Hyouken no Majutsushi ga Sekai wo Suberu

I don’t know what it was, but iceblade just hit for me. First episode was meh, but as the next few went on I really started liking the MC, the world and characters. Something about them just ticked for me.

I always say that something being generic does not necessarily mean bad. All stories have really been done before, so it comes down to execution to keep things entertaining and I think the execution of the characters in this one was good despite the generic overpowered guy at magical academy who everyone thinks is weak plot line.

Smaller cast means more focus on them and ... time to actually flesh them out. Little details like the edgy class rival who tries to make life hell for the MC actually growing and changing over the course of the show as opposed to staying a whiny brat all the time were great.

I also think the lack of much overt fan-service was a welcome way to keep the focus on the interpersonal relationships of the characters and story. The story isn’t the strongest and mainly focuses on the MC navigating daily life at the school while overcoming his personal trauma. He’s apprehensive to making friends because of previous experiences and gradually those walls are torn down.

If I had to have any complaint with the final episodes’ arc was pretty weak. I didn’t really care about Rebecca as a character because she didn’t have much screen time, but they tried to make it seem like she was an important character and force us to be emotional with her situation. Probably a result of skipping some source content I’d imagine.

Art wise the show is kind of odd. The first time I saw it I just thought the character designs looked so weird and plain. I’m still not the biggest fan of them, but they have grown on me along with the story. The animation is pretty bad though. All of the fight scenes are subpar. Especially Amelia’s little battle arc. Someone once told me that you can’t have great animation and good character development. That’s not always the case, but in this one it is.

Iceblade isn’t the most original show around, it’s definitely trope-y and it doesn’t have the best animation, but I enjoyed it a lot which is all that matters. It was actually one of my favourite shows of the season and after onimai, the second most anticipated Thursday seasonal. I’ll be checking out the LN for sure after this.

Iceblade gets 8 out of 10

So far this is a good watch. The MC isnt a weakling who's skills take 100 episodes to develop which is lovely. The storyline isnt the greatest thing ever but it is a fun, light, enjoyable watch. It also isnt incredibly slow paced and gets to the point quite quickly which i also enjoy. Some parts are predictable-ish others aren't. Many are complaining about the art and I feel like they are just nit picking. The art is fine and the scenes so far have been just fine and watchable. The MC has the typical quiet kid dialogue sometimes and is monotoned but its not ... unbearable. Some characters voices are almost like theyre in a different kind of genre and a lot of scenes are too, there is room for improvement like there always is but overall excited for new episodes to come out and to see if my thoughts change and how the story progresses.

Alright let me just say this outright
This anime got me into working out just by watching it
I know how that sounds but holy hell idk what happened
Should I say it's actually a good anime? Nope. Can I say it made my life better? Yep.
Ignore all harem stuff as MC does and you can actually enjoy it.

Actual plot is decent, fantasy stuff is beliavable-ish, villians are dorks, harm stuff is annoying as always, pacing is fine, mandatory beach episode is present.

Overall I can recommend watching it but it does require some mental strength to pull through first episode.

This anime was a big surprise to me. I came here expecting a very generic plot and character, which I guess was true in some ways, but I saw much more than that. The more I watched the anime the more I got intrigued by the plot and everything. It was a show that I have to say really got me wanting more of and kept watching in hopes for the next episode to come out. If there is a 2nd season I will definitely watch it.

Lets get some rating outta the way! The plot, although kind of messy as in there wasn't much build ... up for a certain climax but there were multiple things happening at once, was very interesting and to say the least it kept me on my toes. An example of what I mean by messy would be as if you build up a plot for a certain event to happen, and that event happens halfway, concludes and then a new event that was completely unrelated to the story suddenly appears as the final climax. The characters I would say were somewhat generic yet had their own charm to them, I loved how cute and hilarious some their faces where and just couldn't help but admire their characters. The music in this show was surprisingly really nice. I got addicted to listening to their OP every time and their ED was bomb as well.

There isn't a lot to be said honestly, but I couldn't help but review this seemingly underrated anime of which I have seem so many hateful reviews on. This anime definitely sparked an interest in me with the build up and the story telling.

The perfect man doesn't exist they said...

Enter Ray Chad "Casanova" Chaddington White, the MC who wettens the panties of every woman he meets, who's so jacked every dude drools, is so skilled that in the world where the 7 greatest sorcerers stand as the pinnacle of power, he is considered to be in another dimension above them.

This is his story...


Animation / Art / General Visuals - 7/10
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The spell effects are quite nice, using some 3D effects that don't hurt the eyes. Overall animations are fine, though you won't see any crazy combat movements or anything. The overall art style is clean and modern with enough ... details in both characters and scenery to be enjoyable to watch.


Sound / Music / Voice Acting - 7/10
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Opening theme was cool and, and we had some Fairy Tail'esque battle music snippets in the show as well. Voice acting is the usual high quality you'd expect from JP VA's, but all in all, nothing stands out too much.


Story - 6/10
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The story is rather unoriginal, though not necessarily bad.

We get an overpowered MC with a tragic backstory who ends up joining the local magic school in order to get some friends and social development. And despite being a special sort of "outcast", he achieves just that. As he's about as close to a perfect man as you can imagine, he makes friends rapidly and has all kinds of fun and some minor adventures. We even get the ever so common school tournament arcs and everything.

Unfortunately the story is stuck spending a fair bit of time setting things up, introducing the various characters and establishing relationships, that we don't get much of a grander storyline. We get some bits and pieces and the ending tries to go deeper, but it feels rushed.

Ultimately you're stuck walking away with a feeling that you haven't really even scratched the surface of this fantasy world, which wouldn't be too bad, except you already know that you're unlikely to ever get S2, so you feel let down by the experience somewhat.


Characters - 7/10
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The MC is basically the perfect man, which is something I do find enjoyable in a show. I'm tired of all the losers that litter the anime industry, as if the only way to get people to watch anime is to make an MC who's as miserable of a person as the demographic watching them. I much prefer to have characters who are inspiring instead. It's supposed to be make-belief, so why make-belief losers?

Anyways, mr. Casanova isn't a particularly complex or interesting of a character at the core, though I definitely find it intriguing to have a one dimensional protagonist who embodies the ideal traits. Smart, hard working, talented, feels no shame, always compliments others, always helps, isn't afraid to get his hands dirty, understands the harsh realities of life and takes them in stride. One might find him borderline boring in his perfection, but again - I'd rather have boring perfection than a stupid clown like half the anime.

Secondary characters have a fair bit of screen time as well. We have a side cast of adults who are MC's mentors and past combat buddies who have varied personalities, though their characters and their past don't get explored particularly much.

Then we have the MC's school buddies, which basically just boil down to a small harem of girls, and two dudes who find mr. perfection to be amazing.

None of the characters stand out too much. Everyone gets screen time, and they all get their minor story arcs to flesh them out, but the short runtime of the show, and the fair number of characters, does mean that it doesn't go very deep or simply feels rushed.


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Total - 7/10

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A rather mediocre OP MC Fantasy anime, though I found it quite enjoyable thanks to an inspiring MC and a wide cast of secondary characters who are decently likeable.

You won't find your next favourite waifu or a grand storyline to fawn over in this anime, but you might end up with a nice husbando to stare at for a while.

I don't know whether to give this series a 9 or a 2, so I have averaged it to 5; it's so bad that it's good.

Seriously, this series is hilarious, with its ugly animation and colouration, terrible dialogue, overdone cliches and tropes, plots that don't make sense, trying to be cool and horrifically failing, it keeps me laughing from episode start til episode end every time.
The music is horribly generic yet WANTS to make you feel something without getting paid enough to truly try to earn it, which just makes me laugh with the extra melodrama that it adds to nothing scenes.

Great watch, but should ... be taken seriously under no circumstances.

Great anime if you have nothing else to watch and like the op protagonist trope.
So far the MC is actually funny, love the bromance between his friend, finally a damn harem type anime that isn’t afraid of having another male character with a fun personality, all the characters are surprisingly unique and have some growth.

Don’t get me wrong this anime is definitely nothing crazy special and has a lot of flaws but I mean come on you know what kinda anime you’re getting into just by reading the title and watching the first episode.

went in with not a speck of expectations but found myself ... giggling and liking the characters, still the same ole generic personalities BUT it’s pretty FRESH generic personalities.

Definitely recommend it’s a dumb fun watch!!!

I am tired of isekai like almost everyone BUT this one really surprised me.
Main character isn't boring and we see characteristics of other characters as well.
Animation isn't perfect but I think that we can overlook it and laugh together at some tropes like jealous student muttering Ordinary at MC every few seconds 😂
6 episode was for me the funniest so I hope that you won't give it up sooner.
What surprised me was 'female gaze' because we finally don't see boobs and other ecchi tropes every 5 minutes. But we can see muscles of men. That's refreshing!
So for exceeding my expectation I am giving ... 9 stars.

Violet Evergarden, except actually good.

“I have no trouble communicating with women” - the protagonist.
“Wtf, how am I supposed to self-insert?” - weebs that were expecting a generic isekai / battle harem.

First, this show isn’t a battle harem academy despite the superficial appearance of one, it’s a slice-of-life comedy.
Second, it’s self-insert fiction in a very old-school western way, like Harry Harrison’s and Robert Howard’s books. The protagonist is a gigachad with bodybuilder's muscles, mad sword & sorcery skills, a multitude of diverse talents, and an ability to unhook bras with his eyes. Basically, he’s Conan the Barbarian - a self-insert in the sense that the audience ... would like to be like him - and *could* realistically imagine themselves in his place because everything about this character's talents is actually entirely rational from the writing perspective. The bodybuilder’s muscles come from hours of on-screen exercise, the fighting skills come from getting coached by genius mentors and years of military service, etc. When he restores an abandoned garden as a hobby project, this is done with weeks of manual labor (again, shown to us on-screen) - not with a Lvl. 999 Gardening cheat skill he got from a goddess as a reincarnation perk. The audience can imagine themselves achieving the same result if they put in the same amount of effort, had the same circumstances, etc.
The issue is, this isn’t a Conan the Barbarian novel, this is an anime, and [harem] anime does self-insert fantasy in a fundamentally different way. Harem anime self-insert characters usually are pathetic losers with no redeeming qualities whatsoever who magically luck into success with zero effort on their part. That’s because such anime knows its target audience, in particular, it understands that the idea of putting in any effort or having any talents scares and confuses them. This contradiction between the approach and the medium is the reason why we get to hear these laugh/cringe-inducing cope takes from self-inserters about this protagonist being “generic” or “unrelatable.” Yeah, imagine relating to having no trouble communicating with women, the mind boggles.
Anyway, these takes are straight-up gaslighting. Not only is this protagonist a well-written, well-developed character, there is also not a single other character similar to him in all of ~1100 anime titles I’ve seen at the time of writing. What makes him particularly unique is the personality of a smooth-talking idiot savant. Here’s how this fine chap introduces two girls to each other:
“This sweet angel is Elisa. She's got an exceptionally beautiful heart, excels at being considerate in subtle ways, studies hard, and is vastly knowledgeable.”
“And then this one-of-a-kind lady who loves and is loved by these transcendentally wavy twintails is Claris. She has the highest level of elegance, with which she expertly weaves perfect sweetness into her otherwise cool demeanor.”
Now’s a good moment to mention that you can actually find a similar protagonist if you try - and that protagonist is Violet Evergarden. Both The Iceblade Sorcerer and Violet Evergarden are stories about a veteran child soldier returning to the civilian world and trying to catch up on normal late-teens life while struggling with the demons of their past. Except Violet is an absolute caricature of a naruto-running autistic robot dog (seriously, I was expecting a reveal that she is a literal combat robot like Terminator, it would’ve made so much sense), whereas Ray is a realistic, well-developed character. One aspect of which is being naive and socially oblivious as a consequence of spending formatting years on the battlefield. If someone tried those lines above on women in real life, they would come off as sleazy, but Ray gets away with it because those lines are consistent with his overall behavior both for us, the audience, and for the characters within the story. He doesn’t mean those lines as compliments, they are his genuine unfiltered thoughts, and he isn’t worldly enough to think of the implications.

Also, if those introductions made you chuckle - that is entirely intentional. The show is unapologetically goofy and tries its best to be fun. Because, as I’ve said above, it’s a slice-of-life comedy, not a battle harem - as long as you actually open your eyes and look. It features none of the battle harem academy tropes, notably, it has pretty much zero fanservice (of the teen-boy-eroticism kind you’d expect in a battle harem specifically), opting instead for imaginative animation sequences and low-key bizarre, but wholesome comedy. The Iceblade Sorcerer has more in common with Bocchi The Rock and Yuru Camp than with something like Mahouka or Rakudai Kishi. When some random muppet-looking house spider came into the frame saying “I want to have wings,” my mind immediately jumped to pinecones from Yuru Camp saying “konnichiwa.” As for the way the series handles self-insert fantasy - how many socially-anxious teens do you think were like, “Bocchi is just like me, fr fr no cap” while watching Bocchi The Rock? The Iceblade Sorcerer is self-insert fiction in the same way Bocchi The Rock is self-insert fiction.
Also, I’ve seen complaints about animation quality - those are daft and philistine. The show is very visually engaging with visionary and competent direction. Its sound direction is top-notch too, particularly how it uses insert songs to set up the mood.

9/10 for an entertaining cartoon.

This is sadly just a cliche, simplistic story of basically an isakai harem type protagonist. The animation is average. The protagonist is polite, but its the truth that his storylines are basic as hell. However, it is paced pretty well, and does not fall into the traps most anime of this type do, such as being from another world, being a lecher, or the multitude where they have a beach episode for no reason, even though they did have a credit scene with it.

Where its true strength lies is in it's great soundtrack, mainly the background music, not EP. Maybe the OP. It's decent, ... but all the other music is immaculately suited, and put together.
I am glad most of the characters are not as one-dimensional as the main.
The characters are smart in their design not being theyre entire character, usually. This wouldve been better if it contained some actually menacing villainy. Anyone who likes classic fairytale-like, style storylines contained in older fantasy animes will enjoy this series and all it has to offer, but probably not non-anime watchers. The lack of dealing with PTSD is laughable though... Feels like RWBY or something.

Limited re-watch-ability.
The characters are extremely well-rounded and have many flaws and strengths, although any characters from the second half are definitely of a lower grade except the secondray antagonist and maybe the little girl. Which little girl, you figure it out!

I somewhat recommend to Isekai lovers.

I am making this review in a way that I can prevent spoilers.

I would like to point out that most the people not recommending it are looking for story when that’s not the purpose of this anime. This anime revolves around Ray White adapting to a normal life after facing a past that prevented him from having emotions. This series is a slice of life regarding him opening up to new people despite people hating on him for his status. It’s like The Irregular at Magic High School only the MC actually improves his emotions and there’s no major plot. Many anime like this one ... get rated lower than they should because the viewer failed to understand the purpose of the series.

I recommend this series to those just looking for something to enjoy the day with, not for those looking for in depth plot. If you’re looking for that with this style, then go to the Irregular at Magic High School which also has two movies and a good behind the scenes spinoff (the Honour at Magic High School).

And must I say that the opening and ending fit in BEAUTIFULLY! One of the most impressive sound designs I’ve ever heard and the opening gives me chills every time. Reminds me of how Re:Zero did their endings, but with the opening instead. That opening is a masterpiece!

Overall understanding what the point of this anime is, 8/10. The art style took a few episodes to get used to but Amelia and the others made me see how cute it is once getting used to it.