May 19, 2020
The isekai genre in recent years has done exceedingly well, we look at the more popular ones like Rezero, No game no life, konosubarashi etc. Being mindful of the fact that none of these animes are not typically what you'd call "happy go lucky" animes in a sense that they don't give the audience a feeling of infancy...Honestly i have nothing against making an isekai into a slice of life, well i didn't at first. Honzuki no Gekokujou is one of those anime types that you see on forum sites, become intrigued by positive reviews an then go on to stream the
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entire season only for you to end up regretting it.
((Before I continue, this review is for those who have watched the anime but if you haven't and still need better clarity then you've come to the right place.))
I mean common, enough with your over ambiguous nonsense which raves on and on with large words about how this and that makes you happy and positive and all that other self indulgent nonsense, people need actual honest reviews stop spouting crap. I'd like to digress into the overall scheme of things, the anime in question(not bothered with typing the name throughout my review)basically tells the story of a possibly demented twenty something year old who died by the hands of the one thing she loved the most, books...THE IRONY!!!. She makes her dying wish to once again be able to read books in her next life too and seemingly enough she awakens, as a 5 year with an unknown magical illness. You all already know how it goes so I'll give it to you quick and simple.
It's normal to be obsessed with obtaining knowledge. Infact, I'm sort of a nerd myself(full blown otaku rage mode) but it is in all sense very psychotic, eerie and downright dimwitted to like Books...No no hear me out, BOOKS!!. OH and not just what's inside the Enclosing, the paper, the very ink used to write the text, that my dear friends is what seems to interest the protagonist. This may seem like me raging over what you may believe to be silly humor thrown to us on context. Well that's partially right you'd at first see it as so but then it gets annoying the more they tend to repeat this same gag of her throwing a fit every time she sees what may appear to be leather covering a thin sheets of paper.
Furthermore, I would like to move on to the intellectual capabilities of most of the characters in this anime. I watched the first three episodes an i had no complaints, I had honestly believed nothing would go wrong but i neglected a crucial tiny detail. I didn't want that to bother me, I'd like to start off with two concepts to generalize on: 1. Protagonist's self indulgence 2. Recklessness in the anime.
1. Turns out the protagonist, in all her wisdom and what was made out to be broadened knowledge, could only make stuff they basically teach middleschoolers in home econ classes...Weaved baskets, shampoo, hair ornaments. The paper manufacture was the only thing keeping me alive through all that, but too make it more annoying they had to focus a lot of unnecessarry attention towards all that pointless nonsense. I'm not trying to say i was expecting some doctor stone type but it would have been better if she came up with a little more advanced items but not the ones that can leave her bedridden for days, yes I am aware she can't do much cause of illness
2. So apparently in the era the anime is set in, adults are no wiser than kids who haven't reached double digits. Why in a person's right mind waste a ton of resources just because a kid puts an ornament in her, hair applies shampoo and says she can manufacture a revolutionary product and don't give me that in isekai anything is possible crap, we're dealing with slice of life anime here too.
The Art and Sound of this anime are the only aspects of it I would consider giving a passing grade. Everything else would have to file a complaint to my retinas.
Lastly I'd like to cease my soon ending rage by adding this to the fold. Just because she's cute and most male otaku are lolicons, that doesn't mean she can just make a cute face and get away with whatever flimsy excuse for a gag joke they could come up with.
I will be very honest it's hard to say what demographic of otaku i'd recommend this anime to cause it's a migraine enhance, i'd possible recommend it to kids below 10 or girls who just recently started watching anime. To break it short Honzuki no gekokujou is a poorly scripted, dissatisfying and mediocre(at best) isekai brought to us in 2019.
I said before that this review is for those who have already watched the anime but if you haven't and are still curious eve though i recommend not to, stream or download the first three episodes.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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