Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita

I didn't expect it to be good.

It took my low expectations and positively curb-stomped them to death. Watching this is like watching a child throw a loaded wasp nest into your bathroom while you're on the toilet with an empty role of TP.

Not that it's exciting, no. It's that kind of dread when you see another episode has released. That's what I'm saying.

There is no story here, not really. There's a hero, then there's the real hero who's the older brother who isn't supposed to be the real hero but because he's the MC he gets plot armor that makes him the real hero. Oh, ... the "hero" is a loli. So is the "hero's" sidekick.

Then they have tits mcgee who offers little more than her stripper name implies, and some boring, half-assed villains who don't really matter.

Why am I so negative here? Easy: This whole thing is filler. Nothing of substance is going on. It's not even a pleasant slice of life. It's just characters spewing info-dumps to get to the next thing as dictated by the "plot" to move towards who knows what end. I sure don't, and I don't care.

It's rare you see such a waste of resources as this. Even something like Peter Grill put in more effort and made itself entertaining by committing to what it wanted to be. This reeks of not being anything at all.

This is the most boring anime I have ever watched. It has no real plot and half the time makes no sense at all. It has all the worst tripes with some new lows thrown in like villains diatribing, pointlessly endless self justications and explanations, and for good measure, the good guys are doing more damage to each other than the villains 99% of the time. Every one almost dies at least once but then magically gets healed to new as if it never happened. The story extols the virtue of abdicating responsibility. From the heroes brother who leaves the party to live the boring ... life (emphasis on boring), to the hero herself who forsakes humanity to selfishly just be a normal girl. There are no repercussions at all. Can they really live in lala land forever like the inevitable war won't ever destroy everything they hold dear? We have no idea since the story comfortably ignores that elephant in the room. Or does it really not matter, in which case, what was the point of being a hero in the first place?! I've watched hundreds of animes but never one this bad. Mind numbingly bad in every possible way.

Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita. Has an overall interesting premise. About a former member of a chosen Hero party, who got kicked out, due to him not being able to keep up with the rest of the team.
instead, he settles down and lives a quiet life.
Red (Gideon)even gets his own business, and the shows so far ( only made it to episode 5, before deciding to drop this anime) barely does with the premise it spends the first episode to set up, and each episode so far is either ... about how capable Red is, some stuff about the guy who booted him, and how much Rit a former princess Red saved once upon a time.
So far that's all there is to the story, beyond each character telling us the viewers through why we should care about them, instead of having the character actively interact in the world they inhabit or explore the premise itself about the former hero and his life now after having settled down.

Yea I was really disappointed by this show. it had a good first episode that sold me its premise. But every episode had been a snooze fest.

The characters:

Red(Gideon) is the run-of-the-mill skilled and strong combatant, tactician, herbalist, alchemist diplomat, ladies man, even though he arent trying, with a kind heart but some confidence issues. so totally not a mary sue type of character.

Rit is a former princess who loves Red, cause he saved her at some point in the past, and beyond the only other thing, she offers the show is her XL-sized boob window and some naked shots.
there isn't much else to her character beyond this. basically, a less capable Sakura ( from Naruto) with a better taste in men and is the MAIN reason I dropped this show.
I'm pretty confident that even if replaced Rit, let's say Naga the Serpent From the Slayers Specials, or a Nami from one piece Even Tomoko from Watamote would have been an improvement , over Rit

There are other characters in this show, however, don't know enough about them worth writing about, beyond that idiot from the past who keeps making bad decisions, after bad decisions.

the visuals are pretty and nice to look at, and I won't complain about the naked booty shots, or boob shots this shows offers. as there isn't anything else of interest beyond that HOT bath scene, in ep 5 soo much booty and booby.

Story 5
Art 5
Sound 7
Characters 1 or maybe 2
Enjoyment 3
Overall feelings on the show 4

Go Isekai Shokudou it this show done right.
or have a laugh with the konosuba gang

SRY for any grama and spelling mistakes

Usually a bad show just ends up being boring or uninteresting, and I drop it before watching too much of it, as it's usually obvious from the start it has nothing to offer. This show started off on course to be another normal, generic fantasy show jumping through the usual hoops I've seen many times before, which is fine. These kinds of shows can be enjoyable enough in their own way, so I kept watching. Slice of life and fantasy are both genres I generally enjoy afterall. But quite quickly this show devolves into some of the worst shit I've ever had the misfortune of ... sitting through, and by the time I'm at the last couple of episodes I feel like a fucking idiot for having watched it all. I can't think of a single redeeming factor of this show -- the story and characters are just so unbelievably stupid and disingenuous I find it hard to even understand how a whole team of real people could have produced and released this. The characters are incredibly shallow and it's like they've been written by an individual who has no idea how people act and is just going off of written references of how different anime archetypes behave. The story could've been such an incredibly simple springboard to just launch a slice of life show off of, but instead they revolve almost the entire show around this generic demon lord plot and the MC's momentary insecurities.

The only meaning one could possibly derive from this show is how a person is free to live their life how they see fit, regardless of what they are inherently talented at. They spend the entire show shoving this simple rhetoric down your throat, as if anyone was under a different impression to begin with. There's no mention of how authoritative figures in your life, such as parents or teachers, might pressure you into pursuing something you might not be all that interested in at a young age, which I think is a far more prevalent problem in the real world -- here the sole focus is the persons own perceived obligation to the world.

I wholeheartedly recommend you do not watch this anime. This is the kind of handiwork that etch me closer to being disenchanted with the industry as a whole. When something shows such a fundamental lack of humanity it really makes me reflect on the writers. It makes me wonder just how bad are all those shows that I didn't complete? How much of this garbage is out there and is pumped out every season, and is it more than before? It makes me wonder where we're headed, because thinking about that after watching this anime makes me depressed. I'm glad there's still a lot of shows released I enjoy, and I can only hope they continue to survive in an environment where a show like this one receives a score of 7 out of 10.

One of the worst anime I've ever watched.

*Dumb character motivations

*Zero character development

*Senseless plot

*Power system is inconsistent.

... Everybody except the so called 'apothecary' can heal. The MC seemed sociable, yet he leaves the party after being called 'useless'by a character who calls almost everybody useless. He banished without talking to his 'mentally unstable powerhouse' who doesn't have any emotional connection with anyone else but him. The so called main villain's character development is purely nonsensical. He goes from a egomaniacal high level mage to a useless clingy lifeform in 2-3 episodes. The ending feud could have been easily avoided just by having a conversation.

Only good thing about this anime that could be stated is the main heroin. And definitely not a predictable anime (who in their right mind will predict such a dumb plot?)

Don't know how it got a second season.

This is a fantasy anime with a familiar and presently popular premise: the protagonist of the story is dismissed by his heroic adventuring party for being more of a liability than an asset. Having been dismissed, the main character feels no obligation now to resolving worldly problems and has instead decided to settle in a quiet town far-removed from most walks of life.

The premise of the story fails for 2 reasons almost immediately: the setting's hero is the protagonist's sister and never once mentioned her brother being a liability, and the second reason becomes unignorably apparent quickly, and that is that the main character protagonist ... is far from being a liability at all. Just the opposite, the writing establishes his competency as being head-and-shoulders above most of the rest of the cast. When working with this information one cannot help but cast doubt upon the narrative, regarding it as little more than being forced and not at all persuasive.

The writing overall is bland, fluctuating from slice-of-life to having interludes of stakes and plot, which does little else but create dissonance in the tone of the show. You have nothing to expect from episode to episode. The viewer is not given anything to look forward to and because of this lack of promises and commitment to any overarching themes or ideas dissuades an audience from becoming invested in any of the characters or the things they are doing. There is a climactic ending which was rushed and haphazardly introduced seemingly for the sole purpose of saying the anime had a peak it climbed. The show is trying to accomplish too much and, as a consequence, ends up accomplishing little well.

The animation is fair. It has some elements of CGI which are done as tastefully as could be expected for the scale of what is being animated.

This is an unremarkable fantasy anime that does not have anything substantial going for it. It has a bushel of interesting ideas included in its writing but these all suffer from underwhelming execution. It is disappointing as the anime has enough visible effort put into it that one cannot help but speculate how differently it may have turned out had it taken its time with its themes.

As it stands I cannot recommend this anime to anyone who values their time.

This starts off with a relatively promising premise in a quasi-DnD world, but pretty much immediately pivots to a contrived love story. I don't know why so much anime insists on portraying otherwise relatively competent adults as the emotional equivalent of young teens when it comes to romance. I guess we're supposed to believe that adventurers who've been on countless quests slaying fearsome monsters managed to never even so much as kiss another sentient being in all the traveling they've done.

So the story basically turns into a woman who had a crush on the protagonist from their previous adventures deciding to insert herself fully ... into his life by moving in with him and joining his business, rather than doing something normal like asking for a date. And of course neither one of them talks about their feelings directly, content to just blush and act awkwardly around each other whenever a hint of attraction arises.

The fight scenes aren't given much effort either, where you see one power move that immediately brings down the opponent. The scenes feel like they were placed there begrudgingly because some semblance of story needed to be advanced, before we quickly return to the protagonists refusing to handle attraction like adults.

The art is decent and the inherent talent skills concept in the DnD setting are a vague move in a novel direction in terms of RPGs, but otherwise this doesn't separate itself from so many tired cliches.

Shin no Nakama ja Nai to Yuusha no Party wo Oidasareta node, Henkyou de Slow Life suru Koto ni Shimashita (2021)

Honestly, Tisse is the only character that matters just saying.

With the show, it is a bang on 3/10. It does what it does okay and what it misses out on badly. If they spent nearly as long a time developing the story without pointless action and a brocon sister then the story may have been more than mediocre.

The art style is average and does nothing special whatsoever.

The sound is meh, the OP and ED are a bit dull. They overuse certain sounds like the ... 'eh' when someone is embarrassed and hugs someone or the 'ahhhhh' in combat noise that is used far too much here.

The characters are all so boring, apart from Tisse at least she had something unique about her with the inner voice. Everyone else is just dull and I cannot bring myself to care about them.

The show overall tries to do too much in too little time and fails. It isn't the worst show ever but is one that can now just lay to rest for all time.

3/10.

Basic as basic can be. Not even worth writing a thought-out review. Don't watch unless you want to be bored to death.

Unfortunately though, due to guidelines I must make the review longer. So why is it basic? Dude is op but is not seen as op, weaker people that are not op are mad that hes op. Big titty blonde girl knows hes op and wants his seed because hes op so they fuck. Dude is op so he does op things but hes also an alchemist so now hes op in alchemy and can do an mri, brain surgery, and the most complex of ... medical procedures in the 12th century. Can he really? No but hes just that op.

The dungeons are basic cause they made them look futuristic in a world that is medieval-like all the bad anime with op mc do. Big battle at end but mc is op so it lasts 3 episodes but it could have been done in 1. Did I mention that the mc is op.

The characters are boring as boring can be and constantly flip-flop from one mindset to another and act completely different in each episode. The art is lame and is nothing special, all of the actual action is done offscreen and what is on screen is basically just the standstills fighters have where they block each other's swords, grit their teeth, growl, and stare at each other.

The anime almost showed some promise by the bestowing of gifts regardless of race, sex, or social status and could have led to some very interesting premises, such as expanding on the fact that the hero doesnt want to be a hero but is forced to because her gift forces her to act, but the amount of stuff they do with this premise is absolutely minimal.

2/10, train wreck.

This is straight up fan service, it wasn't bad in the first episode but by the 4th episode its just that.
I started watching this because it seemed like a chill anime with no drama or action but just some guy trying to run a herbal shop, which isi what I wanted something chill, peaceful and possibly cute or at least interesting and it did start off as that but then it just became fan shot affter fan shot, even during episode 4 I thought for a moment if it was a BL as well because of the way a male character fell face flat with ... their arched back and bare butt facing the other 2 guys in there with them blushing but soon after its a clip of two naked girls in bath towels walking in on the naked MC and acting like it's nothing.
No where in the tag did I see smut, hentai, or echii so I was not expecting this.

As for the plot, it starts off interesting but then it felt more episodic and second episode was just a huge flashback of nonsense things that wasn't important but I figured maybe that is just the way the anime introduces the female main character.

Then there is the heros party, something feels fishy about his emotionless sister which makes it seem like it will turn into some drama action anime however nope it kept focusing on the MC's daily life.

tl;dr basically Cheat Kusushi but with badass cranked to max


I honestly have no clue what this show was attempting to pull off and I don't think it did either. Starting off as a relaxed slice-of-life, the stakes slowly increased with episode number until it was indistinguishable from (insert generic anti-demon isekai).

I liked the main character because though there was nothing too unique about him, by the same ticket there was nothing to dislike. Kind, not-OP, emotionally intelligent, the only complaint you could possibly have about the character itself is the undiagnosed siscon.

By far issue I have with the show is the inconsistency of tone, ... content, and pace. Starting out as a slice-of-life, the viewer expects some clever problem solving and a dozen episodes worth of helping the locals and relaxed viewing. Halfway through, things start going awry and hands start getting chopped off and axes start swinging and whatnot.

I won't lie the idea of an innate blessing that you level up doesn't sound unique but it certainly sounds interesting enough to watch. But not in the middle of my chill SOL anime for pete's sake.

Lastly, the creators should take a long hard look at how character development should work. It felt artificial, more "told" rather than "shown". It certainly didn't help that the love interest had a rushed half-episode of origin before she basically became a girlfriend, or that the assassin character which had so much potential was just used as comedic relief.

Art was not my style, but that's a personal issue I suppose. I will say that the ending theme had no business being so good. If I were collecting anime themes that would certainly make it into the list.

Overall, mediocre and in my opinion not worth the watch. Definitely listen to the closing theme though. It's fire.

this is my first time writing a review, but i'll do it because this anime is pissed me off so much. gideon as the main character is awful, he is actually leaving the party not because ares asked him to, but because he is want to life a quiet live while abandoning his comrade and sister to fighting a goddam demon lord.
also another character is a joke as example, rit is an noble/knight who run away from battle after all her comrades die fighting to protect her.
i more feeling emphaty for ares, even tho he is depicted as trash and villain, he is ... genuinly trying to make sure humanity not lose against demon and do his best.
i mean if you going to make slice of life isekai then make a comedy one if there is a lot of non sense i can just laugh it up then ignore it.

Very boring and pale anime to watch. It was painfully long since most episodes were just filler or at least felt like it. It fails at everything it tries to be. It doesn't have a slice of life tag so i don't know why ppl neglect the fact that 80% of the content is just random stories without any connection with the main plot. Also the main plot finally gets the attention it deserves with the final 3 episodes and even them are boring because the main villain(Ares) is the poorest excuse of a villain i have ever seen in anime. His motives was stupid ... just like the whole story. It just doesn't work.

This was so fundamentally horrible that I just couldn't resist writing a review to recommend people not to watch it. I usually just write reviews for novels as far more time is dedicated to read through a novel and you truly get to get immersed in everything the story has to offer compared to the short-lived and often disappointing format of anime adaptations.

This is... really, it's almost infuriatingly bad, yet you're left feeling more melancholic about how this garbage had resources wasted on it instead.

The music is crap. The setting is badly executed. The characters can't make you give a single f*ck, not even ... one of them. The story is just childish at best and the animation feels both low budget and low skill.

We have the protagonist, the dude lacking both will and motivation, who spends every day preaching how abandoning responsibility is great and clearly having no idea of his own worth, not even telling his "hero" sister that he was leaving because the most idiotic in the party chased him away. Now he just spends his time in some godforsaken land where he aims to be an apothecary and live every day the same.

Then we have the big boobs that somehow found him there and forcibly moved in with no warning. This girl loves him and they quickly start flirting, kissing, hugging and whatever. We get some tiny snippets of backstory every now and then. Overall, she's also a boring character we have no incentive to like and that doesn't act human in the least.

Go on and we have various villagers who are only there to be hurt, healed and be friendly. Not a single one of them has even half decent character development, they might as well be villager A and B.

Villains in this story are either instantly finished off or easily screw themselves over, none of them appear particularly evil or interesting. Even demons are either soulless shells or morons that just seem to be yet another stupid human.

His sister, the hero, and the entire hero party are also cardboard cutouts. The foolish half-evil but mainly stupid sage who apparently want to get into the hero's pants or something, some emotionless add-on heroes and then the hero herself, the emotionless brocon who can't do what she wants because the oh-so horrible blessing dictates she be a hero without feelings, completely unappealing.

There's nothing happening in this story. Nothing. Just some forced events. It's painfully slow, every episode seems to be filler, nothing interesting happens and worst of all, none of the characters have anything resembling a soul, it's not funny in any way nor does it even have a real story. We don't get any build up, imagine suddenly starting an anime at the end of a story and just showing some filler episodes of the after-story.

We're supposed to care about the characters with just some words. Life sucks for this guy because he doesn't have a good blessing, this girl is awesome because she likes the protagonist and has big boobs, this hero is pitiful because her blessing actually secretly sucks. He's done so much to deserve this now slow life. Nah, sorry, it doesn't work like that. If you don't show us gradually why we should like them and build their characters up by the actions they take, no one is going to care about them. This is a story of side characters that aren't explained properly, it's just shoved down our throat.

Adding insult to injury, these characters are basically unlikable from the get go. They don't show much in the way of emotion, not a single one of them. All of them are painfully robotic in everything they do. The animation makes a great job of emphasizing their soullessness by being horribly bland, there's no real change in expressions, people are just static dolls, even supposedly emotional scenes are ruined by crap skills. They don't even properly animate a lot of stuff, like just making fluctuating brightness values for almost static candles, not showing movements, instead just the end position, cutting out most parts and for things like lightning, they just phase in and out 1-2 frames of yellow light at high value rapidly, it also does stuff like just moving around a static hand on a static map, not even changing lighting or perspective slightly. Everyone moves like some damn sloths at best. Truly, the animation serves to make this already bland show a disaster piece of shit, I didn't realize just how shit things could get if BOTH story and animation was this bad.

Can only believe this was written as some escapist fantasy by yet another overworked japanese dude or just someone jumping on the bandwagon of that cliché. The blessings are just a shoutout to people's talents and fates to usually just be a cog in society and the protagonist is simply a burned out dude who has given up on life and is now avoiding reality. Not sure about the studio, but if this is their usual quality, they should shut down or boot most of the staff and hire people that actually know what they're doing and doesn't do everything they can to cut down on everything that makes an anime an anime, that is, animation.

Not recommended, ever. This isn't a 7/10 show, this is a 5/10 show by skewed myanimelist rating standards, 2/10 or 3/10 at most by normal standards.

I should mention first that the title of the anime is a lie. In a way it is very similar to the chilling in my 30s series, as both pretend to be chill/relaxing, but instead continuously have a LOT of combat/drama going on for the majority of the episodes. Most of it is low quality isekai template stuff, so don't expect anything.


Setting
In this world, god gives all living things something called "blessing". This is basically your "class" / "role" in role playing games. your blessing will actually affect your personality while giving you certain buffs and debuffs eg: a sword master blessing will make you ... feel happy when you use a sword and unhappy if you don't . And finally we can "level" up our blessing by killing someone with a higher level than you. there's also skills which are separate from blessing.

Plot
MC's sister is hero and they need to defeat demon king. One of the party members forces MC to leave (secretly), as MC is relatively weaker compared to other party members. MC goes out to a remote village and starts a pharmacy. meets a princess he helped in the past, and starts living together. pretty chill until now. and suddenly we have drugs, kids taking drugs, overdosed deaths, overdosed madness where people kill each other, kidnapping, blackmail etc.. well, you get the point. It escalates really fast after episode 3.

Characters
This is a generic show filled with generic characters. Usually, isekai uses some kind of past trauma to create drama, but this show uses the blessing concept. that a person struggling to not let the blessing affect their character.
nobody will watch this show for characters, as none of them will be worth remembering even while watching.

Overall
The main problem is obviously the generic-ness of the show and how it drops all the pretense about slow life within the first three episodes. and even in terms of an average isekai, i wouldn't place it very high. Even after the whole season, i have no idea who the villain of the show is. people die, and smh come back to life by using heal -_-. In fact, in the climax arc there are 3 characters who died once (the demon, 2 members of hero party). So, i recommend not taking this seriously. just don't question anything or anyone. just accept that things happen and characters do stuff because we need to move forward until the next episode.


If you are bored and just want something as background noise, this is an okay show. I literally mean background noise because if try to actually listen/watch, you might be enraged by all the plot holes and bad writing.

This had the potential to be a good watch if they had done it properly. I havent read the light novel so i cant speak for how good of a adaption this was. But this was clearly very bad done. The pacing was all over the place, they jump from scenes to scenes without break and made it hard to follow and enjoy. The build up for everything was so badly done.

Story: 5
Very bland and mediocre story. Should had been better if the pacing was properly done but i guess it cant be helped. They most likely wanted to reach a conclusion in limited episode. ...

Art: 4
Mediocre art, the fights was badly done and you could feel it. I got headache watching some scene. They most likely didnt have so much budget for this adaption, so its acceptable.

Sound: 5
Op and ED was good and fit the "slow life" premise this story should had been about. The voice acting didnt leave so much to desire, but i wont blame the seiyuu and put the blame on the one writing the scripts for the anime.

Character: 5
Average at best, felt no attachment to any of the character beside the female lead.

Enjoyment: 3
The only thing i enjoyed was some lovey dovey moments between or main pair. The rest was awful.

It was clear that they wanted to rush this adaption. If this was in a manga format then you could had said it was axed. The director did a bad job and it feels amateurish.

The whole time I was watching this, I was thinking this show is for sure a 5, but I'm enjoying it enough to give it a 6. That got thrown out the window in the last third with how inane the plot goes, and the ridiculous plot armor a few characters have. I won't spoil anything in this review though.

Despite it's abruptness, I did enjoy the romance aspect of the couple. It felt nice to see it grow. The animation is mostly serviceable, but can get quite bad at times. I don't think I've watched a fight in anime where it didn't look like the ... hit even landed, like it was a live action fight where they were pulling punches. I guess that wasn't really the focus of this show, but it was bad enough for me to notice a lot.

The theme of doing what you want is nice enough, but the cause of the quitting seemed less personal and more forced than the show made it out to be. Fanservice wise, it's not as bad as a lot of shows, but it's got a fair amount here and there. The thing I liked the most was the romance aspect, but I haven't seen a good one in awhile so I may be starved. There's not really much to recommend here, so I'd give it a pass.