Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou

The ordinary life of 17-year-old otaku Hajime Nagumo is disrupted when he and his classmates are summoned to a fantasy world and tasked with saving mankind. While his classmates are gifted with impressive abilities useful in combat, Hajime is belittled for only gaining an inferior transmutation skill that lacks any real offensive power.

During an expedition in the Great Orcus Labyrinth, Hajime is betrayed by one of his classmates, plummeting him to the bottom of an abyss. Though he survives the fall, Hajime is faced with menacing monsters and misfortunes that send him spiraling into a grim nightmare. Desperate to live and return home one day, he resolves to fight for his survival—only to meet an imprisoned vampire he names Yue, who is also seeking to escape the labyrinth. Taking an interest in him, Yue and a few others along the way accompany Hajime on his journey to find a way back home, while steadily transforming from commonplace to the world's strongest.

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Nagumo, Hajime Main

Fukamachi, Toshinari Japanese

Yue Main

Kuwahara, Yuuki Japanese

Shirasaki, Kaori Main

Oonishi, Saori Japanese

Clarence, Tio Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Haulia, Shea Main

Takahashi, Minami Japanese

Myuu Supporting

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Yaegashi, Shizuku Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Riiman Supporting

Hamada, Kenji Japanese

Hatayama, Aiko Supporting

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Endou, Kousuke Supporting

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Fukao, Satoshi Producer

Sekine, Youichi Producer

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Nov 8, 2024

JamieNormand

Recommended

I really, truly liked Arifureta. Alright, yes, it has a simple, link-the-dots scenario, it has a generic unwilling isekai hero, it has villains out of a light novel, it has friends that are no more friends, it has an always-developing harem, and so it is a generic isekai light novel adaptation. There is even CGI that even I can understand to be CGI. There are parts that are out of the traditional anime storytelling, too, though: you understand our main man Hajime Nagumo is a loner, a bullied lad who is transported to another world with the wish of a god; he has obtained some ... ability to manipulate the elements in the soil and yet, as in real world classroom, that doesn’t make him the best labyrinth explorer/adventurer only by flashbacks, from the reactions of other characters and so on. You see him with his torn-down adventurer gear with his left arm missing at the end of an episode, and lo and behold, at the beginning of the next episode Hajime-kun has a suit that would compete with Peter Capaldi’s Doctor Who attire as well as a metal and fully (mechanically) operational left arm without the anime telling us how he received it. There are time-laps and you still understand that from the way the story unfolds. That approach made me very happy. Besides, he becomes stronger by facing obstacles head-on and being creative and that pleased me, too. Yes, the harem people are very generic, yes there are times I wished Hajime-kun was a bit less terse and churlish, but still I like how he is portrayed and I like his cute and attractive isekai entourage. So, whatever many others may say, I emphatically recommend Arifureta.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 4, 2024

TheDiv

Mixed Feelings

Interesting and disappointing at the same time.

I learned about this anime through its manga many years ago. Back then, I was very into dungeon-type mangas. I must admit that the reason was the anime of the spider girl. I remember that in the comments of the websites where you could read manga, they were always talking about Arifureta. It interested me enough to postpone it and not watch it. Honestly, I was very afraid that it would be just another standard anime full of waifus and a Kirito wandering the world having empty adventures. That’s why I didn’t read the manga at the time. And ... I was not wrong.

Arifureta embodies everything wrong with isekai fantasy anime, yet at the same time, it contains everything that typically attracts viewers. A Gary Stu with guns, all cool, and a chaste but confrontational personality, who travels the world capturing waifus like Pokémon. It appears to have a rich world and a deep story that unfolds through the labyrinths and different occurrences in the world, but in reality, everything is very weak, happens too quickly, and is completely simplistic. Almost everything seems just an excuse to push the protagonist from point A to point B, where he can get a new waifu and show off how overpowered and great he is, with no one on his level.

The best moments of this anime occur in episodes 1 and 2. Everything else is practically a mediocre cliché, but it’s not boring. I sincerely feel that this anime started as a very good idea inspired by other works, but the author quickly abandoned the concept of character development and solid stories to make something much more commercial, cliché, and easy to write to sell more. Honestly, I don’t know if it worked for him.

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Interesante y decepcionante al mismo tiempo.

Supe de este anime por su manga hace muchísimos años. En aquel entonces, estaba muy metido con los mangas de tipo mazmorras. He de admitir que la razón se debía al anime de la chica araña. Recuerdo que en los comentarios de las páginas web donde podías leer manga, siempre hablaban sobre Arifureta. Me interesó lo suficiente como para postergarlo y no verlo. Sinceramente, tenía mucho miedo de que fuera otro anime estándar lleno de waifus y un Kirito que anda por el mundo teniendo aventuras vacías. Por eso, en su momento, no leí el manga. Y no me equivoqué.

Arifureta es todo lo que está mal en los animes de fantasía isekai y, al mismo tiempo, es todo lo que suele atraer. Un Gary Stu con pistolas, todas cool, y una personalidad casta pero confrontativa, que viaja por el mundo capturando waifus como si fueran Pokémon. Aparenta tener un mundo rico y una historia profunda que se desentraña en base a los laberintos y las diferentes cosas que ocurren en el mundo, pero realmente todo es muy flojo, pasa muy rápido y es completamente simplista. Casi todo parece solo una excusa para impulsar al protagonista a moverse de un punto A a un punto B, donde puede conseguir una nueva waifu y hacer gala de que está muy roto, es genial y que nadie está a su nivel.

Los mejores momentos de este anime ocurren en los capítulos 1 y 2. Todo lo demás es prácticamente un cliché mediocre, pero no es aburrido. Tengo la sincera impresión de que este anime nació como una muy buena idea inspirada en otras obras, pero el autor rápidamente abandonó el concepto de un desarrollo de personajes y de historias sólidas para hacer algo mucho más comercial, cliché y sencillo de escribir, con el fin de vender más. Sinceramente, no sé si le funcionó.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Nov 27, 2024

MrSlamboni

Not Recommended

Since Arifureta is complete dogshit in every way, I would have given it a 2 and moved on. However, it is not satisfied with just being terrible. It also has to make you feel greasy, uncomfortable and disgusted while watching it. A big part of that is that they have a girl who looks and acts like a child. She is promptly sexualized and then shipped with the MC. But even if that is gone, there's just something about the art, the characters and the environment that just makes me feel like I have to take a shower.

I cannot for the life of me remember ... anything interesting that happened. I remember there was a badly animated and uncreative fight against a hydra which they defeated with the power of friendship. I remember that it was another wish fulfillment self insert power fantasy. I remember that after sexualizing the child (who is conveniently a vampire), they immediately make it clear that the MC will have an entourage of girlfriends. As for anything good? Nothing really comes to mind.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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