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Dec 16, 2025
Cheap and cheerful slop.
This is pretty much what I imagine a cheerful if not particularly bright LNist whose brain has been rotted by the relentless production of isekai product would produce if you asked them to translate a live and let live mentality into an isekai without giving them any other details.
The production values are not great, the story is generic as you like, the music is serviceable but there's an earnestness to this cheerful slop. And an isekai that it's not motivated by a bubbling misanthropic rage gets a little bit of benefit of the doubt from me. The show has a comic clumsiness,
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it even displays a little charm as it trips over itself as it tries to perform all the usual isekai rote beats while also somehow with comic naive sincerity attempts to weave in stories of an intersex/trans character and apocalyptic levels of incest (charming goof is not the easiest target to land on in that mixture!).
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Oct 22, 2025
Was the world building of The Rising of the Shield Hero too sophisticated? Was its world building too complex and a distraction from the real burning heart of a cartoonish persecution complex? Well fear not for yet another paragraph long title show is here to strip away the unnecessary "world building" and get down and dirty with the real grievance with none of that unnecessary padding.
Satan can be a romantic character because he is betrayed and rages against the injustice done to him when there is simply no hope of victory over ultimate force... Mugen Gacha has the power levels reversed, MC is wronged
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and suddenly given powers to reshape the world. By the end of the third episode you are in Overlord territory where the pretense of a struggle has already been driven off, not with tsuyokunare exponential power level growth, but with a rewrite of the entire setting which happens off screen within a time skip. Because, well, why bother cluttering your story with a story?
The world building is crude, familiar and has a nasty smell about it. Mugen Gacha's world is one of cartoonish reverse racism where humans are the underclass, exactly why is a little fuzzy, this is another fantasy world that seems to be a video game but whether it is or not doesn't matter, Light Novels with half a page long titles have long moved past the need to distinguish a fantasy setting from a vidja game setting. The uninspired and derivative MC is naturally the goodest boy, he is he shining hope of his race, sorry, village. He is sent off to carry his people's hopes and dreams and bring back some prosperity for his desperate people.
But our special boy, who just wants to be good, is thwarted by the cartoonishly evil Other, on arriving in the big city he is immediately poorly treated by the non-humans who are very bad and venal, but then hope! He is rescued by a multiracial gang of do gooders who are out trying to right the wrongs of a prejudiced world with the power of love and friendship! This of course is a scheme, a ploy, a stab in the back if you will, soon it is revealed that the do gooders are in fact one dimensional sub-human villains (the worst of which is of course a woman, who uses her feminine wiles to extra betray the very special boy and subvert the proper role of a woman).
However, this is a power fantasy, MC cannot die in the dungeon, naturally, following a path so well worn its now down to the bedrock, he will discover that he is in fact The One and in the moment of his suffering and betrayal he is reborn and discovers he has the power of god! And what is that godly power that the goodest boy possesses? Why of course it's the power to make magical slaves!
I do not know how to review this work beyond this... I could wax on about the nasty politics running through it, but it's otherwise so much of a derivative work that it doesn't even need it... It's central revenge theme has been done to death, it is a child's pale imitation of Redo of Healer... But it does not even have the bravery of its conviction to revel in its own monstrosity... The disjointed desire for MC to become revenge incarnate, but also be a good boy and build a nice kingdom for his slaves is crude to the point of farce. The grievance that bleeds out of it, that it was wrong to interfere with the good intentions of MC and the poor persecuted humans he was the avatar for stands in stark contrast to well, building a society in which every individual is entirely beholden to the whims of MC. Asinine stuff.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 20, 2025
Dungeon Farm: Ie wo Oidasareta node, Dungeon ni Noujou wo Tsukutte Kurasou to Omoimasu does nothing better than any other title in its genre, it is unfortunately just on the down slope from average.
All your favourite overdone things are here, MC is corporate drone reincarnated in a video game he played before he died, MC wants to live a nice happy peaceful life, MC makes slaves (but at least these are golems?), MC gets a pair of young girls (a osanajime type and a magical tsundere) who just sort of latch on to him, MC has a godlike power. As it's a fantasy vidja game
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setting the setting is baffling, seeing MC in a medieval IKEA was the funniest thing its done, but I don't think it was meant to be.
It's not terrible, but it is very thin.
If you're here for the horny, back up and go try:
Cheat Mode Farming in Another World or My Quiet Blacksmith Life in Another World
If you're here for the nice vibes, back up and go try:
By the Grace of the Gods
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Jul 3, 2025
Not All Girls are Stupid is an odd little collection of stories, they're all about people getting into trouble because they're fucking or fucking because they're getting into trouble.
There isn't really a moral to the collection, just a few voyeuristic window in on the characters' messy lives. It faintly reminds me of River's Edge but it does not have the same depth as it is made up of shorts and the stories don't hit that level of tragedy. Although the masochist woman's revelation about consent and boundaries was an interesting contrast with some of the other stories.
There is unsettling realism and matter of factness to
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some of the stories, which is compounded by how short most of them are. The violence and coercion is at times challenged and at times just a thing that happened and sometimes it dances in a risqué zone of desire. There is also a little bit of humour sprinkled in with the silliness of the physical act of sex.
There is a little bit of, if not class analysis, an awareness of how the economic position of the characters can help determine the course of a relationship.
The reader gets a view on the characters making bad decisions, some of them hurting themselves and some of them hurting others, there is some confrontation of taboos, all in all it was not a comfortable little book, but it was interesting.
6/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Apr 18, 2025
Danjo no Yuuju wa Seiritsu Suru? (Iya, Shinai!!)'s explicit premise is one that despite having the potential to get explored in a lot of anime rom-coms doesn't actually get that much exploration and... this show isn't really doing it either.
It's another middling stereotypical love-triangle show, specifically it feels kind of like My Dress Up Darling if you drained much of the zest out of it. It is squandering its chance to work its unique selling point by being too silly (and unfortunately it's not getting the pay off of actually being funny for doing it). There's not enough edge to relationships, the painfully overused "I'll
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support them" trope is both essential to the early stage of the premise while also appearing forced (and not in the sense of a character putting on a front, which would be better). There really should be some conflict in here, as the status quo is disrupted and those hidden feelings are forced to the surface, but it's all so toothless. The show's heavy leaning on the "what if we... ha ha I didn't mean it.... unless....?" bit has worn thin by the third episode and it's not obvious that the creator has any more tricks in their bag to improve the show as things have to get more serious.
It's not the worst rom-com you'll ever see, but it's probably not capable of doing anything interesting with the potentially quite interesting cards it was dealt.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 1, 2025
It's fine. If you want a safe, sexless, Korean version of Gantz aimed at a younger audience then this show will do just fine for you.
MC continues his good boy quest. Having overcome the unrelenting bleakness of being a just about adult zoomer with no prospects in a capitalist hell MC was blessed by the matrix and become The One in the first season. MC is now a super good boy who wants to keep his head down and not be noticed, but also be super cool and stuff. Maintaining tension is now harder than it was, given that MC is now so overpowered that
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fight scenes are just being skipped for the sake of moving the plot on.
It's all very derivative, a bit Gantz, a bit Matrix and plenty of shounen tropes, there's really no new ideas here but the slightly different skew given by it being Korean rather than Japanese gives the viewer a chance to look for where the slightly less familiar culture shines through. It does what it's trying to do competently enough.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Jul 23, 2024
Trust no one, murder your friends, be a sociopath but have your own sigma code and protect the deserving, be driven by cold murderous revenge but care deeply about cultural ritual over the dead, be the weakest but be the strongest, ramp up the dread then pull the reverse card, try to be edgy but stay inside the broadcasting restrictions.
Hazurewaku is a mess.
It's a remarkably teenage boy show. It's also mining in a vein that has pretty much been tapped out, but in its defense it knows the rules of its genre. The show isn't brave enough to be grossly edgy so it is
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somewhat perfunctory, that being said it's kinda pointless to even try to go all in on edgy, Redo of Healer has already gone as far as you're likely to be able to go and get aired - and it was awful. Hazurewaku does not have that level of commitment to being awful. So it's just treading ground that's already been done to death, it's a little bit of Talentless Nana meets Arifureta meets Classroom of the Elite all of which were flawed in their own ways, which Hazurewaku picks up and carries on with while not having the same level of highs that they had (well, Arifureta didn't have much by way of heights).
If I wanted to be generous I might say it could have done something interesting by showing the super powers wearing away the characters' moral boundaries, but the show doesn't do that, the characters' innate (and very crudely 2D) characteristics are revealed instantly and the show just charges ahead with it. There is space for something interesting to creep out of this confused and shallow looking melange; resolving the question of if MC is driven by getting revenge in the real world how does that interact with him developing godlike powers in an isekai and those powers presumably not carrying forward into the real world for example...
My opinion is largely unmoved by the presence of CGI screen filler, looks a bit weird but not enough to distract away from the already distracting story and dialogue, but your mileage may vary on that.
TL;DR: a just about competent presentation of a done to death genre which you might enjoy if you're looking for something edgy that knows it doesn't have a fortitude to do cannibalism and every other scene being SA.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 17, 2024
A 5.5 kind of a show. There's nothing especially bad about it, it's fine, but there's no real spark to it either. There's some degree of an illusion of depth to it with some tragic backstories sprinkled about and repeated (shock) betrayals which all somehow seem to work their way out, giving an illusion of progress. The creators evidentially got tired of trying to maintain the uncomfortable fatalism of the first few episodes and migrated to a slightly more upbeat but awkward dynamic. All very generic anime with fantasy characteristics really.
If you're looking for a power fantasy which has some of the aesthetics of misanthropy
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as dressing over a rather late blooming coming of age story about maladjusted but anime wholesome characters with lots of headpats then I guess you'd enjoy it... bit of a niche kink you've got there though. But hey I'm not judging.
All in, it's fine, if over done.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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May 8, 2024
Dekisokonai is isekai.
It is the genre reduced down to its most basic parts, it is the generic. There is almost nothing more to say about it. If you need the anime equivalent of fast food this is it. Everything about it is pretty much in the just hovering in the passing grade territory, a big old C- of show.
High points: an almost accidental story about the need to release from grief and revenge by embracing the freedom of "failure" (although in this show failure means being god-tier, it doesn't make sense, it's not supposed to, it's isekai.)
Low points: it doesn't have any, it's flat,
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planed down to the most basic of basic.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 20, 2024
Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru is not great. It could have been a lot better than it is, but it doesn't explain its world well enough nor give itself time enough to cook through. What it is though is compulsive viewing, it has a soap-opera quality to it where you want to see what happens next, even if you know it's not going to be good.
So don't think too hard about it and just slide on through.
If you want to think about where it falls down (and I wouldn't bother...), then it sets up a dark fantasy world with elements of the tedious "don't
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trust anyone murder your classmates" type shows with an Attack on Titan or Lost fixation on adding new mysteries into the mix... Then it tries to power of friendship its way through the setting with the central cast trying to show the world a new path (while there's obvious grounds for a giant heel turn at the end), it could work, if the show tried harder to make it work. But it's too fast and too superficial. Maybe the light novels are better having more time to grow.
tl;dr: watch, no thinky
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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