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May 20, 2025
This anime is a cozy isekai about a man named Hiraku that gets isekai’d into the middle of a large uninhabited forest with super farming abilities. The story follows the progression of him and his village. It starts out with him figuring out the basics of how to live in the wilderness with only animals for company. However, slowly more and more people become residents of the village, the vast majority of them cute girls. In turn, the village has to deal with all sorts of things, such as building housing, ensuring a food supply, establishing relations with neighbors, etc.
The anime never gets too serious.
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The abilities that Hiraku got have a lot of utility in terms of letting him easily build up and maintain the village. Thus, there’s never really any danger of famine or disease or anything like that. But they also unexpectedly make him completely overpowered in a fight to the point that enemy nations are afraid of him, which is used for some really amusing scenes. They do their best to stay on his good side and don’t interfere with him, and Hiraku and his fellow villagers also just want to live peacefully in their village. So there’s never really any suspense or sense of danger at all. Stuff like dealing with invasions or trade negotiations are so effortless that how easy they are is played for comedy.
Instead the focus is on the Hiraku and the rest of the villagers just living happy lives. There’s no major overarching plot to the anime. Rather, it’s a bunch of small things. Sometimes it’s about farming and the best way to grow things. Sometimes it’s about the village growing and its expansion. Sometimes it’s about Hiraku cooking dishes from Earth. Sometimes it’s about playing games like mahjong or bowling. I could go on and on. It doesn’t do anything too deep with any of these. However, the writing does a great job of highlighting the fun aspects of whatever is being focused on. And then it quickly moves on and does something else. For an anime where nothing much really happens, the anime is pretty fast paced with lots of light comedy throughout which helps it stay interesting from beginning to end. The ending isn’t all that special other than Hiraku spending some time to reflect on everything that happened up to that point, but for an anime like this that’s a perfectly satisfying way to end the season.
As an aside, this anime is kind of weird in terms of the harem aspect. Hiraku is essentially the only available guy in a village full of girls. There are comedic bits every now and then about how all these girls seem to want him. However, other than some minor stuff really early on there really isn’t anything shown that’s the slightest bit romantic. Despite that, towards the ending it’s revealed that there was actually A LOT of major romantic progress between Hiraku and at least one heroine. It was just never actually shown. And I feel like there was an implication of there being more with others as well. While it just suddenly popping up was pretty shocking and I acknowledge that there is value in that, I still think it would have been better to have actually built up to it.
The art and animation in this are pretty good. The character designs were fantastic. The OP and ED are solid enough in terms of the song and visuals. I also liked how the ED visuals changed over time to reflect the growth of the village. The soundtrack was decent enough, though the only track that really stood out was the elven grape stomping song and its instrumental version.
tl;dr: A isekai about building up a village that’s really cozy and relaxing.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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May 19, 2025
Edit: When this review was written the manga was finished with 112 chapters. But two years after chapter 112, new chapters suddenly started coming out. This review will be updated when the manga is finished again if the additional chapters get translated.
This manga, as should be obvious from the title, is about a powerful orc gathering a harem. The Japanese title further includes the detail that this is an isekai manga. As such, this review will assume that the reader is okay with the aforementioned themes. After all, since the title is so clear, if you still read this manga despite inherently disliking its subject
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matter, then it’s your own fault and you really have no right to complain. With that said, the manga is somewhat different from what the title would suggest, though probably not in ways that would appeal to those put off the title.
The protagonist, Olc, is the mightiest orc. That would suggest that he is overpowered and that this manga leans into the standard power fantasy elements that accompany that. However, it generally veers away from doing so. Olc is overpowered compared to most everyone in the world he’s in and thus there are a few chapters that focus on him easily crushing low level opponents. However, this is rare and the majority of fights are him facing off against those that are just as strong or stronger than him. He barely survives the fights at the end of most arcs.
The action is decent and has the standard progression of him using new abilities in each fight. Though this very much still isn’t a battle focused manga as there aren’t actually that many fights. Rather, it spends just as much, if not more time, on Olc being a merchant and dealing with politics. He’s more clearly overpowered when it comes to these and he’s generally able to power through associated problems pretty easily in such a way that that it doesn’t really give the manga much depth. But protagonists that are overpowered in such a manner are much more rare and thus this is all still pretty interesting.
This manga is an isekai manga, but he doesn’t really seem like a character from our world at all. The only area where the isekai aspect manifests is in that Olc cooks up a lot of the foods from modern Japan. The focus instead is on how Olc is a half orc. As a half orc he has the thought patterns of both a human and an orc. Orcs are massive perverts with a very strong instinctive desire to breed. Humans are much more subdued.
In combination, this results in him being very open, explicit, and gentlemanly about his goal to gather a harem. For example, he goes to an elf village and says things like “I may be an orc, but I’m a good orc that only pushes down and impregnates girls that want me to.” He also absolutely refuses to take advantage of girls in the slightest, with him rejecting any girls that he’s in the process of helping due to them potentially feeling pressured due to how he’s helping them. But he absolutely does not back down on his dream of a harem in the slightest despite some of them initially having objections. He’s a very hilarious combination of traits that is really likable and fun.
The first volume is essentially just a long training arc. Starting with the second volume it’s serious stories centered on a single heroine intermixed with lighthearted stories of Olc and his harem just hanging out. There are five heroines focused on, though the last is a daughter type character rather than a harem member. The heroines have solid enough character development and relationship development in their own arcs, but nothing substantial after that. Two of them don’t even travel with Olc and have pretty much no presence after they join his harem. Still, they generally are pretty likable, and even if they aren’t that deep, they’re really fun in terms of what they bring in terms of comedy and romantic fluff. And, thus the harem aspect of the manga comes across quite well.
This is the manga adaptation of a longer light novel series. It only adapts part of the novels and it just kind of stops at some point right before the beginning of a new arc without much of a proper ending. But this is very much a manga that’s more about the journey than the destination so I would still have to say I was satisfied with how the manga ended and the manga overall.
The art is somewhat generic in style but is still pretty good. There are loads of great character designs. The ecchi art is really good, though it should be noted that it isn’t very explicit. But the art was also great in terms of the comedy and action. The mangaka is especially great at doing crazy expressions.
tl;dr: An isekai harem that’s a hodge podge of different types of stories mashed together, but that’s still pretty enjoyable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 15, 2025
This is an anime about a powerful Japanese exorcist who is killed due to people fearing his powers, and reincarnated in a new world as Seika Lamprogue, the son of a noble. He still has his memories and powers from his original world, but he doesn’t want to stand out and end up targeted again, so he does his best to lay low. The majority of the anime involves him attending a magic academy where he and his friends get pulled into various conflicts that require him to use his true powers to resolve, though he does so secretly without anyone catching on.
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overpowered protagonist isekai, though it has a couple unique aspects going for it. The first would be the context of how the protagonist is overpowered. He’s using abilities and summoning monsters rooted in Japanese fantasy, while the world and everyone else are rooted in western fantasy. This culture clash works incredibly well in making Seika seem awe inspiring. The western fantasy setting is the typical high fantasy sort of thing that’s pretty light hearted. The use of Japanese fantasy for Seika’s abilities is much darker with pretty strong horror atmosphere at times. This contrast combined with how Seika can be quite brutal with a smile on his face results in him having very unique vibes for an overpowered isekai protagonist that ultimately make this aspect feel pretty fresh and interesting.
Beyond that, the anime isn’t all that great though. The writing was a mixed bag. The plot is basically just a chronicle of various unrelated events the main cast get involved without much of an overarching plot line. It feels like there’s proper world building that’s going somewhere towards the end of the anime, but most of the anime feels pretty directionless. I’m not too nit picky about plot holes, but there were some fundamental ones that felt really off. Primarily centered around Seika’s behavior and supposed goals not really aligning at all. He says that he wants to lay low and only uses his true powers in the shadows, but even what he does in the open should attract attention. For example, he doesn’t use normal magic, only the spirit magic from his original world. And he uses it really well to do things that normal magic can’t do. Other characters comment on how his magic is strange, but it never goes beyond that. That would be fair enough if he was just an adventurer, but he’s a student at a magic academy where lots of others are doing research on magic. It’s just kind of bizarre and feels wrong both in terms of Seika using magic that should clearly be conspicuous, and it somehow just not being so.
The cast is also just okay. Seika is cool and the heroines are interesting, but they don’t have much depth. Seika has somewhat of a character arc where he grows to be less afraid of showing his power and becoming more comfortable being himself, but due to the aforementioned issues with him clearly already doing so this arc didn’t really land well. There are three heroines that are all pretty likable in terms of personality, but their character arcs felt forced. Seika resolves most everything completely on his own without the girls really having to do all that much and often without them even knowing what’s really going on, so their growth doesn’t really feel earned. There’s also a romance that’s pretty explicitly developing with one of the girls, with maybe some light hints towards the other two, so there’s somewhat of a harem feel. There’s not really enough there to be appealing to harem fans though. The writing does do a pretty great job at handling some of the side characters. Mainly in how it portrayed the mysterious wise princess, and Seika’s generic asshole brother actually getting fleshed out and growing up in a way that felt realistic.
The art and animation are decent enough. The western fantasy stuff looks pretty plain, but that just helps the stuff rooted in Japanese fantasy stand out more. The character designs were okay. The OP has a very 2000s anime feel that I’m a fan of. The ED is also pretty solid. I also like how both of them change as the anime progresses. The soundtrack worked well in terms of making Seika stand out, but beyond that wasn’t particularly memorable.
tl;dr: An isekai anime with a very unique overpowered protagonist, but not much going for it otherwise.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 13, 2025
tl;dr:A manga that is incredibly shallow but is amusing enough for its short length.
Lady Justice is about a high school girl superheroine. She has super speed, super strength, invincibility, flight, and the ability to sense malice in others. She’s completely overpowered compared to everyone else in the series. This includes the plain old criminals of course, but she’s also significantly more powerful than the superpowered villains she fights against. As such, there’s usually some sort of quirk in each story that prevents her from instantly resolving things. Sometimes it’s something like the villains having kidnapped someone or setup some sort of twisted game that she
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can’t just power through. But most of the time it comes down to the fact that while she may be invincible, her clothes certainly aren’t, and she’s very easily embarrassed. Thus she often struggles to fight without exposing herself.
This manga ended after only two volumes and was clearly axed. But compared to most manga that end in similar circumstances, that really didn’t feel like that much of a problem here. This comes down to how it didn’t really feel like there was anything all that important left unresolved. There is no overarching plot. There is an overarching villain that never gets properly dealt with, but they’re not important. For the most part this is just a series of short entertaining standalone stories. There are no character arcs left incomplete or mysterious things about character’s background left unexplained. There is a bit of a romance, but it’s so minor that it being left incomplete isn’t that big of a deal.
The manga completely lacks any depth whatsoever, and that may have been a major fault if this manga was longer. But a manga as short as this wouldn’t have been able to accomplish anything anyway, so that it was focused purely on quick thrills and steady comedy actually works in its favor at this point. The art is also nothing too special, but works well for the combination of ecchi and superhero action that it’s portraying. I enjoyed the short time I spent reading it and was left with a reasonably positive final impression.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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May 12, 2025
As the title suggests and contrary to what the cover illustration may lead you to believe, this manga is a pretty generic isekai. It has a few things that make it stand out such as the protagonist, Souya, bringing two AI assistants and some other modernities with him when he gets isekai’d. However, the stuff other than the AI assistants doesn’t really matter all that much, and ultimately things play out in a pretty typical isekai format. He joins the adventurer’s guild, becomes an archer, recruits two female elves into his party, and progresses through a multi-floor dungeon.
There’s certainly nothing wrong with any of that.
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A manga that sticks to a tried-and-true formula can still very much be good if it’s executed well. And as far as this manga gets, it is a pretty good execution. Souya is interesting in that he’s pretty reckless and hotheaded. His party members also have pretty likable personalities. The bonds they’re forming with Souya also feel worth getting invested in. The world building also touches on a lot of intriguing elements.
The problem is that the manga is only two volumes long, and it seems to be a slow burn series. So as far as the manga gets, very little happens. There’s pretty much no value in reading this manga standalone. There may be value in reading this manga as an introduction to the novels it is an adaptation of. However, the light novels also seemed to have gotten axed at volume three, so that doesn’t exactly leave a lot of room for optimism. The art while not terrible, also isn’t all that great and definitely not worth reading the manga for.
tl;dr: An adaptation of a novel series that’s so short it feels pointless.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 8, 2025
This film is the final installment in the Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san series. It continues to focus on Takagi and Nishitaka’s budding relationship. The main story this time is of how the two of them find and take care of a cat during their final summer of middle school. The plot flows well and manages to hit some pretty strong emotional beats. The side story with Mina and her friends also helped with the pacing. And ultimately, the ending and epilogue are a pretty satisfying way to end the series.
With all that said, this film has a completely different feel to the rest of the
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series. There is far less of a focus on Takagi teasing Nishitaka or the two of them competing. Instead it focuses on a pretty generic plotline that progresses in the standard manner of such plotlines. The execution of this is good so the film is still good, but this film having such a different feel to the main series is kind of strange. It’s not like the main couple act out of character or anything. It’s just that this film focuses on parts of them that the series did not. That allows the film to be much more dramatic than the main series did. But in the process we lose most of the fun dynamic that the two of them had. All the investment that was built up in the two and their relationship is still there thus things still hit harder than if this film was about an original pair of characters. But it still felt like very little of the two was shining through and thus things didn’t hit as hard as they potentially could have either.
The way the art and animation in this film were handled is also kind of strange. Anime films often have certain types of shots to essentially show off that they have a higher budget. If you’ve seen enough of them you probably know what I’m talking about. This film certainly has a lot of those. However, the art and animation quality is pretty much the same as the main series, and not really up to the standard that films that have such shots generally have. Thus, these parts look pretty off. The soundtrack of the film was pretty good in terms of the usage of insert songs, though the non-vocal tracks weren’t particularly memorable. The ED was handled really well, with a montage that skipped through all the previous seasons and a song that worked well for that.
tl;dr: A pretty good conclusion film, though one that’s somewhat lacking in the charms of the rest of the series.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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May 7, 2025
tl;dr: Another solid season with everything great about previous seasons and a bit more romantic progression.
This is another season of Takagi and Nishikata’s saccharine romance with all that entails. Takagi is still constantly playfully teasing Nishikata. Nishikata is still trying to one up Takagi, though she’s almost always able to read him perfectly and come out on top. And they’re absolutely adorable together. Things are moving in a more romantic direction and there are definitely stronger romantic moments than previous seasons. But that’s just a natural result of further progress in the slow burn romance that’s existed from the start. There aren’t any major unexpected
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jumps or anything like that. Things are still moving slowly but steadily. If you liked the previous seasons, then you’ll probably like this one. If you didn’t like the previous seasons, there’s nothing in this that will change your mind.
To get more nit picky as there’s not much more to say about the anime in general, I thought the anime team did a pretty great job. There were a lot of interesting concepts used, such as the first episode essentially being a mind trip, and the second being a silent film including the standard music used with such films. They also randomly threw in a short segment from the sequel to the sequel to the manga for some reason but it was awesome. The art animation were also pretty good for the type of anime it is. The OP was solid in terms of the song and visuals. The ED’s visuals were okay, but as with previous seasons it has a bunch of covers of popular songs by Takagi’s VA. She’s a great singer and the songs selected are generally great too, so this works incredibly well. The soundtrack, as with previous seasons, was decent enough but not particularly remarkable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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May 6, 2025
This manga is an incredibly generic love story about a couple in high school. The girl, Sakurai, is bubbly and outgoing. The guy, Nasuno, is shy and lacking in confidence. There’s not anything beyond that to their characters. They’re both really flat.
Their relationship also follows an incredibly simple trajectory. Sakurai is in love with Nasuno from before the start of the manga, but refuses to explicitly ask him out. Instead, she flirts with him incessantly in very obvious ways. He also falls in love with her pretty quickly, but he’s incredibly dense and risk averse so he also refuses to respond to her obvious affections.
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And thus the status quo persists right up to near the end of the manga.
The romantic fluff is reasonably cute, but it gets pretty repetitive considering there’s not really anything to the manga beyond it. There are no real subplots and the side characters have a negligible amount of presence. The ending is satisfying enough in the moment, but the manga is unremarkable enough that it leaves no lasting impression whatsoever.
The art overall has a good style and is high quality, but there’s very little outside of the color art that actually makes good use of it. The ecchi comes across really well but there’s also very little of it, only a few panels per volume. I suspect that both of these are related. This is the mangaka’s first published non hentai manga, so him trying to avoid ecchi resulted in him being out of his comfort zone and not really using his art all that effectively.
tl;dr: An incredibly plain high school romance manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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May 1, 2025
This anime is about a handyman named Saito that gets isekai’d into a fantasy world. The first few episodes are about him using his skills as a handyman from Earth to help a party out as they explore a dungeon, mainly through picking locks. However, the handyman per se aspect significantly decreases in importance after that, though it does still pop up from time to time. Instead the story is more so about any normal guy from Earth without any of the skills that people of the fantasy world generally have trying to come up with ways to be helpful, which I suppose still embodies
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the spirit of a handyman in a way. Overall I found the latter more interesting than the former, as the writing doesn’t really do anything all that interesting with his actual handyman skills.
It was enjoyable watching him finding new ways to be useful through being creative and working hard. This ties directly into his character arc, which was in overcoming feeling useless and unneeded due to his experiences in his original world. His dynamic with the rest of his party is pretty good too. There’s a warrior named Raelza that clearly has a massive crush on him, and their slow but steady relationship progress was pretty satisfying to watch. The remaining members are a miserly fairy named Lafanpan and an old wizard that’s constantly losing his memory named Morlock. The four of them together have a pretty strong family type vibe which is pretty easy to get invested in.
The cast beyond that I found pretty weak. Even in the main party, I felt that their backgrounds were pretty weak and didn’t really help flesh them out all that well. The various side characters are even more underdeveloped. There are a lot and time is spent fleshing out pretty much everyone, but none of it is all that good. Pretty much everyone could be described as a an incredibly generic embodiment of their role, but with one major twist. Though these twists generally have little to no story significance. They’re just to spice up the character and add some humor to things. I didn’t really find anyone outside of the main party likable, and found quite a few of them annoying.
The flow of the anime is very strange and caught me pretty off guard. The first few episodes are short and lighthearted skits focused on comedy that jump around between a bunch of different characters without much of an overarching plot. The setting has somewhat of a dark fantasy feel, but nothing dark happens. However, after that things start getting much more intense. There’s actual arcs with storylines that take place across multiple episodes, though there’s still not really any sort of overarching plot. Things get much darker both in terms of actual sad moments, but also in terms of throwaway edgy stuff. Nothing too bad ever happens though, despite it constantly baiting the viewer into thinking it has, which can get grating. There’s still a good amount of light hearted comedy mixed in which works surprisingly well. There’s also quite a lot of serious action. Most of it is pretty shallow, but it’s still really exciting in the moment. Ultimately, everything felt incredibly messy and rough, like things don’t fit together all that well, but there’s a sort of charm to that and in the end I was pretty satisfied with it.
The art and animation were pretty good. The character designs were pretty solid as well. The OP was solid in terms of the song and visuals. I liked the song of the ED but wasn’t really a fan of the visuals. The final episode did something really amusing with the ED that I enjoyed. The soundtrack was also pretty solid.
tl;dr: A comedic dark fantasy like with a lot of interesting elements that lack cohesion.
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Apr 30, 2025
Wolfsmund is a manga that’s somewhat about the Swiss fighting for their freedom from Austria. That’s the backdrop to things and the final volumes focus on actual historical events, but most of the manga is directed towards events that are purely fictional. The focus of the manga is on Wolfsmund, a gate fortress in St. Gotthart Pass, and it’s sadistic bailiff Wolfram. St. Gotthard Pass did exist in reality and did have strategic importance, but as far as I am aware neither Wolfram nor Wolfsmund actually existed. The manga also incorporates some parts of the legend of William Tell, who is a Swiss folk hero,
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though in a pretty half assed manner.
The first quarter of the manga is about various rebels trying to sneak their way past Wolfmund, but Wolfram catching them and punishing them incredibly cruelly. This is episodic, and most of the episodes have absolutely no relevance to the eventual overarching plot. These episodes are very heavy on blood and gore with Wolfram enjoying using various means of physical and psychologic torture on his victims. The manga tries to flesh out his victim and have the reader empathize with them, so this can hit pretty hard. But beyond that these stories have no value. There’s no real message other than how Wolfram is a terrible person and the middle ages were an awful time. These parts start out interesting, but once you get over the shock value they’re pretty dull.
The middle half is about the invasion of Wolfmund by the rebels. This includes various schemes being enacted in the build up to the assault as well as the actual battle itself. But it’s mostly just both sides trying to slaughter each other in a pretty basic manner. There are special weapons and tactics used by both sides, but they’re pretty abrupt and not well developed. There are a lot of them, and they’re just kind of thrown out there when they’re needed and then never mentioned again. So, the battle itself just isn’t that interesting. Furthermore, while the manga does a good job of fleshing out Wolfram as an awful person, it doesn’t really flesh out the Swiss fighting him at all. Most of the cast beyond Wolfram is throwaway as well and only matter for the small part of the story they’re in. Thus, I found it somewhat hard to get invested in the results of the battle.
The final quarter is about other battles in the fight for Swiss independence. The focus is on the Battle of Mortgarten, which historically was actually an important battle. The battle itself is pretty interesting here, but it’s still hard to get invested in things. While Wolfram had quite a lot of time spent in making him feel worth rooting against, the attempt at doing so with the rest of the Austrian army was haphazard at best. The focus during this phase seemed to be to showcase a historic event and also convey a message of optimism by showing a small force beat a much larger one. However, both of these really don’t fit the rest of the series. I don’t have any problem with a manga accurately trying to chronicle historical events, but considering most of the manga doesn’t try to do so at all, suddenly switching to doing so is a weird shift. And the sudden message of optimism is completely out of place considering the brutality and despair throughout the earlier portions.
I also felt the art was mediocre. Obviously with the type of story this manga has the art isn’t supposed to look good per se. But the art in this also doesn’t really contribute much in terms of the tone or atmosphere. There’s a lot of blood and gore, but beyond that the art is really plain.
tl;dr: A very messy and muddled story with a heavy emphasis on extreme violence.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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