character but we won't show him enough. So you will get frustrated.
That was the complete synopsis of Water Magician anime. The animat…
Read at the sourceHebi-Mikazuchi
You know that feeling when an anime starts and, within minutes, you’re completely drawn in? That was me with this show. Half way through the anime , I was already thinking, *“I need a season 2 yesterday.”*
Let’s break it down, starting with the technical side.
Animation & Art Style:
Visually, this anime is a treat. The animation reminded me a lot of *Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End*. Not quite at that level, but definitely in the same league of elegance. The colors are vivid, the action sequences are fluid, and the magic effects are just… *chef’s kiss*. It’s one of those shows where you catch yourself pausing just to admire the background art or a spell effect mid-cast.
Voice Acting & Soundtrack:
The voice acting is spot-on. Every character sounds exactly like you’d imagine them to. Th…
Read at the sourcegwaihir75
It looked ok until they probably replaced writer for last few episodes with some brain dead monkey.
Is your only job to protect someone? Stay away few kilometers from that person, that is how bodyguard works it seems.
Oh, you see masked men killed on the beach? Nevermind, those young unmasked people taking care about your princess must be bandits, murder them!
Huge nobles party at ther mansion? Let's not have any guards at all.
Deus ex machina everywhere, chain of absolutely unbeliaveble misunderstandings and the whole episode 11 is just a flashback for a side character? All characters have suddenly IQ 50, just because that asshole creator was .. I do not know, drunk, smashed, typing random letters?
Whoever wrote that ending is totally incompetent arrogant useless fool and should be bann…
Read at the sourceShypstar
Nothing makes me more upset than an MC being clueless—they don’t think they can take on a goblin while being the most overpowered character in the show. This main character is different, yet follows the same familiar style of being somewhat naive, while still knowing their strength and not being afraid to show or display it to help others. The side characters are memorable, although there are characters that are less noticeable. The main character aura farms in different scenes, showing that they aren’t a worthless little brat but an independent character capable of protecting those important to them. Compared to a lot of other isekais being released, this one is on the enjoyable side, with only one season sadly, but definitely worth watching.
Read at the sourceLapatti
Everything in this show had potential and it was all wasted. Potentially good anime ended up being pretty bad to average at best.
Animation: Not the worst we've seen recently but fight scenes were still lacking. Nice aesthetic. 4/10
Music: Doesn't catch your attention. Typical fantasy soundtrack. 5/10
Story: Even though pretty basic Isekai story I liked the idea. Unfortunately every episode is stretched out and slow. 3/10
Characters: AGAIN potential wasted. Different characters settings were nice and interesting but they themselves felt soulless. 3/10
The MC felt like a supporting character throughout the series, leaving the other cast trying to keep the show interesting.
I had hope for this but by the last couple episodes it was extinguished.
Read at the sourcelaeval
Watching this anime felt insulting. It's like the writer has absolutely no idea about what makes power fantasies enjoyable. They just copied the first few eposides worth of content from other stories, which works for an introduction, but then they just kept going, just stealing various story beats from other, better-written shows and doing absolutely nothing with them. The most insulting part comes as the last episode literally shows you a montage of the cool scenes that had absolutely zero follow-up.
Usually an isekai needs one of two things:
- A grand goal(s) to work towards (y'know, character motivation)
- OR at least an interesting cast and world, if we're going the slow-life route
This anime has neither. Ryo is literally an NPC, he doesn't want to achieve anything, and the people ar…
Read at the source0x1234
Overall, I would still say this is a very good show, especially as an introduction to the anime itself. The storytelling might slow down in the middle, but the way it builds and develops the journey feels meaningful enough to keep watching. I get the sense that the story is only laying down the groundwork for bigger events ahead, and that this season is just one step in a much longer adventure. Personally, I believe Ryo’s journey is still far from over, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how things will escalate later on. Hopefully, a sequel will be announced, because the potential for this anime to grow into something truly great is definitely there.
Read at the sourceTharr
Well now, thats more like it. A good start. An isekai even. With an OP hero. Be still my beating heart! Ok, calm down. Yes, I was one of those that missed the first couple of episodes, thinking it will be just another generic slop. I'm happy that wasn't the case. Well, at least the starting point is good. So, we'll see how it will hold up.
Oh, before everything, I don't know the sauce and so I don't know if the "interesting" parts that I liked are something that the studio did and if they just mirrored the author's intentions.
Visuals. In the beginning, everything in regards to the art style was generally good but it then it dropped. Interesting character designs and wardrobe details. Nice colour palette. Nice cinematography. The fight choreography is missing. Some of the designs are a bi…
Read at the sourceKuroiKizu
What I think about "Mizu Zokusei no Mahoutsukai"? Well, I could write a damn long review now pointing everything out what bothers me. However, I prefer to keep it as short as the appearances of the Main Character.
Music is fine, even though I don't like the Op, but that's just my personal taste. The Animation is okay, but was better at the beginning. The voice actors also did a good job... However the rest falls apart.
The story begins quite good and the MC has to put a lot of effort to become stronger - he learns, he tries, he fights for his life and he does so while being (at least most of the time) on his own. But then the rest of this Anime happens and the MC gets boring - especially since he doesn't show up for several episodes! Seriously? He is not just a random side kick but the M…
Read at the sourcePokeNnja
Genuinely one of my favorite anime of the season. It does have a few of the common fantasy tropes and same with common isekai tropes, but the premise is great. And i think it was executed very well. The backgrounds were wonderful to look at, they almost reminded me of oil paintings, and the animation was good as well, not as good as Jujutsu Kaisen for example, but still good. There were a couple slow moments, and some moments I didn't enjoy that much, but overall it turned out to be one of my favorites. Hope it gets a season 2, if there isn't then a lot of the plot is wasted, but with how much source material there is I bet there will be a season 2.
Read at the sourceZalistar7
If you liked Frieren, you'll probably like this.
I don't write reviews often, but the number of negative reviews was staggering when this was (in my opinion) a fantastic watch. Most of the negative reviews I came across mostly argued about the pacing or how they thought the animation quality wasn't good enough. I think we've just been spoiled with instant gratification high budget trash. Not that I dislike that either though.
I loved the pacing. This was more of a relaxed chilled out kind of show where you get to enjoy exploring through the world with the character. Primarily character driven it seems to spend more time on Ryo interacting with people than it does on showing off his OPness. But it leaves enough in to get excited whenever he's about to get into it.
Ryo's character is part…
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The first episodes were amazing. The animation was fantastic and the episodes were captivating. Fast-forward to the final episodes, and the animation was pretty much a powerpoint presentation, flat and laughably bad. "Epic" battles were a total joke with terrible animation, pathetic sound effects and a joke of a plot. It's like they blew 70% of the budget on the first three episodes, then spent progressively less on each episode until the end. No joke - the thing gets that bad towards the end. Will there be a season 2? Who cares. The First few episodes were a 9. The final few were a solid 2.
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
Industry plant: the anime. For the life of me, I’ll never understand how this show ended up getting as popular as it did. Crunchyroll promoted the hell out of it and Reddit seemed to love it, but water magician is the textbook definition of “mid” to me. The story progresses at a snail’s pace, the MC is unbearable 90 percent of the time and the production quality looks like a fan made animation you’d see on YouTube. It’s just not a good show. There’s good things here certainly, but they don’t manage to put them together to make a consistently good anime. It’s a shame because I do think this story and world have potential, but either by creative choice or some inherent flaw with the source material, it just did not come together well in the anime to me and outside of a few episodes, I found…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
The Water Magician — Yessiree, please feature anything and everything...except your MC, who is supposed to be THE star of the series/show.
In the ever-so-illusive AniManga industry, we're learning as much as we can every season. As many as there are works of stories that have promising stories to tell and of worlds and their world-building and actually pass off as being mediocre to average to good, the scale really matters if the audience (that's us) is really bought into how everything is being mashed together and done, either for the sake of it or for the establishment of vast worlds that continue to pique our curiosities. And in this stacked summer season, at least in the Isekai/fantasy segment, there exists a bunch of them, from the likes of mangaka Yuji Iwahara's Clevatess (which pre…
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