Maou-sama, Retry!

So why would I give this anime a rating of 7 overall, meaning that I find it good, while it mostly is cliche? The reason of it is the anime has embraced it so much that it became funny instead of trying to be good it became cliche, so cliche that it became funny... Yes this anime made me laugh made me enjoy those 20 minutes every Wednesday, it didn't have an epic story, the characters were simple, the budget was not high, the effects were nothing new often even bad, and yade yade yada... anime should not have top notch quality, the best story ever written, the best voice actors ever lived, the best art that was ever created to be good, it needs those to be outstanding, to be a masterpiece... But a good anime is one where the person watching it can enjoy the time they spent on it. And I loved watching the 12 episodes of this and got a great laugh out of it.

Don't waste your time. I'm generally pretty tolerant of tropes and standard isekai plots, but I could barely stomach this series. The only reason I managed to reach the final episode of the season is unyielding stubbornness, and I deeply regret not giving up sooner. The plot goes absolutely nowhere for every single episode. The main character wanders about aimlessly, finds people who are jobbing to monsters or "powerful" opponents, and defeats them effortlessly so people can worship him. When he's not doing that, he's collecting a loli harem and doing poor, meandering world-building that doesn't really teach you anything about the world itself (I assume this is to encourage reading of the light novels, a common tactic of LN-to-anime adaptations, but that doesn't help the anime's score at all). The plot is just an overall mess where not one significant event occurs for the entire run. The only things I'd give it credit for are interesting character designs (visually, anyway, development-wise they're all generic and boring) and a semi-decent OST that's relaxing to listen to but ultimately unmemorable. Even if you were to take it as parody (which is a hilariously bad take), it's still horrible even then. I want the hours I spent on this garbage back.

The floodgate of isekai anime continues to remain open and from it, more and more isekai gets introduced every year. The latest entry to join this long list is Maou-sama Retry! (Demon Lord, Retry!) Let me just say that the fantasy and adventure genre seems to have some sort of marriage relationship with isekai. Almost every one of these tends to drop a protagonist into some unknown world and we follow their adventure. The idea of that world being connected to an MMROPG is recycled idea used over and over again. At first glance, this show may evoke some memories for those who are familiar with the Overlord franchise or that ridiculous ecchi show called “Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu” from Summer 2018. What do all three have in common? The lead protagonist becomes a “Demon Lord” in their world where their fame is recognized. Furthermore, it’s easy to see how powerful they are when dealing with enemies and conflicts. Considering the fact that Akira Oono (aka Hakuto Kunai) made the MMORPG that he gets sucked into, this should come to no surprise to anyone. Simply put, Hakuto is the Demon Lord who retains his human personality of being sarcastic, sociable, and somewhat arrogant. Yet, he does show a kind side to those he bonds with in particular Aku and Luna Elegant. Displaying impressive abilities, Hakuto earns himself admirers but finds difficult in expressing himself towards women. You get the picture here? The guy is pretty much your badass protagonist (complete with a mafia-like coat and cool hair). His weakness is women and it seems the show is rather aware of it. To justify the humor, we have episodes that gets him into compromising positions with women. And given his inexperience with socializing with the opposite sex, the show pokes fun of his personality at every chance it gets. Talk about a show with an awkward sit-com sensation. Still, Hakuto is an acceptable protagonist. He isn’t whiny or portrayed as some immature high school student. In fact, he gives off a level of charisma that I even find appealing at times. This is a bit contrary to some of the characters he meets such as Aku, the girl he saved in the first episode. As a 13 year old girl, she relies on Hakuto like a father. They form a daughter/parent-like relationship that explores both characters’ personalities. Their relationship is a major focus that shows Hakuto’s human side as a character. Similarly, Aku behaves exactly like a girl of her own age. Because isekai series tends to add all sort of personalities, we meet Luna Elegant, the tsundere holy maiden who develops a sister-like relationship with Aku. It doesn’t stop there though as evidence quickly reveals that she seems to have grown fond of Hakuto as well, to the point of jealousy. This is starting to get a bit into a harem category, huh? Fortunately, that’s not entirely the case as we meet Killer Queen. With a vulgar and aggressive personality, she actually falls for Zero Kirisame, an alternate character Akira created in his MMORPG. The show depicts their relationship as a one-sided with Killer Queen constantly trying to woo Zero. Their type of character chemistry is pretty much a joke, one that is over the top and filled with absolute absurdity. The show can’t seem to get enough of its comedy so it also adds Yu Kirino, a 22-year old mad scientist with a sadism for younger males. To make fun of her character, the anime decides to let Kirino to experience orgasm whenever she gets complimented by Hakuto. If you’ve ever seen the popular fantasy anime Konosuba, there’s this character named Darkness who displays similar traits. God, I miss Konosuba the more I think about it now. Maou-sama Retry tries to find a balance into the story despite its oversaturated isekai tropes. At the heart of the show, there’s no denying that there’s a charming character relationship between Hakuto and Aku. While most isekai anime these days adheres to wish fulfilling fantasies and harem-esque shenanigans, Maou-sama Retry actually manages to be more than that. It manages to keep me guessing how far the show plans to develop Hakuto and Aku’s relationship. In MMORPG, there’s an invisible rule when players first log in. It’s the fact that people engage in social activities and build relationships. Hakuto and Aku reminds me of old school MMORPG where two players meet as strangers but over time, they form a powerful bond. At its best, this show brings a feeling similar to what a relationship is like from a MMORPG game. As for the rest of the cast, they are unfortunately less relevant although some gets the occasional memorable spotlight; just not on the same level as Hakuto and Aku. Does anyone remember what Ekachi Epilka’s first anime project was? No? Me either. I had to google this and it turned out to be some short from Spring 2018 called Crossing Time. In other words, this is their first project as a full length show. The animation style honestly looks like it had a limited budget in terms of its character designs. However, the show does commit on making its main cast stand out such as Hakuto, Aku, Killer Queen, Angel White, Luna, and Kirino. Each of them look distinctively unique with Hakuto’s mafia style clothes, Angel White’s pure white dress, or Kirino’s lab coat. Others such as the bunny girls (Kyon and Momo) are thrown it for the sake of fan service. While it doesn’t fully blow up the show, you can definitely expect to be serviced with sexy bunny suits, long leg camera shots, and oh who can forget, Aku in the baths. Unfortunately, the world fiction overall sags around the half way mark. Isekai anime like this had potential to expand more into its world but it ended up being creatively disappointing. Watching Maou-sama Retry was actually not entirely a sour experience in the end, at least compared to some other garbage like Isekai Cheat Magician this season. Hell, at least we had a character duo to keep an eye on and a protagonist with an actual personality. However, that doesn’t cover the endgame of the show being mediocre. Its overused humor and storytelling made little effort to improve itself and left a good chunk of the cast in the dust. But with just 12 episodes, you could probably get through this without tearing your hair out. Probably.

Don't watch this show for the animation. Don't watch it for the music, and don't watch it because you expect a deeply original and profound story. Watch it to be entertained, to laugh at the absurdities, to feel connected to the side characters who have real stories and screen time in a very non-shonen* way. This show is extremely entertaining. Now look, I'll be the first to admit that the humor is not everyones cup of tea but if you like this type of tea, then you will be highly satisfied. The characters are charming and feel like real people in the most anime absurd way. Beneath the trope-filled fluff is a real story of a dirty, nasty, discriminatory and economically divisive world and a mobster rico swavey MC who is basically responsible for the world he gets pulled into...except he finds reasons to care about people in the world. So of course, in true mafioso style, he proceeds to be a badass mobster in a fantasy world he knows less about than he thought. I really love his inner monologue compared to his outward demeanor. I like the world - it's so tropey and cliche but it feels lived in and each person he interacts with have impact. His right hand henchmen are fantastic. It's really just a great ride. But that's exactly it - it's a fun ride at funcoland, not the centerpiece at a museum of refined taste. *Non-shonen defined as: a real backstory instead of 3/4 of an episode that furthers .01% plot, insists on trying to make you emotional, and only makes you wish it was never included.

Feels like the product of a studio that didn't put in much effort. For action, it's mostly slideshow style in that there's an enemy, an attack, and then the after effects rather than actually animating combat and making things look good. For the plot, I'm guessing off of the anime that the source material focuses on how the world is and how it's being changed. The anime seems to speed through this though so it's not very good either. For comedy and characters, not enough animation is put into facial expressions or body movements for these to look that good either. The voice actors always do a good job though. Bottom 10 of all anime I've finished. I imagine it could've been great but the people who made it didn't let it shine. There are some good moments, but those are what clips are for when the anime overall doesn't match the quality of the clip.

The story is pointless and by the last episode i had totally forgotten that this show had any plot whatsoever. The art is atrocious and there is like a single decently animated scene on the whole show. The rest of the time there are some horrendous zoom out's that make everyone look like stick drawings or scenes in which the characters faces are drawn like some shitty comic. There is a fucking scene with a fat dude masturbating ffs. The sound is repetitive as hell and i could not remember a single piece of OST even if someone payed me for. Also most of the dialogue is made entirely on the single defining trait of the character. Most characters are entirely one dimensional (except Queen god i love Queen i wish she would step on me). But god damn if this piece of trash isnt unironically one of the best shows of this god damn season. With all the isekais this season including: insane incestual pandering, literally every damn isekai ever made but we don't try this time, the hero who is literally a pedophile and everyone is okay with it, the streamer isekai (which is fucking good, go watch it you fool!). Maou Sama Retry stands up as one of the few isekais who doesnt even try to pretend any originality on the genre. The world is insultingly videogameish, the towns, guilds, OP MC, everything is the same. There is a charm on this show and the roleplaying MC that truly got me every single week. It's not a show for everyone for sure, but its damn good anyways. It's also really entertaining to see the atrocious animation so you got that as well. It's good shit.

Maou-sama Retry is an Isekai Anime in which you can Enjoy for what it is. This Anime takes a step back from seriousness within its genre and adds a nice touch of both Comedy, and Wholesomeness. It's not focused on a certain objective that the protagonist wants to achieve therefore it opens up potential for Funny travels and Adventures with the characters Hakuto the Demon Lord meets. I think this is a good show to watch because it allows you enjoy a simple setting without demanding much from it. If you enjoy shows with funny situations and good values then this Anime deserves a try.

So basically it's not that bad an anime I have seen worse and also Most Isekai I watch are pretty generic yeh this one is kinda different in a sense also I recommend you watch it It is pretty funny like most of it I laughed till my gut hurt Sometimes It may look and kinda sound generic and some parts of it are yes but Man I have watched a lot of isekai and out of the bunch this is a pretty generic anime Title but some isekai are literally garbage and out of Most of them I have watched this is one of the best so I recommend watching it

It is the second anime I watched this week having low rating (~6.5). And I am REALLY disappointed by this mess. I am asking a question "what's wrong with these people, which pose themselves as experts, and sets low rating" to myself, but I have no answer to it, except a "vanity". This anime is really cool. It is so funny and kind, interesting and beautiful, so I have watched it with delight! And I hope there would be a sequel. Maybe I will find & read an original manga or a novel.

Ok, so another mediocre isekai anime has ended, thought it was the usual generic anime, I gotta give it to the original creator Kanzaki, Kurone for not using the usual good guy always lucky hero kind of character and instead opted fro a somewhat anti-hero older guy who would pass as a Mafia Boss, in fact this would be one of those unique anime where the main character is a mafia boss who has two henchmen (one of which is a woman) for this anime and not limited to a harem. Unfortunately, he was still this usual always lucky guy whom the original creator wanna play safe with so this still qualifies as a generic anime, so, here's how I rate this: Story- Mediocre 5: Isn't it obvious, guy playing a game and gets transported in that game and that's fucking that. Art-Good 7: Well, seeing some of them girls around here with risque attire like that of Mikan , Killer Queen and later on Angel White ( in her censored birthday suit), and that was this anime's silver lining. Sound-good 7: Cu'z they didn't used a young guy's voice to be the protagonist, and instead opted for an older guy's voice. Character-Mediocre 5: Like I've said, they may have opted for an older mafia kind of an anti-hero, but then again they only change the hero, how he's portrayed was the usual. Enjoyment-fair 6: Ok, basically if they would have used the usual young guy character I would have dropped this, but using a unique character Hakuto Kunai an older character is what kept me from dropping this, But this was still a usual generic isekai anime. Overall- Mediocre 5: It may have a different from of a character, but still this was the usual generic anime and we can't deny that, so season 2 ? No way Jose, cu'z IMAO, studio EKACHI EPILKA should end it from here. TCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHARACTERS-[Little Spoilers] One kind-hearted Middle-aged man. One small cute, perhaps even overly timid loli. Mean and crappy villagers. Some things I like about this anime? How they depicted the development of the protaganist, Oono Akira in just a single episode. At first, Akira is viewed to be a grumpy old man, who seems to be like the kind of elderly neighbour that glares at you from his backyard when you make too much noise. Not a surprise since Akira is the manager of a certain MMORPG. The kind of guy that has a business-like personality and is no-nonsense. In just one episode, he transforms from a delinquent squat into a nice wholesome guy who protects young girls from their pitiful fates. Comes along in the forest is our blonde fairy, Aku. Yes, her name is Aku. I wonder what were the producers high on to come up with such a pathetic name for an adorable character design such as her. Aku is the dumpster of her ungrateful village people. Treated like waste. Born into a cruel world, Aku works jobs that most will refrain from volunteering to do so. Best part? The villagers want to get rid of her after she helped them clean their crap. Literally. I will not spoil the first episode. Just know that there are two notable characters to look out for. Akira and Aku. The Double AA batteries. Other side projects you would want to observe? Just some bitchy villagers and a dubious looking idol. No, not your IdolM@s or Love Live. The statue that ancient people worship to. Well, one says that "If the producers make characters that you already start to detest, they are doing a fine job!" Yea, what a fine job. A fine job to bully a poor village girl. Haha, so funny. Overall, apart from those idiot villagers, the two characters seem to hit it off quite well. Middle-aged Oni san saves loli from her own tragic fate. So far, I like how gentlemanly Akira is towards the young girl, even (beep. Sorry, you must watch the anime for the wholesomeness.) When you start to enjoy satire and memes, you will also experience these feelings of scepticism and trust me, it is not nice to see a group of villagers picking on a poor girl. Worse still, you need an old man, a total stranger from another universe, to interfere into your domestic affairs. Humiliating enough but sad to say, it must happen to the loli Aku.

IF THE MOOD IS RIGHT, THIS ANIME IS ENJOYABLE!! This is an ISEKAI anime with less ACTION, more COMEDYY :). So if you want to watch this anime make sure to watch it if YOU RUN of any ANIMES or want to RELAX a bit from some SERIOUS ANIME. If you ask me what anime that is similiar to this anime is Overlord and Log Horizon MIXED! The story is not really that good but not bad either, but it just keeps you watching until the episodes LAST if you liked the CONCEPT! The sound is just normal, the OP is good the ED is forgetable but don't worry you are watching this anime not because of the OP and ED!! Character development is normal too but I liked the main protagonist because he's really a BAD-ASS guy and MANLY! The animation is just normal, it's just a regular 2019 anime. SO it's just up to you if you want to watch this anime but I give this anime 10/10 because I liked OVERPOWERED ISEKAI theme anime. The UPPERCASE letter just to help you decide! :)

I ran out of stuff to watch so I randomly found this. All the ratings made it sound trash but I get wet from isekai so I still decided to watch. Best decision ever. All the characters and events are very similar to every other isekai but different enough to be entertaining. Every episode managed to make me smile, ridiculous stuff happening all the time. Art is good enough and animations are completely fine. Sound is well done: background music has been picked to suit the comedic mood of the show. Honestly this anime is trash but so am I and if you are too you will also like it.

A middle-aged man doing stuffs in a fantasy world. Never thought that it'd end up better than I expected. Sure, this is an isekai but other than that this anime is very chill and I enjoyed watching it. This is a pretty decent anime to watch if you're super bored and just wants to chill. I wouldn't say that it succeeded overwhelmingly as an anime overall but this is just kind of like those one-when-needed shows where they're not necessary to watch but could still be watched solely for amusement anyways. Seeing some OP old dude beating up people and making places. This was exactly what I needed because I was incredibly bored and depressed. Although I was already occupied with an anime. The anime I was occupied with is too "good" that I feel like I shouldn't consume it yet and instead put it on-hold in order to watch something more chilling. This was the perfect anime I wanted to watch. Although I'm quite mad at the fact that there's only 12 episodes so I couldn't enjoy more middle-aged man actions. I'm still glad that I took courage and watched this show instead of ignoring it and assume that it's the same level as every other isekai. I don't really have anything else to write so I'll just finish my review here. I recommend this to everyone even if you don't like isekai. I hate isekai too. But this is pretty chill. Perhaps you might enjoy it as well.

Just don't know what it is but this anime ticked all my boxes when it comes to the fantasy shit, I love all genre of anime, but this isekai anime was just amazing. Its so funny and straight forward, there is not a great amount of character plot, but that just adds to what the anime is good for, I very much enjoyed this anime and binged watched it over 2 days, left me wanting a season 2 and even being quite attached to the characters, it has a strange charm and does not deserve the low rating these hyper critical virgin weebs are rating it. Go and watch for yourself!

This is basically a more comedic approach to Overlord and I love that lol as people would say, "it's so bad that it's good!" this series is exactly that. I almost lost faith watching the first two episodes but oh boy when the story progress handling the most isekai tropes in a comedic appeal I was enthralled! Summer 2019 had a lot of lackluster isekai theme anime airing this one was a breath of fresh air. I definitely had a lot of laugh throughout watching this! nonetheless, I still found myself confused several times because of the lack of explanation given but I learnt to just enjoy the ride

To be blunt, this anime was obviously done on shoestring budget, doesn't really look like the original manga, deviates from source material somewhat, tries to do fanservice and fails at it quite miserably, and has poor production qualities all over the place. Also it is definitely not sure what it is supposed to be about, as by the end of the season it doesn't get anywhere. Yet it is still for some reason enjoyable. It is a huge mess, but has some sort of appeal despite that. The highlight of the series, interestingly is its music. Whoever was writing the soundtrack had a blast doing that and it is probably the main reason why it is even interesting. There's amazing short metal tune right in the episode, and past that point there's sort of interesting tune that plays out all the time and sorta feels like a western. But it the music is of much higher quality compared to everything else. Story: 4/10. Largely nonsensical and irrelevant. I mean there was supposed to be some sort of grand plot, but it sorta fall to pieces quickly and stops making any sense, then turns into some sort of, I don't know, road adventure? Slice of life? Something? It is a sorta relaxing non-chalant "something" that moves at incredibly slow speed and is unsure what it is supposed to do. That's probably the best way to describe it. Art: 4/10 Heavy-handed budget cutting moves everywhere. Backgrounds are poorly done and have little detail. There's occasiona CG, ton of cost-cutting tricks (still shots, panning shots, and so on), annd characters do not look that great. Actually I'd say they look cheap. There aren't any positives, really, although it could be certainly worse than that. Sound: 7/10: Whoever was writing music had a lot of fun in the process, sadly they apparently weren't allowed to go all the way, and as a result we have only great metal tune in the beginning, nice recurring theme and so on. Characters: 3/10: They're not life-like, act based on stereotypes, tropes and cliches, it is obvious. Main character is sorta interesting because of voice actor, but characters exist as plot pieces - to demonstrate jokes, attempt fanservice (all attempts of fanservice fail miserably). Enjoyment: 6/10. I found it amusing and interesting enough for some reason and enjoyed it. OVerall: 5/10 If you expect a faithful adaptation of the manga, you should forget about it, as this is something completely different, and most of the time is quite chill and slow paced. Despite all the supposedly dramatic events. It can be enjoyed as a "good bad movie", but there's no reason to recommend it to anyone. I liked it. Does it mean it is something you should go ahead and watch right away? Probably not. Character

** Contains some spoiler** well how to describe this anime, " it is little different from other isekai anime." as far when it comes to a iseka anime what we see and get is that the MC is transferred to another world and start his new journey and trains him self to become stronger, and for his great work and fight he is called hero, savior ect. ect. or what we some time get is - a overpowered a hero is get summon in a new world to save it from demolition. There are many isekai anime that we have seen and after watching those all we are still getting something little different here. The Protagonist who is a gamer gets sucked into one of his game at last day of its sever closing time. and what he noticed that he has became the character of his game HAKUTO KUNAI which he used to play and to more in this, this world is totally different than the world of the original game and for his demonic powers he is called DEMON LORD (this is something i personally liked in this anime, that the character is different, the world is different and he choose to go on a different path than his HAKUTO KUNAI's character.) Even though this anime is different than other isekai animes but it still had some or many points which are similar to other isekai anime, like later we get introduced to the another side of his character the dragonkin "KIRISAME ZERO" - 2 role play, and than the making his new kingdom ( i think it can be called that) to reach the top status, making friend with anyone who benefits him. Its not like i m pointing this all as bad points its just that even if these points are similar to some other isekai animes, they still had something different in them which make this anime different from other isekai animes. And the direction of each episode is really good, when each episode end it gives excitement that "i want to see what will happen next". so far so good. Story - not going to spoil anything, but i will say story is really good i really liked it and the plot which is different in its own way. He became demon lord, helps a little girl, changed her whole life. Makes friend (summoned his subordinates by skill points) and many more things..... for it 9/10 Art - really good animation but still there were some place where animation look little weak and different compare to when they did some extra work on other stuff, like i really liked the expression of MC face when he was speaking to someone and when he talk to himself in mind. 8/10 Sound - voice acting and music and OP, ED all good, specially i really liked the music when the title of the episode kicks in and in the music of guitar plays. 8/10 Character - many character to be notice here, each and every one of them is fun to watch, well it was a shock though - that white hair girl is not actually a girl but is a cross dressed boy xD FUN FUN - 9/10 Enjoyment - really enjoyed this whole anime from episode 1 to till the end it was really a different experience (cross dresssed boy, thinking he is girl but noooo the truth is something else which lies under his skirt xD) 9/10 Overall - as for after watching the whole anime and taking all the things in consideration i will give this anime a overall 8/10 And in the end they showed something to us and said - to be continued Really Really looking forward to it, really love to watch if this anime gets a second season.

Maou-sama, Retry! (2019) This series is actually quite good for an Isekai because although it isn't very different from our main protagonist being overpowered insanely it is played out a bit better. This time although our main character has massive strength that makes most fights laughably easy overall the MP has got weaknesses he is going to try and prevent from hurting him. This is unusual since normally if any weakness it is not very major. The story itself has a nice flow and does cover good content in a good flow. The art used is not anything special but then it is also good for what you are watching and offers little wrongdoings. The sound in the series is also good, the battles have really good music and sound which is defined really well. General sound including voice acting all suit the characters. (Japanese). The characters do show decent development throughout the season. Some are a bit rushed and some get a good explanation but suddenly disappear from sight. The show itself is enjoyable to watch and is a good series. It isn't anything special but it isn't bad at the same time. Overall if you want an easy-going Isekai or are new to the genre this would make a good introduction to one that isn't so one-sided always.

This is one of the Worst Isekai Animes ive ever watched, let alone, one of the worst Animes ive ever watched. However, what else can you expect from EKACHI EPILKA? It's not like this studio has a big name for itself already but surely they could've done a better job. The art-style is probably one of the worst i've ever seen, the only thing unique being how poor it is. The sounds where honestly not that bad but the music was dreadful. The OP was alright as I've got to give credit where credit is due. Honestly, after watching this can anyone tell me what the plot is? The last episode was a bunch of fan-service with no connection what so ever. I probably wasn't paying attention but from what I was watching I couldn't ever say to myself: "Oh yeah, that made sense". The Characters weren't the worst however they had no development whatsoever. The main character was the only one I could relate to as you could even tell by his voice acting, he didn't want to be there. The Enjoyment was a meh. It was nice to criticise and it sort of shows everything an anime shouldn't do. Half-Assed harem, no character development, no plot etc. But like I stated previously, what else could you expect from the Adapting Studio? All-in-all, it's safe to say I won't be watching season 2 if there even is one (lets hope not). I think the studio could produce something better then they did because all I can see here is they jumped onto the band wagon of isekai, pumping it out as quick as they could making it dreadful.