Seirei Gensouki

Spirit Crap.

Get ready for another *sigh* light novel isekai adaptation. Though, I will say that I was impressed with the first two episodes. The isekai premise of a teen getting killed by a trunk-kun and then getting reincarnated into another world has been done to death, but I don't think I had ever seen Spirit Chronicles spin on the premise and that got me excited. Our male protagonist no.1 Haruto isn't exactly reincarnated per say. His spirit is reborn into an already existing boy of the fantasy worlds slums called Rio.
Rio gains all of Haruto's memories and physical experiences as if they're his ... own, but struggles with the dichotomy of that and his own personality as his mind has difficulty processing two different lives from different worlds.
It's a really cool idea. A better writer could do a lot with the premise. Unfortunately, by episode 3 the premise is basically completely forgotten about and the show's already low bar plummets into a Sword Art Online-esque, edgy, power fantasy with characters so boring and uninteresting I've already forgotten their names and who are either so comically evil or so comically in love with Rio because he like, farted in their general direction that they accidentally come off as hilarious.

The Sword Art Online comparison isn't by coincidence. Rio basically is as boring and flat as Kirito, is voiced by the same voice actor and after around six episodes in he literally dressed in the same black trench coat as the black swordsman. Just like Sword Art Online none of the women around Rio (or any other character now that I think about it) can do anything to move the plot forward by themselves without him having to save or help them so the show can show off how important and over-powered he is. He even has a harem, but unlike Kirito's harem-not-a-harem this harem is made up of a specific kind of manufactured waifu aimed at a certain... umm... disturbing kind of anime enthusiast... *cough* lolicons *cough* siscons *cough*.
The best character in the entire show is the Dwarf leader who is called Dominic. Dominic the Dwarf. He made Rio a sword and a house he can put in his pocket, but what truly makes him the best character is that his name is Dominic. Dominic the Dwarf... hilarious.

Unlike Sword Art Online the animation budget was running low by episode three and the sound track wasn't on a level where the audience could be tricked into thinking the show is good in comparison. The stiff, clumsy fight scenes and generic, uninspired ost only served to make the show funnier as the general quality deteriorated as time went on.

I feel a bit cheated with Spirit Chronicles. I was actually rooting for it at the beginning, but it became very apparent after a while that it was just another terrible light novel series to throw onto a fire. Don't get me wrong though, this show is hilarious in it's terribleness. I had a buddy to sit down and drink beer with whilst we laughed at how bad this was and that gives it value. In fact that's how I encourage you to view it if you're into watching bad anime and want to potentially waste your time watching this one.

In conclusion, Spirit Chronicles is crap and I thoroughly enjoyed myself watching it.

2/10 Bad

How can I say this?

I wasted another time watching a trash anime.

The phasing is good until episode 3 but after that? It's absolutely scattered ideas and I don't know how the f this story works anymore. The ideas are scattered and the mc's intention or goal is not really well explained after he went to his hometown.

The only one thing I liked from this series is Celia, I really like her cute and refreshing character but tf she don't have much screen time. Like wtf she's the only one I'm looking forward.

Idc if there will be a sequel or an ova, uh ... it really sucks in the feelings after watching this anime.

Just wanna say if you value your time please don't watch this anime. Typical isekai setup, the story really wants you to think that this is unique among isekai shows but failed.

It's crazy how people think this is actually good, they clearly never watched actual good anime, you can see right away that this came out of a low quality manga.

I'll make this quick: low budget and limited OST, low tier animation (i don't mind tbh), low effort making the story hence screaming with cliché, 0 to nothing character development (i wouldn't expect much from a isekai doe), all girls have the same annoying loli voice, they forgot to add logic and emotions to the characters, mc saves everyone (girls) without coming up with any plan, basically superman without kryptonite, 0 thrill, 0 story, 0 comedy, ... 0 sense? The only good part is when it ends.

In the end i've wasted my time and possibly wasting my time typing this but hopefully someone will read this and think twice before watching, don't waste your time, go watch some good anime.

I will tell you the plot of this series is so messy and probably will only ended as generic harem anime. In the first episode we all know Haruto has died in his original world but end up mixed up with Rio in the new world. He is 20 years old with perfect memory of his past life, what need for school if we know Rio have unique motive to search his parents friend?

I guess he really need to learn magic and sword skill in academy so he can defend himself in case he found his parent friend. But why need to run away and ... make new enemies? And let me remind you of Haruto love for Miharu. But as Rio he love Celia? So we will have 2 consciousness as Rio and Haruto. Why they have to make Isekai anime I don't get the point.

In conclusion they just use Isekai as tool to make Rio special case that will have OP ability. Probably this Rio will make his own harem, if you enjoy Isekai series with OP MC feel free to watch this series, at least it will bring you enjoyment.

Seirei Gensouki is basically a isekai spearheaded by an overpowered self-insert male main character that gets all the women within a 1 mile radius excited over him and most males either envious or comedically evil towards him because he's the protag. While the series starts off somewhat promising during school portion of the story, it feels like after a while the series forgot that it was an "isekai" anime and wanted to tell a revenge plot set in Feudal Japan. Furthermore, near the end of the anime, a lot of relatively important stuff is either left unresolved or introduced but left underdeveloped.

Regarding the ... characters, most of them are forgettable due to 3 main reasons: the females simply lust after the MC, males typically hate the mc and are often outdone by him, or they're neutral and just give the MC stuff for his journey. Yet, the very few characters that are remotely memorable, don't stay around for long periods of time. As for the main character, frankly speaking, since I personally am not a loser that needs to project myself on a fictional character to validate myself, I'm both consciously aware of the fact and annoyed when a self-insert mc is being carried through the narrative via plot armor and plot convenience. For example: Right from the start with no explanation, the MC gets the most powerful spirit companion that suffers from amnesia yet somehow remembers that she's the spirit equivalent of the avatar- master of all elements, telekinesis, and tangibility powers. Furthermore, the mc is proficient at anything he does regardless of whether he should be or not to the point of outclassing everyone including assassins, hunters, and a countries worth of soldiers at once. In short, the MC is to predictable because he's written to be a self-insert Gary Stu.

Regarding the music, the opening and ending songs are okay but the soundtrack overall was forgettable. Animation wise, it's fair but you rarely see anything that truly stands out.

Verdict: Unless you wanna kill some time and have nothing better to watch, I recommend skipping this anime because it's pretty generic.

Seirei Gensouki made a great first impression. Gotta root for the underdog! However, it starts going downhill after Rio becomes a wanted man. The story is confusing and I honestly did not know this was a revenge anime until around episode 9+. The action scenes are great but there's so little of it compared to the speedy flashforwards of his village life (Which isn't exactly the coolest to watch) The characters are adorable if you came for sweet and wholesome know that he leaves pretty much every one of them behind (often in tears) The extent of his powers also seemed to have snowballed out ... of control. He went from having only Japanese kendo knowledge from a previous life (Which understandably works wonders on rookies but he's also able to stand toe to toe with various "The strongest in ____ " I doubt the student was even championship grade) and not having magic, to essentially ignoring the "Null Magic" rule because Spirit magic can match or even surpass regular magic and beating a wyvern with his bare hands. The anime has great art! However, that's about it... I hope a second season can streamline the story a bit better.