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Jun 12, 2021
Cheat magician is a product that has been competently assembled out of low-quality components. Everything about it is poor. The art is poor, the sound is poor, the character development is poor, the plot is poor.

But at least everything you need is present, and this means that you can veg out to it without encountering the sort of brain-jarring incompetence as you get in, for example, 8th Son. This show wombles along on a steady course, introducing characters and having them interact and the plot develop in a reasonably coherent way.

As an isekai, there is the usual unique feature: here it is that there are two isekai'ed MCs, who are a pair of high-school friends. Apart from this everything is isekai accountancy - everything is entirely by-the-numbers:

They have been summoned to help the kingdom out.
They both need training.
They turn out to be OP.
They build a party with the people they train with.
Most of the characters they meet are girls.
Political shenanigans is going on behind the scenes.
We do get a bit of 'modern education is OP in its own right' for good measure, but that is hardly ground-breaking.

I binged the whole series in a couple of days and it passed the time. There isn't anything remarkable about it and there isn't anything particularly bad about it.

It's just... poor.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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