Sasaki to Pii-chan

Sasaki, a 39-year-old corporate employee, has resigned himself to live a modest life without dreams and dangers. To his great surprise, his fate takes a brutal turn after he decides to adopt a Java sparrow that he names Pii-chan. The talking bird not only happens to be a reincarnation of a famous magician from another world, but it decides to grant some of its powers to Sasaki—along with the ability to traverse between worlds. Sasaki begins a lucrative business of selling technological items from his world to the less advanced civilization of the other.

However, Sasaki's life becomes more chaotic when he stops an attempt on a woman's life with his new powers. Unfortunately, the woman Sasaki saved also happens to be a government agent named Hoshizaki, who is tasked with tracking down gifted individuals like him. Forced to join Hoshizaki's secret agency, Sasaki partakes in dangerous missions to find other gifted criminals. He does not even have the luxury of hiding in the other world, where a war is about to break out. If he wants to protect peace in both worlds, Sasaki will have to become the hero that no one expects him to be.

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Pii-chan Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Sasaki Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Otonari-san Supporting

Kitou, Akari Japanese

Futari, Shizuka Supporting

Oozora, Naomi Japanese

Hoshizaki-san Supporting

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Elsa Supporting

Tomita, Miyu Japanese

Mueller Supporting

Yasumoto, Hiroki Japanese

Magical Pink Supporting

Minase, Inori Japanese

Mary Supporting

Nohana, Yuuka Japanese

Marc Supporting

Iwata, Mitsuo Japanese

Kaneko, Hayato Producer

Tokumura, Kenichi Producer

Nishimae, Shuka Producer

Arai, Kousuke Producer

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Jun 25, 2024

kchakrak

Recommended

This is an anime with truely so much going on. There are so, so many storylines and they all interweve. I didn't find it intimidating, in fact I dropped the show for about 2 months and didn't have a problem jumping back in when life allowed. If you like shows that stay in their lane move on, this is weird and interesting and trying to spin many plates. A couple drop, sure, but mostly it's incredible to watch.

The show revolves and Sasaki balancing his life in two world and his pet bird whose secretly a powerful magic user. He's an older protag and interesting guy. ... He's got a reasonable skillset and it's fun to watch him rationalise and work his way into and out of things using the skills he's picked up, for me I found it refreshing to have someone whose way more realistic than some overpowered edgelord child or a cop with a past. The supporting case are all great, but it's early days yet and there's so much more we are yet to see.

There's so much more I could say, but I think this is a show you need to watch if you want something that's a little less stuck to the tropes. I found it refreshing to see a show that isn't so obsessed with the same tired tropes. Sometimes it uses them, sometimes it ignores them, sometimes it inverts them. There are many storylines and I can't wait to see how they develop. Looking forward to S2!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Feb 25, 2025

sharfpang

Mixed Feelings

Wait for season 2.

The themes opened so far would suffice for at least 4 completely different animes. Spice&Wolf meets Mushoku Tensei meets Saving 80,000 Gold meets Jujutsu Kaisen meets Sailor Moon. There's not nearly enough time and space to let any of them take shape and spread wings, it's not so much a cliffhanger, as a 12-episode teaser for an upcoming series.

It's an awesome anime but it doesn't have an end. It feels like it was aborted mid-season, mid story arc, with so many threads open and hardly any even moderately developed. A chekov gun hanged in ep 1 and reminded of every other episode, ... is shown to be hanging there right at the end of ep12. Wait for S2, and if it's not 24+ episodes, also wait for season 3.

(also, flashy action is toned down in favor of strategy, economy, subterfuge. So, if you don't like anime where people rather talk their conflicts out instead of solving them with fists/guns/swords, this may not be your cup of tea.)

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 22, 2024

Smol_Rufi

Not Recommended

Sasaki to Pii-chan has a good begining like a decent isekai anime where the MC is the one who obtain a superpower, but the poor execution of the story were disappointing. This anime failed to entertain me even though it started with something interesting.

Here is the only thing I like about this show is the main character Sasaki and his pet Pii-chan, other than that is not in my interest. I'm losing interest at the first 3 episode, the world building is weird, the pacing is messed up like they didn't really care about the progress and skip it to the aftermath, too many plot ... hole and questionable things. If you wanted to watch some light and enjoyable slice of life anime, this one is not recommended because the plot contain a weird political stuff and a lot of weird characters which has no background that I think 12 episode is not enough to make an explanation about all that and the ending was terribly questionable. I can't say it's cliffhanging but a weird way to end a story.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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