 https://myanimelist.net/anime/60460/Hell_Mode__Yarikomizuki_no_Gamer_wa_Hai_Settei_no_Isekai_de_Musou_suru Plot Summary "Level up even while offline?! That's not a game on 'easy mode'—that's just an AFK game!" The online game Kenichi Yamada had been playing religiously is shutting down its servers, leaving him with a void in his heart. He looks for a new game to fill it, but everything he finds is way too easy. The kind of game he likes—the kind punishing enough to make players want to spend thousands of hours on it—just isn't around anymore. "What's this? 'You are invited to a game that will never end.'" Kenichi stumbles upon an untitled game, one promising incomparable challenge with unprecedented potential. Without hesitation, he selects the "Hell Mode" difficulty. Lo and behold, he finds himself reincarnated in another world as a serf! Now called Allen, he sets out to unlock the secrets of his mystery-laden Summoner class; without the convenience of walkthroughs, game guides, or online forums, he must grope his way to the top of his new world! Other Information [b] Type: TV Episodes: 12 Status: Currently Airing Aired: Jan 10, 2026 to ? Premiered: Winter 2026 Broadcast: Saturdays at 01:05 (JST) Previewed: Dec 14, 2025 Producers: Nichion, Bit grooove promotion Licensors: None found, add some Studios: Yokohama Animation Lab Source: Light novel Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy Themes: Isekai, Reincarnation Duration: 23 min. per ep. Rating: None /b] |
| Yet another contender for longest anime title this season. At the rate he is going he should be ready to leave the tutorial village by the time he is 63. |
| Oh, another VG Isekai. At least the MC is a newbie at that game, which makes the story more entertaining. |
| <- just trolling |
| If it was really that hard it wouldn't provide him a handbook telling him how it all works. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Am I recognizing that mole design from other anime, or is there like a Disney movie with that same design? |
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Am I recognizing that mole design from other anime, or is there like a Disney movie with that same design?
| @HOOfan_1 Maybe from Gainax and Studio Trigger designs.  |
W_BaumeisterJan 13, 2:35 PM
| <- just trolling |
| Moles with sunglasses is a kind of broad concept. It's used on some construction site signs, and there are mascots of moles. Sunglasses because they live underground and digging tools because they dig. Doesn't seem to be any one progenitor. If a series wants to put in a cartoon style mole, it will tend to have sunglasses at the least. |
| Episode 2 It's time for the appraisal, which either goes really well or really poorly for the MC. Allen's friends got great results as Doroga is an axe man with an A-ranked stat, while Krena is a Sword Lord with an S-ranked stat. For Allen, he managed to cause the crystal ball to overreact, but his readings are nothing but E's across the board with a talent that can't be deciphered, which he attributes to the hell mode he's playing in. And the the knights come for Krena to show off her sword talent, beating the vice-captain in a duel that secures her future as a knight. I have to wonder what Allen really is as after all that he does have a talent, one that nobody knows what it is. |
| Ok so the Book isn't visible to anyone but him The people at the church gotta know there is something up with him. The show made a point of showing that No Talent people don't get anything to show up on the tablet. Even if his stats were all E they still showed up. His Class name might have been garbled but it did show up Plus the Orb Glowed like crazy. Someone is gotta be thinking "WTF is up with this?" Plus clearly Black Hair and Eyes is a thing. |
| Wouldn't if have been the priests who lied about what she was appraised as...not her family? Her family can't even read, so they take what they priests say as gospel Greylurker said: Plus clearly Black Hair and Eyes is a thing. He must be Japanese...all the Japanese people who come here are OP!!! |
| Black hair and eyes must refer to the cheat skill. The hot mom's cheat skill. |
| <- just trolling |
| I hate that they made the mole look like a pokemon. Also why he is hiding his intelligence? |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| yeah...being a Smart Serf probably gets you in trouble. oof just realized at 5 he can read, even though his parents can't yeah that Witch pyre is something to worry about. |
| HIs parents said they left their old village to form a new one, that's kind of counter to how serfdom works. serfs were usually tied to their land...unless the lord of the land gave them specific permission |
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HIs parents said they left their old village to form a new one, that's kind of counter to how serfdom works. serfs were usually tied to their land...unless the lord of the land gave them specific permission
| @HOOfan_1 I dunno if the king or someone higher said, 'Let some of your folks go settle,' they wouldn't have a choice. |
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HIs parents said they left their old village to form a new one, that's kind of counter to how serfdom works. serfs were usually tied to their land...unless the lord of the land gave them specific permission
| @HOOfan_1 Yeah I was thinking that same thing. More likely they would have been told to go than have any choice in the matter. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| He's really not dominating in another world is he? Well, maybe dominating potatoes. I was fully expecting dad to slowly die from sepsis with a gut wound but I guess internal bleeding isn't a thing in this world. |
| Episode 3 Allen may be skillful, but his abilities are so weak right now as he can only make grass out of combining summonings. And he get weak when his summoned creatures get crushed, just like what that giant bird does there at the end. |
| His little friend will have to come to the rescue. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| And now there is new set rules on the game and Allen seems to be the only one that is notified, that really is an OP skill. Where is the hell mode now? Do developers of this game knows what hell mode is? What next? 35% discount skill? Scroll of perfect warrior premium item? |
| <- just trolling |
| Episode 4 Allen has made his first kill, an albaheron (which is a mash-up of albatross and heron). While he leveled up, his stats only went up 60% the normal rate because he's playing this game in hell mode. And then he tells the truth about his origins, at least spinning it off as an oracle's prophecy from a young age that he's only telling his parents about since if word got out things could get ugly real fast. |
| Well that was an improvement for this show. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| It has no premium items, no advertising. How is this game going to survive 10 years? |
| <- just trolling |
Reply to W_Baumeister
It has no premium items, no advertising. How is this game going to survive 10 years?
| @W_Baumeister Not much of a player base either :P |
Reply to marklebid
@W_Baumeister Not much of a player base either :P
| @marklebid Yeah, but once they've hooked you they know you're in it for the long haul. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| So, Hell Mode means that you are using Skyrim's physics engine. |
| <- just trolling |
| I'll give this show some credit for having gradually gotten better while so many of the other fantasy shows this season have gradually gotten worse. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| The game doesn't seem that bad. It just tries too hard with replicating passage of time accurately. :P |
Reply to marklebid
The game doesn't seem that bad. It just tries too hard with replicating passage of time accurately. :P
| @marklebid It's very grindy. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| At least he has viable combat pets that don't die from a gentle breeze now. Even if he appears to be hallucinating how to use them. You do realize that both this and Jack Of All Trades revealed their MCs are able to fill every class role. |
runec said: At least this show did it in way that actually makes sense. Not in a way that's totally contrary to everything that had come before like Trades did.You do realize that both this and Jack Of All Trades revealed their MCs are able to fill every class role. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Not quite the twist I was expecting. We'll see where this goes. Giving the rate at which his parents pop out children they should have a replacement for him pretty soon. |
| Yes ! Time to get out there and farm XP Universe: Tsundere Ojou-sama for the block |
| Those knights have time to go and watch a hunt. Who takes care of all the heroes and demon lords that spawn here and there? |
| <- just trolling |
| I was wondering about this 20 Boars thing. Learning that it's all because of Royal Court BS sheds some light on it. Viscount A-hole likely expected that the Baron would have to assign Knights to the task (Baron certainly thought he would need to), which would have weakened the Baron's forces in other locations. Viscount is likely to be annoyed that the peasants are so capable, and will be plotting scheme #2 Question is Why dose he want to weaken the Baron's defences someplace else |
| Sebas must be like the anime equivalent of Jeeves |
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