Kenja no Mago (2019)
STORY:
Story is well a bit of a pain, an orphaned baby gets picked up by the most powerful wizard and his soon to be ex Mrs but still has a harmonious relationship and the baby has an unknown background (to them) with vast amounts of other worldly knowledge, all leads into an expected Isekai.
Long story short, a boy grows up with little outside contact in a very small community of experts in respective fields and being pretend family with the King of the land. Eventually he goes to school where he is so overpowered it is absolutely ridiculous. He not only can out do everyone he meets at a young age, he could if made a villain take over the world or destroy it. By using knowledge of his old world (our one) he is able to use spells that he thinks in his head to produce the needed elements to make them more powerful. But I don’t mean oh he can make fire a little more powerful I mean snap his fingers and he could burn down London powerful. Ultimately, he teams up after a misunderstanding with people who originally saw his power as a way to progress in society. (All students are nobles in some sense). He then has the girl fall for him from a prestigious family and they train to become a team of heroes who have protective clothing to make them even harder to hurt. They cut through most enemies with ease, although the majority of the series is about them training at a school summer camp lets all get on better fan service style method. In the end we have a very generic story with a very generic cast of characters with the expectation that the main character is perhaps level 1000 and most of the demonoid villains he faces are level 150 type gap. His teammates are more even (that’s a lie). The main villain is perhaps close but still a long way from him in power.
ART:
The art style used is quite nice, if not average for the industry. It doesn’t do anything spectacular but isn’t an eyesore in any sense. It seems to have a lot of bright vibrance about it even in the darkest places which takes away from the enemy when seen in their lair. The OP and ED are both a bit silly, the OP being worse with the start having our main character’s (obviously ripped) shirt being torn away.
SOUND:
The sound again like the art is average for the type of series we are watching, the songs are good, but the OP and ED are a bit generic sounding. The ending song is at least something you could listen to at the gym.
CHARACTER:
The main character development from the bat goes from hero to superhero, which is fine, but he is perhaps just way to powerful too quickly. I mean he can teleport about using doors he creates, something no one else can do before he arrived. The main character is not completely blind to a girl’s affection like Infinite Stratos, but you do get a lot of inner thoughts and no action until eventually it happens with everyone being involved in a way that is just meh.
Other characters are generic in development, the girls often worry about being single forever if they are already single and have a slight anger at couples. Some are worried about their chests and how guys view that. The ones in relationships are more content but show modesty. The guys in the series much the same but for male tropes instead. The development of them otherwise is from good students to suddenly ridiculous in a matter of no time particularly.
ENJOYMENT:
The series despite what has been said isn’t entirely unenjoyable. If you like this sort of thing then go for it. I do usually and I absolutely loved In another world with my smartphone because at least the over powered lead had issues and they had the harem thing going on in a funny way with lots of meeting of new people. This however is just about the main character becoming who he is, it is almost like they want it to push into a slice of life for an overpowered hero who gets everything he could ask for with no effort genre. I have to admit from episode 8 onwards I really have struggled to watch it. I always finish what I start however, but this is just a pain. When finally, as you expect we get to the climax episodes we just see oh the enemy fall like fire taking hold of a dry leaf and our hero and his team get a minor scratch. The final episode needs to have some major develops that makes up for a lot.
OVERALL:
In the end, it is a very generic series that is enjoyable to some but not all. It needed to have some more weakness or developments in characters that didn’t just turbo charge them all suddenly. Also needs love where people don’t just go hey, lets get married stranger and everyone just acts like it is beautiful.
I would be very surprised after this if it was renewed, and if it is renewed it needs to make major efforts towards changing itself. It is not unenjoyable like said but it has a long way to go to make itself something different for the right reasons.
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*This review has been done to give as little away as possible by not referring to characters actual names to avoid spoiling the series.
*Other anime mentioned in the review is because they are worth watching and make great examples.