An isekai harem of an overpowered bland self-insert teenager who used to be an adult game-developer corporate-slave until one day he got exhausted from overwork and died by truck-kun, err, I mean, safely went to sleep and woke up in his game world?
Probably the same thing as Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. but I dropped that one first episode so I wouldn't know for sure.
12 episode partial light novel adaptation.
1/10★ - Enragingly mediocre.
Strength: dirt cheap pet-slave-girl moe, if you are into that.
Weaknesses: nauseatingly self-insert MC that will give you brain cancer, obnoxiously unexciting writing.
Incomprehensibly bad. Worst main character I've ever seen. That this source story got an adaptation is honestly mind-boggling; anything else would have been likely a better alternative.
Today I find myself asking: what makes a good protagonist? Whether lawful good or chaotic evil, motivated or lazy, heroically sympathetic or mind-my-own-business apathetic, they all share a common extremely abstract trait: they all do something.
Satou must be the anti-thesis of whatever a protagonist is supposed to be. He's a non-character. He lacks any sort of anything. No objective. No ambition. No stakes. No fear. No courage. No wits. No jokes. No lewd. No purity. No personality. No quirks. No beliefs. If you gave a background character super-powers, you wouldn't expect him to remain a background character, but somehow that happened with Satou.
The blandness of Satou reaches legendary levels of poor writing. It's a character with a harem who won't hit on the young girls making advances on him because, though he is a teen now, he used to be an older adult. But neither will he do anything about the older girls. However, instead of just doing nothing, this disgrace has the gall to visit a brothel. Yes. A brothel. No, don't bother with best-girl contests, the MC has chosen: random harlots. Hoes over moes.
Another example of Satou's despicable lack of agency and decision is that this is an isekai with slavery. Does Satou like slavery? Or not? He's undecided. Sees people treated as things, doesn't like it. Has enough power to topple society and free them all, doesn't do it. Instead he's such a lame pushover he buys the first slaves he sees to treat them "well" (cringe) probably because the slave-seller put too much pressure for him to buy them and he couldn't say no. And he got FIVE of them.
From the start to the end of the series, Satou has no initiative. None. Nada. Everything he does is in response to a random quest conveniently showing up. From him meeting the right people at the right time who tell him exactly what to do, to the bad guys happening to target him or those around him. It's a string of bland developments tied to the author's finger. It's hardly a story. But it's forced in a way you can't have a slice-of-life either.
Everything feels like such a cop-out. Even the fact the MC just went to sleep to get to the other world. There isn't even have the commitment to AT LEAST have him die in the normal world, like it happens in KonoSuba, Re:Zero, Knight's & Magic, and almost every isekai with reincarnation out there. This has the somber implication the ending of the novel is probably just gonna be "waking up from a dream." I'm not reading it to find out, but I wouldn't put that past it.
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The gender-ratio is disgustingly female. Practically every character is part of the MC's harem, which expands at facepalming rates. He has five slaves, including 3 animal girls, 2 little children. It's a Stockholm's syndrome galore, a.k.a. cop-out love interests. Save girls from random whatever, they fall for you every time. How I hate self-inserts.
Although not ecchi, it does include some disturbing stuff, like the brothel thing, a girl jumping naked on the MC's bed, plus other random nakedness for no reason like that.
The violence is in form of some fights which really aren't great. The MC is OP, but the story isn't clever like One Punch Man, also the artwork relies too much on CGI. On top of that, because of the world's identity crisis as to whether it's a game, dream or reality, enemies literally don't bleed, they disappear with blue particles.
At its most awkward moment, a "core" is collected from inside of a monster's corpse, literally pulled out from its carcass, and still no blood, red, blue or green comes out of it.
Probably the same thing as Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni. but I dropped that one first episode so I wouldn't know for sure.
12 episode partial light novel adaptation.
1/10★ - Enragingly mediocre.
Strength: dirt cheap pet-slave-girl moe, if you are into that.
Weaknesses: nauseatingly self-insert MC that will give you brain cancer, obnoxiously unexciting writing.
Incomprehensibly bad. Worst main character I've ever seen. That this source story got an adaptation is honestly mind-boggling; anything else would have been likely a better alternative.
Today I find myself asking: what makes a good protagonist? Whether lawful good or chaotic evil, motivated or lazy, heroically sympathetic or mind-my-own-business apathetic, they all share a common extremely abstract trait: they all do something.
Satou must be the anti-thesis of whatever a protagonist is supposed to be. He's a non-character. He lacks any sort of anything. No objective. No ambition. No stakes. No fear. No courage. No wits. No jokes. No lewd. No purity. No personality. No quirks. No beliefs. If you gave a background character super-powers, you wouldn't expect him to remain a background character, but somehow that happened with Satou.
The blandness of Satou reaches legendary levels of poor writing. It's a character with a harem who won't hit on the young girls making advances on him because, though he is a teen now, he used to be an older adult. But neither will he do anything about the older girls. However, instead of just doing nothing, this disgrace has the gall to visit a brothel. Yes. A brothel. No, don't bother with best-girl contests, the MC has chosen: random harlots. Hoes over moes.
Another example of Satou's despicable lack of agency and decision is that this is an isekai with slavery. Does Satou like slavery? Or not? He's undecided. Sees people treated as things, doesn't like it. Has enough power to topple society and free them all, doesn't do it. Instead he's such a lame pushover he buys the first slaves he sees to treat them "well" (cringe) probably because the slave-seller put too much pressure for him to buy them and he couldn't say no. And he got FIVE of them.
From the start to the end of the series, Satou has no initiative. None. Nada. Everything he does is in response to a random quest conveniently showing up. From him meeting the right people at the right time who tell him exactly what to do, to the bad guys happening to target him or those around him. It's a string of bland developments tied to the author's finger. It's hardly a story. But it's forced in a way you can't have a slice-of-life either.
Everything feels like such a cop-out. Even the fact the MC just went to sleep to get to the other world. There isn't even have the commitment to AT LEAST have him die in the normal world, like it happens in KonoSuba, Re:Zero, Knight's & Magic, and almost every isekai with reincarnation out there. This has the somber implication the ending of the novel is probably just gonna be "waking up from a dream." I'm not reading it to find out, but I wouldn't put that past it.
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This show is described by many as a cooking anime. Because describing a plate doesn't require commitment. Adapting to artwork is not a problem. So food is probably the only thing it managed not to screw up horribly. It does feature some action and harem themes, but that's not the focus. Nothing is the focus. Takes place in a game fantasy land with magic, demons, elves, usual stuff. Calling this an adventure would be offensive, so let's not do that.The gender-ratio is disgustingly female. Practically every character is part of the MC's harem, which expands at facepalming rates. He has five slaves, including 3 animal girls, 2 little children. It's a Stockholm's syndrome galore, a.k.a. cop-out love interests. Save girls from random whatever, they fall for you every time. How I hate self-inserts.
Although not ecchi, it does include some disturbing stuff, like the brothel thing, a girl jumping naked on the MC's bed, plus other random nakedness for no reason like that.
The violence is in form of some fights which really aren't great. The MC is OP, but the story isn't clever like One Punch Man, also the artwork relies too much on CGI. On top of that, because of the world's identity crisis as to whether it's a game, dream or reality, enemies literally don't bleed, they disappear with blue particles.
At its most awkward moment, a "core" is collected from inside of a monster's corpse, literally pulled out from its carcass, and still no blood, red, blue or green comes out of it.
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デスマーチからはじまる異世界狂想曲
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
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