As a seasonal isekai anime watcher I looked a bit into the anime adaptation of this piece I've never heard of.
I thought the concept of the crazy guy who's so deep into his chuunibyou and that randomly discovers secret organizations was fun.
So i watched a few episodes, and liked the premices, was bored to wait and made the greatest mistake a man could make, I looked the manga.
Boy do I wish you did the same...
Yes, I'll be that guy, yes I will say that the manga is better than the anime, hate me, but man, as i looked through the anime, i said to myself, where is the funny? The tags of the anime clearly mentionned comedy and that's probably what they omitted in the anime adaptation.
In the manga you get a good understanding of who the main character is, a dumb man that only wants to do cool stuff and say badass things because... because it's damn cool!
Yes his chuunibyou is well depicted in the anime, but it's off. he seems to do random things while beeing serious through all the episodes.
But what is not shown is that he is a normal guy in the inside. In fact they totally forgot to represent his inner thoughts that creates this gigantic gap between what he is and what he appears to be to the people around him. This gap creates the comedy gold moments i read in the manga that appeared as pitiful jokes in the anime.
As an allegory, it's as if they made the handa-kun anime, without you knowing he is paranoïd on the inside. It changes the whole spirit of the piece and it's what is happening to this anime.
But when you get a hold on this piece of art and comedy that is the manga, your vision totally changes about this story.
Also the secondary characters are much more appreciable and the art is amazing.
In conclusion I would highly recommend Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute!, but maybe if you read this, consider starting with the manga and I hope you will love it too!
sorry for the bad phrasing and my bad english grammar, it's not my main language, and it's my first review
