Okashi na Tensei

Since I am quite the foodie myself I was happy to see a new anime that centers around food, in this particular case baking.

A world renowned patisserie dies and reincarnates into a world that for some reason names all its people after baked goods. Fine and all, but that is basically all you can expect to see of any form of baking in this anime.
If you want to watch a very generic isekai show be my guest, but if you want to watch a show about baking this is definitely not for you.

A shame really, I was so excited to see a twist of both ... isekai as well as cooking anime, but this is just such a disappointment.
Maybe in the next few weeks it gets some baking content, but let´s be real, if the only baking that happens in the first 5 episodes is an apple pie that was neither the focus of the episode nor even shown it´s making fully on-screen... then it cannot call itself a show about baking.

I really wanted to like it and everything besides the story is decent enough, but I struggle to see the point in continuing to watch this anime if it doesn`t fulfil its premise.

Food sculptor, aka pâtissier, dies crushed by his own creation and reincarnates into a magical world, where he will realize his pastry dream by becoming a super magical being... wait what? No, no, he will realize his pastry dream by becoming the village's general... and defending it from a bandit invasion?

I though this was going to be a show about pastry, food, and maybe some magic, but if they cant stick to their own themes not even for the first 3 episodes, i guess they wont hold up any quality content through the rest. Not only that but the completely unrelated parts to the theme ... aren't even well made, just generic superficial rushed stuff, and poorly written.

I was promised anime about baking in isekai instead I got this boring stilted political "talks". Thats probably the reason why they had to put that "he is amazing patissier" schlock in front of every opening - otherwise everyone would probably forget by the 3rd episode. I am a huge fan of cookig/baking anime and I usually rate them higher than they objectively deserve to be rated because I just enjoy them so much. This was just disappointing and a waste of time. Frankly I had to watch the last 4 episodes on 2x speed because it was so boring. Dont watch it unless you ... want to be put to sleep.

This anime was not in the realm of so bad it's good, nor was it in the realm of good anime. It was so bad it's bad.
The story is neither unique nor interesting. It's essentially a carbon copy of any kindom/fief building simulator. The premise is completely ignored, both the reincarnation element and the cooking element. Even up to the final episode I was wondering when he was going to do anything interesting.
The art style is standard and neither good nor bad. Probably the best part of this show.
The characters were so one dimensional I struggled to believe they existed in 2 ... dimensions. The main character was a typical doormat Japanese MC who also gave off the impression he "liked them young". All side characters were essentially enablers with no personality, cartoonishly evil (even for an actual cartoon) or sycophants who love the MC for the most basic of favours.
The anime was, if anything, too realistic as it spent the entire time on mundane affairs and ignored the actually interesting stuff like the sweets and magic.
I would like to note he has EXTREMELY interesting magic and apparently no interest in using it despite its utility. Imagine buying a ferrari and then deciding to cycle for the rest of your life.
Others will not enjoy this series unless they are of the same mindset as the moron that though this show was good enough to release.

Full on disclosure, this is probably the worst Isekai I've watched. Like seriously.

I mean, I hated almost every concept of ...😤

First of all, what's with the character names. Was it really necessary to name them basing on foods just to relate with the story. WTF is Lord Casserole 🤦🏾.

Is this story about food or about war. Just the way they mix the story makes me sick. When I started watching this I expected an plot where the main person brings new food while exploring the new world. How are children even allowed to fight!!!

I dropped the anime since I didn't feel the need to watch ... it but the 5/10 rating was due to the fact that it's an Isekai(I love them) so watching this failure just made me wanna cry.

My suggestion don't watch this. Don't!!

As previous commentators already states, the show is one of the epitomes of mediocrity.

What made me drop this show however, is the fact that clearly the makers are in some sort of budget constrains. During the whole series (even seeing fragments of the final episode), background characters are dull, uninspiring, and in no possesion at all of DRAWN EYES. I am aware that drawn eyes are a large part of one's budget, but completely ommiting them from the non-important characters is hurtfull and very annoying. This sole reason alone made me so distracted from the story, that i lost the initial enjoyment watching this ... series. Loss of potential. 3/10

The usual copy-pasta isekai. A genius Patissier (pastry chef) dies and reincarnates as the son of a small rank noble. But, sugar is expensive in this world, so his poor ass can't do any baking :(

This show's main focus is about managing (and developing) his lands with the help of isekai tropes and a few baking puns. The plan is to eventually get rich/resourceful enough to provide for his baking needs. As with most Isekai, this is also filled with tropes. The characters are really boring. MC is OP (although he rarely uses his OP skill) and is a smoother talker who can negotiate/deal ... with even the most experienced nobles. Nobody questions his knowledge (especially HOW this barely 12 year old kid knows baking recipes that nobody ever heard about). All female characters (except one red haired noble lady) are useless.

The only good thing about this anime is the relationship between MC and his father. It is rare to see good (and alive) fathers of male MC in Isekai. They do a lot of bonding, respect each other and are almost always in sync. When MC learns about his OP skill, the father discusses about this properly and makes sure to keep this a secret to avoid unnecessary attention. MC's father kinda saves this show by being an almost secondary MC.There is no harem (yet), which is maybe another positive.

Anyway, it is still generic isekai trash, but slightly better than the usual trash. So, i would recommend most people (whose time is valuable) to avoid this. But if you are going to watch isekai trash anyway, then i suggest picking this up instead of the usual isekai trash.

Dying from sweets? That's unique...but retracting to the "copy-paste" Isekai formula that's plagued the AniManga industry for years now, that's a lowbrow, bruh.

It's just sad how many authors thought they have a unique premise to the ever so saturated Isekai genre, but forgetting that the premise has to be backed up with the plot, and that's where the entire work is doomed even before the work could get an upstart. Yet, this is exactly the scenario for novelist Nozomu Koryu's only work that is Okashi na Tensei a.k.a Sweet Reincarnation, a perfectly average work that got its start in Syosetu in early 2015, and then ... spawning with the LN with 24 volumes ever before the anime got its start. And yes, if you're thinking of giving this anime a go, please hear me out first before you do so.

So first up, I'm going to spare you the pain of watching a rather mediocre Isekai: this anime describes the VERY definition of the word "misleading" at best. Yes, it features patissierie...food like sweets and pastry to be exact, but most of the time, it's stuck to the very same tropes that we the audience have been and now suffer from in Isekai every season, and Okashi na Tensei is clearly no different from the rest of its contemporaries. Moreover, I'm just sensing that Japan sure doesn't care, and by some perchance, makes the trick to propose old works that only will see anime adaptations years down the road, only to forget that Isekai is the safe cash cow that will make profits even if losses are predicted beforehand.

That said, what Okashi na Tensei does well in is its simple plot of a reincarnated adult-turned-kid who wants to run a business selling sweets, and surprisingly, its characters, whom of which many are references to real sweets in life. Though I will say for the MC that is the bright kid of Pastry Mille Morteln: "Boy, you're in the wrong show! If you want to really make sweets, join Anne from Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, and you two can become child prodigies together to make sweets and build a sweets empire together!" Aside from the copy-paste repeated plot that has Pas (name in short form) fight for his lowly Morteln family by ascending to the likes of bigger kingdoms like the Hubarek family, forcefully getting engaged to the children (because that's a thing that the adults will capitalize on to build the next generation) with names like Petra and Licorice, yeah...give your children unique names so that you can have a sweet marriage when they grow up, I see your game there, ah hah? Aside from the adults having names like Pas's father Casserole, the caveat is that you'll have to see all of the usual BS like kingdom politics and family infighting, not to mention arranged family marriages, just to see the plot progress for Pas to finally make baby steps in his venture to create his sweets kingdom.

It feels like the patisserie segment is only a piece/slice/share of the pie while the usual Isekai tropes are just slathered everywhere else being the filling of the pie, almost like a bonka (apple) pie that is not filled enough, or if it has a bad taste due to the wrong mixtures of fruits and spices. The baking takes at most 5 mins, while the rest of the episodes are all your usual Isekai shtick, and that should say something about either if Nozomu Koryu was a clown or a genius that he/she managed to fool his/her audience into thinking that: "If you want to see some real sweets baking, please read my work...and I promise you that as much as you love reading Isekai and put up with all of its nonsense, the sweets will come and make your time worthwhile." To which I say, it's total BS, it's clear which parts of the story makes the entire work profitable, and it's definitely NOT the sweets portion that makes this show and its original source material, the way it is.

Everything else surrounding Okashi na Tensei is average at best, from SynergySP's art and animation, and even to the music, which I've definitely heard better from sajou no hana (given that it's only Sana), and YuNi's ED is just...kinda annoying to hear after awhile.

If you want shows that aren't complete white lies to its premise, try Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi a.k.a Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, which I still believe is one very recent show (from Winter 2023) that sticks its guns better, or even Isekai Shokudou a.k.a Restaurant to Another World, which is a rather soothing good time of an Isekai/fantasy show. It's just a shame that all of the Isekai BS we've seen and tolerated for years now, it's happening to unique-but-not-so-unique works like these that has got producers and directors thinking that they have a small gem, but they're diamonds in the (literate) rough.

If only I rather not take this show at face value, then it's a pretty decent show, all things considered. But when you have something like "Sweet Reincarnation" in the name, it's anything but sweet, a total flaccid waste of time.

Past few years have brought cooking shows into spotlight. As a hedonist myself I find these entertaining enough even though story is often lacking in depth or anything useful really. I hoped this show was one of those except for cakes. Let me tell you straight away I was wrong as main character does everything other than make cakes. It's basically a painfully generic issekai but instead of filling episodes with pointless romance or flashbacks they talk about food. There's no food making anywhere, at least not in first three episodes I've watched. Instead there are bandits, magic, him gaining power, etc.

That said, I am ... not dropping this because there are no cakes. Am dropping this because it's one of those shows in which authors introduce some game-breaking mechanic and then fail to realize it applies to other things than what they planned with story. Whole thing ends up being illogical and stinks of plot convenience left and right. You know, like in other shows where main character gets power of seeing the future and then gets surprised by something or falls into a trap.

It's not offensively bad, but it's bad enough and authors absolutely hope and require you to lose all critical thinking and logic to make this any form of enjoyable.

A 4 is an honest score for this anime. He doesn't do much with making food or planning on how to make a food creating village until the last 4 episodes. Honestly the reason I checked out this anime was because I thought it was going to be a food battle isekai show. The trailers were incredibly misleading. Instead we got bland isekai "politics." I only stuck around with this show because I had to see if they were committed to not giving us "cooking with character moments." Thankfully like I said before the last four episodes delivered a little bit more but we still ... had a lot politics every episode.

Pas is your basic main character isekai protagonist, he's incredibly gifted with knowledge from our world, gets a cheat skill, OP in everything, everyone is always impressed by him, everyone always loves him no matter what, and he never loses a single battle.

Nothing new I wouldn't waste your time with this show. Watch something better.