Reviews

This show isn't bad.. But it's not particularly good either. It's got some good points, decent world building, a main character type you don't seem to see in Iseki too much. But it's got more bad points, the story line feels like it was written by an Eigth grader, a fairly creative and literate one but it shares tons of plot elements with copy and pasted fanfiction I read when I was a kid. For example, 4 heroes are summoned to save the kingdom. Everyone worships the ground 3 of them walk on but constantly disrespect the 4th one (the main character) for no real reason. This never gets better and the story revolves around everyone and their mother trying to sabotage him for no reason. Then there's the characters themselves, the main character is by far the best character in this show because he's written decently (by which I mean like ok not well), which still sets him way ahead of every other character in this show. The other 3 heroes are dumb as a bag of hammers and can't see that obviously something shady is going on no matter what happens RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM. The side characters (Iseki Harem) are cookie cutter anime characters. More a collection of stereotypical character tropes with a weird slavery fetish than actual characters. They try to characterize them more later but there's no build up to it so it comes off as really awkward and forced. And then the worst part... The villains. This is where the 8th grade fanfiction is actually better. The villains here are so obviously evil in every single way just...cuz. They're all psychopaths who are out to get the Shield hero for no real reason or just do evil stuff cause they feel like it and that's where their character ends. And they're all absolute morons to boot. The only one who might break this mold is the king (still a moron but he seems to have something going on under the hood but who knows with this show) who is so irritating and unlikable that it's not really any better. This show should not be rated so highly it's got absolutely nothing special other than not being a completely generic Iseki. It's fun sometimes when you get far enough into it but if you're not easily entertained you might not want to pick this up.