Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu

This is the 200th anime I've watched since I made my account here, so I decided to write a short review to celebrate this "distinguished" moment. [TLDR: I could have choosen a better one]

You may ask why it is recommended despite I rated it for a measly 4? The thing is, this show has some merits despite the abysmal execution. Such merits which is rare in the isekai genre. You may wonder, what merits can a generic isekai have? Simple. Finally a story which is actually finished. That alone is commendable.
Well, this is the sad reality of the isekai genre. It counts almost a ... miracle if a show ever see more than one season.

Other than that the only aspect of the show worth mentioning are the characters. Don't expect much, but the MC is acceptable. Nothing spectacular, but he is not a whimpy looser, which is always a win in my book. The sidekicks are forgettable cardboard cutouts though. Not to mention most of them are completly unneccesary. Anyway, as an Isekai connoisseur, I have seen far worse.

I'm not gonna waste your time with the flaws. Basically everything else. So here is the list. It speaks for itself anyway:
-Low budget animation
-Horrendous, laughable fight coreography
-unremarkable stock OST (and terrible sound balance)
-Semi-interesting premise ruined by the painfully unimaginative writing and catastrophic pacing
-Episode starts->MC goes to a new place -> meets with an old friend -> old friend overjoyed -> flashback how they met. Rince and repeat.
-I don't even know what the hell was the last 3-4 episodes. Damn, it was garbage. The ending is semi-decent though.

In summary, a horribly executed garbage show, which doesn't even meet the fairly low Isekai standards, but at least a finished product, and I appriciate the attempt. So, to support the initiative, I slapped a recommended tag on it. It would be nice to see more finished Isekai shows, but for god's sake please execute it at least decently.

This is another average isekai anime, but rated slightly higher since unlike most ones similar to this, this actually has a slightly complex plot, somewhat better than poorly executed AND MANAGES TO HAVE NO PLOT HOLES! (Except the randomly assigned power level of literally everyone). As many anime series of this genre exist, very few have the uniqueness required for them to be popular, or be recommended, and this one kinda comes close.

As a review, I would recommend this if you want to watch "zero struggle" battle scenes, with an overpowered mc yet again, but with a single plot twist to the whole thing.

I wanted to like this anime. I'm easy to please, I consume many anime that most people consider mediocre or straight up trash. I'm very forgiving of a lot of things, but man this one was rough.

The first 8 episodes were acceptable to my low standards, I noticed some things that were a bit too silly to overlook for most people, but for me, it wasn't that big of a deal.

The last 4 episodes broke me. It takes a lot for me to hate something, but immediately I was turned off. At this point I just wanted to finish it. I needed palate cleansers ... between the remaining episodes. It was bad enough that I felt compelled to write a review. I normally avoid writing reviews, because I know not everyone is as forgiving of anime as I am.

I've seen many reviews where they say certain studios completely botched series' and took too many liberties with story changes and order, so I had to know if it was the same for Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu. I've been reading it for a bit now, I plan to read all of it, and I have come to the conclusion that it is significantly better. Setsu is a bit more interesting, he's not the generic good guy the anime depicts, he has more flaws and it makes him somewhat more likeable. The anime removed and added things, where if they had just stuck to the source material, it would have been fine. The story of the anime was all over the place, it was rushed and reveals of powers weapons and abilities were lackluster and unimpressive. Many supporting characters are completely wasted, forgettable, rushed or no background info, and such generic npcs that it hurts. I recognize that it's still not amazing, but the source material is way better to me by comparison. The way that the source was written was already paced like an anime that was edited for TV, it didn't need to be changed.

The last time I had an anime leave this bad of a taste in my mouth was the first half of season 2 of Rising of Shield Hero, which I still need to finish and will probably read parts I didn't like. Even though it was rushed and disjointed it was still better than this one. I could at lest tell that the source likely had potential. They changed so much in this one that I didn't have much hope for the source but was somewhat relieved to find out it was practically a story from an alternate reality than this anime came from.

To sum it up, I like trash, but this was way too bad even for me, so viewer beware. I recommend reading over watching if you have tastes or as low standards as myself. Studio Elle either needs to make major changes to how it's run or give up all together, because if they keep going like this, the next project will be awful as well. I do not have high hopes for "Party kara Tsuihou sareta Sono Chiyushi, Jitsu wa Saikyou ni Tsuki" as a result of this experience, but I will still check it out out of morbid curiosity.