Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. Episode 1 Discussion

Frost993 said:




I'm not going to spoil it, just saying normally I give an anime 3 ep for me to like it. Then I judge if il watch it or not. Just a suggestion since it airs weekly, just take that one day every week for 3 weeks to see if you like it. If you don't then cool, this anime isn't for everyone (Don't forget its a harem anime and that if you have time, read the light novel. Its had more detail then the anime (in my opinion))

It's just the first ep, their not going to give you the whole fish at once. They'll chop it up once a week and give it to you :P You can't say that fish is shit on the first day if you had a tiny bit, you have to try it a couple times to get the feel of it.

ZBlastHistory said:
How can even someone say SAO are "Isekai" anime? its just a online game
you don't need to die just for log to your game

So

With harem member are

Frost993 said:
Also, I just noticed something with the subs. In the anime subs it says Eashen, and in the light novel it's Ishen. I don't know if that's a sub error or if it's a difference in the anime to light novel, but just wanted to point that out :P

I guess il wait and see if they show a map and what it says.

Ukkoclap said:
Episode one and the MC feels 10 times more OP than Kirito from Shit Art Online

Ukkoclap said:
I like all the critique this anime is getting. People finally realize how badly SAO was written, bad story bad characters, full of ass pulls just like this.

lordzeru said:
This is probably the worst of the current airing isekai shows. Complete lack of creative writing, and the MC just reeks of gary-stu, shallow nonsense. It will be hard to imagine myself watching beyond this first episode.

AnimeFanboy1234 said:
It appears as though the studio wanted to experiment, and create the ultimate basic shitty isekai harem anime:

-Gary Stu MC
-MC with 0 personality
-No conflict
-No plot
-Bland dialogue
-Camera movements to disguise the:
-Non-existent animation
-Fight scenes so shitty, that it's an insult to shitty fight scenes

Bearfax62 said:
Personally, I found it incredibly mediocre.

The first half was downright atrocious: gave me little to no reason to care about this random, self-insert dude who died off screen, the whole "God gave me a second chance at life" thing which is such an overdone cliche at this point, and they just started throwing in "Waifus"™ out of nowhere while not giving them NEARLY enough personality traits beyond their generic behavior to warrant actually caring about them. And when you mess up the women in your harem anime, you're basically doomed from the start.

That's not even going into how blatant of a Gary Stu the protagonist is: I mean, God even says "there's basically no way you can die!" which ruins all the dramatic stakes from the very beginning and throws subtlety straight out the window. At least other anime are either subtle about it, or use the MC's overpoweredness as a running gag. This just feels like "we know that the MC is completely unbeatable, and we don't care about it".

On the other hand, the second half was... better. Not good, but better. The whole "I have future technology and food you've never heard of: let me show you!" thing was actually really endearing, and I hope that this show does more of that as it goes on. Especially seeing as how the first half basically all but ignored his phone: which is basically the only thing separating this anime from every other fantasy harem anime so far.

But I'm getting my hopes up. Chances are, this will just end up being another generic harem show with an overpowered protagonist and a concept that reeks of missed potential. Or maybe TV TOKYO will prove me wrong and actually produce something solid. Who knows?

Ryulightorb said:



read the novel

he isn't a gary stu in it
he has personality a lot of it.
there is conflict
same with plot there is an overarching theme
Dialouge is better then most 8.0 animes on MAL in the novel

Haven't seen the anime but it seems like they did a huge disfavour to the novel smh.

katsu044 said:
might wanna watch it before you go all Defense Brigade on people :P

had zero exceptions going in with yet another Isekai, was truly a highly unimpressive first episode following most of the typical LN tropes which just came off as uninspired and lazy not to say it was out right hot trash but it left a lot to desire, Konosuba this is not.

3 episode rule though i doubt ill keep going with this if it doesn't get any better

Ryulightorb said:


if you read what i said i wasn't defending the anime.
i was saying read the novel if you want the experience is 100x better (Watching it now and whilst it's mostly the same integral bits of info are missing and just feels wrong).

It's meant to be a trope heavy novel / anime (that's a good thing imo) and is very different from Konosuba.

I can't speak for the anime as what im seeing is a terrible adaption so far but the novel is far superior so i more or less thing anyone that wants to see this done right should just read the light novel.

I'm kinda annoyed with the adaption so far but they haven';t skipped over the most important parts yet.

The novel starts slow to be fair i would argue since the pacing of the anime seems alot slower it just feels dragged out and boring then at some parts the pacing sky rockets foward so it's like wtf? i'm gonna keep watching on.

But you probably misunderstood what i was saying i went to watching it right before that comment i paused to do some stuff but more or less i'm recommending the novel if anyone is truly interested in this series.

But i have high hopes they can still turn it around but by the pacing is atrocious.


For reference the start of the episode (5 minutes in) takes 3 minutes to get to at an average reading pace the end of the episode takes 3-4 hours to get to at an average reading pace.

Faster would suit an anime better yes but it's like....how fast do you need to go? god damn.

katsu044 said:
my mistake at the time it read like you were defending it without even watching it due to reading the LN by the time i posted it you had already watched some of it.

Ryulightorb said:


Did they really do that bad of an adaption?
The Novel was written so well the mc was not a gary-stu it was creative and was better then most isekai animes and light novels.

Haven't watched it yet but after seeing the reviews either.

Anime viewers are hopeless - i find this less likely

or

It was a horrible adaption - i believe this will be the case.

lordzeru said:


I don't read light novels, but I would bet money that the adaption is pretty bad. The pacing is quite rushed. They hit the minimum level of detail needed to keep the story afloat and shuffle the main character off to do typical isekai events.