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Premise and First Impressions

At first, I really thought I was going to like this anime. The setup actually sounded decent for once. Haruto Amakawa, a college student who dies in a traffic accident, ends up sharing his consciousness with Rio in another world. Two souls from different worlds merging had real potential to bring something fresh to the Isekai genre.

As the series continued, especially once Season 2 arrived, the cracks started showing. The unique premise slowly faded away and the story drifted into a predictable pattern.

Characters

The characters start off interesting, but they never develop in a meaningful way. Rio’s drive for revenge against his mother’s ... murderer is introduced early, but it never becomes anything deeper. It feels like the show expects “revenge time” to be enough without giving the viewer anything to connect with.

Rio’s time at the Royal Academy could have offered something more thoughtful, especially with Celia acting as one of the few decent characters. Unfortunately, the show leans heavily into the same old noble versus peasant discrimination without adding anything new or engaging.

Pacing Problems

Like many Isekai that fall into the mid category, pacing is a major issue.

Important events are rushed

Other scenes drag far too long

Emotional moments have no impact

Character arcs feel incomplete and forced

Season 2 is the biggest offender. At this point the show completely shifts into generic Isekai territory. It becomes very clear that this is the direction the story was heading toward from the start.

Writing and Dialogue

The animation is fine and mostly consistent, but the writing hurts the overall experience.

The dialogue constantly explains things that do not need to be explained

Characters state the obvious

Motivations are shallow

Exposition is everywhere

It feels like the show does not trust the viewer to understand anything unless it is spelled out in plain text.

Conclusion

Seirei Gensouki had the chance to be at least a decent mid Isekai, but Season 2 ruins whatever promise it had. Tired tropes, shallow characters, uneven pacing, and clunky writing make it a forgettable entry in an already crowded genre.

If you are brand new to Isekai or you just want something to watch when you are bored, maybe you will enjoy it. But if you want originality or depth, this is not the anime for you.

Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill gives a new take on the isekai genre by mixing the usual reincarnation setup with a fun and simple twist: online shopping. Instead of focusing on big fights or deep world-building, it takes a chill, food-centered approach that feels cozy and relaxing.

The main character, Mukouda Tsuyoshi, gets summoned to another world with a few heroes but quickly learns he’s not one of them. His only ability, “Online Grocery,” lets him order stuff from modern Japan. It sounds weak, but it turns into something fun as he uses it to cook amazing meals with both Earth and ... fantasy ingredients.

The real charm comes from the cooking scenes and the reactions of his companions. Watching Mukouda whip up dishes with soy sauce, spices, and other normal items is oddly satisfying. Fel, a giant wolf who lives to eat, and Sui, a cute slime with a huge appetite, make every scene feel lighthearted and funny.

The pacing is super laid-back. Most of the time, it’s just about food and friends rather than action or drama Mukouda actively tries to avoid action but. Fights do happen here and there, but they’re over fast. It’s the kind of anime that feels more like a fantasy cooking show than an adventure story.

The animation is fine. The food scenes receive a lot of love and will probably make you hungry. The characters are drawn simply, which fits the easygoing vibe of the show.

Overall, Campfire Cooking isn’t some groundbreaking isekai, but it’s really enjoyable if you want something light and relaxing. It’s a good comfort watch for anyone who likes slice-of-life stories or anime about food.

Welcome to a world where we have to remind the audience every five seconds that everything is a fantasy world. The show acts like the viewers are brain-dead goldfish that need to be constantly told, “This isn’t Earth, this is a fantasy world, guys!” Every single line of dialogue has that energy. “Oh, this isn’t a tomato, it’s a tomatta!” Wow, thank you for that stunning worldbuilding detail, I never would have known. The writing feels like someone just discovered what an RPG is and decided to copy every trope in the most surface-level way possible. It’s condescending to the point of comedy, except it’s ... not funny, it’s just sad.The entire show feels like an AI-generated isekai that never made it past the drawing phase. Every scene is oversaturated with awkward exposition, characters explaining things that make no sense, and the most predictable jokes you could imagine. It’s the kind of anime that mistakes repeating the same point ten times for good storytelling. There’s no rhythm, no sense of pacing, just a bunch of disconnected scenes strung together with the enthusiasm of a kid with adhd in the vegetable section at A Walmart You can feel the writer giving up halfway through the script and saying, “Yeah, that’s good enough, slap a dragon in it.”

Speaking of the dragon, let’s talk about the PS2-looking disaster they call a monster. It’s like someone took an old 3D model from a budget RPG on the PlayStation 2 and said, “Yeah, that’ll do.” The animation looks stiff and awkward, the textures look like plastic, and the lighting makes it look like a background asset that accidentally wandered into the main shot. The main character, this guy with the personality of stale bread, kills that thing with a carrot. A carrot. Not a magic sword, not some clever plan, not even a funny gag weapon. Just a carrot. The show doesn’t even bother pretending it makes sense. You can feel your brain rotting away thinking about it, and then it just gives up.

The animation is offensively mid. It’s just bad in every sense, but it’s so painfully uninspired that you start questioning if anyone actually wanted to make this. Characters move stiffly, like they’re stuck in molasses, and the backgrounds look like recycled stock art. The fights are supposed to look cool, but they end up looking like someone smashing action figures together in slow motion. There’s this weird attempt at dramatic camera angles that just end up feeling awkward, like the show is trying way too hard to look impressive when it clearly doesn’t have the budget for it.

The dialogue is another level of disaster. Every character talks like they’re reading from a poorly translated mobile game script. No one sounds like an actual person, and every emotional moment feels like it was written by someone who’s only seen human interaction through a foggy window. The characters explain everything to each other constantly, as if the audience can’t understand basic context. And whenever the show tries to be heartfelt, it comes across as forced and hollow. You can tell it’s trying to make you care about the characters, but it never gives you a reason to. It’s all talk, no feeling.

And don’t even get me started on the tone. One second it’s a slice-of-life farming comedy, then suddenly it wants to be an epic action adventure, then it tries to pull off serious emotional drama. None of it fits together. The tonal whiplash is insane. One moment the main character is plowing a field, the next he’s fighting for his life against some random monster that looks like it came from an entirely different anime. It feels like watching three different shows awkwardly mashed together by someone who didn’t understand why any of them worked in the first place.

This series is a masterclass in how not to write or animate a fantasy show. Every choice feels like it was made without thought or care. The humor doesn’t land, the worldbuilding is lazy, and the plot is just a pile of random ideas thrown together to fill time. The whole “I got stronger by farming” concept could have actually been fun if the writers had any self-awareness or creativity, but instead it’s treated like the most profound thing ever written. The show genuinely believes it’s clever, which somehow makes it even worse.

Watching this anime feels like a test of endurance. It’s the kind of show that drains your will to live one line at a time. Every episode feels longer than it should be, and every character feels more useless than the last. It’s the peak of generic, uninspired, low-effort fantasy storytelling that somehow manages to be both boring and irritating at the same time. If someone told me this was a parody of bad isekai, I might actually believe them, but sadly it’s completely serious. This show doesn’t just suspend disbelief, it straight up murders it.

Final verdict: “I’ve Somehow Gotten Stronger When I Improved My Farm-Related Skills” is what happens when you take every lazy anime trope, throw it in a blender, and pour the result onto your screen without taste or restraint. It’s dumb, it’s shallow, and it’s painful to watch. You could show this to someone as an example of everything wrong with modern fantasy anime, and they’d understand immediately. If you value your time, your sanity, or even your eyesight, stay far, far away from this vegetable-powered disaster.

"Isekai Cheat Magician" is yet another entry in the overcrowded sea of Isekai anime, but it does little to add to the genre. From its generic, cliché storyline to its awful execution, this anime feels more like a lazy shitpost than a show worth the time you’ll never get back watching it.

The story and characters are as generic as they come, featuring some of the most unlikable protagonists to ever exist. This is the epitome of a terrible Isekai anime and should be avoided if you value your free time and self-worth. It probably has the worst pacing of any Isekai I’ve seen—and I’ve seen ... a lot.

I don’t know how they managed to fail so spectacularly at making this show, but they did, and the pacing is downright atrocious. The two main characters have less personality than a wet piece of cardboard. They’re your stereotypical overpowered heroes summoned to another world, but it’s executed so poorly that it’s impossible to care about them. I’m being dead serious.

Not only is the show terrible, but the animation quality feels like watching a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, making it incredibly painful to sit through. The dialogue is some of the corniest I’ve ever encountered—my god.

The worst part is that whenever any "action" happens on screen, the characters narrate what they’re doing as they attack. It’s incredibly annoying and condescending, as if we didn’t just see them do it two seconds ago. They basically explain everything during the action sequences, but it’s done so badly that it becomes unbearable. If you watch it, you’ll understand exactly what I mean.

I cannot stress enough how much I freaking hate this show. The narrative is about as original as reheating leftovers for the tenth time. Taichi Nishimura and Rin Azuma, our two main headaches of protagonists, are your run-of-the-mill average high school students transported to a generic fantasy world where—shockingly—they’re overpowered beyond reason. That’s it. That’s the entire plot of the show.

At some point, I think they had to collect something, but I completely lost interest and forgot the "plot"—if it even existed in the first place. This anime is a soulless piece of media that feels like a personal insult. Even parodies of the Isekai genre manage to do a better job than this show.

If you enjoy listening to characters ramble on about the most basic concepts for minutes on end, then "Isekai Cheat Magician" might be for you. The dialogue is barely dialogue at all—every character serves as a mouthpiece for tedious explanations. The show assumes its audience is too dumb to understand world-building or any form of exposition, so it spoon-feeds everything in the most boring, cliché way possible. Watching this show was incredibly painful, and I urge everyone not to waste their time on it.

Pretty decent show overall if you like watching isekai you will probably realize a running theme with these shows, but either way I will continue to enjoy my mid isekai shows until I die, if you're a fan of isekai and drop your standards to that of oh its another isekai with slimes for the 200th time! You will probably enjoy this just to shut off your brain and enjoy the wholesome slice of life slime isekai anime.Alot of these isekai animes plots are pretty predictable since a lot of them stea.. I mean get inspiration from each other and change it up a bit ... but it's usually just the same generic isekai stuff happening on screen with a different resource pack installed

Actually awful, I'm probably the only one to ever leave a review on this "show" its just really bad. IDK how I keep finding this trash. Story isn't unique if you can even call it a story, art style is an insult to your eyes, nothing about this show was good or fun to watch and felt like you would rather be wasting your time doing something else that isn't watching whatever this.. Was.... I've only seen 1 episode and I can already tell the rest are gonna be just as bad as the first, they didn't even try. No one is gonna like this. ... And its not a sheep in wolfs clothing either it LIES.

It was okay in season 1 and even gave a few chuckles out of me but after season 2 somewhere around when saria started talking in the third person which was really annoying and was explaining stuff in the episode we saw literally 2 seconds prior to the events happening in the episode is whenever this show fell off and hard, it became almost unwatchable after that episode, everything is out of place the plot is really not their and doesn't exist, its slow and painful to watch the second season, its like they're just using an AI generator to write the scripts for the ... second season its really not good, season 1 was bad but it was watchable and enjoyable for a season 1 anime, but season 2 is just god awful, please don't waste your time with season 2. I'm sure the manga is probably better but whatever they're doing with season 2 is definitely not working for me.