Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei

I love Isekai.
I hate Isekai, when the fantasy world is stale.
I love Isekai, when it's done right.
I hate isekai, when it just feels oh-so-wrong.
I love Isekai, more so in the form of parodies because they are comedic and subvert expectations.
I hate Isekai, when the content amounts to nothingness.
I love Isekai, even when it feels like trolling trash.
I hate Isekai, when it's unbelievably actual trash.
I love Isekai, but Shinka no Mi is legit dysfunctional trash deep down to the very core.
I hate Isekai.
... And the cycle repeats itself all over again. Where thou art are you, Isekai God???

Hoo boy, where should I really start with this one? It's no doubt yet another one of those shows with the Isekai Reincarnation setting, combined with the story that's very akin to Isekai Spider or even Arifureta, and has comedic moments like last season's Tsukimichi. But make no mistake when I tell you that Shinka no Mi a.k.a The Fruit of Evolution by novelist Miku has none of all of the above's exquisite taste whatsoever, in the span of the wide standard wish-fulfillment fantasy that peaks at its most ridiculous and garish. I kinda liked Spider-sekai and Arifureta even more so, even if the animation is garbage, much less Tsukimichi being self-aware about its parody and elevates that comedy into something worth watching. Sure, Shinka no Mi has all that, but trust me, you'd find yourself gawking in awe of how horrible the absurd story plot is with the same character archetypes gone haywire up to 11, coupled together with yet again, horrible animation. Hello, what is the Hotline that I can call for help!?

The story itself (or plot rather) can be dumbed down to these obvious truths: imagine if the MC is like Arifureta's Hajime Nagumo or Spider-sekai's Kumoko playing the usual reincarnation formula with his/her class but has the looks like Tsukimichi's Makoto Misumi, only fatter. That's who Seiichi Hiiragi is: an ugly fatso that with the dawn of the Isekai reincarnation light, gets transported away from the rest of his class, whose duty is to repel the Demon Lord and his army. Since Seiichi didn't like the fact that even in the fantasy world he still looks ugly and unglam AF, there's the secret formula: the Fruit of Evolution. Eat 10 of these and you'll evolve into to becoming the stereoptypical good-looking generic MC #69420 who is certified OP and continues to gain more altitude and powers to become ridiculously strong. The best part is that these nut-like "fruit" are abundant everywhere, so levelling up is a cinch. When in an Isekai did it become so easy and lax just to be the center of attention? Only in Shinka no Mi, you will be.

The cast of characters are a total joke. Seiichi Hiiragi for one, IDK why he has such a childlike voice, only dialled up to 11 in the cringe aspect, and I'm in total disbelief that someone like Hiro Shimono could VA his character. It's as if that Hiro Shimono had been inhaling helium just to get that intended voice, and it's very annoying that I had to turn down the volume umpteen times just to avoid hearing Seiichi's rug-tug expressions. The harem of girls that come after Seiichi's way aren't so hot either. Beginning with the red gorilla Saria, I always find myself facepalming the unbelievable relationship between human and gorilla, not even after the transformation into a pretty-looking girl with HanaKana's voice in it. The next person to come: the Calamity Artoria Gremm, who's claim to fame is only that she is a misfortune through and through. Everyone who swarms around her leads to their deaths(resulting in her Calamity nickname), and it only took both Seiichi and Saria to accept her that she is willing to drop her guard and confide trust in them.

While I can confide that at the very least both Saria and Artoria had the most screentime around Seiichi for their characters to be fleshed out, the one that come after only becomes more ridonculous like Lulune the donkey, Louise Balze the Valkyrie warrior, Oliga Calmeria the slave cat and Karen Kannazuki (going off the actual photo with the obvious harem of girls). I understand that harems can be both good and bad, but while Tsukimichi has beautiful god-like mature adult beasties at Makoto's side, Shinka no Mi just goes with the flow to accept all that comes Seiichi's way, regardless of their origin stories. If you want to incorporate a harem, fine, make sure that it has appeal, but not to the stupidity of being sacrilegious with the absurdity that mind-boggles your audience.

You want to know what's the bigger mind-boggling sin of this show? The garbage animation, that despite feel. and Children's Playground Entertainment (the studio producing this season's Saihate no Paladin a.k.a The Faraway Paladin) collab name on this list, both studio's aren't at fault for this for helping (cooperation) with the production. If you need an entity to blame, vent your frustrations at the totally relative and unknown studio Hotline instead, of which funnily enough, adding the production staff (even the director) altogether, all went into definite hiatus since 2013 (well, except for scriptwriter-cum-series composer Gigaemon Ichikawa who mainly worked on children shows). That should immediately tell you that as much work as they've done in the past, no amount of time gone will ever repair the fact that this show was lazily done and just to get by the day for "acceptance" quality. I don't even think that the novelist Miku also batted an eye on his/her work, because the earlier incarnation of yet another work of his/hers (Isekai de Cheat Skill) just shows that the writing prowess will forever be trash. But since trash work goes hand-in-hand with even trashier production, the adage of "birds of a feather flock together" is the right way that I can sum all of this.

Sound-wise, it's also outright bad. Is this really that dull and mundane, because it truly is to let the OST of Yoshino Nanjo's OP and Poppin'Party's ED sink the fact that they're both unimpressive songs, and not even mediocre, let alone decent ones at that. Usually I don't expect much of the music department to ever hold itself up, but wow is this some of the worst OSTs that I've heard in watching anime for years, and I'm an anime OST Maestro myself to really know what's hot and what's not.

You don't need me to tell you that throughout this review I've been ranting that after the brillance of Summer 2021's Tsukimichi as a parody Isekai, with Shinka no Mi, we finally felt what it was like on the other end of the spectrum, where the grass is definitely not greener on the other side. For one good thing we can trade for a bad thing, but Shinka no Mi is a show that if you liked what you saw, that's because you watch it as a troll or joke to get the enjoyment values out of it. I really want to laugh at how horrible this show is, but my brain cells have suffered too long just to voice all of these "shitty" opinions.

Trash? Definitely. Worth watching? NOT recommended.

If it's an Isekai genre then you have already hooked me up!

After watching the first episode I asked myself "This is definitely the worst first ep I have seen in a while, isn't it?".

After 2nd ep, "what the f*** I am watching?"

The animation and sound was like a hentai studio work lol, Really poor animation and sound quality!

It kinda gives you "Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou" vibes.

... Here is a brief summary of the show-
The plot follows Seiichi Hiragi, an ordinary high-schooler who is sadly being bullied in school in front of everyone because he is fat and no one fu**ing cares even the game system bullies him by giving him, Race-"Barely Human" cause he is fat, Gender-"Creepy Male" again cause he is fat. In a sense, this anime thinks being fat is cursed! Wtf is this plot? After that, he ends up in another world where he eats a mysterious “evolution fruit”. Some stuff happens and then he meets a certain gorilla and she falls in love with mc and wants to marry him, later Gorilla evolves into acute waifu(WTF).

It also has "A typical Isekai harem set up where girls fall in love with mc for no fuc*ing reason whatsoever!

I will still continue watching this series(finger crossed), just out of curiosity, how bad it can get. In the first 4 episodes, I think it has already hit the bottom!

This show, or rather, this fantasy fufillment of an adaptation lives up to its standards of being one of the biggest jokes this year. Jokes are meant to bring laughter but for Shinka no Mi Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei, that translates to an embarassing testament of exactly what's wrong with the isekai trope. When you have a gorilla as a main character, there's more than red flags than raised.

We live in a world where literally anyone can come up with an idea and put it together to sell a product. I don't know what the author was thinking when they crafted this show's ... premise but is anyone actually impressed by the promotional material on this MAL page? If you look over the preview videos and promotional poster, what you see is a boring generic main protagonist surrounded by a colorful cast of cute girls. Oh wait, you can barely see the guy! He's there in the background looking like a fool, because that's what he is, at least from his past. In the fantasy world, male protagonist Hiiragi Seiichi turns into a champion with a gorilla girl as a companion. Before you start firing questions at what that means, it basically spells out all the wrong ingredients on how to sell a proper story.

Now, I will say the anime makes a bold attempt at trying to win the audience over. What went wrong? It's because Hiiragi is the one of the most boring characters you'll witness. He's just a kind person with no special traits or characteristics that defines his character. Really, that's about all I can say for Hiiragi because his character has no depth, development, or unique qualiies. Gorilla girl Saria isn't any better after she turned into a human through evolution. Yeah, that's right. She went from an animal into a human because the show's plot demands it. When we see her as a human, there's really no change to her personality at all. And really, she's just as lackluster as Hiiragi.

The rest of the character cast are far from intriguing. We have tomboy adventurers like Altria, to sadists like Ellis. Others such as the cat girl Origa Carmelia (that's right, this anime can't be complete with a cute catgirl) or Valkyrie leader Louise felt like something crafted with no coherent effort. The only character that added some slight interest to the show may be Kannazuki Karen. She adds a more mature tone to the anime but unfortunately, the show's plot makes little effort to develop her story. To sum it up, this anime's character cast seemed like it was made by a whim or as if the author wrote them from their wildest fantasies.

Among the various sins this anime commits, the story is perhaps the biggest bust. Let's face it, this anime's plot really had no direction or even an idea what it's trying to do. Some episodes introduces to new characters while almost every episode jokes around with itself. The jokes in the anime quickly wears out because if you've seen it once, it feels like you've seen them all. And finally, don't expect this anime's character relationships to be deep or meaningful. An interspecies romance between Hiiragi and Saria is best described as childlike at best and dumpster fire at worst. And that's what sums up this anime altogether. It's a dumpster fire.

No, studio feel, Children's Playground Entertainment, and its producers could not save this anime from being a bad joke with its animation quality. The character designs looks cartoony and outdated compared to modern standards. Every scene in this anime feels like a sitcom gone wrong. Really, even the action scenes are mostly forgettable and the overall chereography kills any sort of value the show had. I'm sorry to say this but Shinka no Mi Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei really represents the worst of what isekai can offer. It's that terrible.

(Updated review after episode 4 to comply with MAL's Review Guidelines)

With only 4 episodes out at the time of writing, there is a chance that this show pulls something... ANYTHING out of its hat... I doubt it, though.

I'll go out and say it. This show is just mind-numbingly boring.
This isn't one of the "Ex-Arm"'s or "The Room"'s or any number of other actually atrocious shows of the world. Those at least had the decency to be so bad they were enjoyable.

We have generic LN Isekai protagonist no.1652 version. "Fat loaner" in generic world 537. Type "Demon lord threat" with passable art, sound and flat design. ... OK, so far so standard. We have had three of these at least each season for the last few years. But what sets this show apart from just being average and generic but potentially enjoyable is its characters and plot.

None of the cast shown so far have shown anything but being an unfunny, unimaginative rag which my pass as a caricature of a trope if you squint... a lot.... while hammered.

Now, all of this could still be excused and somehow be made passable by a vaguely interesting plot, but here the show commits its final sin. Now, you may be here because you hear of it being described as the "monke" isekai. This slightly intruding plot point could have gone places, but no its a single episode waifu of the week plot which is instantly resolved by turning her into generic waifu no.832 "red hair, house skills" and pushed to a side for a non sequitur of disconnected beats which are probably meant to be the "plot" for genric waifu no.833 "Tsun, bad luck"


The show has nothing, offers nothing, and can be nothing. Even writing this review is giving it more thought or energy than it really should get

'The Fruit of Evolution' is allegedly an anime television series based off a light novel of the same name, but personally, I take issue with this dubious origin story.

In 1969, Adam Levine published a notoriously controversial text — one that, without doubt, had a substantial impact on perceptions of religion, morality, media censorship, and even on the very substrata of modern culture. There are many factors attributed to our divergence from faith, but none can as succinctly elucidate this drift as a question I asked myself as a child — and one that many people have pondered upon:

"Why?"

Why? Why am I being told this? For ... what purpose, and with what explanation?

Clearly, the author of this series had similar thoughts. Only a blind man could create something so profoundly devoid of light. On that note, here's a quote from the aforementioned Satanic Bible:

"Can the torn and bloody victim 'love' the blood-splashed jaws that rend him limb from limb?"

Allow me to correct for context.

"Can the unfortunate viewer of this show 'love' the cursed world in which they were born, just to suffer through it?"

No, they can't. I can't. I have no more faith left — not in God, not in myself, not in the world.

...

'The Fruit of Evolution' reaches a degree of flagrant incompetence that I didn't think possible. To refer to it as 'bad' is insulting to anything I've ever called, well, merely bad. It's incomprehensibly terrible. It stoops so far below the realm of mediocrity that it's absurd. There's not a singular positive quality: the animation is dull, ugly, inconsistent, and stiff; the characters are fools with no actual 'character' whatsoever aside from the most mind-numbingly tropey bullshit; the humor is lame, immature, and in utterly poor taste; there is no depth to the story, nor any semblance of interesting or detailed writing or theming anywhere to be seen.

I swear on all that is holy, one of the most important scenes in the entire series is literally only possible because the authors forgot how to do basic multiplication. That's how little effort it was made with. Not only that, you know what the annoying, bland, unfunny, uncool, pathetic excuse for a protagonist says in spite of this?

"It's basic math!"

You're a basic bitch. You also made out with a gorilla. Freak.

1/10

This review will contain minor spoilers - however this isnt a particularly plot driven anime so it really doesnt matter.

Fruit of evolution appears like it attempted to be a generic and average isekai, the type you usually see at least 2 of each season, and yet somehow it failed to copy and paste the same standard formula that all the other clique isekai have adopted.

Now full disclosure, I personally enjoy trashy isekai. I know I will go and see a doctor eventually. However, even my underserved love for the standard isekai traits could not make me actually like this anime. In this review I will ... explain why.


Firstly there is no plot, this isnt particularly surprising for a trashy isekai but it would've been nice to see one nonetheless. Instead the protagonist just seems to wander around almost randomly building his harem and abilities as he goes. Those two aspects in particular will be the focus of my criticism as they are the key aspects of most trashy isekai.

The harem itself is unique to say the least. This anime, for reasons I cannot begin to fathom, put an unexpected twist on his harem.
He marries a gorilla.
Yes she turns into a beautiful woman later on, but he fell in love with her before she did so. He also gets a Donkey that turns into a girl but that wasn't even surprising at that point.
As well as this, there's none of the satisfaction of him getting a harem. The girls just immediately fall head over heels in love with him the moment he sees them. For example, the only human girl officially part of his harem (in the anime at least) is meant to be a loner who purposely keeps away from people and yet seems to fall in love with him about 5 minutes after meeting with no actual actions from the MC himself.

Its not worth writing too much about how OP the main character is. As per isekai rules he becomes outrageously overpowered almost instantly and without any effort, yet infuriatingly he keeps complaining about his new powers despite there being literally zero negative consequences. Obviously, he never uses any of them effectively but still manages to slay the most powerful monster in existence, so there's no need to worry if he's the strongest or not.

Moving on from the plot, the studio itself didnt do the anime any favours. The animation quality is terrible, something which doesnt work well when trying to animate cool fights with magic flying around, and the music/ost was forgettable at best. That said, if the animation and music was incredibly high quality then it would only feel out of place considering how low effort the actual story was, but that doesn't justify the end result.

Moving on from classic isekai traits, I will mention the other main focus of this anime, comedy.
Comedy is meant to be subjective so I wont go on an egotistical rant about how my taste in comedy is superior to anyone who likes this anime, however I personally found it was very hit or miss, miss being the most common result. I will begrudgingly admit, though, that I chuckled at a couple of jokes but the overall quality of the comedy was about as good as everything else.

So... since ive been insulting it so much, why have I given it a 4 and not a 1? Firstly, as previously mentioned I have an irrational love for trashy isekai and although I hated almost everything about this anime, it was still an easy way to turn off my mind for 20mins. I never found myself actively dreading each Monday when I would watch it like I have for some anime.
(*cough* See my review on Seven deadly sins dragon's judgement *cough*)

Furthermore, the anime knows that it is low effort and this works in its favour. Some anime attempt to be a high quality and well done masterpiece and it only makes it fall harder when it ultimately fails to reach that standard. Fruit of evolution simply doesnt try and doesnt raise your expectations as a result. You know you're going to watch something trash and you get what you expected.

Overall, do I recommend you watch this anime?
Of course not, this show sucks. There is literally no reason to watch this, there are better things out there that exceeded this anime in all qualities.

However, I was able to make it through all 12 episodes without any major negative symptoms so if you read this and still really want to watch it, im not going to try to stop you.

Thanks for reading my review!

I never write reviews because i think that my opinion is already represented good enough in other peoples reviews and because my english is not good enough to fully cover all my thoughts. But this time it is different. This time it feels like a heavy burden lays on my shoulders and i need to guide others around this massive mistake that consumes important lifetime which you could have spend on sharpening pencils or peeling cherries.

I LOOOOVEE Trash-Overpowerd-MC-Fantasy-Harem-Isekais but this one right here made me suffer serious brain damage. I will make it short so you can start with every other activity on this planet ... besides watching this show.

Trash Story

Trash "worse-than-hentai" Art

lazy sounddesign

trash boring minus one-dimensional characters

But why 3 not 1??

1 point for pretty waifus

1 point for the few good jokes

and 1 point for kissing gorillas (amazing 11/10)

Thanks bye

This one opens on the wrong foot. Honestly in three minutes flat I HATED this show and was ready to drop it.

The main message of this show is one thing. Be attractive.

No joke, the main character is bullied by his classmates, classified as "barely human" by the game... just because he's chubby.

The show continues with that theme as the thing that made him not just thin but so beautiful he needs to hide his appearance was the fruit of evolution.

That again, he EVOLVED to be attractive. This extends to the gorilla you see in the poster, gone by episode two by the way. ... no ugos allowed, be beautiful only.

Sadly the show has nothing to say past this point. Every episode is game Isekai 101 only done very poorly OR it's ripping off episodes from other series and just placing them in random places to fill up the run time.

There are times when the punchline is... disturbing... In one side gag the "joke" was that the MC was going to get gang raped by men. The joke is, that they're gay... Oh and this is fine socially, it's their way of introducing themselves to all new male members and so far nobody has escaped...

That joke again in case you missed it, they're gay so obviously they rape any man they see... Transphobia at it's finest... (Barf!)

The art style reminds me of older cheap hentai style from the mid 2000s.

The characters have no personality and instead depend on exaggerated responses... for no real reason.

Animation is not too bad at first but starting episode 4 the cracks are starting to show with recycling and still shots to cut costs.

Enjoyment is zero. I had to take breaks per episode while watching it was so bad.


I'll be honest, a part of me thinks they made this on purpose hitting all the wrong notes just to fuel negative attention but a more cynical part thinks no, it's just an inapt attempt to cash in on a popular genre so they focused mostly on the waifu designs for merch & figurine sales.

You ever watch a show, and a few episodes realize that it would probably have better character development and writing if it was a hentai? Yeah, that's this. I actually managed to make it 11 episodes in before I gave up, but the 11th episode was just too much for me. This show just tries too hard (and fails) to be witty, crude jokes go over the top to the point of absurdity, and while there are laughs to be had throughout the series the bulk of it is just going to be spent with your brain turned off waiting for something interesting to happen ... (it won't).
The show has a couple interesting elements (fruit of evolution, characters becoming human from being animals) but does very little in exploring these. The animation and pacing are slightly subpar most of the time, but more or less watchable. Its far from the worst thing I've ever seen, but it really doesn't have any redeeming qualities to make it stand out from the hundreds of other Isekais and harem shows.

Recommendation: On an objective level, there is almost nothing positive to say about this series, and it is easily one of the worst shows I have ever seen. And yet it was so bad that I actually perversely enjoyed it. If you enjoy watching bad shows ironically, this is a fun one, but otherwise steer clear.

Story: Our protagonist Seiichi is a fat loser with no friends when his entire high school class is transported to a fantasy world. The god that transported them takes pity on friendless and bullied Seiichi, giving him the ability to eat Fruits of Evolution, which more or less ... evolve him beyond being human and make him on par with a god almost instantly. This is a pure power fantasy through and through, and is not to be taken seriously in any way. The show itself knows this, often lampshading its own ridiculous isekai cliches and showing some level of self awareness, but that doesn't actually make the story very interesting. The rest of Seiichi's class is shipped off to Barbador Magic Academy to train as heroes, and it seems clear that something is going to happen with them if this ever gets a second season, but just going off of what we get in the first season, it's a completely pointless dead end of a subplot, as Seiichi still has yet to see or interact with them in any way by the end of the season, even though there are usually a few scenes about them in each episode. In general, the rest is highly predictable, with a new girl showing up in most episodes, having a personal crisis solved by Seiichi's ridiculous power level, and joining his harem. The harem, by the way, is mostly animals that have also eaten Fruits of Evolution and become human, but they also transform back and forth, so you get treated to the occasional sight of Seiichi kissing a big pink gorilla on the lips, for example. It's certainly unique and ridiculous and the spectacle almost makes it worth putting up with this complete nothingburger of a story.

Audio: Have you ever wished for a show where Zenitsu from Kimetsu no Yaiba would do his whole obnoxious screaming routine for 25 minutes straight every week? Because that's pretty much what you have here. There are a lot of things that make this show bad, but this is the thing that makes it close to unwatchable.

Visual: Cheap and lazy animation to an almost shocking extent. This show looks like its budget was whatever change the studio found in the couch cushions. Animation is stiff and unnatural-looking, action scenes are almost all slideshows, and there are cut corners everywhere, sometimes to the point of hilarity. I specifically remember one scene where they put a reaction pop up bubble over the head of a character who was already on screen just so they didn't have to animate him turning his head toward the camera so you could see his expressions. The only positive thing you can really say here is that at least they didn't go full CGI for the series, because that's about the only way it could have looked worse.

Characters: What characters? At most, you have a few one-note gag characters like Guscle, the muscular bodybuilder of a guild leader that only ever wears thongs. Seiichi is a blank slate isekai protagonist, and apart from a bit of minor character development around Artoria and her inability to get close to anyone because of her bad luck, all of the harem members are 100% devoid of any personality beyond "really likes Seiichi".

In conclusion, this show just sucks. It literally doesn't do anything right or have any redeeming qualities, and I certainly can't recommend it in good faith. But if you're someone like me that gets a kind of sick enjoyment from watching something terrible just so you can experience how completely idiotic it is firsthand and make fun of it, then this is one of the best of that specific type of show out there.

This show is bad. Really bad. Though not entirely the show's fault, as it is a fairly faithful adaptation. You can enjoy the show, but only if you're willing to accept that there is zero character development, stupidly fast pace, and virtually no overarching narrative of any import. (One virtually non-existent threat). If you're willing to lobotomize yourself you can enjoy...this. Whatever this is. I was embarrassed watching this show. No one in the room with me, I consistently paused and asked myself: "What the f*ck am I watching?" This is just really really bad. Frankly - worse than Season 1 part 2 SAO. BAD. ... And yet. I'm probably gonna come back and finish it.

Fruit of Evolution is so dumb it regresses to the intelligence of a primitive ape.

The first two episodes are brain damaging. God hijacks the school speaker system, an entire student body waits casually to be isekaid, the fat kid gets dumped in the middle of nowhere, a pink gorilla wants to marry him, the gorilla dies and becomes a waifu. That last can't even qualify as a spoiler because the very first shot of the show resorts to blatant tit-baiting tactics, showing a busty naked girl throwing herself at the protagonist before going back to show the events leading up to it. If that doesn't ... scream artless eyeball grabbing, I don't know what does.

It tries to pitch itself as an easy-watch, out-there slapstick comedy, but ends up an over-the-top, overacted, unfunny mess. Screaming "Nani!!" in an exaggerated voice and shocked expression was funny when I was 6. But you wouldn't bait 6 year olds with boobs so who is this for? The voice acting is not just bad, it grates on the ears. Everything sounds like it's been passed through a cartoonizer filter dialled to 100. It's impossible to take seriously, even in the supposed 'touching' moments. How can I feel any emotion when the dying gorilla's (female, mind you) monologue sounds like an old man crossed with a baying donkey? Then there's some midget bunny who TWies tO SpWeaK wiKE tHiS in an over-exaggerated, high-pitched, cutesy voice that begs to be strangled.

The production quality is abysmal. Shots are blatantly repeated, characters move across the screen like cardboard cutouts, the animation is as smooth as a powerpoint presentation. Sound effects appear from time to time only to match what's on screen. At other times it is entirely absent, so there's no sense of atmosphere. The background music is left to fill these gaps and it sounds like it belongs on one of those handheld tetris games.

When nothing works, the show resorts to throwing as much eye-candy as it can to beg you to watch. Literally, the only thing redeeming about this show is the character designs for the girls, who are genuinely cute. But what a waste to put them in a thing like this. No amount of waifus can salvage such garbage. And they're too one-dimensional to be memorable anyway. 5 episodes in, the show has given me nothing to care about.

First of all, I don't have a problem with the fact that this is another Isekai but let me tell you something before you start watching

I wanted to drop this series after the second episode, after the first episode it seemed like an average Isekai maybe with a interesting idea, but nope it is just pathetic.

The story is the same as always, characters development are so bad and annoying, even the sounds are bad, I had not laugh, I got cringe.

I just finished it of pure curiosity, how bad can it go.

Overall I do not recommend watching this anime, is a waste of time.

I'm writing this review basically because I haven't seen anyone who has also read the novel do it, and I wanted to be the first to review the series as an adaptation, instead of a simple anime.

With that said…

The anime "Shinka no mi" is a cheap, rushed and a bad adaptation in general.

I'm just guessing, but it seems that, whoever is in charge of this, is trying to compress 5 volumes in a short season anime. That's why I said "rushed". For someone who read the novel, the anime is just jumping from one joke to the next one, leaving any sort of character development ... behind.

I should say this, when I saw the first and even during second episode I was laughing out loud; however, by third and now fourth episode I finally understood the problem with the story of this anime: there is none. Shinka no Mi is a parody of the isekai genre, especially mocking about the OP-MC trend. But by leaving out the character development, the anime became a generic comedy isekai. In that aspect it reminds me to Arifureta (yes, I'm doing the comparison too); though Shinka doesn't take itself seriously.

Now, about the "cheap" and "bad" part: It is noticeable from the very opening! The abuse of close ups, generic panning of static or looped cuts, and a total lack of dynamism in what should be accition scenes, this anime has it everything to be called "bad animation". And also the fact that is done in 2D makes me think (yes, is just my appraisement) that the budget is lower than that of Arifureta and Kumo Desuga (in its last 6 episodes), which made those mistakes in 3D.

Overall, this anime is a 5 when it comes to an adaptation, and a 3 if you don't have the background of the novel. Why? Because the novel is a parodic comedy and, so far, the jokes are all there. And obviously, without the context you won get the joke; that's why it has a better rating for those who have read the novel and a lower grade for those who doesn't.

This anime is an embarrassment to isekai genre, because of titles like those there's so much hate on this genre and I'm not surprised.
In terms of story there is no story and i couldn't tell if they tried to go for comedy or harem either way it wasn't funny, the amount of cringe I had to go through just because i hate dropping anime got me sick and really tried to understand that some people may like it but I don't see it, it's horrible in every aspect maybe aside from animation because you can't really go wrong with that.
There is too much fan service ... to the point that you get sick of it and every character has to blush every time they appear on the screen, voice actors are beyond annoying and I feel bad for the good va's that had to go with this horrible script so please don't watch it if you value your time and mental stability.

HELL YEAH ISEKAI ANIME, YOU'RE EXCITED RIGHT?! RIGHT?!
When I first watched the trailer of this anime, I thought it has interesting premise, get isekai'd and got gorilla as waifu. I thought it would be a funny isekai comedy, but boy oh boy, Did I expect to much from isekai anime.

This anime has a lot of problem both on technical problem and story problem. First of all, the story, I think you can give an aspiring novelist or a highschooler to write story better than this crap, this anime don't know where to take the story. In one episode they introduce new character, next episode introduce ... new character again, and guess what in the next episode? New harem girl unlocked again. boy oh boy, would I be delighted to be the mc of this anime. new harem girl every episode? heck yeah buooooy. And another note, this anime always joke around themselves every episode, cool, must be funny right? yeah it's funny on the FIRST EPISODE ONLY AND THEN USE THE SAME JOKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN, the joke is really cringey, the delivery is bad, the animation doesn't help either.

Okay, moving on from the atrocity of the story, lets talk about character shall we? Here, we have Hiiragi Seichi: a fat loser in real life that got isekai'd and have OP power just from eating big nuts (yeah, big nuts of evolution that produce c*m if you eat it and level upgrade). Wooah the dream of otaku right?. This mc doesn't have any depth at all, he's just making random faces that's so ambiguous that you don't even know what the heck is he feeling, is he scared? is he horny? or maybe scared and horny?. Even in the span of 12 episode He doesn't get a character development in the slightless at all nor he posses qualities that makes him good or different from trash isekai mc. The Others character aren't any different, Saria the gorilla after becoming a girl, become simp to mc, Big titties tomboy girl become simp to mc, The donkey MC bought? simp, the knight? Simp, The loli girl? you guessed it simp. oh my oh my the dream of otaku that never touched grass.

Even if we cast it all of these problem aside, there is still problem you can spot. Yes, the animation is FUGGING HORENDEOUS, It's like every scene is animated by different animator without proper coordination, you can notice every quality drop when the scene changes, heck the faces of MC sometimes look like kirito, or orimura ichika, or shiba tatsuya depending on the qualities of the animation. Every movement in this anime is pretty limited and toned down to basic that looks like my college assignment in animation, Facial expression is fugging ambiguous, you can't tell at all what really happens, the atmosphere doesn't really change even in critical situation, the bgm is almost the same everytime.
There is almost no redeeming qualities of this anime, not even the OP and ED, Maybe they shoul allocate their budget into the animation instead of hiring Shimono Hiro and Hanazawa Kana as Voice actors, which still doesn't help the anime, the voice acting still sucks because of how horrible the lines and story is.

Final verdict: The trash anime that every otaku who never talk to girl will like. 1/10

if you like generic isekai, you would like this, but for me it was not very good, the fight scenes were stupid and the plot is too, also the mc is just plot armour. during fights the enemies just stand still, while mc is charging up attacks or running at them or something similar, the other characters during the fight do absolutely nothing during fights. The plot is just generic isekai plot, mc gets isekaied and somehow gets super op. i find this very similar to isekai cheat magician. i get that this anime is humour based, but it is not even funny, its just ... stupid.

I would mark this a spoiler but its a bad isekai. by the start of the 4th episode you will probably guess the entire arc im about to describe. New character gets introduced with an interesting disability of having -2000000 luck. the protagonists get teleported to the castle of the second most powerful being in the world. Main character finally meets his match when he meets a new ability he has no resistance to. Main character is bluntly told "new skill unlocked: Bind resistance" and instantly kills the dragon. protagonist gives the new character a random object he found by chance in the dungeon that ... completely cures her disability. She falls in love with him. his current wife says shes cool with polygamy.
I couldnt sit through another episode if i tried. the comedy basically boils down to something random or ridiculous happening and the main character either screams, cries or both.

I have never rated an anime this low, and it's even worse that this is from my favorite genre: isekai... and I have watched a lot of isekai. I'm used to campy, I'm used to power fantasies, I'm used to the subtle game mechanics, I'm used to harems. Isekai is a guilty pleasure genre, so I know they won't all be masterpieces and I don't mind that. But this... I think this might actually be the worse.

This anime is like if someone took Arifureta (From Commonplace to World's Strongest) only read the synopsis and then lazily made an anime kinda like it, while throwing in ... random isekai tropes from a variety of sources that they also only skimmed the summary of and then remembered that they also once heard of Dungeons and Dragons so they threw in some random game mechanics too because why not?

Very few things make sense, and nothing is really explained. So I often feel like the only reasons i even vaguely know what's happening is because I've watched so many isekai that I know the formula by heart, but even with that, this anime is constantly throwing in weird elements that make absolutely no sense, especially the weird game mechanics and dumb villian back stories after-the-fact. It really makes no sense and you can't even pretend to suspend disbelief for a lot of it.

Honestly, it's a hot mess and that's a shame because the premise is good, the (main) characters could actually be really likeable with some small tweaks, and it could be a fun ride if it weren't trying so hard to make fun of everything all the time. I'm not sure if this anime thinks it's clever or a spoof or what, but it is absolutely failing at whatever it's trying to be. I'm not sure if it even knows what it's trying to be.

Maybe it's trying to be funny? If so it failed at that too. Honestly I'm not even sure if I'm going to finish the season. I'm only vaguely interested in seeing if the MC will get to meet his classmates before the season is out, but I don't know if that's enough to keep me going.

So I started writing this review the day before the last episode aired and I just have to say I’m pretty disappointed with this show. Not that I expected anything from it in the first place.



Shinka no Mi is another run of the mill isekai which honestly, I had zero expectations for but at least I thought I could get some sort of laugh or “ah” moment from the MC but this anime just lacks any sort of flair or hype. Every episode felt like a waste of time because nothing interesting actually happened. At least lower tier isekai like Death March and ... Mom isekai, there were some decent moments and even funny moments but watching Shinka no Mi just turned my brain off.


I believe the biggest issue with this series is practically everything but I will divide it into plot, characters and pacing. The plot... Well I can’t say much happens here. The MC and his class/year (not too sure) get sent to another world. How original. However, the MC is separated from them and spends the first 2 episodes in a forest where he becomes super OP due to eating the Fruit of Evolution. He meets the first girl and there starts our “grand adventure in a new world!” Except the fact that he spends literally 80% in the same place and achieves nothing of note other than adding idiotic girls that fall for him in less than a day to his harem. What I can say Shinka no Mi’s plot tries to do is add some sort of “suspense” or “odds” with the ongoing war with humans vs demons and the opposing kingdom (who summoned MC and his class) training his class to be heroes. Problem is, it is executed poorly and I mean very poorly. They appear sporadically throughout the episodes, only getting little screentime and instead we have MC receiving a new girl to his harem. There is also some sort of subplot about some of them in his class being at odds with his friends and blah blah blah nobody cares when it hardly gets any sort of development.



Moving onto the characters, being as bad if not worse than the plot. It’s MC and his glorified harem. No sort of development for either one of these characters other than Artoria, who was able to overcome her need of isolation from others due to her unluck but soon, she just becomes MC’s hypewoman/lover. No one here is worth remembering or caring about when they achieve zero development.


Finally, pacing. I’ve already alluded to the pacing in the point that the MC spends most of the anime in the same kingdom and does nothing. The plot only started to progress in the last 3 episodes and you get to this point in the anime and I just think “It would’ve been nice if more actually happened.” The anime should’ve spent less time on pointless characters and events and tried to develop the other side of the story like his class and the enemy kingdom working with the demons and also the Demon Princess wanting to be civil with humans.


At the end of the day, Shinka no Mi is a gag comedy isekai and I only really realised this now. Perhaps I had too many expectations for this. After the MC became OP, I just wanted him to find his class and beat up the people that bullied him. That entire plotline would’ve been worth the watch much more than the entire thing I just watched. If Shinka no Mi doesn’t take itself seriously, why wouldn’t the audience do the same?