Back to MrScout's Profile MrScout's Profile

Here's a no BS review of these good ol Isekai. I'm not going to write a thesis on the downward spiral of Isekai anime, because lets admit it, we all know its bad, but we still love it like the Isekai trash we are. So why should this be your next "eh I guess I got a day to binge this" isekai?

Sekai Saikou no Ansatsusha is about as standard as it gets to the production quality of any of these other seasonal anime, nothing great, some may say terrible, I say passable. They didn't go overkill with the CG, though they did use it for ... horses and armies, again, just the typical stuff. At least there were no giant CG monsters in this first season, in our book, thats a plus!

The story starts as bog standard as it can get, but about halfway through they did throw us a curveball about the "goddess" of the world, and actually made the reincarnation system seem more interesting that previous isekai have done.

Main character is an overpowered sociopath who openly narrates to himself about how he is brainwashing these children, which normally should be a red flag, but I actually appreciate it being brought up, instead of being normalized. It's nice having a main character you can root for, while clearly knowing that he is the villain. The way our MC act's, as well as his obligatory harem of sisters, cousins, and childhood friends, is almost comically "stereotypical isekai" that I am absolutely convinced the show is self aware.

Spoiler: To add to that, in the final episode, his main love interest is adopted into the family, making her his sister, as well as already being his cousin by blood. It actually had me laughing out loud and saying "of course she is, its the obvious solution."

In summary, this show is kinda trash, but I love it all the same. If you need a show with an OP Protag who gets all the chics, fucks his cousin and looks as edgy as Kirito in SAO season 1, then this show is the one for you.

As someone currently leaving college and moving into a creative field, this show seems like it should resonate very well with me. I have always been a fan of the romance genre in anime and the fact that college life is actually getting represented is something that I really appreciate. Unfortunately, it falls short it some departments.

The story has one major problem, and more and more problems sprout from that. It seems to be a chronic issue when it comes to shows with the "Oh shoot I am getting to relive my younger years!" premise. That is of course the way that the main character ... acts. Re:life did this well, Erased did it pretty poorly, and Mushoku Tensei (while being a Isekai) actually does it really well. The big problem with this show is the moment that our main character goes back in time, it feels like he almost instantly reverts to acting the age of a younger guy.

The supporting cast is great. You really get to see everyone grow and mature in the show in little ways so far. life in College has a huge adjustment period and the whole "finding yourself" and learning to be mature aspect for the supporting cast seems to be very solid, but the main character is must less so.

If you ask me, this was a big missed opportunity. Even if it was a different type of college, the emotional maturity you gain through your college years really changes you. It would have been appreciative if the character acted more mature in his social interaction and in his relationships with the rest of the cast.

The highlight of this is the Ecchi scenes. The guy acts like a child whenever anything remotely sexual happens, be it waking up next to a girl, or accidently touching someone inappropriately. The kind of behavior the MC has is just childish. Handling these scenes in a mature way, such as just shutting down advances or just accepting them and not acting shy would have helped remind us that our main character was actually older. I think we can chalk this up to the studio playing the story too safe and wanting the main character to be a self-insert for younger audiences instead of a fully flushed out character.

This wraps back around to my biggest issue with the story. If you were to cut out the first act and all the "I'm from the future" monologues, it would have literally no impact on the story at all. The way the plot has progressed, the time travel has almost no relevance at all. As of writing, episode 6 is out, so the time travel has seemed to help with the latest problem, but even that is tangential, the solution (Of making a game set in a high school) could have easily been reached without it. It all could just be chalked up to the main character being really talented.

I don't want it to sound like I am all negative about this though. Even with its flaws. The show is still really fun to watch and enjoy. I am definitely a sucker for the love triangle trope and I am very happy to see it here. The fact that relationships are actually developing at a decent pace is also a huge plus. I really don't like shows where the characters absolutely refuse to admit their feelings until the very end and it is looking like this show is going against the grain there, we got what is basically a confession from 1 girl already out and I would actually love to see a real relationship, begin, exist, and end in this series, instead of the whole series ending right after a relationship starts. I think that really banks on the show getting a second season to be truly fleshed out, but we can only hope.

All in all the show is good, but the use of time travel is basically a gimmick and has no relevance to the actual plot. The relationships are solid and the character building of the supporting cast has been great, even if the main character is lacking. This gets a 6 from me because the show is "Fine." Sadly, given the whole premise of the show is time travel, it feels like they missed the mark, but the actual story is good, and the supporting cast make up for what the main character seems to lack!

A certain Scientific Accelerator finally gave us fans exactly what we wanted. An anime featuring best boy accelerator as the MC.

UNFORTUNATELY due to there being very little source material from the accelerator manga, and that same material is pretty bad, the story takes a HUGE hit.

The story:
focus's around the Necormancer Arc. It's got a decent premise with extremely flawed execution. It starts from accelerators point of view after the sisters arc. There were things I personally was hoping to see that we only get tiny glimpses of, and things I just wish I hadn't scene (the ending).

If the necromancer arc had been given 3-5 episodes, ... I would have been much happier. Instead, with 11 of the 12 episodes being dedicated to it, it ends up feeling drawn out way too long, and with a very dissapointing resolution to boot.

The art:
Is great, probably some of the best visuals we've been given in any ToAru series so far. It is very different visually and directionally from any other of the Index or Railgun seasons, but its a fresh welcome, if a bit confusing as it seems like Railgun T is going back to the old style (heres hoping its not as bad as Index III though)

The ART:
is very good, however the use of CG isn't. Many of the robot's you see accelerator face are heavy CG, and overall you dont get a good sense of the damage being caused by battles, even in the ending. Something both Index and Railgun did well was show off just how crazy powerful accelerator was by giving us viewpoints from angles of other characters (wide shows, shots from curbsides ect) , which was a great was to show us exactly how unnaturally powerful accelrator is. (think dropping a train scene, not only do we get a shot from above where misaka is on the bridge, but we also get epic wide angle shots that show us the full picture and just how devestatingly powerful the dude is)

I know that was a bit of a ramble, but I just never really feel the impact that accelerator normally leaves from this season when it comes to him using his abilities. I don't chalk it up to art as much as I do to just bad fight coreography. (I deff butchered that spelling)

The sound:
Not much to say, sound effects are dope as allways from a ToAru season, the score is incredible. Shadow is the Lie and Parole are both great OP and ED's.

The Characters:
A couple things to be said.
The Antagonist of this season sucks major ass. Boring. Generic. Incredibly stupid for a "genius". And just plain not fun to see on screen because you just dont feel threatened by him (or her) at all. Their goal doesn't even seem to be great from a shere story perspective either as it is the exact same goal as accelerators was in the (chronologically) previous arc, which adds to the genericness.

Accelerator stays cool and dope, even if he talks a little too much like a good guy near the end. While I love his hero/villain complex, I do with he internalized it more because I still can't find it believable that someone who thinks they are a master villain would actually use the term villain out loud.

Last Order is cute :)

The sisters hilarous

Overall:
I enjoyed 'A Certain Scientific Accelerator' for the first half of the season. It was fresh, I was seeing my favorite character in action again, and I thought I was going to get a more in depth and serious look at Accelerators internal struggle and torment from the Level 6 shift project. Instead I got a bland boring villain, and at most tiny flashes of what could be considered growth, but honestly were nothing more than the growth I've scene in previous seasons.

I still loved the season, just because they finally made it, but I now fuly understand why the manga readers say it was such a terrible arc.

Spoiler warning:
---------------------------------
I know japan is japan, but I honestly hate anything that ends with "giant organic human based moster absorbing people". It's honestly gross and getting 'belle-delphine but mutated and ugly' as the final boss makes me want to knock the story score even lower. Esther was cool but continued to just be another example of how most mages in the toaru series are almost useless even compared to level 3 espers. Hopefully we get to see some more powerful magicians (or magic gods) in the potential next season of index.

Classroom of the Elite does a couple things right and a couple things wrong. So lets break this up into two categories, Pros and Cons.

Pro's:
Animation style, if you have ever seen assassination classroom, this style may remind you of it. While it doesn't look extremely cartoon, it does a good job of being extremely saturated and having a deep color scheme. It does its job at standing out from similar anime in the genre with this unique animation choice.

Storytelling: Some may complain about the Anime's lack of progression, but the character's are given plenty of depth throughout the 12 episodes. The show does a ... great job of making the cast seem more than 2 dimensional. It effectively finished on the end of an arc (or seemed to, see the LN for details) and it managed to leave myself wanting more, but not feeling as if the ending was abrupt. It had a conclusion, not a finale. Given the LN haven't even seen them reach their goal, it would be hard to fit that into a 12/13 ep anime.


Cons:
Main Character is fairly generic when it comes to the stereotype he fits in. He is a MC with incomparable intelligence compared to others, seem's like he couldn't be taken down in a fight, and is overall just OP. You do get little teasers to why that is, but the anime does not go in depth as to why that is. The light novel seems to have covered his past in a recent volume, However, I have not reached that point yet.

It is not over: He does not find the one piece, he doesn't finish his fight with frieza, and he doesn't get his body back. The ending of this anime was not a Finale as it was a conclusion, for it to get a higher rating, it would have to have at least one more season, which, while possible, is unlikely. If there were to be a second season though, based on the length of the LN's, it would need at least 2 or 3 more seasons to thoroughly conclude, or a season of 24 episodes.

Overall.

This is the first anime that has pushed me to reading the Light Novel, I have considered it before but this one pushed me over the edge. While he is bland, I tend to really like the MC, as he keeps leaving the audience wanting to see how he responds to his situation. The anime ended with momentum. I will not post spoilers, but the final arc they cover ends with them actually moving twords their goal, which is something many new anime don't do in the first 12 episodes, the main character seems no closer to that goal than at the beginning, but in this anime, you see outright progression, and that continues in the light novels.

TL:DR its not too bad and the MC is OP so you mind as well give it the 12 ep's worth of time its asking for.