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Dec 1, 2024
Mixed Feelings
Tensei Kizoku, Kantei Skill de Nariagaru, is an anime that is quite a bit better than the average Isekai you'll see every anime season these days, but it's certainly not without it's fair share of flaws. On the whole it's an alright show that you might like if you don't take it's story too seriously or go into it with high expectations. The short version is, you'd probably like this as a side watch as it works very well as simple entertainment but can't give you too much more as it does a decent job but doesn't excel at anything it does either.


Starting things off with the premise and story, and on the whole it's actually not half bad but certainly has it's fair share of flaws. The Isekai portion of it is a gimmick at best and has basically no purpose or point to the story. If you watch this you'd probably think that the show would've been better if they just removed it and that wouldn't be wrong. On the whole the MC being from another world serves literally no purpose, he doesn't do anything with the fact he's from another world and doesn't even act like it either. This show is basically a fantasy that became an Isekai just so it could be part of the genre. The main focus is on his skill which basically let's him see peoples abilities and strengths as a "skill screen" like one you'd see in a game. The MC is pretty pathetic outside of that ability skill wise, but at least he realizes that and makes some attempt to overcome it. However the shows main purpose is him gathering talented allies using his skill, and on the whole it's just "ok" not bad, not good, just ok. The show tries to put some back story and such behind every character he recruits and in general it'll leave you feeling underwhelmed. It's not outright bad, but it's just the prime example of a mediocre to average backstory for pretty much every single one. Ars is from a very small domain and his father is the lord of it, and I mean it's REALLY small. So as the future lord of the domain Ars is gathering capable allies to help him make up for some of his lack of ability so he can take over one day. The premise is actually really good, but it's execution of it's story ranges from pretty good to really mediocre, not outright bad just really mediocre.


The characters on the whole are the shows biggest strength. On the whole they have a lot of areas they do fall flat in, the backstory and such being the main offender. However there's no denying that they all make for pretty entertaining characters. Except Rosell, this kid is by far the worst character in the show. His backstory is pathetically bad compared to everyone else's, he's an absurdly shy kid who also hates doing anything he doesn't want to do and would almost come off as being a brat if it weren't for the other characters. He likes spending all of his time reading books and that's how he got his intelligence, except he makes one REALLY simple animal trap for the hunters and they're like "you're a genius" and he gets recruited by Ars. Making matters even worse, 95% of the time the way they make him smarter is by suddenly making all the other characters suddenly get stupider to make his idea seem smarter. On the whole the problem isn't that his ideas are dumb necessarily, the problem is the ideas are more often than not something that anyone literally anyone with average intelligence should've been able to think about doing. I have no problem with characters making smart decisions but when the decision is about something that should be common sense 95% of the time and the show suddenly makes all the other characters too stupid to be capable of doing that so Rosell can seem smart just irks you the wrong way. Despite the stupid flaws this show has, it's characters do at least end up having one of the most important things right which is they're entertaining to watch at the very least, although they're really most held back from being good by the flaws. The character development on the other hand is actually pretty decent, mostly for Ars though, I'm not gonna go into detail to avoid spoilers but essentially the guy does at least make some growth and improve over time and while it's nothing top tier it's does it's job quite decently and is actually held back by his "Isekai" origins more than anything making some of it seem rather dumb for his character.


Lastly the production, on the whole it's "OK" which seems to be a big theme with this show. It doesn't do anything outright bad but it doesn't do anything great either. The art style is actually very unique and nice to see. The art quality is OK, I certainly felt at times the studio had trouble drawing the art "correctly" in a sense or consistently but it certainly wasn't bad. The animation is just OK also, many less important scenes are quite still or lack motion but they do more for the action scenes. On the whole it screams "low budget" they put movement where necessary and don't where it's not. On the whole it's not bad and doesn't have any crappy CGI put in to make it worse either but it could've been better. Music is fine, it's really nothing special but it gets the job done well enough. Voice acting is up to standard for what you'd expect from Japan's anime industry.


Well that's that, on the whole this show is really just "OK" it does nothing really well but it doesn't do anything really badly either, except maybe Rosell. It's generally going to be a decently entertaining watch, especially the character development parts of it and while it's flaws don't ruin the show they certainly hold it back a fair bit. 6/10
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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