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Sep 26, 2017
I see a lot of people harshly judging this anime. I understand why people might hate it. But today I am here to tell you exactly why Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni is the best comedy anime this year if not the best of these past 4 years.

Let me set something straight :
This anime is the literal apex of ironic comedy anime.
You heard me. Ironic comedy. If you don't like ironic comedy or you are one of those people who actually care about serious, in-depth stories, this is definitely not an anime for you. Now allow me to elucidate on how this anime perfectly accomplishes exactly what it is intended to accomplish.

To begin, this anime is full of clichés. If you could not tell this anime was a cliché filled anime from the title, it will be pretty apparent within the first episode. However, the amount of immense clichés in this anime is a complete parodies of other animes. It parodies terrible anime is such a great way that it appears to be a terrible anime. Its crazy overpowered MC, the instant harem that he gets, the cliché outfit, and it's use of "friendship and teamwork" to overcome tough situations instead of the MCs insane overpowered abilities. This is just a mocking of all the ridiculous clichés used in all the regurgitation animes.

However, even for being an ironic comedy anime, it still shines through story wise. Beyond the clichés, it takes original turns throughout the story that one would not even nearly expect even from a regular, serious fantasy cliché anime. Such as actually progressing the harem and the characters. Characters in typical harem animes normally always fit into the -dere categories. However in this anime, the expected "tsundere" characters do not vehemently deny loving the MC. Take Yumina for example. She is expected to be a Kuudere(character with no fuckin personality at all but underlying emotions that are unspoken) but she isn't. She likes Touya, but she also respects him enough to be around other women. She also understands that polygamy exists in the world, so she is fine with that. She gets jealous, but she also understands that a lot of the clichéd misunderstandings are just misunderstandings and puts her faith in Touya. Now lets take Touya into account. His clichés are : super overpowered, super oblivious, stupid nice to everyone, and shy when it comes to relationships and shit. However, he is a deadass pervert. He also has confidence in himself, and slight arrogance. He realizes how overpowered he can be but he does not strive for more power. These round characters are really revealing of the talent of the writers, masked behind a veil of overused clichés to blind the audience. It is a great work of art for being a very good parody of terrible art.

Onto everything else, the art was pretty good. The sounds were regular cliché cutesy sound effects. The story was, beyond the clichés, actually pretty decent. The uniqueness of magic and null magic, and the capacity it was taken to was pretty cool. You'd expect some fucking massive kamehameha blast explosion shit to take down one of the most powerful beings on the planet, but instead he takes it down using basically the youtube autoreplay button to make a snake wrapped turtle trip over and over for 7 hours. It's ridiculous simplicity makes everything funny, but also original in the fact that it isn't overly explosive and flashy to draw attention. It kind of reminds me of one punch man where the main character is so overpowered that he uses regular lame moves to get the job done.

If you enjoy ironic parody comedy, or just something light in contrast to all the serious dark tryhard animes, I believe that you will love this ironic masterpiece of an anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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