Does this anime have anything to offer? Does this anime do anything unique? Does this anime do anything to set it apart from the countless other power-dream isekai anime? The answer to all of these is a big fat no, this anime does nothing special, offers nothing special, and gets lost in the dramatic flow of all the other anime's of the same genres. Starting off with it, it seemed like it was going to try to go the Konosuba route and play a parody of the genre. That got squashed rather quickly. Then it seemed like it was going to go the farming route, having a character start out rather weak with the potential of big stacks later on. Hahaha no. This is just your normal Isekai powerful mc with an ever-building harem.
So getting into the actual critiques now that I've done nothing but complain about it.
The anime's plot is your generic fantasy, isekai trope in which our main character is chosen for one reason or another to be transported into another world based on the wisdom of a religious deity. In return for going over, our main character must forfeit all of his memories and start life anew, kinda new but nothing special. What throws this entire situation out the window, however, is that as soon as waking up in the new world, our hero says "Guess I've been Isekai'd," completely ruining the initial set-up of memory loss as established by the show. Not a good start. The new mc has a constant skit in which he cringes at the transgressions the old him made. While this can be potentially be used to comedic effect, it means absolutely nothing as we never met the main character before he lost his memory, making these interactions pointless as we have no basis to compare the two selves.
In the beginning of the story, the main character starts off at level one and goes through the struggles of fighting monsters at the same level. In a smart move, the hero gets his butt handed to him by the monsters initially, keyword being initially, after a few missed swings and getting knocked off his feet, he is able to read their moves and succeed. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with this matter, it is the only time we really ever seem him struggle as after this it becomes very one-sided victories. Even if the main character pronounces that the enemy was strong and the fight was a close one, it never really seems like it due to the animations or lack-there-of.
With the main character being a summoner, I thought it was something new compared to the other copy-pastas and was hoping that he would focus on being a back-line summoner support type character, like he himself says at the beginning. Sigh, no. While he does make contracts and summons, his other spells are just as powerful making him a battle-caster, ruining the entire point of him establishing himself as a summoner.
As for the art itself; the main character is rather unique compared to the generic Kirito rip-offs that every Isekai has as their main character. The higher level enemies designs are okay, nothing breathtaking but they're not CGI monstrosities like you'd see in many other Isekai. Their designs are rather bland and boring but not a copy paste, though the same cannot be said about the lower level monsters. All of the other characters are just as bland and unremarkable as a bowl full of unfrosted flakes, I mean the mc has a literal full size dagger as an earing. The side characters are just your same copy-paste face with different hairstyles, eye colors, and breast sizes. The personalities are the same tropes from all the others, and the main character himself seems to really be in his element all the time, never struggling being in a new world, never having to understand something new, the very definition of 'takes things as they comes' but to an extreme level. Also, personally I hate CGI, but I do understand it is easier and cheaper to do than cell animations, so I will not fault anime for using it from time to time. Surprisingly though, CGI is used in limited supply here and when it is used, it honestly does not look terrible at all. But man, there are some shots from this anime that look like actual trash. Like random freeze frames from early Nickelodeon shows bad.
Characters are introduced and rather than go through development for said characters, building up relationships and revealing the nature to the watcher, the anime opts for a time-skip instead. Rather than build up actual characters, the anime would rather skip the juicy bits and skip right into the girls fighting for the male lead.
Run of the mill story. Bland Characters. Power fantasy. There are some notable voice actors in here but I feel as if this was nothing more than a paycheck for them. Gotta get the whiskey on the table somehow if you want to enjoy your cereal. If you're a fan of this type of thing, a brain dead anime thats a power fantasy with a fill-in character hero, that goes through a tale with impressive powers and gets all the girls, then this is for you. If you're looking for something unique and promising, something to really tune you in, then this is very much not for you. Though I guess anime like this are really that popular, otherwise they wouldn't keep making them.
To sum up each score with the hated system:
Story: 1/10
Art: 3/10
Sound: 3/10
Characters: 1/10
Overall: 2/10, don't unfrost my flakes.
