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Given the current state of their world, this gives survival vibes.
Jose and Kai are the main leads here. Then, there's the demi-fiends and ogres although I wonder if there's a main antagonist in the show or just just a war between the factions. Jose so far leaves a decent impression but he has to show a lot more for his character. Good to also know this show is taking itself seriously so no nonsense in the story. I think this might have some potential.
Tsukasa Tanimai's series is quite the intriguing series going into traditional historical fantasy.
The ruthless brutal warfare between humans and demi-human tribes, such as the Ash Monkeys of Macaques dealt by guardian bearer Olha, the son of Moloha Vezin, to save Lag Village, he is one of few people who is revered with the godstone, which replenishes their spiritual energy. But for the ordinary village boy of Kai who has to work hard to become strong, he has quite the unorthodox energy to see memories of people in another world, induced into his own memory, but trying to command the magic to work is the knowhow that he doesn't know how to activate.
Together with his buddy and leader Manso, Kai gets along with the village people, though the horde of orgs that he thinks he can defeat one of them by trying to use his fire magic, it put him on the line of fire towards death not knowing the side effect of using magic that burns his spiritual energy faster than most, and furthermore to get dragged by the same org towards the ocean, facing imminent death for real.
Aimi Noda's OP and AKB48's sister group STU48's ED are just alright.
Asahi Production's animation seems better this time than Fruitmaster last season.
A traditional fantasy with a reverse Isekai twist, Teogonia is quite the intrigue.
This world’s seriously brutal—how can anyone live in peace when demi-human tribes are constantly attacking one after another?
But life’s about to take a major turn for our protagonist. With memories from his past life, he gains knowledge of magic and starts applying it in this world. Like your classic weak-to-OP protagonist arc, he’s nearly killed by an Ogre… until he pulls off some fire magic just in time.
The show’s definitely interesting on its own, but yeah, I wasn’t a fan of how the episode ended either. Kai could’ve used the blade on the Ogre, but nope—for plot reasons, we had to let the Ogre carry him all the way to the river. Classic.
Love the first episode and it's interesting to see a female warrior like Kai uses magic. It seems that they are using godstones to refill their spiritual mana. The orgs attack their company and Kai finally able to create a fire magic, and it's a literal cliffhanger at the end. This anime has a potential to be good, the animation was on fire! 🔥
jrry_kn said: Love the first episode and it's interesting to see a female warrior like Kai uses magic. It seems that they are using godstones to refill their spiritual mana. The orgs attack their company and Kai finally able to create a fire magic, and it's a literal cliffhanger at the end. This anime has a potential to be good, the animation was on fire! 🔥
Kai uses the pronoun ore, so I think they are male.. but I could be wrong.
Pretty generic, and just changing one letter doesn't make that NOT an Orc. LOL That aside, it was OK, but nothing I haven't seen before. I'll give if a few more watches before I decide to keep or toss it though.
From an initial glance, its giving Twelve Kingdom's vibes, but of course it adds in demihumans as antagonists. But at least the setting is finally different than the slew of other isekai that we've been getting over the years, looking more like ancient Asian countries than what most typical isekai do, which is more European fantasy type settings.
The first episode of Teogonia made a packed start. Although the art was simple, the animation and fight scenes were average. It didn’t bring any major innovations or surprises, but it was a nice episode in terms of starting. I’m curious to see how the upcoming episodes will turn out.
jrry_kn said: Love the first episode and it's interesting to see a female warrior like Kai uses magic. It seems that they are using godstones to refill their spiritual mana. The orgs attack their company and Kai finally able to create a fire magic, and it's a literal cliffhanger at the end. This anime has a potential to be good, the animation was on fire! 🔥
Kai uses the pronoun ore, so I think they are male.. but I could be wrong.
jrry_kn said: Love the first episode and it's interesting to see a female warrior like Kai uses magic. It seems that they are using godstones to refill their spiritual mana. The orgs attack their company and Kai finally able to create a fire magic, and it's a literal cliffhanger at the end. This anime has a potential to be good, the animation was on fire! 🔥
Kai uses the pronoun ore, so I think they are male.. but I could be wrong.
@Chillmanga I'm sorry if I had a wrong impression about his gender. I read the description of the anime and it said that he is really a male. 😭
Teogonia definitely sets the tone right from Episode 1 — it’s gritty, survival-heavy, and leans into world-building with a more grounded fantasy approach. I appreciate how the show isn't rushing and is taking time to establish the rules of its world: spiritual energy, magic limitations, tribal tensions — all with a serious tone and minimal fluff.
It actually reminded me of how structured systems can help people survive and thrive in chaotic environments — much like how the SSO ID Rajasthan Portal brings order to the many moving parts of citizen services. Just as Kai is trying to navigate a harsh world where every decision matters, citizens using SSO ID can efficiently access health, job, and utility services in one place — without getting lost in bureaucratic “battlefields.”
Both systems — one fictional, one real — emphasize how important it is to have reliable support and a unified structure when facing complex challenges. I'm curious to see if Kai can learn to harness that same kind of structure to master his powers and survive in this unforgiving world.
Not much more pleasure derived from watching than from initially reading the synopsis, considering the fact that it's an introductory episode and a fairly basic and standard one at that. But the world holds enough promise to be further fleshed out and become sprawling chaotic fun. I like these neverending war anime which are essentially about just one large intractable conflict extending out in every direction and the rival ideologies, interpersonal conflicts and drama, and internal conflict and demands of inward reflection & growth contained within and partially borne of that overarching conflict. This seems to be a pre-industrial age, but we're seeing scenes of rural tribal villagers. There are rural villages all around the world on our planet today which in isolate look 100 years or a few centuries back in the past. So it's not enough context to tell how advanced their whole nation and civilization or the whole human species in this world is, basically.
(Western-style) ogres, orcs/goblins, and the Japanese-style (porcine) orcs are such standard go-to fantasy baddies I'm so accustomed to seeing fantasy (including isekai) works inundated with them, and even though, at least in the English subtitled translation I watched, the pig demi-humans are called ogres, they're not like either Western ogres or oni, but more like those Japanese-style orcs rearing their heads again. But the macaque demi-human fighters are a type of opponent we don't normally get to see.
The main thing which has been weighing on my mind over this episode though is once again the isekai aspect. Is it just one of the ones which doesn't really "need" to be isekai and which the role of the main character's previous life and identity and all those other world references will be extremely marginalized and seldom brought up going forward or will it actually be heavily plot relevant? If it's the former case then it will just come off like another of those series cashing in on the isekai trend without using it thoughtfully to much effect.
I am curious about the mechanism at play in the reincarnation here though. Perhaps those who regularly watch a boatload of isekai and have seen far more than I can weigh in, but are there other ones like this in which the main character's perspective is entirely from the completely brand new consciousness of the new person in the (non-Earth) other world and their only knowledge of and connection to that previous life and person is through fragmented glimpses in dreams/daydreams/visions? Because in last year's The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash it followed a similar approach, but that one was still unique and different from this due to
the main character's previous life implied to be fully existing as a separate consciousness in their head cleaved off from their own and talking to them to offer advice and banter from time to time
- something I had never seen before.
Either way, this is the second to last series on my cobbled together, makeshift, aspirational list for this season which hadn't aired yet (the last being Mono, which finally airs today!). It definitely wasn't impressive and immediately gripping enough to make me decide to watch it in full like a few shows this season deftly managed so far, but nor bad enough/enough of a turn-off for me to drop after one episode either like a few other shows, so this is definitely a wait and see, give it two or three or so episodes and see how it goes type situation.
Just wondering, for anyone knowing the source: Is the isekai backstory relevant at all? Or is it here (as is usual) for all the losers that cannot self-insert into anything that is not from our times?
This is just secretly an isekai isn't it? That or something similar to Drifters where people are from the real world and brought into this fantasy world. Maybe he's just "connected" to Japan but like... I feel like there is enough with this continuous clash over territory and for your god and the MC raging against that system (at least judging from the blurbs for the anime and LN) or whatever that isekai or relation to the real world is unneccessary as a hook to bring in viewers.
I liked the narrated title card and the show starting with the OP, gave me 2000s/90s anime vibes and I'm all for it! So far we don't know much about the supposed prophecy that will affect Kai, so I'm curious to see how things will go from now on.
well that was a decent first ep ig. kinda cool how the mc doesn’t even know he’s been isekaied lol that’s new for me. but eh it’s not really enough to keep me watching. the fight scene was meh, convo between characters didn’t hit, and the world just feels boring so far. maybe i expected too much but yeah it was just too plain.
That Pig-man is pretty tough. Thought for sure he was bacon after the blazing inferno engulfed his face. Felt like he was just standing there getting cooked for a good minute too. Pig-man shook that shit off quick and went for the ring out victory. MC probably should have went for that belly slice a bit sooner. Now they are both in the soup.
It was fairly underwhelming and the dialogue was pretty bad. They kept doing the thing where two characters are talking to each other, but explaining the world to the viewers in the most unnatural way possible. It wouldn't have been that bad, but they just kept doing it multiple times to where it was distracting. Even aside from that though, it was pretty average. I'm already watching a ton of shows, so probably not going to continue this one. I will pick it back up if I hear good things.
The OP and ED both sounded really nice on the first listen. Going to have to add those to playlists and see if they stick. I almost want to continue watching just for them. :P
Not a bad series, until they dropped the isekai genre.
Instead of learning who he was back then in Japan, he forgot who he is, but was able to remember things he didn't know...
Either way is fine, but MAL not tagging this as isekai is.. 😅
Anyway, concepts are not as fresh as you would hope.
If you watched a lot of fantasy and isekai concepts since way back, you would literally know that every thing that they introduced here are just rebranded or renamed concepts that were already introduced back then, but with a weird twist.
For now, it's passable...
Let's see how they animate this series. 🤔
ASinfulPersonageApr 13, 5:03 PM
It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines
and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it,
is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service.
This has a similar reincarnation vibe to "The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash" anime which was quite good. The animation probably isn't as good as that one but its not bad IMO.
The world building in episode one is decent and was definitely good enough I am curious to see how it turns out.
Love the first episode and it's interesting to see a female warrior like Kai uses magic. It seems that they are using godstones to refill their spiritual mana. The orgs attack their company and Kai finally able to create a fire magic, and it's a literal cliffhanger at the end. This anime has a potential to be good, the animation was on fire! 🔥
well that was a decent first ep ig. kinda cool how the mc doesn’t even know he’s been isekaied lol that’s new for me. but eh it’s not really enough to keep me watching. the fight scene was meh, convo between characters didn’t hit, and the world just feels boring so far. maybe i expected too much but yeah it was just too plain.
@mimiouka The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash... has a similar protagonist that doesn't have a clear sense of who they were before.
gh0stwriter said: The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash... has a similar protagonist that doesn't have a clear sense of who they were before.
The difference there is Femicia/Ivy and her previous life are actually two separate distinct consciousnesses. We as the audience don't get to hear what they sound like, but he or she actually talks to Ivy as like a voice from within her head. That's never been done in isekai before, at least to my knowledge and that I've seen. Kai in this series seems to have residual buried memories. It's closer to how it's thought it would work in real life if reincarnation existed and people could somehow access memories of their previous life through dreams, meditation, etc.
I watched 6 minutes of the first episode and thought "the exposition is clunky, and they are not showing us the action... I want to see the monkey's head being chopped off". I have better things to do with my time. Thank you very much.
Oh, and I also didn't quite like the opening song. During the entire thing I was critizing the singer for not having the voice to actually sing. Nevermind.
Pretty generic, and just changing one letter doesn't make that NOT an Orc. LOL That aside, it was OK, but nothing I haven't seen before. I'll give if a few more watches before I decide to keep or toss it though.
some 80s historical vibe.
decent animation, cool fx. meh designs.
Funny looking chickens.
ok isekai memories & magic, nice godstone/qi mechanics, sprinkle of worldbuilding decent. mc unclear guy or girl till part way thru.
Manso cool chap. Orha strong but too harsh.
I had the volume 1 and I wanted to read it before, to be sure if I'll watch it, I did and I guess its fine
But the anime is cutting a lot, mixing and interverting moments, for episodic reasons I guess..
This first part was fast imo, and the animation is meh
And of course, zero blood, the manga is way bloody, we miss the old bloody animes...
Ive stop at volume 1 one so I cant say much, but I dont think its Isekai, for now, people need to stop freaking out just because we saw a modern city, but I understand
Maybe he's a time traveler who doesnt know it, or an previous life he forgot, or memories from someone else from somewhere else, reincarnation, Idk ~
The title is all about gods, and demi gods, Im sure its gonna be all explained
anyone who rates it below 8/10 is retarded and I'm convinced
@Aminthesaiyan I don't think it is an 8/10 so far, but it is fun to watch. I think the current score seems unfair to the anime compared to how other series are rated and taking into account that I do often tend to rate lower than the average.