Reviews

You know I've watched a lot of anime, most are recycled plot, caricature characters and major wish-fulfillment stuff. Arifureta fit this bill near perfectly, a weakling becomes the strongest and goes on an adventure collecting harem members as he goes. To be honest I don't have a problem with that if an anime's done right even a terrible plot or a lack of plot can be good. Take One Punch Man S1 it was near episodic, had no end goal, but it was well animated and wildly entertaining making it good. Arifureta literally talked over plot points, portrayed the plot in a fairly bland manner, and the cg fight scenes in most parts were lackluster.

The themes were probably the best part of the anime, the voice acting was fairly on point so it scores highly, nothing too memorable but it stands out as probably a better part of this anime.

Characters generally lacked depth, serving to emphasize how OP our main characters, or move the plot along. Well they weren't annoying or irritating to watch so it was okay.

I originally, was hoping for more from this anime but the glaring issues in this animation were obvious, likely due to the issues in production that happened. Still it rushed the plot at lightspeed covering 4 volumes in 13 episodes spending 5 episodes on 1 volume leaving 8 episodes for 3 volumes. There was a lot of skipped or cut content in my opinion, usually that isn't an issue as anime's gloss over it but a slideshow explanation format ranks rather low on how to do it.

Still there were some enjoyable parts of the anime the non-combat comedic bits were still entertaining. So it gets a solid 6