Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja

With a dignified veteran's body and a long white beard, summoner mage Dunbalf was one of the strongest player characters in the virtual reality online multiplayer roleplaying game Ark Earth Online, even heralded as a one-man army. Together with the "Nine Wise Mages" and King Solomon, they formed the mage player Kingdom of Alcait. But one day, Dunbalf and the other Nine Wise Mages suddenly go missing, leaving no trace behind.

In an effort to spend his expiring credits, Dunbalf had purchased a cosmetic kit and tinkered with his character; however, he accidentally fell asleep during the customization process. Upon waking up, Dunbalf not only notices that the world of Ark Earth Online has become more realistic, but also discovers that he has turned into a cute girl! After reaching Alcait, he learns it has been 30 years since he supposedly disappeared.

Now tasked with finding the other missing mages by King Solomon, the avid role player proclaims his new identity as Mira—the Pupil of the Wise Man Dunbalf—and ventures forth to prove his legacy.

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Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja was set to premiere in Fall 2021 but was delayed until January 2022.

The series was released on Blu-ray and DVD in three volumes from April 27, 2022 to June 24, 2022.

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Mira

Main

Oomori, Nichika
Japanese

Luminaria

Supporting

Hinata, Minami
Japanese

Solomon

Supporting

Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Zeph

Supporting

Saitou, Junichi
Japanese

Tact

Supporting

Izawa, Kanomi
Japanese

Fricka

Supporting

Sakura, Yae
Japanese

Emera

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Natsuyoshi, Yuuko
Japanese

Asval

Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki
Japanese

Pam

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Kino, Hina
Japanese

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Mitsuishi, Kotono
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Motonaga, Keitarou

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Ebina, Yasunori

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Asaka

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Erabareshi

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"Ready Set Go!!" by Asaka

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"Ambitious" by Erabareshi

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Mar 29, 2022

SpRayquaza11

Not Recommended

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I watched this since it was there in Muse Asia, and I had never thought id ever have a more enjoyable time watching YT ads than anime.

Bad CGI is forgivable but the laughable amount of still frames, the same soundtrack being used everywhere even though it does not even fit, convoluted storytelling with several boring infodumps that only get MORE convoluted and stupid as the show progresses. everything about this show is lazy. The only plus I could see is MC having a pretty nice wardrobe and looking anywhere from slightly adorable, to the borderline-hentai-manga-loli type of cute in her numerous outfits.

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Mar 29, 2022

Mcsuper

Not Recommended

A good way to judge the quality of a show is seeing how many characters or plot points you can name off the top of your head. The fact that the only character I remember is Mira, and I don’t remember any plot points except the utter abomination of the first episode speaks volumes about how forgettable this series was to me.

The first episode of any series is an extremely important one, you hit it, the watcher will be hooked, but if you miss it, the watcher will either leave, or continue with less enthusiasm. I would be someone in that latter category. I was ...

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Mar 29, 2022

KANLen09

Not Recommended

The show where the "old man transforms into a loli" story plot becomes a reality, and all that nuttiness...amounts to nothing.

Tuesdays in the Winter 2022 season are allocated to gender-bender Isekai (well, except for Tensai Ouji) shows, and having 2 series go head-to-head against each other and airing one after the next, was a real treat: Fantasy Bishoujo a.k.a FabiNiku vs. Kenja no Deshi wo Nanoru Kenja a.k.a She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man. While FabiNiku ultimately won the battle being the better executed show, Kenja no Deshi lost the war badly by being a somewhat worse adaptation of the source material, and ... it's not for lack of trying consider the staff behind this.

The story in a nutshell, is that if you take the SAO narrative, pureed it in a similar fashion to this season's Shikkakumon no Saikyou Kenja a.k.a The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest, gave it a makeover similar to Leadale no Daichi nite a.k.a In the Land of Leadale, and mash them all to make this show. And for one, you might think that novelist Hirotsugu Ryuusen took notes and copied ideas from similar series to make it his own, only 2 out of 3 "inspirational" works made it here (SAO and Leadale) since those works came before Kenja no Deshi started its publication in Syosetu in April 2012. This source is easily a decade old, and it seems that an anime adaptation of this was really in no hurry to come out...until now, and somehow it flopped even harder than the source material which is decent to say the least.

With the world's setting done, let's introduce the characters...or rather, the only one character that really matters. The MC is Danblf Gandagore (a pun on names derived from Lord of the Rings's Gandalf and Harry Potter's Dumbledore), one of the 9 Wise Men of the kingdom in a yet-similar SAO rip-off VRMMORPG. He is respected as the strongest Wise Man magical sorcerer hero, helping out a similar friend: Solomon, whom like Danblf, is a player and king whom created the in-game kingdom together with the Wise Man. For some strange programming reason, Danblf uses a cash item in his inventory, only to be transformed into a silver-haired, blue-eyes-blue, cute and petite girl, that to add some nonchalance to it, the retainment of his powers. Obviously, anyone whom has relations to the original Danblf will instantly recognize the OP powers, so she has no choice but to profess herself as the pupil of the Wise Man while taking on an alias name: Mira (which is a derivative of the the real-world player's family name, which means mirror). All that is fine and all, but the series really has one overbearing "fanservice" in common: and that's the peeing scenes. In a strange twist, for all the work that Danblf has built during his time, in every crevice there exists a toilet that Mira can use, or even doing the deed outdoors. Like, why is this a thing? Sad to say that I can not give two flying fishes about the other characters, they're just very basic and work as what would be expected of them to do.

Any work that Studio A-CAT tries to do, there is but only one word that rhymes with all of the production: mediocrity. It's safe to say that quality was never the word when it comes to the studio's mission and vision, because it just looks like crap that's indicted because of the crappy CGI and a hefty amount of still shots. Director Keitarou Motonaga can be a chad when he does things right, but as an in-house studio director, this really is the lowest of the bottom of efforts given as the show is butchered of its source content right from the get-go, that it feels like the show is literally D.O.A.

I kinda wished the music segment can hold up, but it's the same story with the rest of the anime. Don't get me wrong, Asaka CAN create good songs (as evidenced from series like Yuru Camp), it's just that for this show, while "Ready Set Go!!" is a good song I'd like to listen to more on its own, there's just this feeling that the back of my mind, isn't the same Asaka-like quality that I've come to expect. Idol group Erabareshi has been around for more than a decade, though their roles in anime are less than desired, and it's no wonder that it feels like a throwback when they did the ED for Hajimete no Gal back in Summer 2017, like damn. They're very forgettable, as well as the totally lazy ED visuals of just a simplistic PowerPoint-like video.

I never doubted that works done by studios with bad reputations will be avoided by most people, and Kenja no Deshi happens to be that anime whom got the boot to working people whom didn't care about the source material at all, making significant changes that only degrade the anime to be the inferior version. Take my word that there's absolutely nothing unique about Kenja no Deshi, it's just tropes copy-pasted, spliced and re-hashed again and again. But I guess you can say that if you like being baited or catfished by a loli, then by all means, enjoy this "Isekai" for what it's worth.

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