Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku

Despite being a handyman with a wide range of skills, Saitou is severely undervalued and underpaid. When he complains, his boss fires him, claiming that he is easily replaceable. As if his luck was not bad enough, Saitou soon finds himself about to be run over by a truck on his way home.

Surprisingly enough, Saitou does not die; instead, he is transported to another world. There, he meets a party composed of the female knight Raelza, the moonlight fairy Lafanpan, and the mage Morlock, who are all coincidentally looking to recruit a new member with a skill set like Saitou's.

Throughout their time together, Saitou uses his expertise to assist his fellow party members and soon comes to receive the recognition he never thought was possible. However, Saitou's presence may just be the catalyst that will connect a diverse cast of people from different places, slowly uncovering the fate that could bring a great change to this world.

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Raelza Main

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Morlock Main

Cho Japanese

Lafanpan Main

Touyama, Nao Japanese

Saitou Main

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Kisurugi Supporting

Kasama, Jun Japanese

Rahvella Supporting

Saitou, Chiwa Japanese

Liliza Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Primasse Supporting

Izawa, Shiori Japanese

Ninia Supporting

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Lil Alil, Franlil Supporting

Aoki, Ruriko Japanese

Kikushima, Kazufumi Producer

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Maruyama, Hajime Producer

Hayasaka, Kazumasa Producer

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May 27, 2024

CorvidMonarch

Recommended

“What the fuck” the Anime

Rating 8/10 maderakas

I watched one episode of this anime and immediately added it to my ‘chill vibes’ folder. It seemed like a good anime to have on in the background, with anthologies telling multiple stories and no rush for a big plot

HOLY SHIT this anime takes a turn. If you think you can guess an episodes plot, you’ll be wrong. It’s funny at times, gory at times, sometimes sad and others with fan service. It crashes all the storylines together in the middle of the season and proves that nothing was just there for no reason. I genuinely thought characters would ... die at points.

Story 7/10
I enjoyed this anime a lot, but it’s not what it seems. It’s weird and disjointed and then everything is happening all at once, but it’s good. The last episode is hilarious.

Characters 9/10
Everyone was interesting! Background characters grew as people and they all had their own lives and quirks!

Romance 6/10
Occasionally frustrating and slow burn but cute. Everyone ships it except Guivre

Also Morlock is the main character.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 2, 2023

ArchangelEST

Mixed Feelings

With a narrative that's as chopped up as the onion I put into my dinner last night, along with an unhealthy fascination on the male genitalia, Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku is a very peculiar isekai... and I'm not sure in a good way.


Animation / Art / General Visuals - 7/10
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If there's one aspect of the show to praise, it's probably the visual quality. The animations are pretty good, along with a nice standard art style. The background scenery is pretty boring, but that's probably because the setting of the story didn't really offer anything more interesting to draw.

The fights along with spell effects are ... quite nice to watch in terms of art and animation, though the actual fight scene setup and coordination is pretty poor. Seems like whomever directed the show either didn't have enough detail from the source material or just had no idea what to do with the scenes.

So yeah... I'm kinda torn between wanting to praise the artists who actually did the drawing, but at the same time, I want to flame the art director or whomever was responsible for the scene setup in general, because it was lame as hell.


Sound / Music / Voice Acting - 7/10
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Fairly standard anime stuff. A few nice tracks, but nothing particularly noteworthy.


Story - 5/10
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I have watched hundreds of anime in my life and this is the first time I've seen this kind of a narrative.

Several episodes are straight up jumbled, garbled, with bits and pieces all over the place. You start with our MC already in the middle of some dungeon crawl with a party, then you flash to some unknown character in the middle of nowhere, then back to the MC's party but now they're chilling in an Inn, then you flash to another new character halfway across the world, then back to the MC and now it's in the past, back to some new characters in the future, back to past, present, MC, random, MC, random. Like HOLY SHIT, there was no narrative continuity or pacing to speak of. It's like someone took the first page from every chapter of a manga and made an anime scene of it, and just sewed them together without any care for coherency.

Now, because this is the first time I've seen this, I'm not going to be super critical because maybe some people will like this. But man, it rubbed me the wrong way.

Moving on from the narrative mess, the actual story is... terrible. It's an absolutely ridiculously cliche Isekai of Truck-Kun taking another victim. Our MC lands in a fantasy world, becomes an adventurer, finds a shy GF, makes some random friends of every fantasy race imaginable, does some random dungeon crawling, defeats some random ass villain that showed up in the last episode or something, and that's that.

The story is just so uninspiring on so many levels. It tries to throw in these mini-arcs of random characters going through some crazy ass traumatic, depressive, tragic shit, in order to give the story and characters some depth, but it feels empty. There's no soul behind it. There's not enough time for us as viewers to care, and the narrative is so all over the place it just makes it worse.

Also - there were way too many weird penis jokes for no reason. Did we really need to know that one side character has a 30cm cock, and the MC only has a 15cm one? Do we really need pan to the 25cm tall Fairy to promote our imagination of how big those dicks would be in comparison to her? Do we really need to pan to the MC's romance interest to see how much she cares about the dude's pecker size?

And don't get me started on how they had like a 4 episode arc about finding a dude's penis that was eaten by a dog...

Like... could we not? Gintama would have trouble making such a topic enjoyable to watch.


Characters - 5/10
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Okay, the score seems rough, but hear me out. The characters themselves aren't all necessarily that bad in essence. BUT HOLY HELL is the writing TERRIBLE. And not just the writing, but the pacing is so off.

Characters spout completely random exposition, or say lines that seem on a 5 minute delay, leading to some of the weirdest battle scenes ever. Characters seemingly forget their entire personalities and what they know or what they were doing, just to spout obvious commentary about the situation. It's absolutely bizarre.

It feels like the director was given an outline of a scene, aka: "The party fights this monster here. They defeat it like so, but have a hard time. So make it happen, and ummm... write some dialogue for them so we can pad the runtime of the anime a bit."

That's what it feels like. Fight scenes are so drawn out, full of so much unnecessary gibberish.

I also have a strange feeling that the show inserted a bunch of Gay romance in for no particular reason other than to showcase how liberal they are about sexuality. Like, I'm okay with any sexuality, but they literally made 2 gay characters with no other personality traits other than that they were gay. Like why? That's an insult to people of any sexuality when you make it their entire personality.

Like they literally made a girl who partied up with another girl, just so she could heal her wounds and slowly get her to like her. She had nothing else on her mind. Just: "wait until my love interest gets hurt, so that I can heal her and get me some action."

Then they had a gay dude who's only trait was to immediately develop a crush on the MC. Which was not explored whatsoever. MC's main female romance interest just blushed once for jealousy and that was it.

Like come on. Don't write blanket gay characters into the show just to give them one scene of them being horny. And then forget all about them. That's weird and lame.

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Total - 6/10

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Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku is a pretty decent Isekai in terms of production values, however the story and characters, along with weird ass narrative, pacing, and terrible dialogue really do bring it down a fair bit.

Again, maybe it's just me. Maybe this weird, jumping all over the place narrative and a bunch of penis jokes is actually a modern revolution that's gonna take over the world of anime or something, but I didn't care for it and I'd rather never see it again.

If you are a big Fantasy Isekai fan, the show is still probably worth a watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 29, 2023

jus7aguy

Not Recommended

I think this is getting such high scores based on the last 4 episodes.

This series starts off disjointed, with horrible pacing, bad character introductions, no setup, and essentially a hot mess.
It continues this way for the first 6 episodes. Then you get 2 "not quite as bad" episodes, by this point you sort of know who everyone-everywhere is but a lot of them you just don't give a damn about. Then the last 4 episodes are actually decent. Probably worth a 7.5 rating. But it isn't worth sitting through 8 episodes of hot mess to get there.

The ... animation itself is fine, there's no problem there, and the opening and ending music is generic but there's no problem with it, nothing that would detract from the show. (Not that I really note the credit sequences and music as part of the rating for a show, more as a side-note if they're really good and worth paying attention too).

I get the feeling that whoever was adapting this for animation story was dropped in at the deep end, or else they just slavishly copied a manga that allowed more exposition or a different style. Whatever they did it doesn't work as episodic anime.

For me I advise a hard pass, if you're a mature person watching this. Your 12-13 year olds might like it if they're just looking for some occasional cheap laughs and 2-dimensional characters with bright colours.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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