Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko

With each new season I like to read the synopses of the new isekai shows, not because I think they’ll be any good, but instead to see how the “standard isekai protagonist” has aged with the audience. It used to be highschoolers getting hit by trucks to enter the magical anime fantasy realm. Then it became college students, and now we have people in their mid-to-late twenties working soul-crushing IT jobs before biting the bullet. I can’t wait for the day when otakus are all geezers and we get to watch a show where an 80-year old dies of cancer and is reincarnated as a ... magical sword boy who gets into hilarious sexual encounters with girls 60 years younger than him. For the time being though we have the first isekai I’ve seen with the protagonist pushing middle age: Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko.

Ryouma Takebayashi is a 39 year old salaryman working for an exploitative company and experiencing the generally garbage life of a pre-isekaid isekai protagonist, when suddenly he dies of a heart attack. Some gods in the afterlife decide to send him to a generic dragon-quest-esque fantasy world for reasons I can’t remember - probably something to the effect of “you were loser Japanese guy who died unexpectedly and that’s just what we do with your kind”. Now as a newly reincarnated 8-year-old with all the memories of his old life, Ryouma proceeds to sit on his butt in a forest and do jack-all for three years. Well actually he trains a bunch of slimes, because isekai shows always seem to require some sort of gimmick to let them say, “see it’s not completely a generic isekai show!”, though I feel like this gimmick is one-upped by that other isekai where the guy actually becomes a slime. In any case a few years later some locals find Ryouma living as a child hermit and invite him back to their town where he continues his current lifestyle of doing jack-all.

Now as other reviews point out, the low stakes and slow pace are certainly intentional: the show is a combination of the isekai and iyashi genres – the two ultimates of otaku escapist fantasies. It’s supposed to be a nice charming slice-of-life about a jaded man experiencing a wonderful magical world in juxtaposition to his terrible previous life. And to be honest I have nothing against either genre in principle – I enjoy shows like Konosuba and Non Non Biyori. However the key component those shows have that Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko lacks is characters that are fun to watch. Kazuma, Megumin, Aqua, and Darkness may not be particularly complex characters, but they are at least distinct and play off each other well. It doesn’t matter that the plot of Konosuba mostly involves the main cast bumming around one city, because their dysfunctional antics make me laugh and want to keep watching.

Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko’s characters have no such uniqueness. Pretty much the only defining feature of all of them is that they all love Ryouma and think he’s amazing. There’s a noble family, some guard people and staff for the family, some adventurer animal-girls that appear at some point and just join the pack of people following Ryouma around, and some staff Ryouma hires for his free slime labor laundry business. Beyond their appearances and roles I don’t think I could explain any of these people. They all just stand around spouting expository dialogue or more blandishments about Ryouma and his amazing magical abilities. The other character that gets the most screentime is probably the noble family daughter, which the show uncomfortably sets up as a romantic interest for Ryouma. They do try to justify this by saying that Ryouma’s mind is degenerating back to that of an eleven-year-old, which is pretty damn terrifying if you think about it. All the girl does though is fawn over Ryouma and talk about how she wants to “do her best” like any generic anime girl. I felt no connection to her or her relationship with the main character.

As for Ryouma himself, there wasn’t much hope for his personality. Being your average isekai protagonist means he can’t manage anything beyond generically “nice” or passive, lest the audience loses the ability to self-insert themselves into him for even a second. There’s some stuff about how he’s dealing with the traumatic experience of his previous life, but it’s only ever briefly mentioned and never gets explored as much as I wanted. Every so often it’d cut back to scenes of Ryouma’s previous life to show how it sucked compared his new one, and I’d actually get a bit more invested. I’d have liked if the show jumped back and forth between his two lives more often, but instead we had to watch him scrub a sewer or walk around some mines or something. It reminded me of Youjo Senki – where I was all on board for the theological pissing match between a cynical salaryman and “God”, but the show kept interrupting that with the forgettable magic WW1.5 stuff.

I feel like my biggest frustration with the plot was how procedural everything felt. There’s like three episodes spent on Ryouma setting up a laundry business with his slimes, and it all just happens without any narrative twist or anything. We watch him go to some merchant lady to get funding, acquire a building and renovate it, open the business, hire some staff, and so on. It’s about as interesting as watching someone actually start a laundromat. I know you can say it’s slice of life, and that it’s not supposed to be some sort of edge-of-your seat Death Note thriller, but again I go back to the issue of the characters. Non Non Biyori is just a story about some girls going to school, but I like the characters and their interactions, which is what makes it a successful slice-of-life show. In Kami-tachi for the duration of this “Laundry Arc” we mostly just hear characters tell Ryouma how great his business will be and how they can’t wait to use it. I get no sense of characterization or desire be a part of this world where everyone seems to exist only to praise Ryouma.

There’s not much to say other than that. The world is uninspired, of course, though they do sometimes decide to bore us with pointless lore factoids about the different slimes and such. The music was forgettable, the art and animation was serviceable but bland – with the notable exception of the crappy CGI horses – and the voice acting was similarly generic. And I mean I don’t think anyone was expecting otherwise. It’s a generic isekai with slice-of-life elements, of course it was gonna be bland. I only watched it because the main character was 39 years old and I had a friend to laugh at it with. So now I have to wonder why the show compelled me to even write a review of it.

In the end I think it has to do less with the show itself and more the fact that it exists, and the depressing ramifications that it brings. There was a part where Ryouma gives a speech and everyone smiles and listens to him, and then tells him how wonderful he is again. This makes Ryouma cry and remember when he would give speeches in the office in his previous life and nobody would listen. I realized then that you could remove all of the magical aspects from this show. The true fantastical element – the reason this show was made and why people would want to watch it – is the concept of other human beings caring about and praising you. The showing is saying to its audience, “Ryouma is you: someone who has a miserable life of loneliness and torment. Your mother will die and you’ll work non-stop for bosses that abuse you. Your life will not improve. Instead you will get to suffer for nearly forty years then die alone. Only then will you experience paradise. Or maybe not, all we want is for you to watch our show where you can pretend this will happen to you, you pathetic wretch.” It’s trying to sell the idea of love and positive human interaction to people who don’t get to experience it, or maybe do and don’t recognize it because they want the perfect happy world of anime-land. The problem is the interactions of the show become so saccharine that it pulls me out of it, and I just see it as a heartless product trying to take advantage of depressed people.

I dunno maybe I’m being a little hysterical about it, there’s plenty of other things in the weeb media sphere that have just as pathetic implications. On the whole though I’d say this show doesn’t function well as a story, or even as a self-indulgent human affection simulator. If you want that experience just listen to a Japanese ASMR video where a girl whispers positive affirmations to you for a few hours then sucks your ears off like she’s trying to eat her udon noodle lunch right in your face.

Story: The story of this anime is your average isekai with a few tweaks, bad tweaks. The story is literally about this guy who has no emotions at all who just get isekaid. The sad part is the story is so pathetic and garbage it is dogtrash. When I watch isekai I have some expectations but very little, this anime was having none of that and created a z tier show. 2/10

Art: This is the part of the show that stood out, it is so dogshit and horrendous. Sure the budget of the show would be pretty low and the art would be somewhat decent ... in 2020 right? N O. Literally my classmates in year 4 could do better, literally, I am garbage at drawing/painting and even I could do a better job than this. It deserves an award for the worst art of the season. Also, to make it better they made the slimes pure CGI. Yeah not good CGI, bad CGI. The CGI slimes flop around and turn into one big slime with CGI. Sure it would have taken a little bit longer to draw the slimes and it is not that hard, the studio did not give a shit. They just made the slimes pure CGI anyway. Disappointing, I honestly wish I could give the art a 0/10

Sound: The opening & ending are somewhat T R A S H. The ending is partly sung in English and it is not that good anyway. The opening is literally the Walmart version of sword art onlines ending but mega Walmart version. The OSTs are average and are not that good but it is ok because the budget of the show is low. 3/10

Characters: The characters of this show are pretty bad, we got the dead eye dude who shows no emotion until he gets isekaid into another world and turns into a child with so much emotions. So keep in mind this dude is a fully grown man in a child's body. This guy helps these random guards that bring back the queen or some shit and her daughter and this kid immediately starts blushing when seeing her. This is a fully grown man and starts to have thoughts of getting into a relationship with a CHILD. The girl is an innocent girl who immediately falls for this kid and is very clingy and dislikable. 3/10

Overall: Garbage anime and not enjoyable. The anime sucks with shitty art.
1/10

This is the usual isekai where he has all the powers, literally all the magic, and he figures things out that no one else in the world managed to despite only having been there for three years. Everyone is always impressed by him, by everything he does. He's shy and always embarrassed about being praised, which is constantly.

The praise goes further because he's a child, even though he's a forty year old japanese business man. The usual thing. Although it's extra weird because they seem to be pushing some romance with an actual child and, again, he's a forty year old japanese business man. Although ... the guy isn't some pervert and there's nothing sexual about it, so your choice on how weird you find it.

He also starts out with super strength despite being in the body of a small child, to the point where he can kick through a big tree right when he gets there. We also discover that he's not just figuring things out, he created two new species without even knowing it. This is explained by the literal god who created them, who is surprised by what he did.

He's immediately praised by noblemen and gods. He starts out with three gods, then by episode three we're told even more gods are taking interest in him. Despite these gods generally not being interested in isekai protagonists, he's just that good, even better than the other isekai protagonists. He receives more blessings from more gods.

Also after hunting for three years he's a master archer and is basically legolas. He can just do everything pretty much from the start, and there's always people watching him and praising him for it. Despite being given this power, and despite not even knowing what he's doing when he does things like create new species. It's that kind of show.

It would've been more interesting if he was at least just given the ability to use every kind of magic, with a a focus on taming magic, he'd still be overpowered but it wouldn't be so boring. There was really no reason for him to be so physically strong, or to be an expert archer, he doesn't even need it. Everything's just kind of thrown on there despite the redundancy, seemingly just for the sake of making the self insert character stronger.

The protagonist is also boring, he's just a generic polite guy. That's it. They give him some kind of sad backstory about being abused as a child and working for a black company as an adult, but none of it really matters. Once he's a child he's basically just a blank slate. There's almost no reason to even make him an isekai protagonist, other than an explanation for why he's so overpowered.

Although there is at least an interesting use of slimes, depending on your definition. You see, in episode one, we're introduced to his slimes. One of the species he made is shit slimes, which eat shit. In episode four he gets a quest to clean communal bathrooms that are full of shit, so he has his shit slimes eat the shit. This is an important mission that only he can do, because the shit has created a miasma that only he and his slimes can deal with. I'm not joking, this is a whole episode.

He has to go in to spray shit off the ceiling and the walls with water magic so his slimes can consume it. While he's doing this there is a regiment of adventurers outside guarding the toilets, making sure no one goes into the dangerous communal bathroom. They're out there praising his work ethic and bravery.

The shit slimes multiply because they've been eating so much shit, and one thousand of them combine to form a king shit slime. The king shit slime has a gluttony skill that lets it eat more shit. He has over three thousand shit slimes, so he has three king shit slimes going around eating shit while he sprays the walls and ceilings. This is a real episode.

If you wanna see an overpowered block of wood get praised constantly, then get embarrassed over being praised, then watch this show. This is validation the anime, except the validation is for external factors that had nothing to do with you really, so even as some self insert fantasy about being praised all the time it fails. Unless you think everything you're handed is something you deserve because you're such a nice guy.

I'm not sure why they even made it an isekai, the story he makes up to tell the nobles would work fine for the actual story. It'd also make the character more interesting and make the romance thing less weird. He could just be an overpowered kid, he could even still talk to the gods since he was praying in the cave for years, he could still have blessings, I don't see why they made this an isekai. He pretty much acts the same as the other kid, and he doesn't have much of a personality, so the isekai aspect seems pointless.

They get creative with the slimes though, it's interesting enough to hold your attention, but everything else drags it down. At some point they even make a business around the slimes, which I won't spoil, but they go more in depth with the way it works and setting up the business than certain shows like meikyuu black company which are supposedly centered on business.

I'd like it if they went even further on these things and had less of the isekai circle jerk shit, but it's still the strength of the show. Although he did basically get a golden spoon shoved into his mouth when he met the nobles, basically becoming part of their family, but it's still okay. Just another aspect that would be improved if he had to struggle a bit more, even with his crazy magic powers.

As i started watching the first ep i thourgh to myself "pretty basic story, the art is also pretty bad, but hey, at least it's a regular fantasy story, not the 100000th isekai pile of trash".

But yeah, it's an isekai, guess i'll watch a few more ep see if it brings anything new to the genre (i doubt it) or if it's another lazy, useless show with no redeeming quality.

The characters are okay, the gimmick with the slimes is pretty cool, maybe there's some potential in terms of world building.

I'm just concerned it's gonna be one more of those Isekai where the MC is ... absurdly broken because apparently being a salary man or a neet makes you a god in another world for some reason.

At least the contrast between him as a 11y/o and his past self as a swole af overworked salary man is pretty funny.

Verdit : very low expectations, will probably drop in 2 ep, but you never know.

(oh and the fact that he seems like he's gonna have a crush for the blonde kid when he's really an adult in a kid's body is pretty gross)


Edit : i've seen 3 eps and i'm dropping this, it's garbage, the story sucks, the characters are boring, and i've seen hentais with better art and animation, absolute trash.

Welp, one more isekai with OP MC, I am getting used to writing reviews for those, as they come out every season. A twist tho: this one is a slice of life, not a power fantasy. Well sort of. Let me get into the details:
Art and sound - average in every regard. No horrible CGI, everything is drawn in a consistent way, so I don't have anything bad to say about it. Sadly, nothing good can be said either, it is just ok - nothing more and nothing less.
Story - like most other modern isekais - non-existant. At least this time MC does not ... try to show the world how cool he is, but he just wants to chill out and live a comfortable life. He gets his set of OP skills (can't be an isekai without those I suppose?) that help him in his "quest" and a mature mind to make a coin in this new world (although having a mature mind and being around a kid that is in love with you still feels kinda fishy). He does not really have any significant problems or obstacles on his way, so this is 100% slice of life type of anime and not one with a story. I would say that it is fine, if we at least got a better written world, but this one seemed kinda pale.
Characters - well, everyone around MC is a nice guy. Sadly there are so many of them that they get almost no screen time and development, so there is no real deapth in them, no complex characters or anything similar.
Enjoyment - this anime is pretty relaxed, so if you want something laid back just to sit, chill, and have a little fun - you can surely grab this anime. But if you want something captivating or original - it will not be enough to entertain you.

Overall - it is pretty cliche, it has nothing new or interesting, but it can still be ok if you are looking for something relaxing. But overall quality is pretty mediocre at best, so I can't really recommend it to anyone.

This anime is really really boring.
when the frist episode came out i got hopes for this show
personaly i like some casual isekai (if its good or at least enjoyable)
this show is so unjoyable that i dont belive someone could rate this above
5/10
Im not hating or here to argue. this show is just boring and empty
you could exchange 99% charackters and nothing would change
EVEN main charackter

Rates:
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Lets start with story
its pathetic. This story is worse than a plot in 4 minute hentai

Art is good its nice. Kinda a waste for this show.

sound is fair not bad not good either.

Characters are patheticly boring and completly empty

enjoyment what? i skipped by 5 secounds so so many times because it was so boring

overall this is really dreadful

Ngl, this show would be 10 times better if they dropped the whole isekai concept. It's so unnecessary! Like the story would be so much better if he was just a child of the gods instead. Plus it is super uncomfortable having the thought that this is a 40-year-old man when he's interacting with that little girl. The show is a lot better if just tune out all the stuff about his old life and world. The story is actually ok but the useless isekai ruins it.

Very cliche how the first people he contacts are the noble of the land. I think it would ... be far more interesting if he gained popularity through his skills and got noticed by the noble than stumbling across him in the woods. Feels like the story jumped the gun, going from a random country bum to living in the noble's mansion. While it's kinda unique seeing a good and fair lord, it's also boring.

The family is not interesting. All they do is praise the 'kid' in every episode. I like the idea they were going with that the protagonist hasn't been loved or praised in years and I got a little teary-eyed at the scene but then I remembered that this was a 40-year old man crying, not a child. Again, the show would be so so much better if it was an actual 8-year-old.

While the sound and art are good, like most, I watch an Anime for the story and characters and only go back to praise the less apparent details if I liked the show. This anime deserves a decent 4. Gonna keep watching it to see where it goes but right now I don't have high hopes. Let's see if they can impress.

Isekia.
what is so great about isekai? -- A random man asked
There is a lot of great stuff about isekai -- SBL answered
Like what? Give me an example from Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko -- The random manreplied
There is nothing great about this trashy isekai, it is in the same category as 80% of the usual isekia. The MC died, reincarnated as a small child this time, he has an op abilities, and there is nothing that can stand in his face. There is no problem that didn't get solve by ease, everything he faces either get banged by his OPness or the people he meets ... knows he right solution, he says he wants to do something that something is done and done very well. This might be considered a spoiler but (A hole team of f***ing adventures came to guard a bloody toilet, and somehow he remembers his old workplace?? Give me a break. They talk a little about family and some crap like that but no more.
I don't know the type of people who would like this trash maybe if you need something wholesome? But there is always better.
PLEASE don't watch this I did it for you, my opinion is right so you don't need to see other reviews.
Always wish for better and follow me.

The anime is cute, with a cute anime kid and his cute anime girlfriend. The cute anime kid has a lot of slimes and gets praised by everyone constantly. He can do nothing wrong. He knows better than the adults how to do literally everything. He does not change. No one around him changes. This anime is, in a word, *boring*.

Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko might be an anime that you enjoy if you're 8. Otherwise? You'd be better off watching a different, more interesting isekai, like "I'm the villainess so I'm taming the final boss." Heck, even Beast Tamer was better than this and I ... couldn't finish that show.

Finally, I have seen 12 episodes and my opinion remains the same, this anime did as poor as I expected. After finishing the anime I felt a great sensation of relief because I just couldn't handle how boring and dull the show was. I was welcomed with a main character who is an average salaryman that died in a ridiculous way so that he could reincarnate in another world as a new human being with overpowered abilities and statistics. After this incident, he magically encounters some side characters who were obviously important so that the protagonist can be famous and recognized by everyone in the ... world.

Story 3/10: The plot is even worse than fairy tale stories. I have been overwhelmed with bad and dreadful jokes. What else was there? Oh, slimes and his cheat ability to tame and evolve slimes because why not.

Art 5/10: Not terrible nor excellent, just average.

Sound 7/10: I think this is what I liked the most about the anime, both the opening and ending themes were quite good.

Character 3/10: Just as bad as the story, it's like watching some kids' show characters or even worse. After finishing the show, I could imagine countless ways to design and develop them in a better way, though I can't assure that it could be better than this because it's all subjective.

Enjorment 3/10: I could watch this anime just to fall asleep at night.

Overall 4/10: There are better shows out there, don't waste your time watching this wannabe relaxing and satisfying isekai anime.

The source content is good. The manga is one of my favorites, and sadly, the anime falls exceedingly short.

They've taken a well-reasoned series replete with all sorts of detail and processed the fuck out of it, so that you get the abridged version of the abridged version, which is just a bland, eyes-a-sparkling narrative, rather than what's essentially a crafting isekai.

You wouldn't know it from watching the anime. Ever felt it was glossing over something, or it didn't really transition well? They outright skip and condense so many of the mini story arcs just *handwave* condensed into ultra digestible minute-long bite-sized pieces.

Just read the ... manga. If you liked the anime at all, do yourself a favour and go read the manga, it's so much more. This adaptation is dogshit. MindaRyn's ed is honestly the best part of this series.

So I'm not gonna beat around the bush.
If you are looking for an anime, don't watch this one. It is pretty boring and as of right now, I don't see any bad guys or problems in sight. So it is basically a child's anime. The character is a nobody that died in an unrealistic way, magically can tame slimes, and yea, you get the idea. But the art and sound aren't bad. Plus when I want to go to sleep this works better than any sleep medicine.
The supporting characters, those people I'm getting mixed feelings. They (from what I've seen so far) are ... impressed by everything that kid does. "Wow you can clean poop?!" "Wow you can make bricks?!" "Wow you can BrEaThE?!" They pretty much worship the ground he walks on.
Anyways I just gonna watch re:zero. The BETTER isekai anime. However, If you like this anime, you do you. This is just a review of my opinion.

What the heck is this? I love the Isekai genre but this one is just so boring and meaningless.

The plot is like a mix of stuffs borrowed from several other Isekai stories before it except it's much worse and less entertaining.

The worst part of this show is the characters. They're all good and one dimensional people. The protagonist is a good kid, and everybody he met is all good and willing to help him. Not a single bad guy shows up in all 8 episodes that I watched.

The show is also uneventful, almost nothing happens at all in the entire story. The protagonist just uses ... his slimes to clean public toilets for money, then he starts a laundry shop using slimes to clean adventurers' equipment to make money. How is that supposed to entertain anyone? Really? I have to fast forward through a few episodes because it's too damn boring.

For crying out loud, anime studios, if you don't know which novel you should pick up as a source for anime, try Yuusha ga Shinda! or Parallel Paradise. It'd be much better than this.

tl;dr no antagonist, no challenge, no development = no good

I am an isekai fan. You can hate on me all you want but I've seen more than my share of them, and unfortunately this one ranks among the lowest. I finished it out of spite so I could write this with a clear conscience. Here's why I hated this anime.

The MC is overpowered and faces no significant challenges. Everything works out somehow with minimal effort.There is no villain, handicap, or clear goal to overcome. If this were a slice-of-life that would be fine, but...

This anime spreads itself too thin. It never truly focuses on either ... the merchants, the adventurers, or the tamers, and that does it a great disservice. Each path is left half-developed, and probably would have made a decent slice-of-life on its own. Indeed, similar to Hachi-nan tte, nothing actually develops. MC of episode 12 is the same as episode 1, simply with more friends and more junk.

Nothing happens, nothing changes. That's no good no matter how you bill it.

So as someone who came from the web/light novel please let me tell you that this show will not get better. I was honestly looking forward to seeing this anime when I saw it announced, but after forcing myself this far I have to stop.

For starters the anime had cut out a pretty decent amount of material from the light novel. The funny part is that the material they cut was actually important not only for adding more plot, but also new characters and even a little bit of development for the MC. I have zero clue who thought it would be a good ... idea to remove a lot of important details from the very beginning.

Honestly, unless they pull some BS out of nowhere this anime will probably only have one season if the producers continue to the remove the source material. The story will be lackluster and the characters will become even more generic.

As much as I hate saying this, you are a lot better off simply reading the web/light novel. While they weren't amazing they were still a decent read.

If this anime were a food, it would be a single slice of bread.
Not toasted, or buttered, or anything else. Just the plainest, most boring stuff you've ever watched.
You can't really call it horrible, because there's barely anything there at all.

Looking for a decent anime? This isn't that.
Looking for a laughably horrible anime? This isn't that.
I would only recommend you watch this if you like characters with very little depth succeeding with minimal challenge.

While it is an isekai, this is one of those that you could entirely remove that part and nobody would care.
The protagonist is just a generic middle aged man who works all ... day and has nothing else interesting about him.
It's actually quite surprising that such a simple character is so rare in anime.

Overall, this is probably the blandest, simplest, most uninteresting anime you'll see for a long time.

I know that the story is supposed to revolve around the MC but that is just too much. Every single time the MC does something there is like 6 knights, 3 nobles, the noble's daughter, the butler and 2 maids. They don't have anything to do except watch a kid do some above average stuff. We never see them work or anything they just always listen to what the kid say and follow.

The slime thing is original but the fact that no one has ever discovered new types of slime by feeding them shit or other things makes it really uncredible since slime is ... a monster commonly used as a tamed creature.

Overall the anime was pretty mediocre and painfull to watch. The entire time you just see a kid going around doing good deeds while a bunch of people follow him with praises.

Concept showed a huge potential but they ruined it for me.To be fair i like a lot of disliked anime's but this one was a flop for me. Also i fell asleep during third episode so i'm not counting that as watched.

A 30-year old with memories in an isekai rebirth is an Op magic user who can never master any magic but is better than anyone else and in a childs body. Oh btw, he blushes as another 10 year old girl falls on his lap. Naw dawg this lolicon lookin ass is just jailbaiting and everyone watching for more than 4 episodes is stuck ... on the fbi watchlist.

The art sucks, the characters really aren't that deep and the closing song sucked major balls trying to include engrish.
This couldve been so much better to make it so he wasn't 10 years old, not Op, a better coverstory and more "before the isekai" flashback scenes.

a big yikes from me.

- pervert out x

This will be my first review of any show, and sadly it wont be a good review, there will be some slight spoilers, but nothing major.

I read the original manga and I love it, though I'm no longer up to date with it due to real life reasons, but I enjoyed it majorly, I reread it from the start a few times too, but the anime is not the same. The anime has taken only the major plot points from the manga, slowed it down, and kept it bare bones, fully ripping out and ignoring so many of the small things that made the manga ... enjoyable and likeable.

The anime has also shown its target demographic, not the original demographic that the manga had, but a younger audience, you can tell because they have taken out all the small parts that said the MC Ryoma had killed people in the forest. In the first episode Ryoma touches a orb that would say if hes a criminal or not, in the manga he hesitated and said he killed bandits, so he was afraid it would turn red, in the anime he just touches it, no small conflict, nothing, he just touches it. That leaves fully out the fact that the MC didnt just fight bandits, but he killed them to protect himself and others due to the bandits targeting the roads. Then there was a scene when him and other characters were looking through the stuff he took from bandits, in the manga there was small banter and even more adding to the story that this kid knows how to fight, and will kill if needed, leading to everyone else having a false idea in their head that this kid has lived the worst life imaginable, but no, in the anime that scene is replace with Ryoma throwing boxes into a portal, saying he took the stuff from bandits and goblins, thats it.

Another scene taken out of the anime that was in the manga, was Ryoma arriving in town, he goes through a check point, does the orb thing again, and the person at the counter is shocked when they found out that Ryoma killed a infamous group of bandits, Ryoma got worried he did something wrong, the person asks for proof of killing the bandits, and a spear one of the other characters was playing with before hand in Ryoma's room of bandit stuff (that scene that i said was taken out before) shows it as evidence, and Ryoma gets paid the bounty, all throughout this scene are small nice character moments that just builds things up, but nooooo, the anime cant have the small nice main character be a killer, the little MC must be clean fully or no one will like him. Id also like to mention the way Ryoma killed the bandits wasnt even a OP MC kind of way, he just poisoned them by using a poison slime on their alcohol, which shows he knows how to think.

Now I'll address the elephant in the room, Ryoma himself, I already mentioned the goody two shoes part, the never mentioning he killed people, never implying people think that he used to be abused by another town and thats why he doesnt want to leave, when in which it was just because he kept basically all the skills he had in his previous life, like cooking, resistance, strength, etc. Ill admit the magic part is very OP Isekai MC, but the way he uses magic isnt. Using different process and thinking out of the box with the science and physics he knows, and combining it with magic isnt that unbelievable (and this is us talking about a show with magical slimes and just magic in general) but EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER TRAIT Ryoma might of had in the manga, seems even further gone now. Like ill admit, he wasnt written the most complexly in the manga, but he atleast had something, now hes plainer then a white sheet of paper. Also about the anime again, its just so slowwww, i understand why, gotta extend that watch time as far as you can.

Lastly ill just go over the animation, art and sound. Its good, music is nice, animation is understandable for the budget, ill never fault the animators, they do the best with what they have, not everyone is Trigger or Bones.

Overall I did not enjoy it, it feels like a spit in the face of the manga i love, made to be only for kids when the original seemed to more be for teens. If you have kids, they would like it, i can just tell that the manga readers are most defiantly not the target audience with this anime adaption.

This series did a major disservice to the manga by rushing through and cutting integral moments that were key points in both the story and showing the regression of the main character, along with making the characters around him one dimensional. I understand that this was due to budget costs but the pace could definitely have been slowed down. That along with keeping the punchlines of a few jokes, without any of the buildup of course.

The adaptation did well in a few areas, namely the emotional responses of the viewer that were key in the original content, focusing on the found family and both a ... need to rely on someone while still being an individual.