Isekai Ojisan (Uncle from Another World)

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Synonyms: Isekai Uncle, Ojisan in Another World

Japanese: 異世界おじさん

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 6, 2022 to Mar 8, 2023

Premiered: Summer 2022

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 22:00 (JST)

Producers: Movic, AT-X, Sammy, BS11, Kadokawa Media House, Kadokawa

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: AtelierPontdarc

Source: Web manga

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Themes: Adult Cast, Isekai, Otaku Culture, Parody

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 7.80¹ (scored by 156,621 users)

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Ranked: #991²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #675

Members: 348,713

Favorites: 1,976

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After a fatal encounter with a truck, Takafumi Takaoka's uncle, Yousuke "Ojisan" Shibazaki, lies comatose for 17 years. When he finally regains consciousness, Ojisan begins to ramble in a foreign tongue and reveals that he had been transported to a magical world called Gran Bahamal. Takafumi dismisses his uncle's claims as nonsense until an incantation makes a cup of water hover in the air. In a flash of brilliance, the pair creates a YouTube channel to showcase Ojisan's magical abilities.

The responsibility now falls on Takafumi's shoulders to acquaint Ojisan with everything that has transpired during his absence, including getting him up to speed with the internet, new technology, and surprisingly, the outcome of the '90s console war—the result of which was especially distressing for a hardcore SEGA fan. With Ojisan's wisdom from his other world experiences, they grow their YouTube channel and tackle online comments and trolls. The journey of this uncle-nephew duo promises to be anything but conventional.

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Isekai Ojisan was released on Blu-ray and DVD in three volumes from September 28, 2022, to March 24, 2023.

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Ojisan

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Koyasu, Takehito
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Takaoka, Takafumi

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Fukuyama, Jun
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Tomatsu, Haruka
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Yuuki, Aoi
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Fujimiya, Sumika

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Komatsu, Mikako
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Edelsia, Alicia

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Toyosaki, Aki
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Kanemoto, Hisako
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Striga, Raiga

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Okamoto, Nobuhiko
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Crosstruger, Edgar

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Suzumura, Kenichi
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Greyler, Mira

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Uchiyama, Yumi
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Iizuka, Aya

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Sotokawa, Akihiro

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Tokumura, Kenichi

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Yoshikawa, Tsunaki

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Opening Theme

"story" by Mayu Maeshima

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Ending Theme

"Ichibanboshi Sonority (一番星ソノリティ)" by Yuka Iguchi

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Mar 11, 2023

Uji_Gintoki_Bowl

Recommended

A gloomy boy glances at his phone before crossing the street, unyielding to and unaware of the truck speeding towards him. Experience has led viewers to believe that the boy is fated to live on in another world, blessed with special powers and surrounded by sexy ladies. The scene cuts away, only to show the boy unharmed and the truck innocent. Alas, this story isn’t about the boy. It’s about his previously comatose uncle, who actually *did* get hit by a truck 17 years prior (and experienced all the aforementioned shit). That motherfucker is awake now. And oh boy does he have a story to ... tell…

What Isekai Ojisan does best is subverting the viewers’ expectations in a genuinely amusing way. Every few months, I hear something about an isekai that “breaks the mold”, only to usually see for myself that it relies on a cheap gimmick to set itself apart from its predecessors. Isekai Ojisan, in my opinion, is that rare isekai that actually does break the mold. Because its premise thrives on the retrospective of having “finished” the isekai part already, the show makes no explicit effort to avoid the usual tropes. It embraces them and cleverly uses them to set up its jokes.

I’d be exaggerating if I said Isekai Ojisan is the funniest isekai I’ve ever seen, but I simply can’t get enough of its dry, meta humor. Paired with a relatively drab setting and a daffy soundtrack (complete with the goofy ukulele bend), the timing and delivery of the uncle’s lines are just awesome. He manages to look extremely incel-y but has the most dawg-esque personality you could ask for. Despite being infuriatingly dense, unintelligent, and kind of creepy, that man is certainly the star of this season. In fact, the livelihood of the show thrives on this fact, making use of the uncle’s utter stupidity and inability to read social cues to set up funny and interesting situations.

Though the rest of the cast is relatively flat (even the uncle can’t be called dynamic), they’re all quirky and fun to watch. Considering that the main focus of the work is on its comedy, any and all lack of development is completely passable in my opinion. On a similar note, I would comment on how the “story” is lacking (with little of note having really happened), but considering that the aim of the work is to narrate a chill retrospective on the isekai shabang, I see no outstanding issues there.

The art style is very attractive in its grainy feel, and it manages to capture the isekai action + slice of life comedy well in their respective parts. The animation itself is relatively conservative, saving sakuga for the punchlines, magic spells, and heavy action scenes in the show. While it’s unfortunate that the overall product’s visuals weren’t more fluid, I think that whatever we got is certainly up to par at the least.

If you want to watch an isekai but you’re tired of the usual tropes (and… setting?), this show is perfect. While maintaining the same you-know-I-know feel that isekai demand in their setups, Isekai Ojisan breaks the mold in a mundane but fun manner.

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Mar 28, 2023

Tablekun

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In a nutshell, Isekai Ojisan is mid. Is it good? Comedically, yes, it is. Is it good beyond that? No, its mid. I've seen praises like " As good as Konosuba or even better". Just no, get off the pipe. I've seen people say the same thing about trash anime like Tsuki ga Michibiku Isekai Douchuu. Everyone wants the next Konosuba, I get it, but no isekai has even come remotely close to dethroning it, comedically speaking. Did I enjoy Isekai Ojisan, yes, but like so many other isekai lately, it goes nowhere, it has zero ...

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Jun 7, 2023

Zanryu1337

Not Recommended

Story: 2
Animation: 5
Sound: 5
Characters: 4
Enjoyment: 2

Total: 3

Isekai Ojisan is an Reverse-Isekai that fails to be a Reverse-Isekai, while simultaneously fails to be an Isekai. In general, this Anime is about a mid-30s person who wakes up from being in another world while transferring all his magic powers back to Earth via a blessing of god. The uncle in question then moves into his nephews apartment where they watch his Isekai-Hijinx via Magic-Memory-TV.

And the direction chosen from the premise was doomed to fail to hold interest. The Isekai portion is not interesting at all as we already know the outcome of everything: He returns to ...

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