Isekai Cheat Magician

Regular high schooler Taichi Nishimura and his childhood friend, Rin Azuma, are on their way to school one ordinary morning. Suddenly, a glowing light envelops them, transporting them to a fantasy world full of magical creatures.

Upon their arrival, Taichi and Rin are threatened by a beast. They are promptly saved by a group of adventurers, who advise the pair that traveling unarmed and inexperienced makes them vulnerable to the recently increasing monster attacks. Taichi and Rin are directed to the Guild, where they can determine their magical aptitude and register as adventurers. However, the test they take reveals an unprecedented result: Taichi and Rin possess extraordinary powers that far surpass the standard mage, instantly transforming them from typical high school students to the ultimate cheat magicians.

Taichi and Rin learn to grasp the full extent of their powers and familiarize themselves with their new world. However, while the duo seeks to uncover the reason behind their transportation and a possible way back to their original world, unexpected trouble lurks in the shadows.

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Azuma, Rin Main

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Nishimura, Taichi Main

Amasaki, Kouhei Japanese

Anastasia Supporting

Mano, Ayumi Japanese

Lemiya Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Myura Supporting

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

Sumella Supporting

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Aerial Supporting

Kubo, Yurika Japanese

Grami Supporting

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Charlotte Supporting

Suegara, Rie Japanese

Norman, Alsena Supporting

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Arimizu, Soujirou Producer

Kawando, Kenjirou Producer

Ishigami, Joutarou Producer

Tsukushi, Daisuke Director

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Sep 25, 2019

LoveAnime93

Recommended

Isekai Cheat Magician a series that's had mixed review to put it kindly and may not be everyone's cup of tea. What doesn't help its case is that this season and the season before had several Isekai anime airing and as such I feel this had an impacted on overall score.

The story starts off with your typical Isekai story MC is transported to another world which they've been destined to protect. MC has powers and is stupidly overpowered and they don't explain why. that there is my main crux with the story.

The story its self is pretty standard but its not a terrible story, I ... just feel that they haven't adapted it correctly and this shouldn't put you off from viewing it.

The Art on the bright side of this review is easy on the eye and pleasant to look at, each character has a "style" and the art in my opinion makes the action scenes worth watching and compliments the sound.

Now for the characters, they felt generic and at times bland, character development is little to none which again brings me back to them to explaining things properly. There is development but I myself only saw it in the last few episodes. overall the characters are likable but I feel like they could of worked on it more.

Enjoyment wise, you don't need to watch this attentively, if like action, MC's that over the top then this is for you. The only complaints would be the story and the little character development but overall you could watch this anime and you won't have a positive or negative experience.

If I was to give advice, it would be go into this anime with an open mind, make up your own opinions, don't give it a low score just because everyone else is. While the story isn't the best the art, sound and the characters are likable.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Sep 28, 2019

HelixDraxzonyx

Mixed Feelings

If you've already seen "That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime", or seen "How Not To Summon A Demon Lord", then you will likely find this disappointing. It uses the same general formula as those two: specificially the MC being summoned from another world and is overpowered. Except that the MC (Taichi) isn't quite as overpowered as the title would have you believe. While it is stated that Taichi is supposedly powerful enough to destroy an entire nation, and allegedly has near infinite magic capacity, he tends to struggle in most battles and gets exhausted more easily than his friend Rin (who was dragged ... off to this other world with him and is supposed to be much weaker than Taichi is). So then, the title becomes rather questionable. Rin and Taichi often refer to their magical skills as cheats, and yet seem virtually powerless in comparison to Rimuru of "That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime", or Diablo of "How Not To Summon A Demon Lord".

The plot is not original by any means. If you have seen any anime which features a character getting summoned to another world, then chances are you have already experienced the same basic storyline. The plot of Isekai Cheat Magician is not really any different to any of those, meaning that you will have a rough idea of how everything will play out even before it does so. Even the plot twists are predictable. You know that when one character vows to save another, then that other is bound to die. You know that if something will allegedly never happen, it will end up happening that very episode. The trope of triggering "flags" gets used quite a bit in Isekai Cheat Magician, which would be fine if it were handled uniquely or with any level of competence, but in this anime the tropes come walking up to you face-to-face so that you see it coming a mile off, and frequently enough that you begin to dread them.

The artwork and animation are one of the two redeeming features of this show. The fantasy settings may not be unique in any form, but are still done cleanly, resulting in aesthetics that very few should find displeasing, though the lack of originality may disappoint some viewers. Fight animations are smooth without being unnecessarily flashy, magic usage is likewise quite well done without many obnoxiously long chanting sessions (just one that I recall). The best part of the anime however is the opening theme. "Panta Rhei" by Myth & Roid (who also provide the opening themes of Re:Zero and Youjo Senki). It's a splendid song, but that also has the drawback of building one's expectations of the show a little too high. The song is far more epic than any scene could hope to be.

Character development in Isekai Cheat Magician is, sadly, virtually non-existent. Only in side characters does there seem to be any real development. The main characters have very little development, which is rather unusual actually. At no point do Taichi or Rin mention their surnames, even. What little is revealed about them early on is about all that will ever be revealed of them. Meanwhile, a side character by the name of Anastasia goes from being a nameless, voiceless character to having a name, back story, and various desires. More of her is explored in a single episode than for Rin or Taichi across the entire season, which seems like a very odd choice. That might actually be the only unique thing about this show.

Another problem that many viewers will likely pick up on is the pacing of some episodes. Isekai Cheat Magician falls into a trope that many anime fall into: the excessively long-winded discussions that only ever seem to take place in the middle of battle, when the pace should be fast, not slow. While anime such as Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari has scenes where antagonists take advantage of such discussions, the ones in Isekai Cheat Magician seem content to let characters continue talking for nearly half an episode before resuming the fight, which ends up being rushed in order to keep the episode within normal time limits. A lot of anime are guilty of this, so Isekai Cheat Magician has no excuse for falling into the same trope.

Over all, not a great anime. It could be much worse, but it could be so much better as well. It had the potential to be, but that potential was wasted. If this is your first experience with Isekai-type anime, then it may not seem too bad to you. If you're familiar with the premise of the genre though, then you'll likely be disappointed. If you have nothing else to watch, then I suppose this will suffice to pass some time, but to be frank you would be better off re-watching something else, even if you've seen that something else 100 times already.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 25, 2019

KANLen09

Not Recommended

By NO doubt this show should be skipped (without a second thought), but for it's efforts in the adaptation and the original LN source (no hate towards the novelist), I will give it a B for binary code (if you know what I mean, 1 or 0) just to add the (not so nonsensical) pun here. I really wish I could give this series a BIG FAT ZERO.

This Summer season was an absolute stinker for isekai:
- Maou-sama, Retry!: A parody that could've been better (honestly my isekai of the season).
- Arifureta: Hampered by bad production values and poor source adaptation.
- MILFsekai: More than being an ... isekai parody with moms being heroes, fanservice kills it much.
AND THEN, there's the absolute (no kidding) garbage that is Isekai Cheat Magician.

By far, everyone should have realized that this series obnoxiously fails in ALL aspects and pointers, and is (dare I say) not afraid to show it in the most disgustful of ways possible: the "Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V" (or "Copy and Paste") notion. Everything is taken from existing isekai stories, from the city settings to the usual tropes and cliches of isekai characters being OP for no reason, other than to exert superiority. What this series DOES DIFFERENT, is to "intentionally" summon some random-ass people to help them resolve crises so evil that only these people are the solution to the problem. How unwittingly obtuse.

Nevertheless, these are my "UN's" to exponentialize the absolute "UN-justice" of a UN-dercooked shitshow:

The story is UN-ridiculous, yet UN-scriptulous at the same time. The whole isekai thing has been done the same way ever, let me script that out for you: the magic and random summoning like KonoSuba's Kazuma, somehow the magic made the characters OP just like Isekai Smartphone's Touya, brought into the overworld that looks UN-canningly like KonoSuba, having a "harem" of girls like every other isekai harem rom-com (again, Isekai Smartphone), fighting together with the Royal Family with "willpower" that is just solely the "blessings" of the gods, with enemies that ACTUALLY have both IQ and EQ (thank God they're smart and stupid too) to acknoweldge strong characters and say: "You're strong. I acknowledge you as my rival!" (Pokemon's Ash-Gary much???) It's such a joke at this point that if Japan doesn't heed the notions of the West (which 100% they don't), this is an overexponential problem and an ass-kicking insult to the anime community outside of Japan.

The characters are just UN-interesting and UN-inspired, meh, not even decent. As far as it goes for the OP MCs Taichi and Rin, I'm not surprised if the central characters are hated from the get-go. Hell, don't get me talking about generic. Those 2 don't even reach generic levels, especially worse in the isekai setting. Taichi is easily Kazuma's level of stench, being bossy just because of his unbeatable powers, while Rin (thankfully not being Aqua) is just the support character that's just ther because her best friend's there. Oh, and she's secretly in love with him (part Rie Takahashi, part in-character expressions). WOW, TALK ABOUT LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP, in a war setting that's a overburden on their atrocious levels of situational awareness.

The support characters are not any good either. Based on how much this strange world is ascertained, the political crisis between families is the norm (which is bog-standard), but this show made me wonder what is going in the original novelist's mind, whether he/she has the knowledge to pan a GOOD setting, or rather: "Let's plan first, and think later!" Not to mention with the usual partners/enemies cliche that has been overdone at this point, I was just wishing for a not-so-predictable loophole to talk about, and the only area I can commend this show for is enemies who REALLY ACT the part of being enemies, in spirit BUT NOT in truth and honesty. Like, come on, don't beat around the bush, get straight to the point!

The art and animation are UN-impressive, simply savage to make a good point on it. I mean, if you have the word "Encourage" in your studio's name, then do a freaking good job about it! But too bad, Encourage Films, your seemingly bad art and non-existent animation causes everyone to "Encourage" spreading the word to stay the hell away from this show, and rightfully so. Don't ever think of taking another show unless it's one the studio can manage decently.

The music is absolutely horrifying and UN-kempt at doing its job to get people into the show. Starting with MYTH & ROID's OP, it is by far the worst song they've ever done (and my ear's still bleeding from it), so much so that the OP lands in a stalemate. Rie Takahashi's ED is no better either, as I'd tell you to watch other shows that stars her in a better light. Other than these things, this show is a fine example of how not to mix music badly, to cover as many layers of badly-done compositions as possible, yikes.

As a conclusion, we have (not) isekai-ed, but definitely got cheated our way into this shitshow, and cheating our way out of this show, not with being magicians, but with social influence and the likes of it. If you're here to watch the usual tryst of bad isekai shows, this is the pinnacle (thanks Japan!) of it all. Enter this show at your own safety, and whether if you managed to cheat your way out of this show or not, I applaud you regardless.

Please, for the love of the overbearing Isekai genre, if you have a sense of respect for yourself being an anime-lover, I beg you (with my knees on the floor) to avoid this AT ALL COSTS! Don't second guess, just don't pelt your feet into this show. Just. Don't.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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