

Black Summoner
黒の召喚士
To prepare for reincarnation in another world, Kelvin gives up select memories from his previous life in exchange for powerful abilities, additional skill points, and an S-class summoner title. As a bonus, the goddess facilitating his rebirth, Melfina, offers him a choice of any companion to give him a head start in his summoner role. Kelvin—who has fallen head over heels for Melfina at first sight—promptly chooses the deity, confident that his passionate feelings for her will resurface even without all of his memories. Kelvin embarks on his exciting new journey with Melfina as his guide. However, in order to summon his beloved goddess' physical form, he needs to acquire significant amounts of mana points—and the best way to accomplish this is to level up by fighting strong enemies and making contracts with even stronger companions. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
To prepare for reincarnation in another world, Kelvin gives up select memories from his previous life in exchange for powerful abilities, additional skill points, and an S-class summoner title. As a bonus, the goddess facilitating his rebirth, Melfina, offers him a choice of any companion to give him a head start in his summoner role. Kelvin—who has fallen head over heels for Melfina at first sight—promptly chooses the deity, confident that his passionate feelings for her will resurface even without all of his memories. Kelvin embarks on his exciting new journey with Melfina as his guide. However, in order to summon his beloved goddess' physical form, he needs to acquire significant amounts of mana points—and the best way to accomplish this is to level up by fighting strong enemies and making contracts with even stronger companions. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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beigechan
January 11, 2024
Not recommended, unless you're looking for a generic isekai or you're extremely bored with nothing to watch. Kelvin trade his memories for skills but it doesn't impact him in any way. His only personality trait is being a "battle junkie", he doesn't have an objective and there's no overall plot. Kelvin is a summoner in name only he gets like 3 monsters and the rest are all girls, he could be a wizard and it wouldnt change anything. And the girls only personality trait is being in love with Kelvin, their backstories are shallow and there's no character development either. Also most of the fights are madewith CGI and it doesn't look good at all.
lycoping
December 15, 2024
Ok, let me start with this: my list is littered with isekai I started and didn't finish. I finished this. So that says something anyway. But there's not a whole lot about it that's special. It's just a bog standard isekai with game mechanics integrated. But, there are a few differences, that make all the difference in the world. So, instead of attempting to write a synopsis of the plot, I'll just say it's an isekai and leave it at that, this tells you everything you need to know. But as I said, the differences make all the, well, difference. First thingsfirst: this is a harem-ish isekai, but it's not ecchi. There's no flagrant and unnecessary displaying of female parts or pantsu, and what little displaying there is, is at least defensible. This is unusual for an isekai, particularly a harem one. There's also not a huge amount of violence - there's a bit of gore, but it's not excessive. I don't typically like those elements but there wasn't enough to bother me. This is also unusual for an isekai. The plot is well paced and while the ending wasn't very satisfying, it was about what's to be expected from an isekai. The one thing that really did bother me about this anime was something that you may not notice until you look for it: there's a lot of exposition *while the enemy is standing right there*. It's kind of ridiculous. They approach the enemy, he or she is standing there, and they go into this minutes long exposition where he just stands there and even sometimes says "are you done?" It's ridiculous. I know the games these are based on is turn-based, but that's just dumb. As for the art, there's a lot of CGI. It wasn't poorly done but I could tell it was CGI, so, well, I guess that's not the best thing. Otherwise, it's about the quality of animation you'll expect from a kadokawa-esque isekai, which is to say, good enough to get the job done and no better. (it's not kadokawa, but you know what I'm talking about - that studio tends to be better at prodigiously cranking out mid anime, unlike gohands and clover works, and this is very much on the kadokawa level. Put another way, on a scale of kadokawa to gohands, it's kadokawa.) The action scenes were fairly well animated, but as these scenes tend to be, they were also confusing at times - too much going on at once. But they weren't excessively gory, so there's that. The music was pretty interesting purely for its choice of tone. I've never heard electric piano (I think it was actually a DX-7 ish patch) used in an anime ED before. But otherwise it was about as unremarkable as the rest of the anime. Which is actually pretty normal, so... There was nothing really wrong with this anime, but there wasn't a whole lot *right* with it, either. It was just a bog-standard isekai without many of the elements that really annoy me about isekai. Some reviews have called this a background or time-wasting anime. I think that's pretty apt. Recommended from me, but don't expect more than it'll deliver.
krazykombat
September 26, 2022
Sigh, where do I begin with this one..... Does this anime have anything to offer? Does this anime do anything unique? Does this anime do anything to set it apart from the countless other power-dream isekai anime? The answer to all of these is a big fat no, this anime does nothing special, offers nothing special, and gets lost in the dramatic flow of all the other anime's of the same genres. Starting off with it, it seemed like it was going to try to go the Konosuba route and play a parody of the genre. That got squashed rather quickly. Then it seemed like itwas going to go the farming route, having a character start out rather weak with the potential of big stacks later on. Hahaha no. This is just your normal Isekai powerful mc with an ever-building harem. So getting into the actual critiques now that I've done nothing but complain about it. The anime's plot is your generic fantasy, isekai trope in which our main character is chosen for one reason or another to be transported into another world based on the wisdom of a religious deity. In return for going over, our main character must forfeit all of his memories and start life anew, kinda new but nothing special. What throws this entire situation out the window, however, is that as soon as waking up in the new world, our hero says "Guess I've been Isekai'd," completely ruining the initial set-up of memory loss as established by the show. Not a good start. The new mc has a constant skit in which he cringes at the transgressions the old him made. While this can be potentially be used to comedic effect, it means absolutely nothing as we never met the main character before he lost his memory, making these interactions pointless as we have no basis to compare the two selves. In the beginning of the story, the main character starts off at level one and goes through the struggles of fighting monsters at the same level. In a smart move, the hero gets his butt handed to him by the monsters initially, keyword being initially, after a few missed swings and getting knocked off his feet, he is able to read their moves and succeed. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with this matter, it is the only time we really ever seem him struggle as after this it becomes very one-sided victories. Even if the main character pronounces that the enemy was strong and the fight was a close one, it never really seems like it due to the animations or lack-there-of. With the main character being a summoner, I thought it was something new compared to the other copy-pastas and was hoping that he would focus on being a back-line summoner support type character, like he himself says at the beginning. Sigh, no. While he does make contracts and summons, his other spells are just as powerful making him a battle-caster, ruining the entire point of him establishing himself as a summoner. As for the art itself; the main character is rather unique compared to the generic Kirito rip-offs that every Isekai has as their main character. The higher level enemies designs are okay, nothing breathtaking but they're not CGI monstrosities like you'd see in many other Isekai. Their designs are rather bland and boring but not a copy paste, though the same cannot be said about the lower level monsters. All of the other characters are just as bland and unremarkable as a bowl full of unfrosted flakes, I mean the mc has a literal full size dagger as an earing. The side characters are just your same copy-paste face with different hairstyles, eye colors, and breast sizes. The personalities are the same tropes from all the others, and the main character himself seems to really be in his element all the time, never struggling being in a new world, never having to understand something new, the very definition of 'takes things as they comes' but to an extreme level. Also, personally I hate CGI, but I do understand it is easier and cheaper to do than cell animations, so I will not fault anime for using it from time to time. Surprisingly though, CGI is used in limited supply here and when it is used, it honestly does not look terrible at all. But man, there are some shots from this anime that look like actual trash. Like random freeze frames from early Nickelodeon shows bad. Characters are introduced and rather than go through development for said characters, building up relationships and revealing the nature to the watcher, the anime opts for a time-skip instead. Rather than build up actual characters, the anime would rather skip the juicy bits and skip right into the girls fighting for the male lead. Run of the mill story. Bland Characters. Power fantasy. There are some notable voice actors in here but I feel as if this was nothing more than a paycheck for them. Gotta get the whiskey on the table somehow if you want to enjoy your cereal. If you're a fan of this type of thing, a brain dead anime thats a power fantasy with a fill-in character hero, that goes through a tale with impressive powers and gets all the girls, then this is for you. If you're looking for something unique and promising, something to really tune you in, then this is very much not for you. Though I guess anime like this are really that popular, otherwise they wouldn't keep making them. To sum up each score with the hated system: Story: 1/10 Art: 3/10 Sound: 3/10 Characters: 1/10 Overall: 2/10, don't unfrost my flakes.
EyeAmTheI
December 5, 2022
It tells a lot about a show, if you only realize 10 episodes in, that you already watched it a few months ago, but you forgot to add to your list. So yeah, unbelievably unremakrable isekai family/harem building trash with the usual kirito clone OP protagonist, but with even less charm or personality. The show is not infuratingly bad, just lacks anything remotely interesting, apart from the basic premise, but they didn't do anything with it. So this is rather of a shell, than an actual story. Also it could have been interesting to see the relationship between the MC and the Godess (that wasan interesting idea tbh), but what am I saying, this is an isekai, so of course it is mandatory to bury a romantic subplot under a trash isekai harem. Not to mention the indispensable patethic virgin blushmachine MC. How could the community self-insert, if the MC would have some balls, right? So yeah, nothing to see here, look elsewhere. Note: If you are an isekai trash -just like me- and you are scraping the bottom of the barrel, this may be an okeyish time timekiller, because nothing is glaringly terrible here, just boring and empty... Well, it doesn't really worth any more word than this. Have a nice day!
adulterousAmpora
September 24, 2022
Blah Blah power fantasy harem garbage. Main character does the things and is so much stronger than everyone else he can't be beat. No real tension, emotional impact, plot beyond "who's the bad guy of today!". Truely another addition to the pile of garbage that is the isekai genre. It's really sad to see show after show that has at least 1 unique story element have every trope imagineable thrown in, in an effort to make it stand out? For black summoner the story had an initially interesting angle, that the main character willingly trades his memories for power. Perhaps this could have led to himrediscovering he was a terrible person, perhaps he fails over and over in different situations because he literally doesnt remember how life works, what his morals are, etc; but no. Simply uninteresting, bland, and unimpresive in every catagory.
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