Leadale no Daichi nite

This is another one of the generic isekai series about a girl who slipped into the video game she was playing. The plot is similar to Overlord, where the girl is the most OP entity in the world and she has a ton of servants following her. She goes around the world taking quests, killing bandits, meeting npcs created by former comrades, etc.

Pros:
+Good ed song
+Good art

Cons:
-Story is absurd and illogical
-Lack of seriousness
-MC is unmotivated and characterless
... -MC's action are so illogical

I started watching this series casually with no expectation. The starting plot was good and hoped it would get better as the series progressed. But it only got worse and worse. I'm finally dropping it at the 6th episode, because of a very illogical action taken by MC.

*Spoiler*
So, after 6 episodes, the MC finally meets another player in the world. The player is a kid (boy) who also got trapped in this world. But the kid thinks this is still a game and continues to level up by attacking city soldiers. And our illogical MC, without any consideration for his age and immaturity, and without any warning, goes to kill him. Even the city soldiers took mercy on the boy and requests the MC to capture him instead. So, finally, the kid ends up in a dark dungeon, fully tied up and restrained (like that of those torture setups). And the MC goes on with her aimless adventure like nothing happened.

TLDR: This is one of the worse isekai series. Don't watch it unless you want to downgrade your IQ.

It's began with a pair of Cayna's eyes that slowly opened and caught unfamiliar sights flashed her mind.. Cayna, with a little confusion wondered to her half-conscious self "is this the usual hospital ceiling where I always stayed in, ehh?".

Okay, let's understand the reason why I wrote a little fragment of the paragraph above into this review.

The paragraph I meant earlier was the incident where the story had begun. The problem is, the starting scene of the story which should be interesting and keep my confidences in order to enjoy this adaptation, really let me down.
Well, what can I do, because it happens quicky ... with no essence at all (still about the opening scene).. It's completely different from what I expected regarding to this adaptation.
Just like when I tried to open my eyes in my real life, and I found it was mediocre without any particular hue. Likewise, there is no differs with the results of this anime.

I'll be honest, "Leadale No Daichi Nite" has a unique story and bear more deeper essences than what you've witnessed. Seriously, I can guarantee it, because long before this story being adapted, I've been read the LN version.
Unfortunately, the studio didn't seem serious about working on this adaptation in favor of slightly increase a meaningful story, so they left so much ratios afterward. As a result, many of viewers probably miss or even not realize the true potential of the story concept behind it.

----Characters Development, Plot & A little about Cayna (MC).---
Cayna is a character who had tragic accident in her past's world.. as consequences, she completely lost the opportunity to be able to control most of her physical limbs (paralyzed), not only that, her parents also deceased at the accident. This means that Cayna grew up as a child without a fraught happiness since the tragedy occured (lost of family grace). However, Cayna, in her current isekai's world, she plays the role as a Mother of 3 children and several grandchildren whom she tries to love in earnest slowly.
(I mean at this point, Cayna vaguely teaching the viewers the meaning of pouring out affection, even though that Cayna's self was never fully loved as a daughter because she lost of her parents too early. But Cayna indirectly implies to you, that she also learns many things through the love she gives as a mother from now on).

"this is a compound advantage of Cayna's character that's totally unseen in this adaptation".

Instead of being a character who can convey it all, Cayna's character in the anime series described in more flat without the slightest struggle and clash of hearts complexcity where it needs to be presented. This is closely related to the plot of the story which got trimmed extremely, caused the displacement per scene that feels bland, or even rather to say it confusing. There's no resolution of any situations that she has completed, Cayna's journey as an adventurer means nothing to remember (too easy to forget) which also devoid of the tantalizing adrenaline rush.
The adventures of Cayna was completely replaced by a trivial story of a cheerful girl with limited unnatural emotion that can't make you flutter when you watch it..

I also ensure that it doesn't promise you anything, including the background art in every moment that looks so desert and lifeless. They didn't even have the slightest intention of producing art that gave support to the lightning plot they had corrupted. Also the CGI quality is ~~ blah blah~~, coupled with awkward and not optimal animation movements.
The only thing that satisfies me is the art appearances of Cayna's character which kinda made me fall in love with her, SHE IS INDEED A GOOD WAIFUS, although that she actually more than this in her origin.

There's no need to go in further detail about Cayna tbh, her warm touches, her acts in loving her children, also her noble character in thickness of the taste to return the favor to the people she deems meaningful was also completely erased.

Again, Cayna already described as a character who looks clumsy and strange in changes of her behavior and emotions now. I cried for Cayna, it's too bad that many people will probably misunderstood and think of Cayna as a middling character from now on T__T. I want to convey to you all that she is actually more than just a simply great character, unfortunately it would never be proven in the anime version..

“In the Land of Leadale” is what happens when You’re a fan of SAO but can’t write for shit.

Welcome to Leadale - the most generic fantasy world You can imagine. There isn’t one original thought in it. If I told You to imagine a fantasy world You would probably think of 99% of things that You find here. Demi-humans? Check. Green plains? Check. Medieval style architecture? Check. Magic? Check. Seriously the world is so bland it makes Baldur’s Gate feel fresh.
In this bland cutout of a world we follow a cardboard cutout of an OP main heroine on her… quest (?) to experience the ... world, awaken towers (why? I have no idea it never is addressed) and once in a while be a nuisance for her kids.

Our MC is Cayna - a blue eyed, blond haired (Adolf would be proud), overpowered to oblivion, dead girl turned high elf. Yes. It’s as dumb as You think. While being hospitalised, and plugged into life support in our world, she’s a full time player in a VRMMORPG (Yes… basically Yuuki Konno from Sword Art Online), she dies during a power outage and wakes up in the world of the game she played (but 200 years in the future from what she knew). Talk about a ghost in the machine. She’s kind, helpful, overpowered and has anger issues. To be fair, the anger issues make her interesting. Repetitive but interesting and it can be funny. She has 3 children who she cares about and has a thing to instigate fear in them. Pretty funny thing.

The rest of the cast doesn’t really matter. Despite being her children, they are treated 90% of the time like background NPC. She talks to them about non essential stuff, gets angry, leaves and rarely speaks of them. Mother of the year. The only interesting (and I use this term loosely) aspect of the supporting cast is that some of them are isekaied players like her. Unlike her, there doesn’t seem to be anyone else who died to get here.

The plot itself is just terrible. It seems like the writers didn’t know what kind of show they wanted to make. It’s not an action show, the action sequences are short, badly written and choreographed and are mostly boring. I guess You could call it a fantasy, slice of life comedy but towards the end You get slapped in the face with a heavy handed childcare theme that’s so bad that even the later parts of “Usagi drop” manga seems better… somehow.

In the beginning Cayna seems to have a goal - Reawaken the towers. Yes, it’s dumb, not explained properly and the towers themselves don’t have much screen time so we don’t even know what their purpose is. It is hinted that they are challenges for adventurers to overcome to get new skills but it’s never stated properly.
The most enjoyable thing in the show are the interactions between Cayna and her family. This alone could carry the whole show. But instead of showing how their children grew up during the changing of the world, without a mother for 200 years and how Cayna deals with them and the world, we just get some glorified NPC dialogue that mostly does nothing. It’s such a wasted potential it actually irritates me. There was a chance to show a different side of the isekai genre and have a strong family oriented theme but instead we got a cheap SAO knockoff.

Usually I try to find good things in any show I watch. This time it’s hard. Really hard. The jumping from the themes, the lazy comedy, the lazy MC and plot so bland You won’t even remember it at the end kills my good will. Well… there is one thing this show does extremely well. It makes SAO seem like a competently written show in comparison.

Don’t. Just. Don’t.

I honestly was intrigued at first but, the show has no direction, no plot, no drama whatsoever. I gave it a few more episodes but just simply couldn't enjoy the show, especially when MC's life is basically easy mode and everyone was revering her like some kind of god / aunt.

I watched up to episode 5 and just simply couldn't watch any more. 90% of the show was just chit-chat and I surprised myself that I watched that far. I really tried to enjoy it and watch but it was extremely boring.

The animation sucked, the story sucked, it was boring and I'm starting ... to hate isekai's with every season that goes by.

Even if I looked at the show from a "slice of life" lens, it was still bad.

The genre of Slice-of-Life in anime is often utilized to create normal, mundane, every-day activities, have appeal, in order to create a sense of relatability within the film or show it is used in. There are many good examples of Slice of Life in anime being used to it's fullest to create something simple yet engaging and relatable, yet In The Land of Leadale, despite production value, fails to do any of this.

The main genres listed for the show 'In The Land of Leadale' are adventure and fantasy, while these genres are apparent when watching, it's commonly debated that the show executes a strong sense ... of Slice-of-Life as well, which I agree is the case. However this doesn't mean Leadale did this properly. The writer of Leadale, Ceez, has a very apparent history of writing just by watching this show, as his only published novel on any site I can find is Leadale. Probably the one of the worst case of beginners luck, having their first work praised and even adapted to an anime, to support this kind of writing, which lacks progression, and proper execution of genre; While I definitely agree action is NOT needed to create an engaging work, or even a Shounen, it doesn't mean you can't do a bad job at executing something that doesn't have action. This form of Slice-of-Life is painfully lacklustre and pointless, with no engaging or new elements, in-fact, this show removes one of the only good factors of Slice-of-Life, which is relatability, as the main character is a piece of shit character who cares about no one despite how clear it is people care about them, and the writing goes off and makes the main character the good guy in all aspect.

The lack of engagement in this show, in both forms of interesting action, and relatable Slice-of-Life, feeds to the show being one of the most boring shows I think I have ever sat through, each episode feeling like a chore, just to continuously give it a chance to improve, and it just doesn't. In addition, the amount of generic, disposable, isekai tropes used in this show are innumerable, only emphasizing the blandness of the show, things such as the main character spawning in with no prior development, with overpowered abilities, being extremely old but looking like a teenager, medieval RPG setting, magic magic, MP, more magic, monsters, players, game tropes, and more magic. I think the only good comment I can make out of this is that even if the writer tried to do something new with it, it wouldn't go well or combine well no matter what they did, as they already has a terrible story plot to begin with, no amount of world building or art can make up for a boring story.

In conclusion, while I think Slice-of-Life as a genre has a lot of potential, and can definitely be engaging when executed correctly, like March Comes in like a Lion, or even mixed with action, Violet Evergarden, it is used to it's minimum in this show, and turns the Slice-of-Life genre into everything that the Slice-of-Life haters have come to know.

I started to watch this series looking for something new after catching up with Mushoku Tensei and rewatching Tate No Yuusha, and saw that this was one of the new series this season.

Although the art and animation are good, the story and worldbuilding are the most important factors, as they need to carry the weight of the series and inspire viewers to watch the following episodes and seasons, and herein lies the problem.

About the quality of that story and worldbuilding, it's not just bad, it's seriously awful. I'd equate it to a childish, ridiculous, attempt at Overlord: a person who stays connected to a full-dive ... VR game after the servers have gone offline because reasons, find themselves inside the game, is hundreds of levels beyond anyone in the world, can do pretty much anything, has unlimited wealth and a stash of super advanced gear and items, but that's where the similarities end.

In Overlord, the PC, his NPCs and the base are transported to the game world, but they're invaders that have to scout a familiar but unknown world and find their place in it, while also searching for other transported humans (if they even exist), and although they're super powerful, they need to avoid becoming targets as they're no match for the combined might of whole nations (if they were to unite). There is a coherent set up, motivation, and stakes.

In here, the PC is transported to the actual game world 200 years in the future, where her exploits are actually widely known, and where she and previous players have actually left their mark. How is this world actually possible? How did a copy of the actual, exact game world exist at the same time outside the game company's servers where the main character was actually hooked to? Aliens? It makes zero sense.

There is no agency, no risk, no stakes, no plot, no motivation other than trek the world just for the heck of it... It tries to be a comedy but the humor just swings and misses, falling flat.

All in all, a poorly written and forgettable isekai I wouldn't recommend to anyone.

It had a good premise, could have explored in infinite ways a fully op protagonist in a world she already knew.

However, they preferred to make the story repetitive, with no substantial development, the central objective of activating the towers is bland and does not add anything to the plot.

It has a lot of cliches, and the characters are plain with no development.

The only reason to see it, is as a random fantasy "slice of life". The sound and animation are ok, but the anime has no purpose at all. If you are just searching a generic isekai to just turn off your brain ... and see it passively, i recommend you this anime.

An isekai that does not leave behind any memorable nor stands out in any way besides some absurd character moments.

The story is an isekai where neets end up in a game that they used to play but shut down some time ago. They get imported at different times into their game characters, but there is no overarching villain nor goal to the story. We follow a main character that was one of the biggest neets, meet her absurd NPC children, and watch her nonchalantly break the world's "common sense". Theres no continuous plot except for one use jokes, only a few plot devices return only ... to be the "nuisance of the week".

The art leaves nothing to be desired, nothing really stands out or sticks to the memory, their outfits and equipment are standard RPG clothes based on their jobs/classes, and the background is also standard grassy plains and capital city vibe. While background is not badly drawn, the animation of the characters feel below average standard of today's animes.

The characters feel bland and uninspired, just over inflated to make certain jokes land, but they get tiring after some time and it is clearly shown. A large majority of the show is done monologuing with action and adventure scenes few and far between. I dont feel like I can connect or relate to any of the characters as well, maybe except the lizardman player.

While I dont know the source material, I can say that this anime is not something I enjoy. There are other isekais that achieve better standards by telling and presenting a better packaged series. This adventure did not feel adventurous, the comedy feels very shallow, there is no development that I can feel, and the designs didnt stick in my memory. While I am not a fan of isekais as a genre, there are much better isekai animes out there, such as the couple isekai (Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to) that came together this season.

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▶Summary and recommendation: -----------------------------------------------------------------
❗The review is the same as my review for the manga. Except I do not recommend it.
The anime does not adopt the story well. With exposition being delivered in a much less natural manner, and the aimations and art quality is just passable.

It is good power fantasy/slice of life story, but the anime does not do a stellar job at presenting it.

▶Story: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are a couple isekais with female protagonists, but most of them are not fantasy adventures. That makes this story stand out somewhat. [I shall survive using potions] ... is a similar anime to this one. But I believe this is a few scores better.

They are both Power Fantasies with similar issues of scale. The protagonist's god like powers make them uniquely suited to solve all the world's problems, while the character themselves do not want that sort of attention.
This causes the focus of the series to often switch between slice of life low stakes situations, and world shaking events. Sometimes mid-arc. In the anime, they sadly skip a lot of important character defining moments..

▶Characters: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The characters were surprisingly refreshing. While most of them are typical manga/anime tropes, the personality and situation of the main character makes them interact with each other in a unique way I have not seen before in anime.

Lastly, as a show with a female protagonist aimed at a female demographic, there is less chance for unecessary sexualization of female characters and children, and I have not seen any yet.

It has no plot. It is obvious that it was not meant to have a plot and just wanted to show some funny situations.

It has a nice art style but just got wasted with the trash writing.

All the characters were forgettable even the protagonist.

It is basically supposed to be a comedy show. Anything else is hard to justify. But even that it fails to do. It was never funny. I can't believe that whoever wrote this finds humor in having parents abuse their kids who adore them. This kind of humor repeated itself over and over. The humor doesn't work but that type of humor ... gets repeated. Just a trash show!

I hate it. If you don't believe me then feel free to try the show.