The New Gate

Airing at 4 EPs right now.

Really enjoying this so far.

Take SAO, replace Kirito, give all players companion NPCs and then let the world go on after the players log out. Now enter OP years later and actually go into the fact the NPCs were self-conscious and now got autonomous, while the world advanced in that time. This is what makes it interesting.

If you want a bog standard Isekai with an OP hero, where the Isekai actually has a point to the plot, then go for it. Good for an Isekai, obviously.

The manga crowd is complaining that the source material is better, so maybe give that ... a shot too.

If you want a combination of all the popular isekai anime in one anime (plus the cliche moments), this anime is for you.

You will be screaming "SAO SAO SAO" in your head for the first few minutes of the start of the anime. This anime makes it's background story based on the first arc of sword art online, and then somewhat converts it into a Overlord type of theme, where the mc starts to feel that this isn't a game anymore and is a reality and the npc convert into real people.

After that, the mc just starts to do cliche anime stuff like saying ... "I am just a ordinary adventurer" after doing something incredible. It combines all the features of 6+ mal rated isekai anime's main character and gives us a OP main character who has literally no aim.

So, this anime is a great time passer, but if you are looking for a real story with real ground breaking plots, then this anime is definitely the one to put in your trash list.

I've been sitting here trying to come up with an apt enough description to explain just how painfully average this show is but am lacking the skill and knowledge. Main theme is guy stuck in VR game and is as close to god as any character will get, but at the same time dumb enough not to be able to read females.

Well, that's not entirely true, main theme is plot convenience. Every single time there's a doubt to be had or some sort of conundrum you can rest assured writers came up with the laziest solution possible and wished it into existence without paying much ... attention to story line. Oh there's a big undead immune to all the physical and magical attacks, good thing there's this one specific spell our MC is master at called "bla bla bla holy bla". Papufff, everything's dead in one shot and allies healed. What's that, sword is cracking? Oh good thing MC is the best blacksmith in entire history. He feels lonely, oooh look a cabin he left 500 years ago is still there looking the same way even though we are later explained there were seismic shifts to the land.

And it keeps going like that. Whenever there's a need, something is willed into existence in most lazy way. He's the all mighty, all knowing, all capable, best of the best, known for centuries and adored by all who happen to have big breasts. But he asks everyone not to reveal his greatness because that's what anime fans like.

It's not even power fantasy because there's no buildup for anything. He sees shiny thing, he kills shiny thing. Moves on to next shiny thing.

Can't recommend this one. I know we are far from over, but it's expected that writers will put their best foot forward and if first four episodes are indicative of what's to come we just might have a candidate for most forgettable character yet and most boring story so far.