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Jan 13, 2022 11:04 PM
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Usally whenever an new isekai drop i expect score to be between 6.20 to 7 very few times it gets around 7.2 to 7.8 and for 8 plus its like miracle.
But man this got way harsh score lol i was expecting that 6.5 range
Jan 13, 2022 11:21 PM
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CGI bad and that 10 minute montage with the Loli peeing
Jan 13, 2022 11:22 PM
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Ngl I agree. It wasn’t even that bad? I’ve seen shittier stuff with the same score or lower. But it is what it is and a score won’t affect my enjoyment hehe
Jan 13, 2022 11:42 PM
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Don't worry it will increase a little after it finishe and MAL removes the troll scores
Jan 14, 2022 2:52 AM
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I was actually expecting worse ratings.
Jan 14, 2022 8:35 AM
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I was actually expecting worse ratings.
same they had me listen to music over what was happening on screen for 7 mins just for it to end with that goofy “i’m cute” stuff
Jan 14, 2022 8:50 AM
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5.63 atm. Wow... That's indeed way too harsh. .__.
Jan 14, 2022 9:05 AM
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Right now this deserves way less than it actually has. This anime is so trashy. 15 minutes of slow-ass boring intro to wait before seeing what you sign for. And when you think that the anime is going to begin, it just get even worst. Everything is cheap.
Jan 14, 2022 9:46 AM
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It deserves the score but it’s not much worse than the numerous other trashy Isekais airing this season, so if anything I’d say the others are scoring too high.
Jan 14, 2022 2:13 PM

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It got hit hard with low scores because it was pretty bad episode AND it was basically first new anime to have subbed this season.
Jan 14, 2022 2:57 PM

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No, it's the same issue with some other recently aired series, such as Deep Insanity: The Lost Child from last season (autumn of 2021).

It isn't that the score is necessarily undeserved. It's that the score of other series is actually too high relative to it. If these shows get 5s, then probably a lot of other series which have 7s and high 6s should get low 6s or 5s.
Jan 15, 2022 6:01 AM
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The main problem is they took 23 minutes to do what they could've done in 5. Not to mention that super awkward montage of Mira just walking to the city.
Jan 15, 2022 1:37 PM
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superdubes said:
The main problem is they took 23 minutes to do what they could've done in 5. Not to mention that super awkward montage of Mira just walking to the city.
yeah it felt like they think we don't already know what isekai means XD
Jan 16, 2022 12:11 PM
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superdubes said:
The main problem is they took 23 minutes to do what they could've done in 5. Not to mention that super awkward montage of Mira just walking to the city.
I strangely liked it.
Jan 16, 2022 1:23 PM
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-CruelFish- said:
I strangely liked it.


Nothing wrong with that. I'm just hoping they cut corners here for some of the upcoming fights.
Jan 16, 2022 9:20 PM

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I would honestly rate it lower because of just how bad they screwed over the story and the mess of the art that was used. They ruined a lot of character introductions and basically the whole first episode never happened anywhere in the story, it was completely made up. It's like when Ao no exorcist basically had to redo its ending because it was made up and never happened (in its first season?), except that now this show is making stuff up in episode 1, not too great.



To top it all off, the art is mediocre and the CGI is godawful, I mean horribly bad godawful, especially when you know what the summons originally look like.

Its no wonder a bunch of people have deemed it the Worst first episode of an anime they've ever seen. I've even seen a bunch of JP bros talking about this.

I honestly just feel bad for the author.

So yes with all of these things in tow, the low score makes a lot of sense and honestly should be lower.
Jan 17, 2022 1:06 AM
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anirudhtsuki said:
Don't worry it will increase a little after it finishe and MAL removes the troll scores

What troll scores btw? How can a score be 'troll' when its mostly a personal thing. Removing it would kinda forbid having an opinion.
Jan 17, 2022 7:27 AM
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Stink_Bug said:
It deserves the score but it’s not much worse than the numerous other trashy Isekais airing this season, so if anything I’d say the others are scoring too high.
Which one do you mean? At least other isekais like Realist Hero 2nd season, Land of Leadale, Fantasy Bishoujo, Arifureta 2nd season have better premise
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Jan 18, 2022 6:16 AM
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crazer778 said:





I think it was trying to show us how the NPCs acted when the world was still just a game. Like when he was talking with Mariana and Cleo in the tower and he commented on how emotionless they were. Then the contrast of how the summons we see now are basically just emotionless NPCs too and then when he summons them in later episodes they'll have character.

The problem is that it was just extremely poorly executed. The better way to do it would've been like the Leadale anime did. When Cayna goes to the tower and the guardian has a very rude way of speaking and she comments on it. That's all this series needed too.

Jan 18, 2022 8:23 AM

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That first episode was extremely rough. 2/3rds exposition and 1/3 silent film. At least the second episode seems to have corrected those issues.
Jan 18, 2022 8:34 AM
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dantheman007a said:
That first episode was extremely rough. 2/3rds exposition and 1/3 silent film. At least the second episode seems to have corrected those issues.


Yeah, they improved a lot in the 2nd episode. I hope they will continue to consistently adapting it like this 'til the last episode.
Jan 18, 2022 9:35 AM

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Considering that they skipped and changed so many things and thus basically just deleted 50% of chara and world building, also so many bad choice of directing and cutting make the story didn't flow that well. While this score is lower then what I expected, as a manga reader I understand why this get that score. They cut so many corner, rushed and butcher almost 50% of the story, charas, and world building, man this gonna be a mediocre rushed adaptation. This is kinda sad since the manga is so great...


Jan 18, 2022 11:15 AM
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Why is it so hard for studios to just follow the original source materials? Why do need they apply their "artistic touch"?
Everything what I liked on Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja was just cut off or completely botched. I'm dropping this.
Jan 18, 2022 11:42 AM
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I'm not a manga reading person but I'd rather read it than watch this. The art is okay if you ask me, but then it is ruined by horrible CGI. It makes Berserk back in 2016 look better than this, because it is at least consistent. The regular art just clashes with the CGI as it doesn't look like there was any attempt to make it blend in with the rest of the show. I seriously can't understand how people can be okay with that.

First episode is for the majority made up which would've been fine if it was actually meaningful but it's neither that nor visually pleasing. It's especially saddening when you compare it to how well the manga is drawn.
Jan 18, 2022 2:34 PM
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As someone who read the novels, and is usually very tolerant of bland anime adaptations, this adaptation is trash. Even if you ignore how they're butchering the source material, the writing and directing just make no sense. I'm so disappointed with this. Pretty much the only reason I wouldn't put this at the same bad adaptation level as Ex-arm is because at least the 2D animation in this is okay, and character designs are decent.
Jan 18, 2022 3:45 PM

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5.60 huh. I will not drop this yet but it is pretty bad


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Jan 18, 2022 3:59 PM

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imagine waste around 5-10 minutes first episode to just see how Loli doing around (they just can do it better or just add narration to explain what happened) and CGI was so bad basically take whatever cheapest on shelf. i just use 3 episode rule, mc didnt show motive
Jan 18, 2022 4:11 PM
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It will probably settle in the 6 range somewhere, which is still pretty bad. MAL doesn't count scores of people who haven't watched the majority of the series, but it doesn't do that until it's finished airing.

So far nothing stands out, music is meh, animation is meh, the still images are meh, and the battles are bad. Episode 1 was horrid, and probably lost them like 60% of their audience immediately. Episode 2 was at least okay, but I have no idea where they are taking this by skipping the entirety of book 1. But given that only v1 and v2 are translated perhaps they are trying to skip past what I have read so far.

Maybe they wanted episode 2 to cover the action of the book since they knew episode 1 was going to be horrid. But rearranging everything for no reason is not a boon.

Like what are they trying to do? Skip all the slice of life chapters and get to the action so they can have horrible cg battles? Surely they should keep all the slice of life chapters where everyone is just chatting to save the animation budget. I have no hope for this, I might tune in for the 3 episode rule, but I honestly don't want the anime to affect my experience with the book.
Jan 18, 2022 4:38 PM

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Not harsh enough if you're asking me, this is downright awful
Jan 18, 2022 7:58 PM

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Many people are also commenting about changes from the source material and even someone who hasn't read it can tell it's obviously going to be a watered down, condensed, rushed version like the vast majority of things relative to their source just from having been exposed to enough art, literature, and media in one's lifetime to usually easily discern and have a sixth sense for such things, but the thing is, to someone who hasn't read it, I don't really care about any of that at all.

I just let things exist in their own mediums and judge any anime TV series as an anime and TV series by its own merits. In the entire history of anime and all television and film, it's a rare event that readers of the original material are sufficiently happy and content because a TV series or film onscreen can never contain effective portrayal of the same density of detailed information as can be written down - let alone what the written source goes on to inspire in their imaginations.

That's not to say there aren't clearly more faithful and better adaptations than others (although a more faithful or overall better adaptation does not necessarily mean a better or preferable TV series and people too often falsely equate the two), but just that as a watcher of the TV series exclusively, it's rather an irrelevant metric of comparison. If I want to experience the source firsthand, I can simply read it, and the existence of a TV series however it may be quality-wise doesn't alter or detract from that fact in any way.
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Jan 18, 2022 8:34 PM

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Omg noo not the score or the meanie reviews !! lmao
Jan 18, 2022 8:53 PM

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6+ is average not bad
but then again is this isa site where good chunk of people think 8 is bad
this people will never be happy.
Jan 18, 2022 9:15 PM
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It's even more boring than most generic Isekai like Arifureta or Smartphone. At least Isekai tend to have some kind of hook or redeeming trait. It's hard to mess up this badly.
Jan 19, 2022 9:13 PM

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Its not harsh if you look at the source material.
This story had a lot of potential, but it was completely shafted from episode 1.
You can't pick this:

https://images.alphacoders.com/107/1076363.png

And make into the abomination that it became. This is worse than Tokyo Ghoul:re.
People had expectations and they were shattered.
Jan 19, 2022 10:08 PM
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Yuya-Noboru said:
Right now this deserves way less than it actually has. This anime is so trashy. 15 minutes of slow-ass boring intro to wait before seeing what you sign for. And when you think that the anime is going to begin, it just get even worst. Everything is cheap.

welcome to the world of trashy Isekai my friend, first time?
Jan 20, 2022 2:06 AM
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I saw the score for this and thought it was unexpectedly low... then I watched it and I think it might still be a little generous. I get consolidating/condensing of the story for anime, but this deviates so far from what I had been reading. The last 10 minutes of ...whatever that was, just... I don't know what that was.
Jan 23, 2022 4:40 AM
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The score seems about right. I really enjoyed the Manga and the Anime has butchered the things I enjoyed. I will watch the whole season, but it saddens me that this is probably everything we get as an Anime.
Jan 24, 2022 6:06 AM
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6+ is average not bad


I mean that is incomplete logic. It might be true if MAL scores were from critics who were assigned to watch it and had to watch the entire show, but most people just stop watching things they don't like. I don't usually score my dropped shows and I can't imagine I would ever watch enough of a 1 show to even give it the time of day.

MAL also doesn't count scores of people who don't watch enough of it... Except when it's airing, so this is the one time when it has a score that isn't inflated by that.

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