Yeah, this is pretty much what you might expect. They don’t really reinvent the wheel with this series. I have read most of the manga and this matches up with my recollection (I am 200+ chapters in, so it’s been a while since chapter 1). The keen-eyed among you might have gotten a hint of the kind of story it would be in the very beginning of the episode since he is reading Arifureta Vol. 1 when he is at his desk:

I probably won’t stick with this show for the whole season, but had time to check out this first episode to see how the adaptation went. Overall, it was nothing special, but not horrible either. Pretty much what we would expect from a show like this one. @rikka@ani.social

Ah yes, isekai trash.

Junk food is fine sometimes okay don’t judge me

Haven’t watched yet but I have to wonder how the hell they are going to adapt this. The main draw of the novel is that the MCs brain is utterly incomprehensible and I’ve even read about how it was hell to translate.

Wow is this main character unlikable, which for a show with only one central character is a pretty major blunder. He claims that he’s making himself OP, but like, buddy, you’re just relying on the secretly OP skills and items that you scoffed at and then got forced on you. None of this is due to your efforts. There were times where it felt like the story was hinting toward an unreliable narrator (like how the different cliques at school are drawn a little differently, as if he’s making divisions that don’t really exist), but ultimately the anime feels too earnest for me to have any real hope of the story turning that way (if anyone is familiar with the source material, please correct me if I’m wrong!)

Ultimately it’s fine for what it is, which is a popcorn isekai anime with no substance backing it up. I can see someone enjoying it, but only after exhausting other, better options. I give the premiere a 2/5.

Meta Discussion

Ignore below, this show will be handled just like any other. There was a brief period where I thought the global release was delayed for up to a week. Carry on!

You might be wondering why this post exists when you can’t find it available to stream anywhere yet. Well, it goes live on certain streaming services (in Japan only I believe) a week prior to being released globally. In past seasons, what this means is that posts created by the bot on the streaming release timeline are likely to lay fallow for several days (until fansubs go live) prior to anybody in this community being able to watch and comment.

So, going forward, I am going to mark this show as disabled in the bot’s database. This means that posts will not be automatically created. Instead, the posts can be requested by users by private messaging the bot. This is what was done last season for the early episodes of Nokotan until the episode discussion threads were taken over by !nokotan@ani.social.

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