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This show never made me laugh, never made me take interest in a single character. AND had a semi-idiotic plotline that was unbelievable stupid and boring.... I can't believe anyone would write that it was, 'hilarious.' (Of course maybe if they meant hilariously bad).

It suffers from a completely unlikeable protagonist. It has a hyper yet failing pretext about religion. It takes all the negative aspects and tries to make fun of them via terrible tropes.

Once again, I find this show to be a waste of animation talent. Is there really NOTHING better they can find to animate than this crap?

What a breath of fresh air to have a protagonist that doesn't scream at every turn of events! Also, a good voice selection for the English Dub. I dislike it when they use women to do men/boys voices. Is it so hard to find a male voice actor?

The anime actually has a plot line and moves at a good pace. Moreover and more importantly is that the show doesn't rely on stupid slapstick to entice the audience nor is there a need for absurd sexual content and the characters are interesting and fit the narrative.

I won't rate style or art as ... that's not my concern, though it seemed good to me.

I can only say after watching dozens of crap anime recently that this one was fun for me to watch. I hope to find more that are likewise not stupid slapstick crap with screaming characters that only annoy me no end!

Another waste of anime talent. I rated this 4(bad) as I just watched another anime that was even more cringy. Why the need to make super overpowered reincarnation animes are beyond me. I'd run from this one.

The protagonist is an unlikeable and poor excuse for a living being. I can't really say there were any redeeming facets about the worm. I think a worm is more impressive in personality than this self-proclaimed shut-in. The whole show is centered around this SUPER powered idiot that's so bored, even in his reincarnated life, that he's still bored, still WANTS to be ... a shut-in, and is apathetic to the point you want him to just bury himself in a hole. On an aside, it was interesting that this stupid slapstick show would so easily kill people off.

It's sad to see such a waste of potential and skills at anime used in such a terrible fashion. Making people so overpowered that there's no need for a plot as there's no reasonable antagonist.

Characters always screaming and have no real substance. I can't understand why they'd use a girl for the voiceover of the English dub. It sounds awful and worse than even Naruto (a cringe worthy voice if ever there was one).

I wish anime would get labeled as 'slap stick annoying' when there's no real substance and that reviews on this site were shorter and to ... the point.

I wish this site would bring back the reviewers rating number. Very unsatisfactory to read 'mixed feelings.'

If you never saw the original, then this show is okay. HOWEVER, having seen it and liked it a lot, this show is a bit of a flop. It endorses so many annoying aspects. Making characters have become gay, extreme focus on sibling love (until otherwise known, read as incest, or maybe they're not blood related?), and a focus on what used to be side characters are now the focus while the lead characters are trivialized. There's also a massive focus on bullies and ... hierarchal systems to the point of being cringy.

So what redeems the show? Sticking to character design. And a vague but recollectable story but told from the "Honor" students perspective instead of the "Irregular" MC's perspective. Oh, and this is available dubbed in English while the original is only subbed. Uh... Yep. That's about it.

So in summary: Overall they revamped a good anime into a woke bastardization of the original work by approaching it more from the sister's pov and other side characters. Very much unlike "A Certain Magical Index," that spun off, "Railgun," a series that though overlapped but was consistent and actually followed it's own unique storylines.

There was a good story in here, but the main character is such an annoying prat that it's hard to watch. He blathers on about things as if he's got a clue. NOBODY could be so obtuse, certainly not after being beaten, knowing his friend was 'violated' and all while waving around a stick as if he's being heroic. It shows the MC as being a completely naïve and pathetic character. To watch this show is a torment at times to watch because the main character is such a dweeb, clumsy, moronic, and worst of all completely sophomoric.

Watching the other characters ... being similarly stupid is also annoying. The evil leader is pretty much insane and the anime gives no reason as to why people follow him. Moreover, the other characters are just as ludicrous, causing you to dislike pretty much everyone.

I'd advise against watching this show with anything other than a low expectation. As for me, I spent almost every episode wanting someone to kick the MC! Especially as he takes on knives and guns with a stick that he doesn't even know how to wield properly.

I think it should be noted that the MC gets more people with his clumsy attempts and his stupid stick all while intimating that guns are bad. That's irony for you! It even portrays that drowning people is a cleansing experience and OKAY ... as long as you don't shoot them! I laughed at the ending more than any other point of the series. YEP! I stuck it out to the end, hoping there'd be a plot twist and the MC would realize he's a total prat and magically become a tolerable, if not likeable, person. It doesn't happen and until the very end, I wanted someone to kick him.

Perhaps one of the most annoying aspects of this anime was its premise of a world lacking in water and the magical power of a girl who can manifest it. That in itself was actually not the problem, but the complete neglect that they can move between worlds. Talk about your monstrous plot hole!

It would be unfair not to mention something positive. So here it is! If there is one redeeming facet of this show, it's that the viewer might realize that extreme, absurd pacifism is just as abhorrent and likely to cause as much suffering as portrayed warmongers.

I'd kind of like to reiterate the obtuse nature of the MC. His actions caused more suffering and harm than the portrayed evil doers. I think he'd have saved more people had he just stepped in front of a bus.

As a last note: This anime takes on some very challenging topics but fails to address them adequately or properly, often making light of very severe subject matters. It makes suffering, rape and even death seem second nature. It doesn't succeed in making them as horrific as they really are, nor does it redress the extreme trauma that it induces in people. It tends to give the shock value but fails completely at addressing the consequences especially as it affects the longer term future.

This show so far has been a vast disappointment. For a swordsman he rather sucks. I mean, heck, if he wasn't immortal, he'd die in every episode because they always beat him! This makes him a lackluster character and makes all his commentary seem foolishly arrogant and without substance to back it up.

It's a good show so far to kill time, but I really wanted more from such a gritty anime. Having him lose a limb every episode and splashing blood gore and the severed limb about isn't very dramatic when you know he's just gonna stick it back on ... ... poof, he's back to normal.

The show fails to show why he'd want to die because the MC's character is so shallow. He's punished to immortality for being the cause of his sister's death and therefore must kill 100 evil men? What? Really? He doesn't appear that remorseful and I imagine after not dying he'd just go back to his fishing shack and drink all day. I guess that presumes a fundamental logic that the anime is lacking.

Don't get me wrong, it's still an okay watch, but just not what I think it could have been.

Poor production ... probably due to funding. Many of the scenes are deliberately slow or repeated to use up time. Done in FS instead of widescreen.

Slow paced. Thin characters. Dreary overall mood. Another show where you never get to know what's happening, but have to tolerate a dozen episodes just to get the gist of how this world works and why.

Feels more like an early 90's series than 2004. I expected much better for a post 2000 era anime.

*** UPDATE *** (some insights, but I don't think any are spoilers)

Okay, so I finished this. ... It's one of those series that for a brief moment at about half way, got interesting and then around the 20th and final episodes completely fizzled out. The 23rd episode was so pathetic and bad that you should just skip watching it altogether if you decide to watch the series.

The sloppy and deliberate overuse of sequences and the slow pace continued to the very end.

The ending was a confusing mishmash of pseudo-philosophical garbage that never made any sense. And the queer 'girl farm' with them being 'milked' left me believing that the producers had reached a point of exasperation themselves and were just throwing anything into the blender to see what might mix.

I actually downgraded this to a 3. You see 4 is considered "Descent," and in no way would I recommend someone waste their time on this because I suggested it was descent. So sadly it comes off as 3 "Poor." Sadly, that's my overall impression -- Poor.

The romance is bizarre too. It get's confusing just over who is in love with whom and why! But in a slight redeeming factor, boy does get girl ... though I'm really not sure if she was real at the end.

Fun show to watch about a girl and a boy's curiosity about her drool. He secretly tries some and has an addiction towards it. It passes into a fantasy plot line where they share a drool relationship that allows people who taste her drool to 'bond' in a empathetic/telepathic sense.

Essentially this is a fun show to watch. It moves quickly and has such a unique premise that's kind of queer and bizarrely-humorously fascinating. There's a bit of a learning curve to things, but not so much that you feel lost, more like curious as to how the next-thing is going to ... play out.

There's definitely an ecchi component to things, but essentially it's just a light romantic comedy that explores young/first love via a different conduit than the typical stalker aspect.

I'd actually recommend this show! It's quick fun and it has a satisfactory ending. I hate shows that take you on a long scenic drive then push you over the cliff or leave you hanging for a ride that will never show.

Someone else put it best and their comment was the one that incited me to watch this. After the drudgery of anime shows that want you to 'figure' out what the hell is going on "Ushio to Tora," doesn't play into that stupid and annoying trend where you have to watch half the series or more just to know what the hell is going on!

The characters are great. Often humorous, but with a serious side that allows the series to continue on in a nice forward progressing dramatic fashion. There's a touch of romance, comedy, drama and even some tragedy that must ... be overcome.

A personal gripe of mine is the 'screaming' and 'wailing' characters. And thought this was evident in this show, it wasn't to the point of wanting me to mute the volume or fast-forward past those annoying moments.

Overall the series kept me enthralled til the end; an excellent job for 39 episodes.