Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu

I just realized this is the 200th anime I watched since I made my account here. It was a long time since I wrote my last review, so I decided to write a short one to celebrate this distinguished moment. [TLDR: I could have choosen better]

You may ask why it is recommended despite I rated it for a measly 4? The thing is, this show has some merits despite the abysmal execution. Such merits which is rare in the isekai genre. You may wonder, what merits can a generic isekai have? Simple. Finally a story which is actually finished and we got a half-decent closure. ... That alone is commendable. Well, the sad reality of the isekai genre is, it counts almost a miracle if an Isekai has an ending.

A few words about the characters. Possibly, the only aspect of the show which can be considered semi-acceptable. The MC is fine, nothing spectacular, but not a whimpy looser, which is always a win in my book. The sidekicks are forgettable cardboard cutouts and most of them are completly unneccesary. Anyway, as an Isekai connoisseur, I have seen far worse.

Now, I'm not gonna waste your time, so here is the list of the real flaws. Take it or leave it. It speaks for itself anyway:
-Low budget animation and horrendous fight coreography, especially in the last few episodes
-Terrible sound balance (and unremarkable stock OST)
-Semi-interesting premise ruined by the painfully unimaginative writing and catastrophic pacing
-Episode starts->MC goes to a new place -> meets with an old friend -> old friend overjoyed -> flashback how they met. Rince and repeat.
-I don't even know what the hell was the last 3-4 episodes. Damn, it was garbage, apart from the last few minutes. The ending is semi-decent

In summary, a horribly executed garbage show, which doesn't even meet the fairly low Isekai standards, but at least a finished product, and I appriciate the try. So, to support the initiative, I slapped a recommended tag on it. It would be nice to see more finished Isekai, but for god's sake please execute it at least decently.

Here is my review of this anime in 2023!

Story (8)
The story is about a high school student that got delivered into another world as you can see in Isekai anime. But the difference is that the MC is not the first time coming to another world. In the journey that you will find MC is too OP until He found out about the last boss.

Art (7)
The art in this anime is quite good. But I prefer if they make the graphic much smoother and the battle animation looks very intense.

Sound (8)
All the sounds that they used were suitable and adjusted to the animation.
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Character (7)
The main and supporter character is quite memorable but can be easily forgotten.

Enjoyment (7)
It's quite enjoyable to watch this movie in 2023.

Overall (7)
It's recommended to those who love action and adventure anime.

Summoned to Another World for a Second Time? What is this, the anime version of Back to the Future, but shitty in every way? 

To be honest, ask any Isekai connoisseur if they enjoy as much trash as they like, because Japan will not relent and release more than one Isekai show like this, which begs the question: "When will the Isekai trends ever die?" And in this season, more than that reincarnated aristocrat harem of a fantasy show that turns out to be subpar-ly decent, there is one show that makes the cut for the worst offending idea of all: novelist Kazuha Kishimoto's Isekai Shoukan ... wa Nidome desu a.k.a Summoned to Another World for a Second Time, which has an interesting concept, but is laid off from the shitty ideas that we've come to expect from genuine, trash Isekai. 

There is that small consolation knowing that the work itself is based off of the twist of an already existing, overused trope, because this idea genuinely hasn't been tried out before. Getting Isekai-ed to the same world twice is a pretty novel concept, since most copycat works that only do the process once have many in-between, and the majority of them all suck ass. So, this show does that process once with the whole "summoned Hero goes on a journey, claims a party of friends in the process to defeat the Demon Lord, then leaves once the job is done" shtick, and then comes back again to see how the world is doing. For once, I felt a sigh of relief, thinking that this show would be the differentiator in the sea of boring and mundane Isekai. 

But nope, IseNido (in short) proceeds to ramp up the typical decrepit wasteland of what makes Isekai shows bad, by rehashing the ENTIRE "defeating the bad guy" storyline and plot once again, which makes the "Nidome" a.k.a Second Time around a lot more sufferable than it already is. So, good concept, but still based on the overused tropes that are a dime, a dozen. 

The characters don't fare so well either. Almost all of them are unlikable, and that includes MC Setsu. Something about him shrugs me the wrong way, despite him being the capable Hero who has saved the fantasy world once, and now is doing the same thing again, which makes it twice in a row. The smugness of Setsu I don't care for it very much, but I understand that that's one part of his character trait of being unfazed, even when trouble brews around every corner. Not even the other characters could salvage the trash that this show already has, and for a very good reason: first-time authors nowadays, especially newbies, will use overused Isekai tropes as their launchpad, and no matter how bad or good the source material's going to be, we, the audience, will suffer immensely.

Hot on the heels of 2020's worst show to ever exist (a la Gibiate), Studio Elle is "miraculously" back from the dead as a hired studio to adapt this shitty Isekai trash work, and need I say more about what to expect from a third-rate, F-grade studio? With sloppy and non-cohesive animation to boot, IseNido heading for the waste bin is appropriate given how everyone in the staff team is treating it as such. Not even the music can save this show, because it's just that unmemorable, If the OP is some generic Shonen-feel song, the ED is some idol-like song that just didn't pop the way that it did. Maybe Me is probably one of the worst new-gen idol girl groups to be created in this modern day, producing songs that are just not that engaging at all since the days of Kaijin Kaihatsu-bu no Kuroitsu-san in Winter 2022. 

This show can be written off without any issues, it's just trash, period. And let that sink in for every non-inspirational Isekai series that nothing will do to change the perception.