Otome Game Sekai wa Mob ni Kibishii Sekai desu

Blackmailed into playing a dating simulator set in a matriarchy, an ordinary man must put up with the unbearable and convoluted world until he clears the game. After countless days of grinding, he finally manages to beat it, but his hardcore gaming comes at a cost: extreme sleep deprivation and hunger.

While heading out to the convenience store to solve one of these problems, the man tumbles down the stairs and falls unconscious, only to wake up to the worst possible realization—he has been reincarnated into the game as the mob character Leon Fou Bartfort. Now trapped in a world he despises, Leon must use his knowledge of the game to navigate through the plot safely and sustain himself in a society where the odds are heavily stacked against him.

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Fou Bartfort, Leon Main

Ootsuka, Takeo Japanese

Rapha Redgrave, Angelica Main

Fairouz Ai Japanese

Olivia Main

Ichinose, Kana Japanese

Fou Lafan, Marie Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Rapha Holfort, Mylene Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Luxion Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Lucas Supporting

Hayami, Show Japanese

Sera Fanoss, Hertrude Supporting

Amamiya, Sora Japanese

Fia Atlee, Clarice Supporting

Suzushiro, Sayumi Japanese

Fou Roseblade, Deirdre Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

WEST GROUND Producer

Nemoto, Yuuka Producer

Tokumura, Kenichi Producer

Nishimae, Shuka Producer

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Jul 17, 2024

hexashadow13

Recommended

tl;dr: An anime with an overpowered jerk protagonist that’s fun to watch screwing with people, though the low production values do hinder things.

Mobseka is an anime where a guy who absolutely hates otome games gets reincarnated into the one he was just forced into playing. Furthermore, he gets reincarnated as just a mob character named Leon. In visual novels, a mob character is essentially an unnamed background character who has little to no relevance to the overall narrative. And seeing as he’s been reincarnated into not just any otome game, but an incredibly generic one heavy on all the standard tropes, attending high school as ... a male mob character is quite difficult. Thankfully, his knowledge of the game makes things much easier, especially his knowledge of a highly advanced ship from an ancient civilization.

This anime requires some knowledge of otome games, but not that much to be honest, which makes sense as this is targeted at guys who generally don’t play otome games. Everything you need to know is explained reasonably well. There’s some small details that it skips over, but they’re not that important. Furthermore, as the story advances it deviates further and further from the plot of the original otome game and thus the otome game aspect increasingly matters less and less. On the other hand, it leans a lot more heavily on fantasy and sci-fi tropes. It’s a mish mash of a bunch of very disjointed elements so overall the world makes no sense. However, that’s very much intentional and it pokes fun at it pretty often. Still, ultimately this means that there’s not really much of an overarching plot either and the major plot events that do occur are pretty much just random.

Rather than plot, the anime is heavily focused on characters. Particularly the main trio of Leon, Angelica, and Olivia. Leon has an awful awful awful personality, but that’s what makes him a great protagonist. I would still consider him a good person, but he’s in general really bitter and cynical and can be really mean to people he doesn’t like. He’s overpowered through cheats, and he knows he’s overpowered through cheats, but he still exploits them for all they’re worth. I’m sure he’ll definitely be off putting to some, but I found it hilarious how he acts like an asshole and makes everyone hate him but in the end there’s nothing they can do about it.

His ability to connect to others is awful though. Most everyone hates him, but there are some that can still see his good aspects and try to get closer to him, most prominently Angelica and Olivia. However, he has no idea how to handle that and ends up pushing them away. With most protagonists like that, they quickly get character development such that they overcome this issue, however with Leon that doesn’t seem to have really happened at all yet. He has a good amount of relationship development with Angelica and Olivia, but it’s mainly due to luck and the two of them pushing toward him anyway even when he pushes them away. This makes him seem somewhat lame, but overall fits his character well.

It also makes Angelica and Olivia look a lot better and they both come out as pretty amazing characters. Olivia was the protagonist of the otome game, while Angelica was the villainess. In the game they were enemies, but due to various circumstances in this world they end up as best friends. There are various barriers in place beyond the standard otome tropes, such as Olivia being a commoner and Angelica initially being a high ranking and pretty harsh noble, but they have a pretty good relationship arc where they work through that and come out with a very well fleshed out bond. To be honest, the two of them have better chemistry with each other than they do with Leon.

There are a number of other prominent side characters too. The most prominent are Marie and the heroes of the otome game the world is based on. Marie is a girl that was also reincarnated into the world as a mob character, though she’s trying to use her knowledge of the game to replace Olivia as the protagonist. And for the most part she seems to be pretty successful as she’s on the harem route with all five of the heroes of the otome game in love with her. Every single one of these heroes is immensely annoying. But that’s what makes it so enjoyable when Leon crushes them. In the arcs after that, a few of them surprisingly actually get some character growth and I suppose it’s pushing towards making them more likable characters. But as of the end of the anime, they’re still really annoying and it’s satisfying to watch them lose to Leon.

The art and animation are unfortunately not so great. Like it starts out okay, but as things progress it’s clear it’s barely being held together. There are points where it straight up uses a slideshow instead of actual animation. The action too ends up pretty terrible. This is the type of anime that’s best aspects can still mostly shine through despite these issues, but it’s still disappointing. Character designs and designs in general for the most part are pretty great. It makes pretty good use of the mismatched world. The OP and ED are both pretty solid in terms of the songs and visuals. The soundtrack is not particularly memorable.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 21, 2024

guritosao

Mixed Feelings

I loved the light novel and manga a lot so I came To watch the anime. I don't hate it, other than the animation and some character designs everything is pretty much on point, but it does feel a little less enjoyable than the manga and light novel, especially light novel where it just feels like the characters have more emotions. Leon is still great, he was pretty accurately adapted his evil smile and scummy attitude is enjoyable. The problem mostly feels in the female cast which are actually pretty good, they are not dumb and got a strong nature but they felt a bit ... soulless in the anime.
Overall I would say that if you have not read any other source material you will enjoy it, else you might get a little disappointed but you won't hate it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Aug 2, 2022

Saku_k

Not Recommended

Another trashy isekai anime, this time under the guise of being trapped in an otome game setting.

Like many poorly written light novels, the title serves as both a short summary, and to describe a gimmick to make you interested in the series. Otherwise, how else would you discern it from the hundreds of other isekai series? Just like most works that follow this approach though, the title ends up having nothing to do with the series.

This is supposedly a story about a mob character trapped in an otome game, hence the title. However, the protagonist ceases to be a "mob" character after the first episode. ... He is suddenly incredibly rich, and has some cheat AI supporting him that can basically do whatever he wants it to do. He is a typical, modern isekai protag.
So the mob setting disappears right away, even though the author likes to continually tell us otherwise. (just saying you are a mob character doesn't make it true.)

So what about the otome game setting? Don't worry, that falls by the wayside immediately as well.
In the beginning, it would appear that men have almost no rights. They just exist to be married off to women. Women as well, have male slaves and stuff. Ignore the fact that none of this makes sense when you start to think about it (how do they support their population?). Instead, focus on how this is a matriarchy that is unfair for men. Women look down on men. etc.
As the anime goes on though, we realise that this is just a typical isekai. The two main heroines are basically just regular heroines. They never appear to look down on men or anything. The 5 dudes from the otome game are still worshipped by all the girls at the school (even after they are stripped of their status).
The setting only exists to get you to start reading (or in this case, to start watching).

The story itself, I'm not really sure what it's supposed to be about. It's not clear to me what the protagonist is trying to do. In the latter half of the series, it seems the protagonist is trying to make events fold out like they do in the game, but it's not very clear why, and he doesn't do a good job about it anyway. Nothing in the series is explained particularly well. In the beginning of the series, I believe he is trying to find a nice girl to get married to, but the only thing he does in regards to that for the entire series is have a tea party in the very beginning.

The characters are very generic. There is not much in the way of character development. The two main girls just spend most of the series being sad, or being the centre of some drama. I can't tell you much about the two main girls though, because the anime never tells us much either. I sat through 12 episodes, and I still know practically nothing about them.
All the other characters in the show are just side characters. Nothing more really to them.

Outside the action, the art is ok. The show has mech battles though, and they aren't particularly interesting. It's not that the art is bad, it's just not very exciting either.

I think the show would've worked better as a comedy. The most enjoyable part of the entire series was when he was playing the otome game, before going to the isekai. Because it was funny. A series making fun of otome game tropes could've been a lot better.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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