Seiken Gakuin no Makentsukai

If you look up the source material for this drek, you’ll see something that has become increasingly familiar in this Post Modern trash heap of a world we live in. A manga, or “Light novel” that looks suspiciously like every other light novel coming out these days. It’s a bunch of random-character-generator waifus created in a program like Manga Studio, with generic faces made by the program, dressed up in outfits that were picked from the program, colored by swatches in the program, arranged into manga panels with the program, by an author who probably couldn’t draw a stick figure if you asked him to.I’ve noticed nearly all the Current Day anime and manga media tends to look the same. It’s totally generic, looks like everything else, because it was made the same way as everything else. There’s no art here, no individual style, no creativity, because there doesn’t need to be. But something had to be put together- a story had to be told to justify smearing this crap across however many screens- and the story we have here sums up the author’s creative abilities perfectly: Confusing, directionless, random, juvenile, nonsensical, and stupid. Oh boy here we go another “demon lord reincarnated” thing, and oh look- he threw the word Excalibur in there so people would actually look at it. It worked, and that’s right- Excalibur as you know it has absolutely zero to do with this entire story. It started out as demon lord reincarnated into this shota boy, some buxom harem girls pop up around him, maybe one or two episodes took place at some generic magic school with some competition where MC can show off how overpowered he is… then it ditched the whole magic school thing and the story devolved into a monster taking over a ship, then a conspiracy involving a loli princess and these half-animal half human dudes, before it lost any concept of time or place or any story structure at all. One minute they’re fighting a monster thing that looks like tree roots with eyes, the next they’re RIDING IN A LIMOUSINE DRIVEN BY GHOST CHAUFFEURS. No joke. In another random scene the demon boy (Leonis) is at a table eating dinner with some orphan children and we have no idea who they are, and never find out. And I don't even know if they were orphans.. If you ask a twelve year old boy to write a story, the plot of this light novel is probably pretty close to what he’d come up with. A hero who looks like and is the same age as the author, surrounded by a bunch of pretty girls, and he’s OP, and fights monsters. Yup. The monsters range from big purple flying octopus looking things to leopard dudes and A GUY WITH A WOLF HEAD. By the end of episode 12, it didn’t even resemble what it had started out as. What about the visuals- well, there isn’t much to say about it apart from don’t waste your time watching it. They’ve taken the different templates for “Futuristic looking city” (which has a white and blue hue) and “High Fantasy Country House” (with its orange and green hue) and mashed them together making completely off-kilter looking scenery. But it’s fun to pick out the parts where they didn’t have any template… because some things- like the monsters- look absolute cack against the rest of the CGI backdrop- precisely because of the fact that the guy who made this can’t draw and the staff couldn’t either. If you take my advice and skip this anime you will have missed out on absolutely nothing. There are much better things to watch out there. Like literally anything.

I know why you are here. We both do. You have already watched every popular, high-rated show in the genre. You have exhausted the entire spectrum of any isekai that could be reasonably construed as a work of art or brings new and interesting ideas to the table. You have descended into the ranks of trash isekai... and you like it. You are now scraping the bottom of the MyAnimeList barrel looking for anything remotely watchable and enjoyable, because that is what you have become - a trash isekai-loving Gollum searching desperately for your precious. Well, my friends, I am pleased to inform you: this ISthe trash isekai you are looking for. There is absolutely nothing in here that you haven't seen before. It doesn't even slightly pretend to originality, creativity or realism. The art is as perfectly generic as they come; the sound, exactly what you would expect from a low-budget production. You get your standard moe harem, your standard OP protagonist, a plot mathematically calculated to be within one standard deviation of the industry average in all respects, executed without a hint of shame or remorse at the total lack of qualities that might distinguish it from every other offering in the industry. The upside to this is that it's hard to mess up things that are so well-tested to please. Audience-insert yourself as an OP shota getting fawned over by a harem of hotties, binge the whole thing in one night and go to sleep satisfied that your generic slop fetish has - if only for one more day - been satisfied. If any part of this review made you feel personally attacked, you are the audience I am recommending this show to.

This show is... boring. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't enticed by one or more of the following aspects: 1. Rebirth of a demon king into the future as a human 2. Shota Harem of schoolgirls 3. Generic battles with magic and spirit guns The show really excels in these three categories. It manages to really dig in on these premises. The first episode is somewhat high quality and you almost don't notice that the monsters are 3D. But after that, it all goes downhill. The show increasingly sexualizes the underage female cast, and even forces the kid to deal with it. The monsters are all 3DCGI monsters (except for the tree guy)... The harem doesn't really occur as a harem per se, but moreso 1/2 girls kissing him on the cheek and a bunch thinking of themselves as his older sisters. Aside from this, the show fails in some pretty obvious manners. Firstly, the pacing is boring. The only fights that have any intrigue are extremely slow (like an entire episode for what amounts to 10 sword slashes and a few energy beams)... And the rest of the fights are painfully generic 3D CGI battles with the same 3 monsters dozens or hundreds of times. We even get to see the most obvious clip recycling IN THE FINAL EPISODE. If you are at all paying attention, you will think "hey, I watched those skeletons kill those baddies using ice and a mace just last episode!" and then you realize almost every battle up until this point has been recycled. The MC has one animation that they use three times for him drawing his op sword. They took the time out of our watching to mend his clothes, just so they could reuse the same animations from a previous fight. Even some of the ecchi is recycled. We see the same clip of the main waifu walking out in her towel three different times throughout the season. Honestly, it all gets to a point... All in all I can't really dock the show too harshly though. There aren't any major apparent plotholes and there is clearly at least SOMETHING here to work with. I simply don't think that there is much merit to the show beyond it meeting basic standards. It is a servicable story, but as a show I cannot respect it, for whatever reason. 5/10.

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