The stark contrast between a middle -aged man who was a pessimistic loser and the slice-of-life fantasy world he landed in created a hilarious tone that had me binging the first season to see how that would continue to be incorporated. Unfortunately, the whole foundation this anime was created on with a really good idea slowly started to just disappear and be replaced with a stereotypical fantasy anime with the “humor” being panty and sex jokes on girls who played heavily into the helpless-to-assault trope.
This didn’t stop in season 2 and instead just got worse. It was incredibly irritating that any time you began to connect with the protagonist after episodes upon episodes of him “growing,” you’d be immediately pulled out of that because they had to write in the same recycled pervert joke that made him weird and gross. The first few of these jokes in S1 were funny, sure, because it still had ties to him being new to a reincarnated life. When you use these jokes for the 100th time when the character is now 10+ years older, it’s just lame.
For fans of animes like the Seven deadly sins, you’d probably love this one, as it feels like it’s written basically the same. For anyone that was pulled in by S1’s freshness and novelty, leave it at the first 10 or so episodes then move on and pretend that’s all this series has.
