Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku

Now I understood why Kadokawa spam this anime in their shorts. DUMB ME FOR DROPPING AT EPS 2 BEFORE! This show is a hidden gem. There's nothing special if you dropped at eps 3, cause you saw many random chars popped out of nowhere. But onwards is where it gets interesting. You finally see how these random chars interact with Saitou and his party, how they will contribute to the story, and etc. This is a close sensation to Ousama Ranking, but at faster pace. There, we got heartbreaker and super hype moments... and kinda meh last eps(still great show, watch it). But in Saitou, we got comedy, we got chars being talkative, we got satisfaction, we got great last eps. I want the hero and b1tch to be removed tho. They are trashy.

I often find myself in need of a break from the hustle and bustle of daily life. That's why I was thrilled to discover "Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku," a delightful anime that transported me to another world filled with adventure, magic, and heartwarming moments. The story of "Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku" follows the journey of Saitou, a skilled handyman who finds himself transported to a fantasy world filled with mythical creatures and magical powers. Along with his new adventuring companions: Raelza, a fearless warrior who proudly serves as the party's tank and primary fighter; Lafanpan, a cleric of the moonlight fairy race, who serves as a vital member of the party by providing healing and support; and Morlock, a seasoned sorcerer and a valuable member of Saitou's party. Saitou goes on many adventures to help his traveling party member as the template thief who opens locks and disarms traps. One of the things I loved about this anime was how well the story was told. Even though it might seem to be riddled with fillers or unimportant episodes, each episode seamlessly fits together, eventually. The pacing was just right, and there were no rushed plotlines. I also love the execution of the dirty jokes, which majorly compose the comedy in this show. Some episodes did it from start to finish, while others were so left-field that it gave me a few chuckles. The characters in "Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku" were well-rounded and memorable. Saitou was a lovable protagonist who was both relatable and charming. His interactions with Raelza were heartwarming, and I found myself rooting for their relationship to develop throughout the series. The visual of this anime was quite unique, even with the occasional CGI that might put some people off. The character designs were also appealing, with each character having a distinct look that matched their personality. The audio in the anime was exceptional, featuring a suitable background score that heightened the story's ambiance. The voice acting was also impeccable. Every seiyuu fits seamlessly into the persona that was portrayed. Moreover, the opening and ending themes were simply outstanding. The OP, "kaleidoscope," was a lively tune that perfectly matched the show's style, with accompanying visuals that provided a glimpse into the characters' personalities and relationships. Altogether, it is a fun opening theme that sets the perfect tone for the series. The ending, "Hidamari no Saido," was a more emotional song. The piano created a soothing atmosphere that offered a satisfying conclusion to each episode. This one is a proper and heartfelt ending theme that complements the series' themes and tone. "Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku" was a delightful anime. It would be highly recommended to anyone looking for a heartwarming adventure. It's a unique and memorable series. So much so anyone who watched it will remember this for years.

It was like a story book with different kinds of stories and different kinds of people's how they are connected it was pleasing to watch such an anime animation was a bit on the dull side but character design and storyline was good music was not catchy or something overall the anime was good. It was a new kind of reincarnation anime and its definitely worth a watch and it would seem boring on the starting it was definitely boring but as the story continues it shapes up really good when each characters stories start to combine and the story concluded on a good basis or we can say it was a satisfying end

Very enjoyable when it's not trying too hard to be dramatic. We follow a loveable jack-of-all-trades with no particular combat ability who has been isekai'd into a world of sword and sorcery. His appraisal, lockpicking, and repair skills end up making him popular with the townspeople and invaluable to his party as their thief/rogue. Handyman Saito satirizes its genre's tropes almost as well as that other, more famous isekai send-up we're all familiar with. At one point Saito learns about how this show's wonderful world is changing due to an increasing number of women in the workplace, stagnant wages for adventurers, and greater life expectancy putting strain on caregivers. We start out getting these seemingly disjointed sketches that introduce us to the main protagonists, the other adventuring parties, and the villains. These eventually converge into a larger narrative. I found this unique for anime and not necessarily bad. It's enough for a slice-of-life comedy, but sadly not enough to lend adequate emotional weight to the two arcs with two tragic villains (a ninja and a demon dog) that it tries to deliver. The show is at its best when it's not trying too hard to be dramatic. I'd have liked Lafanpan's story and more interaction with the side characters instead of having those last battles drag on so long. Definitely recommend watching if you like comedy and slice of life in fantasy worlds, and if you're not expecting the standard isekai format with an edgy "aura farming" protagonist and his harem.

The leading opinion appears to be that this anime has a slow start, then picks up at the end. I actually feel the opposite way. Essentially, this anime starts out as a mostly episodic, fragmented, character comedy, along the lines of Saiki K. As the episodes progress, an overarching plot develops and becomes the main focus, with the comedy of the character interactions fading more into the background. I really like the character comedy parts; while the cast is nothing super special, their interactions always lead to interesting moments, and the fragmented format ensures the jokes don't overstay their welcome. But the overarching plot that later develops feels more like any other isekai story. It feels a bit forced, as if the conventions of the isekai genre made it obligatory to include such a plot. It's not bad and it does build upon the earlier parts. Like many other isekai, though, it doesn't get as much mileage out of its premise as it could. From a technical perspective, this anime is well done, but nothing special visually and musically. Overall, if you think you might like both parts of this anime, I would definitely recommend it. If you feel like you might primarily like one part rather than the other (maybe the character comedy parts, like me, or the overarching plot, like others), it might still be worth it, but I can't recommend it unconditionally.

This anime is about a handyman named Saito that gets isekai’d into a fantasy world. The first few episodes are about him using his skills as a handyman from Earth to help a party out as they explore a dungeon, mainly through picking locks. However, the handyman per se aspect significantly decreases in importance after that, though it does still pop up from time to time. Instead the story is more so about any normal guy from Earth without any of the skills that people of the fantasy world generally have trying to come up with ways to be helpful, which I suppose still embodies the spirit of a handyman in a way. Overall I found the latter more interesting than the former, as the writing doesn’t really do anything all that interesting with his actual handyman skills. It was enjoyable watching him finding new ways to be useful through being creative and working hard. This ties directly into his character arc, which was in overcoming feeling useless and unneeded due to his experiences in his original world. His dynamic with the rest of his party is pretty good too. There’s a warrior named Raelza that clearly has a massive crush on him, and their slow but steady relationship progress was pretty satisfying to watch. The remaining members are a miserly fairy named Lafanpan and an old wizard that’s constantly losing his memory named Morlock. The four of them together have a pretty strong family type vibe which is pretty easy to get invested in. The cast beyond that I found pretty weak. Even in the main party, I felt that their backgrounds were pretty weak and didn’t really help flesh them out all that well. The various side characters are even more underdeveloped. There are a lot and time is spent fleshing out pretty much everyone, but none of it is all that good. Pretty much everyone could be described as a an incredibly generic embodiment of their role, but with one major twist. Though these twists generally have little to no story significance. They’re just to spice up the character and add some humor to things. I didn’t really find anyone outside of the main party likable, and found quite a few of them annoying. The flow of the anime is very strange and caught me pretty off guard. The first few episodes are short and lighthearted skits focused on comedy that jump around between a bunch of different characters without much of an overarching plot. The setting has somewhat of a dark fantasy feel, but nothing dark happens. However, after that things start getting much more intense. There’s actual arcs with storylines that take place across multiple episodes, though there’s still not really any sort of overarching plot. Things get much darker both in terms of actual sad moments, but also in terms of throwaway edgy stuff. Nothing too bad ever happens though, despite it constantly baiting the viewer into thinking it has, which can get grating. There’s still a good amount of light hearted comedy mixed in which works surprisingly well. There’s also quite a lot of serious action. Most of it is pretty shallow, but it’s still really exciting in the moment. Ultimately, everything felt incredibly messy and rough, like things don’t fit together all that well, but there’s a sort of charm to that and in the end I was pretty satisfied with it. The art and animation were pretty good. The character designs were pretty solid as well. The OP was solid in terms of the song and visuals. I liked the song of the ED but wasn’t really a fan of the visuals. The final episode did something really amusing with the ED that I enjoyed. The soundtrack was also pretty solid. tl;dr: A comedic dark fantasy like with a lot of interesting elements that lack cohesion.

Not without its flaws, but overall this is a recommended watch for Isekai, comedy or slice of life fans. If you're not an Isekai fan I'm not sure this does enough to convert you in all honesty. Warning going in, this is a skit-heavy show, constantly jumping backwards and forwards between characters. Early on this is severe, and while it improves it never goes away. If that isn't for you skip this show. Pro's - The main cast are great, they're a really solid team who bounce off eachother well. They're designed in such a way that the show can go from humour to drama very quickly and it gets away with it. When this focuses on the main cast, that is. - It's pretty and well animated, by my (admittedly low) standards - The comedy is varied and really well written, it's funny and covers many different forms of humour without being just random, or absurd. - The drama lands most of the time. I cared about these characters. As I say, particularly the core 4. Cons - The sketch/skit style is one I hate. This heavily relies on it and early on it's especially jarring. Eventually it because a source of immense frustration. - The mini-arcs, combined with the skit-style, isn't one that works. The arcs are ok and for the most part are well planned out, but when we're constantly jumping backwards and forwards with no warning it's annoying. - Many of the side characters and running gags are so one-dimensional I'm still confused why they got an introduction at all, couldn't I spend more time with the main 4? It's frustratingly imperfect, and the style is deeply polarizing, but within all that is a story about 4 found family adventurers that manages to be both funny and heartwarming.

Hey folks, this will be my review for Benriya Saitou-san, Isekai ni Iku. It's a really solid show that surprised me a little. The first four or so episodes contain a series of shorts that follow the main character and his party and a few other side characters to introduce them and the world. I actually rather liked that bit of the show and was disappointed that eventually the episodes became full episodes that had a plot and purpose. The plot as it unfolded actually had a lot of well written moments in them, and though the show is incredibly silly and low stakes for the most part, the drama that unfolds brings with it investment that you would otherwise not get in a more slice of life type of show that it originally seemed to be. Still since the show seems to want to be cozy and slice of life it never treads too far and we get a nice blending of both worlds that isn't often done in my opinion. Anime has a habit of leaning too far into the themes it wishes to portray and often when drama is added to a comedy show its just a gut punch for no reason. This shows writing however was well crafted and I think without the more serious moments we wouldn't come to appreciate the characters as we have. Speaking of characters I think the cast were genuinely likeable, even the mc. I do wish we had more time with them. Morlock I feel like stole the show, but honestly each of the characters have an interesting premise that could have been expanded upon. Raelza and her tragic upbringing, Lafanpan with her curse...etc. Still what we do get is done well. I like that the plots finish, and for those of you who like romance we have a pairing that completes itself without too much drama or feigned ignorance. Overall the show is pretty damn good. I think there was some fatty bits to the show with some side characters I didn't give a crap about. I liked the premises and the main characters enough that I would trade half the cast for a more focused story with just them. That's the main reason I rated it a seven. I think if you want something comfy this might do it for you. It's not the best iteration of the isekai, but I think its a decent watch regardless. It's got comedy, a bit of drama, some blood, some love...its really a decently packaged experience.

An ordinary working-class man from earth is whisked away into a fantasy world where magic and extraordinary creatures exist. It is in this new world that this ordinary man discovers just how extraordinary he is to his newly made companions. This is another isekai fantasy with a comedic undertone, as well as a context and thematic message that does qualify it has having a justification for being an isekai over just being a regular fantasy show. The nature of the show is somewhat erratic; for a significant amount of time the show is broken up into episodic "shorts" that feature some kind of short story. These are done well enough and a series could have been made off of these alone, but they become a tad jarring when an overarching narrative and story begin to develop and effectively take over the runtime for the remainder of the season, and so these once-benign miniature stories now become interruptive to the flow of things and are more likely to seem like a nuisance. It does not help that while some of these short stories play no narrative role in the overall story, others among them do serve a purpose and establish characters that appear later on, and so it isn't as though they can simply be glossed over or skipped--you will lose context otherwise. It is written well. The characters have personalities and motivations that recur throughout the show; the cast is not a lopsided effort centralized solely on the protagonist, though perhaps it does get a little saccharine when the cast does come to fully recognize the protagonist, but that is something that happens when it at least has a reason or 2 to occur. Anyway, each of the core cast of characters is solidly written and the plot that develops is interesting enough. The animation is above-average but never impressively so. Overall, this is one of the better isekai adventure-fantasies to come out in recent memory. It does not have a 'wow' factor that could possibly have me thinking higher of it than I do already, but I can and do endorse this series as being a decent fantasy and so it has my recommendation.