Nobunaga Concerto

Well, I've been holding off on watching this for awhile, since I instinctively knew this was going to be a terrible show. In fact, I held it off for at least a few years, but I finally bucked down and watched it.

Honestly, it's really bad. First of all, let's not fool ourselves with euphemisms about the animation, such as "unique." Its trashy CG that wasn't even good on release, barring talking about being compared to today's standards. Not to mention, fights are nonexistent, due to the low budget, I'd assume. Very off putting. But I was willing to give it a shot because maybe ... the other areas can compensate. Not the case, unfortunately.

The characters are terrible. For such a unique story/plot, you'd think that the characters would at least be half decent. Wrong. All of Nobunaga's aids are trashy. They basically all blindly follow him. Even the characters very close to Nobunaga, there is no form of trust being built, but rather, just an acceptance after an episode or two. The characters are a mere foil to our protagonist, and when it is convenient for plot and character progression, they kill themselves off to serve as motivation. In reality, none of the characters are unique, and merely act off a script that was made to progress the plot.

The story, is actually super cool. Impersonating a famous historical figure, with only a textbook to go off of, it is a start of a very successful storyline. Unfortunately, the characters are very offputting, and the protagonist is nonsensical. I get that the protagonist is supposed to be lazy high schooler, but he's actually just stupid. But hey, since he is the main character, everything he does is obviously going to work out! Plot armor logic.

Rather than call this a hidden gem, it's more of a well deserved forgotten anime. With a solid foundation, but without any sort of "oomph" to get it running, whether that be the art, characters, or the storyline progression, it indeed is quite bad.

If you remove the rotoscope animation from this... and forget about the 'historical' background, its exactly like any other isekai:

MC gets teleported into a 'fantasy' world and gets everything he needs the moment he needs them, handed to him. In this case, the protagonist, carefree high school student, is seen as a mad genius because the story solves his problems by skipping details, and going directly to the results, without any intervention from the protaonist. Nothing that he does actually solves it, the story solves it.

In this episode case, the last i watched before dropping this 'comedy', we weren't shown how the battle went ... down, we knew they had numerical advantage, but that this protagonist won anyway. We weren't shown how some characters got the info they got, just that they knew about it and told the protagonist, we don't know how the protagonist used it, just that he succeeded into using it... etc. All for MC convenience.

Even when the anime seemed to make it look like a death of someone nearby him affects the MC in the ending, next episode he is the same as usual.

Also, NTR immediately when being teleported to the other world, when he is a nice guy and has a girl immediately fall to him. Even if the circumstances were a bit different, if we reduce to its essence, its basically that.