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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Based on the light novel series written by Ryo Shirakome and illustrated by Takayaki. The series is published by Shousetsuka ni Narou in June 2015 and has been translated to English by J-Novel Club and Seven Seas Entertainment.

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Adaptation:	Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou
Other:	Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou Specials
Summary:	Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou Recap
Sequel:	Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou 2nd Season
Prequel:	Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou: Prologue
Spin-off:	Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou Picture Drama

Tomita, Miyu
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"FLARE" by Void_Chords feat.LIO

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"Hajime no Uta (ハジメノウタ)" by DracoVirgo

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Oct 7, 2019

KrissCross

Recommended

I can see why people hate this show but I actually enjoyed it. Of course this show was definitely not perfect. It had many problems. Minor spoilers if you haven't seen it.

One of the problems was the animation. I didn't like that they used CGI for all the monsters, it just made them look all weird and not intimidating. I did like the character designs so I will give them props for that.

The second is how it started. I have read the first light novel and will be reading the rest soon, but how the show started was much different from the light novel. They ...

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Oct 7, 2019

Krunchyman

Mixed Feelings

Arifureta is an awful anime.

BUT! Underneath its anemic story and banal characters, there’s something you might not expect…..More. F—kn’. Awfulness. In fact, one needs to descend through 65 layers of crap before anything worthwhile reveals itself. Prior to crossing that bridge, however, let’s dissect the multitude of flaws with this ‘cookie-cutter,’ cliched Isekai.

As is the case with any self-proclaimed Isekai, Arifureta features an unimaginative main character — Hajime Nagumo — who starts off as a weak bitch, but eventually levels up to a Pirate/Terminator/1800’s Banker/NSYNC Justin with the frosty tips/phony bad-ass, to fight cannon fodder on his way ... to his eventual harem (trope #1). A harem that he has no interest in, of course, because ‘no guy wants to be chased’ (trope #2), they want to do the chasing. Which, speaking honestly, makes sense, but is thrown out of proportion when every ‘gorgeous’ babe flings her virginity at Hajime.

Aside from being a chick magnet (trope #3), Hajime has ‘game breaking’ powers (trope #4) that allow him to swiftly acquire new abilities — and bitches — by eating monsters (a sadistic copy of “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime’s” absorptive powers). His only aspiration is to escape the dungeon in which he finds himself in (trope #5) and with the aid of his OP powers (trope #6), he was all but assured to accomplish his goal — rather easily, I might add. In addition, he is shown to be a clueless jerk throughout the series (trope #6), and will deliberately hurt other girls feelings for the sake of comedic relief. Eventually, though, it is revealed that Hajime’s brooding, uncaring disposition is a veil to cover up his ‘heroic’ deeds; a classic anti-hero (trope #7), with none of the redeeming qualities.

The other main characters in Arifureta are classic tropes that have been utilized numerous times. Yue is a flat-chested, tsundere (trope #8) who is standoffish to everyone except Hajime (who she willing takes her clothes off for). Shia is a well-endowed furry, with a membership to the Hajime groupie club. And Tio is a pervert who uses her boobs as clickbait, in hopes that Hajime will delete his cookies on her.—Ewwwwwwwesome!

In terms of the animation, I was going to equate it to a smelly turd, but that would be an insult to all the smelly turds that didn’t reek half as much as this. The 3D animation of the dragon (Tio) in episode 9 was so awful and jankey, that I wanted to shove a metal rod up the person’s ass who animated dat shit!…Wait, maybe that’s what they want. The character designs were generally weak, and the backgrounds were unremarkable. You may be wondering, then, what silver lining could anyone see in this unmitigated disaster?

One word: nanar.

Which, according to ‘urbandictionary.com,' can either refer to the most beautiful girl in the world or a movie so bad that it is good. Seeing that Arifureta does not have Margot Robbie, however, we’ll have to go with the latter definition. Therefore, Arifureta finds itself in the company of ‘Batman & Robin,’ ‘Skelter Heaven,’ and ‘Mars of Destruction,’ for being an unintentional laugh riot due to its exquisite repugnance. The fact that Hajime shot a bear and ate his arm in front of him, should be sufficient to validate this claim.

While a preponderance of Arifureta’s hilarity is derived from unintentional circumstances, there are moments that are deliberate and well planned out. They are few and far between, but when they do land, they are pure gold. In episode 8, while eating his lunch, Hajime decided to shoot a guy, for no other reason than being annoyed by him (mind your f—kin’ manners, son!). Then, in episode 10, instead of being benevolent to Shimizu (an evil wizard) and giving him a second chance, Hajime straight-up murdered that dweeb, because…he was an evil wizard (duh!). Which is an interesting phenomena, in and of itself. Because while Arifureta built itself up on classic tropes, it displayed a willingness to break them from time to time, especially when Shimizu called Hajime an edge-lord straight to his face (causing Hajime to foolishly look behind his shoulder, as if Naofumi from Shield Hero would be standing there). Of course, Arifureta’s deconstruction is nothing compared to Neon Genesis Evangelion; nevertheless, it was effective in its own way.

With that all said, we have quite the predicament on our hands. On one side of the equation, we have the unmistakable stench of a putrid iskeaki that is laden with tropes, inane battle tactics, and horrendous animation; and on the other side, we have an (un)intentional comedy that intermittently points out the flaws of the isekai genre, itself. Arifureta is simply too objectionable to be called ‘good,’ but, at the same time, too funny to be called ‘bad.’

Let’s call it: Ewwwwesome! (5/10)

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Oct 7, 2019

CodeBlazeFate

Not Recommended

Have you ever been excited to watch a dumpster fire? You know, that special kind of train wreck that reaches so bad it’s good territory, or the legendary "schlock" status”? It’s rare to find such titles in the current anime market, as Big Order and Inuyashiki are some of the last ones out there at the time of writing. Most bad anime are just frustrating or boring, especially when it comes to the prevalence of bad isekai anime. With episode 1 at least, Arifureta seemed to have done the impossible. It had become something so legendarily awful that it would be remembered as the best ...

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