Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki desu ka?

This anime, "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?", stands as a towering achievement in the realm of anime. To merely label it a masterpiece would be akin to celebrating Einstein solely for his scientific contributions without acknowledging his profound impact on the world. This show effortlessly surpasses the celebrated "big 3" and every other mainstream title in existence.

Jujutsu Kaisen, Death Note, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Mushoku Tensei, Attack on Titan—you name it, none come close. I have yet to encounter anything that even dares to approach its greatness. Any other anime pales in comparison to this titan of entertainment. Its beauty, its ... humility—these are qualities that define it.

The character development within this series is nothing short of phenomenal. It's evident that each character was painstakingly crafted, their complexities teased out in every 24-minute episode. Every character feels so richly developed that you forget you're watching an animated show. The author's mastery lies not just in storytelling but in intricately weaving relationships that captivate and intrigue.

Have you ever wished for an anime that you could watch endlessly without ever growing bored? Look no further. This series fulfills that desire and more. If Itachi were to employ his Mangekyo Sharingan on me, forcing me to binge-watch this show for three straight years in a blink of an eye, I would emerge a changed person in those mere seconds. A man able to rule the continents and stop all war with the snap of my fingers.

This anime offers a diversity of characters so wide-ranging that each one feels like a genuine individual, each contributing uniquely to the narrative tapestry. It's worth noting that amidst its brilliance, the first season contains only a solitary ecchi scene—a detail that many might overlook. Yet, this singular instance serves as a testament to the author's confidence: "Even with ecchi elements, my anime will outshine them all."

"Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?" is not just an anime; it's a revelation. It challenges conventions, elevates storytelling, and leaves an indelible mark on its viewers. It's a journey into a world where imagination knows no bounds and where every moment is crafted with meticulous care. In this anime, light shines brightly, wars cease effortlessly, and the continents await conquest.

Indeed, this anime is a titan among giants, a masterpiece beyond compare. It transcends the medium to become a testament to the power of storytelling and the limitless possibilities of the animated art form. As I continue to explore its depths, I am reminded that true greatness, like this anime, is rare and unforgettable. Everyday I rewatch this masterpiece, finding out 50 new details by the hour that I missed the last time, and everyday I weep at night knowing I will never find everything before I perish from this world.

But isn't that the beauty of it? Isn't the point that you CAN'T do everything? That's what this shows makes you realize, that even when you thought you gripped everything, there is always something left.

Have you heard the saying that geniuses are often underappreciated in their time? Of course, it resonates deeply when considering the anime "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?". Its seemingly mid rating on MAL shows the profound depth and brilliance it embodies. The reason for this rating is actually rather simple: there aren't enough people alive who can fully grasp the perpetually reoccurring layers of meaning and innovation this show brings to the table. No, that it brings to the world.

This anime challenges norms and expectations at every turn, daring to explore themes and narratives that are both refreshing and thought-provoking. Yet, its true genius lies not just in its narrative twists or character arcs, but in its ability to provoke introspection and redefine what it means to engage with anime as a medium. The author chose this topic BECAUSE he knew it would be a controversial one. That would basically guarantee the fact that this anime becomes popular enough for chosen ones like me to find it and spread its wisdom.

The characters, from Masato and his reluctant bond with his overpowered mother, Mamako, to the deep supporting cast, are not just pixels on a screen but reflections of human complexity and emotion. Each episode unfolds like a carefully crafted symphony, with every note resonating with purpose and resonance. If you close your eyes while listening to this, even if you're watching the subbed version, you will start to hallucinate yourself in an orchestra. An orchestra in which you are everyone. You are all the players, the conductor, the audience, and you are the instruments. You are the rain 12 miles away in another city and you are the sediment on the sidewalk.

Despite its brilliance, "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?" finds itself swimming against the current of mainstream recognition. It's a testament to the anime's ahead-of-its-time brilliance that its true impact may only be fully appreciated in the years to come, as more viewers discover its narrative treasures and thematic innovations.

To watch "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?" is to embark on a journey of discovery, where visions of what you think is gonna happen is shattered, and the boundaries of storytelling are pushed to their limits. It's an invitation to delve deeper, to appreciate the subtleties and complexities woven into every frame, and to recognize that true genius, like this anime, transcends temporal constraints. It is dangerous to put this here, but no matter. This anime transcends the boundaries and restrictions of "chance" and "possibility". In other parallel universes next to us and away from us, this anime is there with the same message.

When humanity is able to simulate a reality just like ours, over time they will come back and see that is will be nothing like ours. The only thing that will remain the same is that this anime will still be in that world. That's because it is a fundamental building block of the universe that cannot be ignored. There exists not a place in time and space where this anime is not going to be achieved.

As time unfolds and more viewers awaken to its brilliance, "Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?" may well find its place among the pantheon of anime legends, celebrated for its audacity, creativity, and profound impact on the medium it boldly redefines.

Alas, this will never occur, as it never will on every other universe. This is the fate of humanity, left to wonder about their meaning and never fully grasp the meaning of this anime. There has never been a universe where this anime has been able to be seen in all of its glory, depressingly so. This is the fate of humanity, left to succumb to their own war before figuring this out. This is the fate of any creature able to pass on knowledge. This is the fate that has already been decided.

This is yet another lesson the author has taught us. Nothing lasts forever, and even if it did, it would be impossible. Even with the small amount of people that take notice of this anime it is able to leave a greatly lasting, but small impact on this world each time it appears. That's the fate that this has always had. This anime is the best of all time, the super best. The really the best of the best of best of any show ever made. This anime, is, peak fiction.

It was fine, only fine, is about the best praise I can give. It's a video game themed isekai with a main cast of immature teenagers, familiar trappings for the genre. The characters have a very familiar dynamic to other titles and there are moments of humor and quips, but for the most part it felt dry. The drama was low stakes, you know Mamako is either going to win by violence or win by pulling out a new power or just "power of love" by talking.
The one thing about isekai power fantasies that can invest a viewer is seeing that power grow and change ... with meaning. Mamako starts out essentially at level 20 and just develops spontaneous new abilities whenever the plot dictates. Which, yes, is a staple of the genre, but they materialize out of nowhere. Seeing Masashi grow as a person was nice, but ultimately he feels shallow and one note with his only core character trait being "My mom is annoying" even if he does come around to appreciate her presence, he doesn't change his mind. If he did, the series would likely have ended prematurely, but something tells me that he'll continue to be stubborn without any just cause.

TL:DR; Average at best, but an inoffensive title for isekai. Characters are mostly repeated tropes. If you want a comedy isekai, go watch KonoSuba. If you want an ecchi, Interspecies Reviewers and Immoral Guild. The R rating is not earned for the short lived nipple shot and panty shots.

A real mouthful, ain’t it? Not to worry. Officially, the title has come to be shortened to Okaa-san Online, which literally translates to Mom Online. Take from that what you will. Tell you hwhat, though, the fandom has given the series a somehow even more direct and to the point nickname, the MILF Isekai.

You might be laboring under the impression that that’s a mocking nickname, and to be perfectly fair, the intent was almost certainly not devoid of mockery, but in all honesty, it’s about as accurate a name as this show can possibly get. It pretty much sums up the whole thing. Yes, that’s ... exactly what it is. It’s an isekai about a milf. If that basic idea does not interest you in any way whatsoever, then you can just drop it and this essay right now, because there’s really not much of anything else going on here.

The premise is very straightforward – aggressively straightforward, even – albeit extremely stupid. Masato Oosuki, nicknamed Ma-kun, gets transported to a video game world. The twist? His mother, Mamako Oosuki, gets transported with him. The even bigger twist? It turns out that his mother becomes the overpowered player, not him. Hilarity ensues.

As you can probably surmise, given that this came out of Japan, particularly the world of light novels, the pair end up having more than just family friendly fun. Consequently, most of the hate the for show stems from a place of moral outrage at the gratuitous depiction of clearly degenerate and incestuous interactions. Accordingly, the show’s ardent defenders claim that all of the hate comes from elitists who don’t understand comedy and expect everything to be a “super serious” isekai. To tell you the truth, I have no idea what the fuck these people are talking about. I can’t remember the last time I’ve watched an actual “super serious” isekai. Like, I’m actively looking for one to watch, so I’m open to suggestions.

In all fairness, MILF Isekai is apparently extremely popular back home in Japan and fairly funny to boot, with some standout scenes that actually got me to laugh audibly. Shirase is a riot. Nonetheless, the question is, is it funny enough to make up for the rest of the garbage you have to put up with?

That’s gonna be a hard no from me, dawg. Surprising even myself, the incest bait is by far the thing that annoyed me the least about Okaa-san Online. My critique does not, in essence, come from a place of moral outrage. Mind you, that is not to suggest that the moral outrage is invalid. It is 1000% valid. The main heroine did not need to be his biological mother in order for the show to be funny. “Nooo! You don’t understand, nooo! The scene in which a teenage boy falls face-first into his mother’s oiled-up naked tits is absolutely necessary in order to create comedy, nooo!” This must be some kind of higher order comedic genius beyond my intellectual capabilities. “Haha, wouldn’t it be funny if the mother puts on a string bikini armor in front of her son, haha – her fucking son – haha, and is shocked when he becomes flustered and embarrassed, haha, because, according to her, haha, she put it on because she thought it would make him happy, haha!” Bro, what the fuck? But I digress.

I mainly found MILF Isekai distasteful because it does everything I dislike about modern isekai. First of all, it trivializes the concept of the other world to a cartoonish degree. Dude fills out a survey about his relationship with his mom – we see him do that in the opening scene – and then, the very next morning, a social worker comes up to his house and goes, yo, you like video games, son? Yeah? We heard that loads of young people would like to be sent to a video game world if possible, that true? Yeah? Well, then off you go, fuck off into this video game world with your mom and go have, uh… adventures, I guess. So, the whole thing is a fucking government program! And not even a cool one like MK-Ultra or Operation Midnight Climax. No, we’re talking about some run-of-the-mill boring ass government program like Medicare or social security.

You might think I’m being cute here. I’m not. This is pretty much exactly how unceremoniously the whole thing is presented in the anime. Before you jump down my throat for being an elitist, yes, I know. I understand that the whole thing is done intentionally to spoof the genre. The problem is that I don’t feel like the genre it’s parodying really exists in the first place.

In an episode of the WeebCast, anime YouTubers like Mother’s Basement, Gigguk, and DigiBro were discussing Re:Zero in the context of the isekai genre. They claimed they were glad that Re:Zero doesn’t waste time with its origin world, because their argument was that the fantasy world is the interesting bit, so let’s just skip past the origin world bit and get to the interesting bit. I was appalled by this, because it is precisely this kind of thinking, the brushing over of the origin world, that has made modern isekais feel less like adventures, and more like theme park rides. No, stop it! If you’re gonna go out of your way to make your story an isekai, rather than just a straight up fantasy story, then don’t brush over the origin world. Make it interesting. I want to be invested in the protagonist’s backstory. Don’t take the fantasy world for granted as a cliché we’re all supposed to be already familiar with, because that just kills all of the mystique and wonder of it. Just look at how Marvel has killed any and all mystique surrounding superheroes. When’s the last time you went “Whoa!” at the concept of a superhero? And no, it’s not just because the genre is oversaturated – though that, as well. It’s because of Marvel’s attitude towards the archetype. As such, I don’t find it funny that Okaa-san Online is trivializing the idea of being sent to a fantasy world, because the genre is purports to parody is already unironically doing that. It’s not funny. It just makes me sad.

I also find it irritating to the utmost degree how so many isekai try to shoehorn video game elements into a high fantasy world, such as How Not to Summon a Demon Lord, or vice-versa, high fantasy elements in a video game world, such as Log Horizon. MILF Isekai promptly dispenses with that conflict by, like I said, removing any and all mystique, and having a dramatic-looking NPC give the mother-son duo a comically bland explanation about how they are now beta testing a new VRMMO that doesn’t even have a name yet. Well, sure, that certainly solves the problem, much like how cutting your arm off would remove the pain from a papercut on your finger.

Second, there’s the notion of his mom being stronger than him. Yes, it’s meant to be a joke, laugh, haha, funny. Listen, there are largely two kinds of protagonists you can make compelling, underdogs and overdogs. Ma-kun is clearly not an overdog, but he’s also not an underdog. In order to qualify as an underdog, the audience has to have some kind of expectation that the protagonist will somehow turn the tables, beat the odds, and eventually win. This is not at all the case with Ma-kun, because the hierarchy of power is outlined very clearly at the beginning of the show as permanent. Ma-kun is not an underdog. He’s just a shitter. Gee, I’m having so much fun watching a show about a shitter protagonist, haha, much funny, very wow. And again, I cannot stress this enough, but it’s his fucking mom who is the overpowered nuclear warhead. I’m not sure if you can quite grasp how emasculating that would feel.

Third, the whole premise is just fucking depressing. Just when the guy thinks he gets to LARP as Kirito, he finds out his mom is his +1? Yes, yes, again, shut up, I know that’s the explicit point of the series and it’s supposed to be funny, but I wasn’t amused. Just because I didn’t like it doesn’t mean I didn’t understand it. It’s not even like the mother is an adult who has a fucking grip and becomes the de facto protagonist you could maybe rally your investment behind. No, she’s just your regular ass “Teehee!” klutz retard. Be she his mother or not, the idea that she’s the one who got the ultimate power offends me on principle. Can you just take a second to put yourself in Ma-kun’s shoes and appreciate what a not-at-all funny nightmare he finds himself trapped in?

Besides, the mother is, in no uncertain terms, an emphatically obnoxious character. In the first episode, as he’s being teleported to the fantasy world, Ma-kun explicitly makes the point that he’s glad to finally have the opportunity to develop on his own, a chance to walk his own path and become a man in his own right, and then, one day, return to his mother and embrace her on equal terms. Sure enough, Mamako wastes no time at all in demolishing any and all hope he had for individual development and swiftly makes sure that the umbilical cord remains firmly wrapped around his God damn neck. In addition to being a helicopter parent, she’s a textbook Oedipal devouring mother deliberately interfering with Masato’s ability to create bonds with other girls for fear that he will no longer need her. Hilarious... I was fucking horrified. A mother's unhealthy obsession with keeping her son in her clutches borne of an absentee father who doesn't fuck her enough, so the child becomes the unwitting conduit of her sexual frustration - a tale as old as time. Masato's father is still in the picture, to be sure, but he's rocking the old faithful "away all the time" cliché. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if I felt moral outrage towards the show, it was in regards to this aspect, not the incest bait. The show makes the point that parental bonds are somehow sacred, parents can do no wrong, and even if they somehow do, it is a child’s duty to forgive them.

I often complain about child characters in media acting inappropriately mature for their age. Mamako is the opposite. She is ignorant, selfish, self-indulgent, inconsiderate, inattentive, incapable of picking up on social cues, unwilling to meaningfully change, and believes that her opinion is the only one that matters – she is a bona fide sociopath. That is not to say that she is unkind or unloving towards her precious Ma-kun, but love and affection come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. In her case, she only ever expresses love and affection in ways that she deems to be loving and affectionate and that make her personally feel like she’s being a good mother. She never stops to consider what Masato himself actually wants or needs.

But you might say, “Wait, Alex, you’re being unfair! Didn’t she join her child in a video game in order to get closer to him by doing something he likes? Isn’t that her having empathy and willingness to change? Isn’t she putting his needs above her own? Isn’t that a motherly sacrifice?” I will not deny that it shows some minor degree of good will, but in the final analysis, we’re still talking about a demonstrative gesture, because on every conceivable level, aside from the purely superficial, it still betrays an extraordinary lack of empathy. Is that as far as your analysis of the situation goes? Your son likes video games, therefore, if you play his video games with him, he will like you, too? Right, ‘cause it's not like interpersonal dynamics are complex and nuanced or anything. It’s just simple arithmetic, of course. Have you ever asked him if he even wants to play video games with you in any way, shape, of form? Have you given any thought to why he likes video games in the first place? Has it occurred to you that you’re just plainly annoying and maybe, just maybe the very reason he plays vydja is precisely to have some alone time away from the real world – from you? No, of course not, because what he wants or needs is irrelevant. Only what you think he wants or needs matters. Your kid is basically just a transactional object, like a vending machine. You put in the currency, nice gestures, and get the reward, affection and gratitude. As God intended.

One of her catchphrases is: “I love the kind Ma-kun who is considerate towards mommy.” Considerate, aye? Well, have you ever considered the fact that your son is a multi-dimensional human being with his own distinct wants and needs instead of a generic vessel for you to love-bomb with things that you personally find gratifying and decorous? Think Ryan Seacrest trying to high-five a blind man and you’ll have the right idea.

And yet, every time Masato – who acts as nothing more than a barometer for the audience’s patience with her – understandably has enough of her shit and snaps at her, she immediately starts making giga-adorable sad faces, giving complete unqualified apologies, crying, the whole 9 yards, and it’s Masato – which is to say you, the audience – who ends up being made to feel guilty, either by his own conscience, or the other characters, or both. I know this has become an overused buzzword in recent times, but I’m sorry, there’s no other way to put it. This is gaslighting 101.

I am in disbelief that I have been put in a position of defending the “Shut up, mom!” zoomer, but here we are. If anything, my default position is that kids are fucking retarded, so I typically err on the side of parental authority, but this is obscene. Had this been any other show, I would have hated Masato, pathetic little cuck bitch with your smol peepee energy sword, fuck you. Here, though, I cannot help but feel for him. You know you’ve bought into your own hype too much and taken your self-indulgence too far when you’ve alienated even me and made me side with McLightNovelGuy©.

In short, Mamako’s behavior accrues no negative consequences, ever, she can do no wrong, and the show endorses her behavior by having everything always turn out just right for her. The closest she ever gets to a self-aware moment is a scene during the show’s finale when she blesses us with the following revolutionary pearl of wisdom: “Children have feelings.” – truly a character-defining introspective insight. Move over, Dr. Phil.

By the by, I’ve seen people trying to seriously defend this notion even outside of the context of a comedy anime. The thesis is that children should forgive their parents’ faults no matter how unreasonable, embarrassing, and egotistical they may be, because the parents are the ones who fed and cared for the children when they were young, changed their diapers, and had the patience to deal with their tantrums. As such, it is now the children’s turn to return the favor. Yeah, how about no? It’s acceptable for your children to act like children when they’re children, because they are in fact fucking children. It is not, however, acceptable for you to act like a child around your adult progeny, because you are in fact not a child, and your son(s) or daughter(s) shouldn’t have to put up with that. Don’t pretend like the two are equivalent.

Aside from making excuses for every and all of Mamako’s caprices, Okaa-san Online even engages in explicit emotional child abuse and neglect apologism. There’s a particular mother-daughter pair in the show in which the mother has been absent for most of the girl’s life and then shows up out of nowhere and makes the daughter miserable. Naturally, the girl is expected to accept and forgive all of that because the bonds between a mother and her child are eternal, unbreakable, and deep down she knows she still loves her, and her mother loves her, too, surely, and all that jazz. Yeah, again, how about you go fuck yourself? To say that every single mother loves her child and that every single mother wants the best for her child is ignorant and naïve in the extreme and betrays a complete lack of empathy. Just because you feel a certain way about your child, that doesn’t mean it’s the same for every other parent. Much as though I loathe conceptualizing myself as such, I must confess that, as a victim of child abuse, I found it highly offensive that the series had the temerity to call upon abused children to gratuitously forgive their abusers purely on faith, in the absence of any kind of action on the abusers’ end to earn redemption.

Additionally, and I dare anyone to challenge my thesis, in this particular instance, Okaa-san Online is also guilty of unmitigated misandry. Indulge me, if you will, a simple thought experiment. Reverse the gender of the parent. Had this been about an absentee father who reappears unannounced into his daughter’s life, throws her entire existence upside down, and then expects gratitude and affection in exchange for his gracious gesture of good will, everyone and their mothers (pun intended) would have spat in his face calling him a deadbeat – and rightfully so. Alas, no, she’s a mother, which is, as Oprah would say, “the hardest job in the world”, so she gets a pass. All the while, naturally, the daughter is the one expected to feel guilty and apologize for not being sufficiently grateful and cooperative with the wants and needs of the adult who abandoned her years ago and unilaterally decided to show up again on a whim.

Still, while MILF Isekai treats the subject of emotional abuse and neglect in an extremely cavalier and incautious manner, the mother in question at least wasn’t physically abusive, so the anime does not directly exculpate physical child abuse. It’s not much, but it’s something. I have neither the patience, nor the inclination to get into the other examples of maternal dysfunction that come up later in the show. Suffice it to say that it just gets steadily worse from there, but not to worry, it’s always other mothers who have to admit fault, never Mamako, because she is a saint who can do no wrong, of course. Mind you, this isn’t even as much of a joke as you might think it is. The sheer number of shots in which she effectively gets a whole ass halo shining on top of her head and lectures to the plebeian masses while unironically levitating above them is downright sickening. At one point, after engaging in easily the most disturbing incestuous act in the entire series with her own biological son, she literally turns into fucking Moses and splits the sea, because the anime still has the temerity to claim that she is of such superior moral quality as to deserve such blessed power.

Even the animation let me down. For what it’s worth, MILF Isekai is a very good looking anime, but not a very good moving one. All the characters are designed really well, with the possible exception of Ma-kun himself, but who cares. The point is that everyone and everything is very nice to look at. However, the actual animation left me wanting. That is not to say it was bad. It was fine, but I was hoping for at least some standout action sakuga scenes. Nope – nothing of the sort to be found here.

So, then, why does this have so many fans? Why is it so popular?

Because the milf is hot. It comes down to nothing more than that. She’s hot. And let’s not pretend otherwise – it announces itself as self-evident that this is the only reason anyone has ever picked up this show or light novel. The good news? There is some nudity in the show – very little, mind you, but some. The bad news? No milf nudity. Fs in the chat. Then there’s the ambivalent news. There’s a tentacle scene in episode 6. Make of that what you will. If you’re into that kind of thing, I suppose congratulations are in order, but if not… Regardless, she’s still hot.

Personally, I don’t think she’s hot enough to make the time investment this show requires worth it, especially given that you don’t get to, uh, peruse any classified information, so to speak. If you want a show that scratches a lot of the same itches without any of the infuriating baggage, I would recommend you watch The Caretaker of Sunohara-sou instead. That series features an exponentially hotter milf, ticks all the same boxes as Okaa-san Online, but doesn’t entail any of the accompanying garbage to bring it down.

Just about the best thing I can say about MILF Isekai is that I didn’t have a bad time with it at first. I didn’t enjoy it by any stretch of the imagination, but I didn’t hate it. Mamako was just about hot enough and the comedy was just about funny enough to keep me mildly content. That being said, as it went on, the fanservice took a back seat, which was its only real redeeming feature, while the series leaned into its dysfunctional ethical lessons. One thing led to another and the mother’s behavior became increasingly self-indulgent to the point that I grew to legitimately hate her. It all came to a head with Masato going full tilt Stockholm Syndrome on steroids rushing to defend the very Oedipal tyrant stunting his own growth and ability to pair bond. That was the point of no return for me. In my eyes, Mamako is still a far cry from School Days’ protagonist, Makoto, but she’s made it up there. Very few anime characters have ever succeeded in earning this kind of sophisticated, preoccupying, adult hostility from me. Fuck her and fuck this show.

If your incest fetish is so strong that you wouldn’t find any of that bothersome and you would be willing to sit through 13 episodes of apex mediocrity, be my guest. I see no reason you shouldn’t have a decent time with it.