Story (1/10)
The story is 100% cliches. You can genuinely predict every single thing that happens before it happens. The relationship between Kiri2 and GENERIC-GIRL-CHAN-5000 has 2 steps:
1. "Ummmmm it's not like I like GENERIC-GIRL-CHAN-5000 or anything...."
2. ENGAGEMENT
Sure, there's some other storyline with some bad guy doing bad stuff but that stuff is genuinely relevant for about 7% of the entire show from ep1-8. Some guy does something bad so that Kiri2 can fix it and become the hero that everyone loves. Then every so often in an episode, they're like "oh right, there's that villain who's still alive," so they show a minute of him doing Evil Nefarious Plotting, and then it's back to the least likable characters existing in random places.
Art (3/10)
The facial features are never in the same spot, and I swear to god GENERIC-GIRL-CHAN-5000 has bigger eyes in every consecutive shot she appears in. They spent 90% of the budget on 2 second explosions and then the rest of the rest of the environments can be summed up as such:
SKY LAYER
MOUNTAIN LAYER
STONE GROUND LAYER
This isn't even mentioning the one episode where they decided to have maybe the most hilariously awful CGI vocaloid music videos I've ever seen, and I've seen Ayano's Theory of Happiness's anime CGI video. A girl hops around while whacky and zaney effects pop around screen, she gives some half-hearted dabs (not a joke), and then it's over. I was stunned. I didn't know what to do with myself. I was still for so long that my muscles began to atrophy and the doctors weren't sure I was gonna make it.
Sound (3/10)
I did actually get a little bit into episode 9, and one of the things that made me start to break was when there was an explosion noise and I recognized it. I had heard it from either some 2014 youtube video or unity game, and it is maybe the worst sound known to man. It was like nails on a chalk board. The opening is fine at best, and the same can be said about the ending. Every single background song in the OST has 2 instruments. I can't remember a single song because every song is just like if you took an "item get" jingle from a game and then made it 2 minutes long.
Character (1/10)
Every character has 1 personality trait. Kiri2 is dumb as a post but good at magic. GENERIC-GIRL-CHAN-5000 loves Kiri2 and has a HUMAN GENTLE SOUL. Red hair girl is a tsundere but to like everyone??? God it actually hurts to fucking think about these terrible characters, the entire show is the equivalent of eating cardboard as entertainment while watching paint dry.
Enjoyment (0.1/10)
The thing about the anime that I listed at the start of this review is that they all are at least either good in concept, funny because of how bad they are, have good production quality, or at least have good songs (and maybe a combo of some of these), but the simple truth is that Wise Man's Grandson has absolutely 0 redeeming qualities. It's not even so bad that I can laugh at it. Everything is cliched; nothing is original. My brain hurts just thinking about it because it's just so mind numbingly boring that the cells in my brain just start to turn off entirely so as to not be used for thinking about something so wholly terrible.
Overall (0/10)
I'd give this a negative score if I was able to. This has a better score than fucking Boogiepop. I'm genuinely afraid that some countries will begin to use this show as a torture tactic. That's the type of experience you're in for if you have a lapse in judgment for a long enough duration of time that you press play on Wise Man's Grandson. Never watch it; this is for your own sake. I'm begging you.
