Nothing like an anime with a cute girl on the promotional picture. It's an isekai slice of life? I mean, the competition is big so maybe the author is just that confident in themselves.
Oh, so it was targeted at a female audience and I've been jebaited... Well so be it. Otome game was also aimed at a female audience and I enjoyed it, so really it can't be that bad, right?
Well it was that bad.
Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou desu, or the Saint's magical power is omnipotent is, as you may have guessed already, a power fantasy slice of life isekai, with a twist, twist being that female exist and they probably like to have their own self insert power fantasy. Who knows, maybe there's been outcry asking for that and if there was, rejoice woman, you can now also have a mediocre anime to your demographic.
But more actual criticism rather than me just shitting on an anime that was very obviously not made for me.
One big issue I have that may sound like a small nitpick, but the naming convention in the anime, while it wasn't the best, was plenty good enough. Now can someone explain to me
WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOUR EUROPEAN INSPIRED MEDIEVAL FANTASY ALTERNATE WORLD HAVE A CHARACTER NAMED KYLE?! That may not be much, but to me it was extremely painful to hear. Kyle? How the fuck is that a medieval sounding name? Fucking hell he was even one of the two better characters. But whatever, I'll just chalk it up to the author being drunk.
Next, the story, it was shit. It's your classic world ending calamity threatens to take over the world and only your very powerful but very uninteresting self insert protagonist can destroy this menace. Now I'm not the kind of guy to pee in the cum sock, I know it's a slice of life isekai and therefore the story is kind of a lower priority, but it would have been a lot better if you didn't pretend to care by having random uneventful battles where things happen and the protagonist gets some sort of boost. Also, talking about boost, the power of love? This anime is clearly targeted towards teenage girls, or perhaps emotionally immature female adults? Who knows, that's clearly beyond me.
Now, my personal philosophy is that the "It's slice of life, so of course there is no story" excuse is only valid if your characters are good. Is it the case here? Fuck no, or this review would have been a lot nicer to this garbage. The more obvious thing out of the way, this anime has a bad harem vibe to it, as in, every single character interaction revolves around our protagonist. That's a real problem, because it makes the world feel static. One small upside is Aira's small arc in the story, which lifted up this Anime for one second before it fell back down into the crapper, because she took over some of the character interaction before Sei took back the monopoly.
Secondly, the characters are as interesting as a plain wall. You have to watch them, but they are extremely boring, and their purpose is very obviously to support our main character, which is yet again a self insert, meaning that every interaction is boring as shit and very few characters have slightly decent quirks, you've seen them for 10 seconds and they already feel old, and even those with said quirks get boring fast, because that's all they have going for them.
Fuck, now I feel like the anti-moe patrol, this anime was very clearly not for me.
The production was actually alright, hell it even looks good at times, so I can't really deck it on that one. Great going Diomedea, you've carried an irredeemable piece of garbage.
And that's it, this anime doesn't have any good aspect, consumes itself like a bad fanfiction and can only cater to teenage girls, the kind to look for romance in every little interaction. A waste of time but that's what anime is all about.
