Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne!

May contain spoilers

I despise this series, it has everything that I hate in a comedy series, and even being the iseaki trash I am I can't justify this. The jokes are repetitive and not funny, there were close to no moments that I generally liked, and I hate myself for watching this.

Firstly I wanna say what I did like, that one episode where they were around the campfire sharing stories it was wholesome and I did enjoy that, I love the OP even though I wish I didn't, and a few of the anime references the put in. That's about it.

Firstly the comedy is dreadful. ... It's mainly about Adele being like, "I just wanna be average", and she gets her wish just not the way she wanted. She "tries" not to show her power to anyone, but whenever someone says flat, she turns into a rage like, "YOU CALLED ME FLAT, NA-NANI, BAKANA" and then proceeds to use her OP abilities and crush her opponent and at the end be like, "OH, I did that? Teehe", like bitch that shit annoys me so much. It wasn't funny the first time and wasn't funny after the 50th time either. Also when Adele tries to use her power but not in an OP way but still does without knowing that also irritates me, I have seen that so many times in so many different ways and that joke being like the main source of comedy really just grinds my gears. it also tries to play at being to meta and it fails a lot of the time and is generally not funny (and I love me some meta humor).

The characters are bad as well. None of them stick out in anyway, never enjoyed watching them interact. They had their good moments obviously, for example, I liked Pauline just being a sadist, Mavis being a dumbass, but I didn't like anything about Adele or Reina. Even with Reina tragic backstory and understanding were her motivation comes from still didn't make me like her at all. Now because there is not much to say about the animation other than it's complete garbage and hurt my eyes to look at, I'm not gonna make it it's own paragraph.

Overall, complete garbage show, I can see why people like it and if you like parody, reference filled loli shows than I would recommend this show to you. If you don't however skip this show completely you will not find enjoyment in it whatsoever.

Is there some kind of epidemic of butchering isekai source material going on? Well, here's another example.

So here's the idea they came up with: let's take the light novel and butcher it into an unrecognizable form. Now, I don't usually endorse the "They Changed It, Now It Sucks" line of thought. I don't demand them to follow the novel to the letter, and change by itself might not be a bad thing if the changes were positive. However, that is not the case. Instead, most of the changes were terrible, with only a few exceptions.

First things first: they skip much of the protagonist's backstory and ... the early events. Yes, you read that right. Why bother showing the backstory when you can just move on and not have a clue about past events? They barely get a mention early on, and the audience will have to keep waiting for short flashbacks. I suppose it would be possible to improve the pacing of the early parts of the novel, but this is not the way to do it. I also don't mind non-linear narration, but it doesn't serve a purpose here. Instead, they go straight for the comedy, some of it exclusive to the anime. Here is the thing though: Many of the jokes works better when you spend more time developing the characters. Why? Because they are heavily based on their personalities and backgrounds. With so much of it skipped, we don't really know the people on-screen all that well.

And there are additional problems with the comedy itself. For instance, there is now also an anime-exclusive villain who only exists to be comically evil. And by comically evil, I mean the "I'm evil in a generic way but also wacky, so it's alright" variety, not the actually funny kind. On top of everything else, she is for all intents and purposes a pedophile who kidnaps young girls to set up a harem to surround her (she literally uses the word “harem,” by the way). Related to this, there were even a few awkward jokes about the idea of children being sexually assaulted, one of them depicted with an athletic jump onto a bed. My favorite. This is allegedly funny (the show thinks so). She doesn't openly endorse it, but at that point there is barely any difference. Now, doing evil things can be funny, but there should be some at least remotely relatable motives to them and a more interesting personality to match. I also find it more clichéd than anything. If they want to establish a character as evil in anime, kidnapping young girls with sexual intentions or undertones is the go-to solution.

What else does she have?
An obviously evil smirk? Check.
A bunch of generic evil henchmen? Check.
Pointlessly explaining her evil plans? Check.

There you go. The standard "joke" antagonist for your enjoyment but not actually amusing, of course. This is not funny comedic sociopathy, this is being a clichéd evil villain, no matter how wacky they are. I look forward to more of these new random nobodies.

Speaking of which, the design choices of the bandits and various thugs are pretty bad. I assume they were going for parody by making them look evil in an incredibly generic way (evil smirk, very ugly, etc.), but the end result is almost indistinguishable from what they are trying to parody. It is difficult to parody generic evil villains by making them even more generic evil villains because the original idea (the target of the parody) was already close to the extreme.

The design of the nanomachines has been completely overhauled, and now they look like some kind of cat-like animal spirit with the letter 'N' on his forehead. This is obviously some kind of cheap ratings grab. Not to mention, they act as a single entity, his manner of speaking has been changed, and he is now also providing exposition for some reason. And then there are the other side characters who were cut or replaced with generic evil henchmen. Many of them didn't get sufficient development in the novel, but they were usually better than their replacements. Rest in peace. There was one good addition: that one guy in the graduation match running away without fighting. I give credit where credit is due.

Along with the characters, many events are skipped or browsed through at breakneck speed, along with most of the introspection by the characters. To some extent, it is understandable because of the difference between anime and novel formats and limitations in episode count, but this is relatively rushed even for an adaptation. If you liked the scientific content, most of that has been skipped as well. The parts that remained are narrated more awkwardly. Also have fun with additional out-of-place fanservice. The novel had some boob jokes, yes, but now they are more frequent, in more out-of-place scenes, and more awkward thanks to the visual design.

Furthermore, the jokes are often explained too much. While this also happens in the novel, the problem is greater here, mostly because of visual decisions that result in over-reactions to every joke. I got the punch-line on my own, thank you very much. No need to spell it out. Some of the better jokes are yet to appear, so maybe there is some hope, but they might find a way to ruin them too. Wouldn't surprise me at this point.

DISCLAIMER
This is my opinion as someone who vividly read the source material, the light novel, and thus comparing it to it in context of adaptation.
I am not saying it shouldn't be enjoyable or if it were bad but I am just talking about how this adaptation physically and mentally hurts me.
END OF DISCLAIMER

When i started reading the light novel i started taking a massive liking to the writing style, characterization and way of making use of a more realistic approach to young women traveling as an adventurers party.

This adaptation may be enjoyable by itself but I feel nothing but massive dread when comparing it to ... the source material.

Characters whos character got completely changed (Reina), complete change of morals in the world (where did the swimsuit episode come from??), skipping of the first whole half of the first light novel and only placing it at a later time making it feel weird in context, many points.

It was in no way the same story as the light novel and I feel like it made the original story look bad, while its such a great and fun story.

This is purely a slice of life look towards a comedy adventuring anime.

Do not take this personal.

Overall score: 4/10

I feel the need to balance out the inflated scores on the reviews here. This is just not a very good show. At best, it's painfully average. I've read the LN, and it's way ahead of this adaptation.

I suppose my biggest gripe with the anime is that it never quite resolves any of the problems our MC faces. Putting aside the fact that the MC is already immensely overpowered, even the character development is choppy. Whenever someone presses her on the source of her immense powers (that she barely bothers to hide) or her history, she just makes an awkward laugh and ... the anime moves on. There is no real tension, and the MC comes off as someone who is not genuine. The other members of her cast are far better characters for that reason. And then there's the MC making jokes by parodying anime and manga that clearly don't exist in her world. It's meant for the audience, but it's incredibly cringe worthy. Imagine a guy doing a naruto run in front of people who've never seen Naruto.

The anime is just lazy. The LN did a much better job in building up Mile as a character. This anime tries to be too many things at the same time, and ends up failing them all. It feels like an aimless meandering stream of thought centred around a hollow self-insert isekai character. And because Mile is never truly challenged, or forced to grow in some measure, even the self-insert is for the truly, mindbogglingly boring person. Even Kirito is less of an overpowered jerk compared to Mile, and Saitama still ends up having character development in the course of the series. The aimlessness would be fine if this was a slice of life anime, but it fails even at that.

Seriously, who is this anime even meant for? Only a person who has never seen any other isekai anime would be interested in this. The magic in underwhelming, the swordplay is underwhelming, the characters are cliched, the plot is boring and Mile has all the charisma of moldy bread. The kindest thing to hope for in this anime is that someone will summon a Lelouch-like Japanese guy to become a demon lord and end everything.

To begin with, I stress that the only reason I picked this show up and endured all the way to the end was because the creative team behind this was also responsible for some of my favourite shows from the past few years, including Yuru Yuri, Uzamaid, Sabagebu and the list goes on. Basically wacky comedies with a reliance on slapstick to get its point across. Simple, wholesome and very effective. Come Noukin however, and I honestly wondered what happened to the team.

The series started out decently enough, a bit overly reliant on referential humour and running gags, but it still worked decently enough. Then ... came episode 4 and oh boy after this the show was never the same again. The main problem that permeates this, (and Kotoura-san I add) is that Ohta and team can not do Drama. At all. Their attempts at drama comes across as pace-breaking and ineffectual. I could not care less as Reina described her sad backstory to us in the most boring and predictable way imaginable that added nothing to the fun and humour that came before. It was at that point where I pretty much gave up all hope on the series. After that, there was maybe one or two good episodes. One about killing a dragon and the other about Mile fearing she'd be kicked out, but honestly the damage has been done and 4 good episodes out of a bag of 12 is a fail in my book. I don't understand it. I never read the original source material and never plan to, but I do know FUNA got the team to do this anime because he liked how Sabagebu deviated from its source material and provided its own unique take on the manga while being enjoyable. To that I say "Huh?". At no point in this misery did it even feel like a fraction of the joy that was Sabagebu.

I don't hate drama in my comedy anime, I mean, I just watched Urahara recently and that blended surprisingly good drama with a surreal slice of life comedy pretty well. Or for a more recent example, Null Peta, where Null's plight does become genuinely emotional (or at least not frustrating) near the end and that was done pretty well. Hell Akari's time travel episode from Yuru Yuri S2 did more for me than this shitshow ever did.

Just don't bother with this. It just shows that good directors and their teams can sometimes churn out a turd.

3/10

I love me some generic Isekai trash. I’m content to watch a quirky, overpowered protagonist carve a niche out for themselves in generic fantasyland with whatever twist they bring to the formula. Even if it’s narratively stale, I’m usually satisfied, and I’m likewise happy to recommend whatever I just watched to my anime-watching kindred spirits.

I can’t recommend Watashi, Nouryoku wa Heikinchi de tte Itta yo ne! (henceforth abbreviated God Bless Me?) to anyone, though. It’s a shame, since it began with such a cute premise.

Story: 1/10

The story begins with a simple enough premise. Mile, with her freakishly high power level, does her best at the ... Hunter Academy to be as average as possible. Though she blunders in hiding her skills, she succeeds in making friends and forming an adventuring party with them. Thus begins the shenanigans. Easy enough premise to run with for twelve episodes, right?

Unfortunately, wrong. As a comedy-centered show, the “jokes” are weak and frequently rely on otaku pandering. This is most disappointing, because even though I’m weeb enough to understand, for example, their nendoroid and Doraemon references, it doesn’t change the fact that it’s simply not funny. The writers of God Bless Me? think that shoehorning an anime reference and ribbing the audience with a hamfisted “hey, look, we know Japanese pop culture too, look at how hip we are ;D” makes laughs. It does not. It just makes watching the events play out on screen even more awkward than they already were.

An unignorable amount of “humor” also centered around Mile’s (who, I would be remiss to not mention, is around 12 years old or so) insecurity about her chest size, with gratuitous comparisons to her teammate Reina and innkeeper’s daughter Lenny, who are in the same general age range, all with lovingly gratuitous camera framing at the obviously underage chests in question. Ew. Worse yet was Mile’s occasional perverse behavior around said chests. Ew ew ew ew ew. I feel filthy even writing about it for the sake of this review.

Without spoilers, I can say the final episode was incredibly disappointing and a thematic 180° to the thematic build-up of the eleven episodes before it. One would think Mile’s story arc was building up to a heartfelt show of the power of friendship. Apparently not.

Art & Sound: 3/10

I normally score these apart, but they share a common feature this time: they’re not atrocious, but they are absolutely lazy outside the main squad. This can be felt especially hard at the finale. Lazy design, lazy voicework.

Character: 2/10

The main squad, Crimson Vow, is composed of four cookie-cutter character stereotypes. While Mile’s backup crew does get a bit of time devoted to their backstories, it doesn’t feel like they grow at all during their respective spotlights. They felt like afterthoughts, with limited consequence to the actual development of said characters. Of course, a slice of life style show doesn’t need significant character development as long as the characters command presence and synergize among themselves... but the writers mostly failed to achieve that. What we’re left with is a core cast of cardboard cutouts that look like young girls.

If the writers couldn’t care to carve out engaging personalities with their leads, you can be sure that the supporting and side characters were devoid of life. Lenny was memorable enough for me to remember her while writing this review, though, so I can give the show that. You deserved a better show, Lenny.

Enjoyment: 1/10

God Bless Me? could have gotten away with being an enjoyable-yet-forgettable niche title. It could have been a cute, Isekai-flavored slice of life, or a comedic parody of Isekai power levels. Such a shame it turned out to be otaku creep-bait, instead. Maybe when it reincarnates again, it will have a better creative team behind it.

Final score: 2/10

There is already a review explaining how they butchered the novel to make this... abomination... so i will skip that part. Everything said here is regarding the anime, the novel would receive a completely different (and way more positive) review.

Story:
Doesn't makes sense sometimes, is clearly rushed and doesn't develop properly.
The world feels "empty", there is little to no world building at all. They can't decide if the focus will be the comedy or the drama, and clearly they can't make a good balance either.
Btw they "managed" to fit 2 volumes from the novel in 6 episodes.

Art:
The animation is ok, for a (probably) low budget isekai. ... Character design is fairly good for the main characters and the ones that comes from the novel. The filler characters are.. questionable at best.

Sound:
The OP and ED are probably the only good things we will ever see in this adaptation.

Character:
"Character development, you say ? This must be some kind of black magic shit, don't talk about it anymore!", is probably what was going on inside their heads while making the anime.

Enjoyment:
I guess this should receive 2 different scores.

From the perspective of someone who is currently reading the novels, i give this a 1/10. While the anime can certainly be enjoyable to some extent, knowing how much better it could have been just completely kills it for me.

I believe that it could get a 5/10 at least if i didn't read the novel, and just pass as a "regular isekai shit" like many others, needless to explain why.

Overall:
Not worth your time, that is for sure. The comedy is awful, because the character building and other story related stuff is what makes it funny, but guess what ? THERE IS NONE OF IT. The serious part of the story feels awful in the anime too.

If you like the idea of 4 cute girls working as hunters and improving themselves over time, in a fairly interesting story with a dose of comedy, try reading the light novel, i would say it's worth it.

I Wished to Be Born Average This Time! is a show with an absolutely PROFOUND concept... but tragically face plants at every available opportunity.

There are som many glaring structural failings of Average that... it would take all year to name them. And that's just in the first episode! The biggest FIVE problems (and yes I am judging this after watching the full thing) are 1: The "Idol Syndrome" 2: The refusal to tell the Crimson Vow her true backstory, 3: Skipping the school days, 4: Ruining the backstory(s), and 5: not committing to the bit.

I will start at the bottom. #5: Not committing to the ... Bit-
Average REFUSES to let their dark characters BE dark. Basically, they want to have their cake and eat it too. They want a light-hearted romp with "cute" girls doing "cute" things to sell figurines, but they also want to be taken seriously and have dramatic tension. Their darkest character Pauline, a girl who is nightmarishly psychopathic, cannot truly be the psychotic monster that she is. They tease that Pauline is 120% down to do horrific things (like beating another girl's head in during an exhibition match) but her opponents always weasel their way out of danger... by surrendering... EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

And then on the other end of the spectrum, they often ruin a good set up by skipping the joke altogether. (more on that later.)

#4: Ruining the backstory(s)-
These characters all give their backstories in one episode. We spend so little time in their past that, even though three of their pasts are plot-relevant, we could've skipped the flashbacks all together and missed nothing of value. The reason they did this is because they want us to take these characters seriously. But they spoil it because they still want to be a comedy. And Average is left in this awkward middle-ground that's not truly either.

#3: Skipping the School Days-
This one ties in with the "skipping the joke altogether" bit that I mentioned earlier. Average cuts A LOT of content that needed to be filled out. The six months the girls spent "training in school" was one of them. This was a joke waiting to happen. The teacher assigns a task, MC does it too well, her friends then go Waaaaaaaaay over the top doing the task and break every record the school ever held. And then they graduate into the lowest category of hunters...

Except that's not what happens. Instead, all of that is skipped, they fight in an arena at their graduation, and they become top-tier hunters right off the bat.

In one episode.

Another example is the literal exposition at the end of the first episode explaining how MC's so strong even though she wished to be average! Son of a — Let us have a JOKE!!

#2: The Refusal to Tell Crimson Vow her Real Backstory-
So, the MC doesn't want to stand out. That's her gimmick. But she's also God-tier. That's her problem. Her closest friends won't stop pestering her for her backstory. Does she A: Tell them the Truth so they can all work together to make her wishes come true, involving them in wacky hijinks that the MC has always wanted to do, but the CV think is totally normal for MC, or B: Lie her ass off and only tell her BEST FRIENDS the things that have happened to her since she got to their world.

If you chose B, you watched this show... Congrats? No... So sorry.

#1: The "Idol Syndrome"-
These characters are not characters; their Idols. They exist for merchandising. This is an unfortunately common problem with female characters in anime. They exist to be cute so horny men will buy their stuff. And in this setting, with this premise: it ruins the show. The girls cannot be dark because that would ruin the brand. They also can't truly shine because that wouldn't be "cute."

You end up with something that truly is: Average.

OVERALL (4)

There's really not much gained or lost from watching this series. It's essentially slice-of-life with half-bothered storylines. Which is always fine and fun, of course, but makes it rather lackluster as it's not strong with its comedic flair or even its moe factor.

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STORY (2)

Basic premise, basic writing, and I'm definitely not going to read the light novel after watching this. For starters, the worldbuilding is seemingly hardly constructed -- interesting, yes, but the way the writing's gone about things is so speedy that I imagine the light novel didn't expect to last longer than a handful of simple character introduction/resolution ... arcs, and then had to think of a deeper story.

And (very vague spoiler) that stuff at the end when Mile is struggling with a particular thing... yeah, no, that's dumb and completely so outta-left-field that one couldn't genuinely consider it moving, exciting, or of any benefit to have included. They tried to brush it off with a comedic stroke and couldn't even achieve that.

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ART (7)

I'm being kind as the series went off-model a LOT (from the smallest detail to something as obvious as Mile's twintails). But at the same time, their CG horses were amazing and I love them.

The watercolor-like backdrops were also nice, but at times they failed to keep it consistent; one moment it's clear, average animation, then the next it's well-toned watercolor blending animation. I'd have preferred they ditched the concept if they weren't willing to keep it consistent since it's an effect I favor.

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SOUND (7)

Only watched the English Dub as I'm not picky. The sound seemed solid with only one line being lackluster throughout (and a few pacing issues as with any dub), and the volume and quality of voices and sfx was pretty chill. My personal issue is when any action scene has heightened bkg music, and sadly this audio team chose to follow that horrendous trend; it might not've lasted long, but it definitely lowered my opinion.

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CHARACTER (4)

They have their tropes whilst being moe moe. If the writing was more than half-bothered, they could at least be employed properly to not be distracting or outright dull cliches. Every single arc was so rushed that it was more like a summary of a different story that no character actually grew beyond some unseen training having occurred and then being noted as "matter of fact".

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ENJOYMENT (4)

Due to the stuff mentioned above, it doesn't really strike me as anything I care much having experienced. Granted, if there's a second season, I MIGHT give it a try since it finally decided to add an underlying plot... but if I don't, then I simply forgot this thing existed due to the overwhelming lackluster storytelling for all other arcs before it.

The first few episodes seemed somewhat promising, as despite the lack of an interesting story/characters there was at least the occasional joke I found genuinely funny. There were lots of meta jokes pointing out how stupidly stereotypical everything happening was; these seemed to stop around episode 3 or 4, and by then I was just watching the most stereotypical isekai ever made.

The story was completely lacking; there was no goal, stakes, or actual wordbuilding until the final episode. The characters were all pretty one-dimensional, the strongest of which was definitely Mile, although the "small boob joke" (you know the one), and her constantly breaking down ... crying at every opportunity didn't exactly help. The boob joke has to be the most unfunny joke in anime, it's been reused 1000 times over, and it's just incredibly uncomfortable to have a 12 year old comparing her bust to a 9 year old, and this being a recurring theme in just about every episode.

With the weak characters comes weak, uninspired dialogue that seems to have been copied right out of the "stereotypical anime lines" booklet. Ninety percent of the episode plots are predictable, and uninteresting; for example the classic "tragic backstory" is revealed where bandits killed a character's parents and such, and she hates them so much she wants to kill them. Other characters convince her killing is wrong, they cry for a little bit and the episode is over. I'm just so incredibly uninvested I can't take it seriously, and it's painful to watch.

There were things minor things I definitely appreciated about the show, but they're about equivalent in scale to nitpicks, so I don't think they're really worth listing out. If I let myself write any more this will look more like a rant than a review, so I'll leave it here. I don't recommend this at all unless you're into lolis and have never seen an anime/isekai before. 4/10

Sexualizing children is a great way to add entertainment to any show. It is a wonderful tool to explore the psychology of the characters and form deeper connections with them. Repeating jokes over and over again is the ultimate form of comedy.

The characters are generic and plain. There is no depth to them. It's just a generic band of women dong the slice of life, except Mile really likes Episode 4 of Sword Art Online, but she hates black. I'd say something about High School DxD, but I have not seen that show.

A few months before I saw this show, I saw SAO. ... The characters felt samey, but at least they moved around a lot and there were lots of flashy colours and cool sword fights. Then I saw The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. I was blown away by the intricacy and lively movement of the characters that I had never seen before. An enormous amount of love and effort had been poured into Haruhi to make it one of the most well-animated TV shows ever (maybe). (see Hare Hare Yukai)

The reason I wrote the previous paragraph was to praise Haruhi (primarily) and to show what a show in 2006 could achieve. Yet, in 2019, we were graced with "art" so lazy and stupidly put together it'd put Kayaba Akihiko's motivation to shame.

Also, SAO practically made the modern Isekai genre, so maybe the artists could have learned from them and know that sword users do not swing from left to right to rapidly attack the enemy's sword. THEY AIM FOR THE BODY. Intense action scenes should be the focus of the episodes, and therefore they should spend a lot of time on them. They could talk to Asuna and learn of a revolutionary technique, the thrust.

The backgrounds and the characters blend in as well as Guts, the Black Swordsman, would be in the Lucky Star universe. The characters have a coloured outline which makes them stand out against the semi-photo realistic backgrounds.

When is Haruhi S3?

Very low budget show. If you are interested in this series, I recommend the manga. Though not a masterpiece, it has better character designs, there is charm in each of the characters, and is enjoyable.

The animation in this series is poor and the character designs are stiff. The story, both overall and character stories, are poorly presented and comes across as very bland. Much of the material is overly stretched out and makes much of this series very boring to watch. It feels like they picked the wrong things to focus on in the show. Though given how cheap this show feels, it may just ... be they didn't have the resources.

So I read the novel of this show years ago. And honestly, it wasn't that good. I dropped it, probably around chapter 70-90 ish? It just kind of was getting repetitive, and a lot of cliche story arcs were happening.

That being said, I still read 70-90 chapters because I thought it wasn't bad. This anime does the stellar job of adapting it terribly. Any form of charm present in the novel is just gone in the anime. They butcher the beginning(my favorite part if I'm being honest). In fact, they don't even bother to adapt the beginning. The entire beginning of the anime is filler ... if I remember correctly. This is most unfortunate. And if you watched the first episode, you now probably know why it was so cliche and terrible.
Later on, the terrible adaptation continues. Comedy being adapted requires some thinking. This producers of this anime definitely does not love to think. I'll say it again: any form of charm present in the novel is gone. Funny scenes I liked in the novel didn't get adapted, or got adapted poorly. Dialogues which were interesting are now boring. Animation is alright, though. I guess? In the end, the anime is just a very poorly adapted version of the novel series, which is frankly just barely above average (pun not intended).

This is another isekai genre. It started not so bad but without main goal in the story. I will list pros and cons for you. Hope it helps you to decide whether this is your taste.

Before pros and cons, if you are looking for romance or slight of life, you will be disappointed. Even though, some say this is Yuri, it's not.

Pros
1. Cute girl (not matured woman)
2. OP female MC (which is kinda new)
3. Time skip, to avoid school bored slice of life arc, author skip (which is kinda new idea)

Cons
1.Repetitive excuse. MC doesn't want to be in spotlight but with the same excuse, ... every time, she jump into it.
2. As the story name stated, MC didn't want great power, but always jump into trouble and using her OP power.
3. Try to make a serious plot into a slice of life genre.
4. Many weird logic.

Overall 5/10, dropped at the beach episode

Now I only watched 7 episodes of this show, coming from Bofuri into this honestly feel like a letdown, if not a major downgrade. Both are CGDCT shows, meaning the focus are the (cute) girls doing whatever they find it fun and enjoyable. But unlike Bofuri which not only had better animation and overall better production value and story direction, this show apparently made quite a turn from the source material and ended up doing its own things. After a quick research I found out the anime production folks took all the liberties they wanted to make the show ... in their view, all while it's supposed to have a bit darker and serious undertone, so that explained a lot of things.

What they did with the anime adaptation was different, and when the anime come face to face with the abrupt change of tone and treat the whole thing with a joke I couldn't take it anymore. The tipping point was the one trope I dislike in any form of media, "If I kill you I won't be any different so I won't stoop to your level". At this point there's really no point for me to continue watching, even the beach episode couldn't save the show, and in general I usually have no problem with it (one example of beach episode I liked was Danmachi S3 OVA, now that was just amazing and hilarious).