All Minecraft jokes aside, the show offers pretty original ‘from zero to hero’ concept.
At first, it all develops slowly. We get time and space to get to know the environment, first set of girls and monsters that decided to accompany the main character in building farm of his dreams, occasionally tasting and enjoying meals from ingredients they produce.
The pace picks up, however, way too quickly after the main girl cast is introduced and all basic farming activities established. The show turns the whole theme of relaxing farm life into a whole international macro-economical trading business. The farm/village forms many diplomatic relations with other kingdoms and various races (like beastmen, dwarves, lizardmen, dragons etc. and they all, ironically, view this small village as military superpower).
With faster pace, the show moves on from the personal sphere into the societal. The rest of the female characters – at least around 40(!) of them – are introduced very quickly, have very little screen time, and therefore we don’t get many opportunities to get to know them better. Female characters are losing their appeal and relevance because of this.
Even though the farming stuff gets later less relevant, the relaxing element remains. If there was more focus on farming, like early on in the show, and on all female characters (which I hear there is in the light novel in the form of… ‘child-making’), this could be one of the best titles the whole isekai catalog can offer.
Pros:
+ relaxing
+ good 'from zero to hero' concept
Cons:
- individual characters losing their relevance
- too fast paced
Double-edged:
+/- has big, but unused potential
+/- even though farming gets aside later, relaxing atmosphere remains
7/10 (GOOD)
