I actually recommend people watch this show. Not because it is good, but precisely the opposite. Watching Isekai wa Smartphone is like a crash course for the anime connoisseur in how to quickly spot horrifically bad and blatantly unoriginal writing. Throughout the entire show, red flags pop up everywhere hinting to how the creators are just trying to make a quick buck off a popular genre.
-Lazy character design. Every single character in this show is a one dimensional shadow clone of a character from a better show. This is not an exaggeration. Every. Single. One.
-The main character has NO personality. None. Zero. He's always positive about everything and never makes a mistake. His mood never changes. He can legitimately do anything.
-Right from the start, the animation quality is nothing special despite being a fantasy setting. That's how you know you are watching seasonal trash - if you can tell that a shows investors are holding back it's a sign of serious caution.
-The first girls he run into already want the D for absolutely no reason. You could take a random college student fresh out of creative writing and they could probably make better romantic setups than this.
-It takes the main character zero time to solve any problem. Any hint of suspense is gone. All plot devices exist solely to get to the next female character to commence the same jokes you have heard a thousand times.
The fantasy genre almost seems like it shouldn't be able to be screwed up. By placing the setting in another world with different rules, it gives the writer absolute creative freedom in how they wish to build that world. These alternative dimension shows create a blank canvas for which anything is possible. And yet, here we are. It doesn't matter how much freedom you grant to people with no talent. These scrubs somehow managed to vomit up an anime that has both an abysmally nonexistent plot with characters that are all amazingly boring with zero development. Anime that is low tier but still enjoyable tend to screw up either plot or characters, but not them both. Isekai wa Smartphone manages to botch these two critical factors in a way that leaves you in awe at how such an incompetent story even got the funding for an animation in the first place.
In conclusion, this is the kind of show you can have running in the background on a second monitor while doing something else and you won't miss anything because nothing is happening. It serves as a prime example of poor quality creative plagiarism, to the point where this anime almost defines it.
