Hazurewaku no "Joutai Ijou Skill" de Saikyou ni Natta Ore ga Subete wo Juurin suru made

I honestly think there are some anime out there who have some type of special qualities or abilities: failure frame (not gonna spell that long-ass name) is possibly one of the powerhouses in this regard with such a great "what you see is what you get". Every time our lovely protagonist yelled "paralyze" to the enemies, I, too, was paralyzed on sheer horror. Every "poison" made me feel uneasy too, and all his "sleep" made me slowly fall into a peaceful slumber, as if it were directed towards me instead of the character in the same series. Quite powerful anime, isn't it? Failure Frame is quite the case where the overly simplistic premise progresses so but so linearly and predictably that it becomes infuriating. No, I don't mean it's repetitive (though you'd be correct even in that case). It's just that it overuses the initial plot approach to the point of feeling silly. Stupid even. Failure Frame manages to live up to its name and premise, being quite a failure in almost every aspect. But what is that makes Failure Frame such a case? What does it have? Well, let's start with a little review of the plot and how it starts: Touka Mimori, our beloved protagonist, is on is way along with his classmates to some type of class trip in which- Wait what? Every one of his classmates is an absolute asshole? Yeah... Don't get too much good vibes from it... But I digress. So in the middle of the trip they got teleported to another world in which the goddess tells them that they're heroes and have skills and everyone is unique, and the bullies are strong and and and... Yeah, sorry for that, but basically that's your premise on the first episode. The plot itself present itself as such a bitter taste in your already bitter tongue that fall flat, why do I make this kinda of irony? Because I want to break down just how absolute horrible the first minutes of the anime are, we get to see how almost every one of Touka's classmates are absolutes assholes to others while having all the same type of "hierarchy" in class, I always tell to myself that this is the blandest way of trying to settle the tones, like what are you thinking? I don't know anybody and yet you force such a one-dimensional characterization on the WHOLE class and protagonist life just to make it easier to get edgy later? Couldn't you at least hope to wait just a little bit? And am I criticizing this part too much about something so simple? No. Not at all in this episode. The first moments of an anime is something that needs to make you feel engaged to it, that charms that it radiates via the characterization and dialogue that will settle our direction and setting on such works, but this is all we got for our first moment? And just don't make me start on how everyone turn on our protagonist to bully him because he is weak... See what I mean? It feels like all was just a pretext to make something look darker and tragic when it wasn't even organic on the first place, making it that the plot itself feels like something that tries just to fall onto the ground so hard it is almost shameful to look at. Going back to the main point: the first episode is absolutely horrible, no questions asked. But it’s in the following episodes that you'll be subjected to what you'll hear throughout the entire series. Yes, be prepared for the unbearable, insipid, excruciating, and nightmarish... Paralyze and poison... It seems as I'm doing some kinda of joke now, but seriously, this is what I mean in my first point: Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells, focus in where it says "annihilated everything with LOW-LEVEL SPELLS" because this is a point in where I think we need focus. You see, there's plenty of people of anime (isekai specially) in which the only gimmick is that the protagonist have one thing, let it be quality or skill, that almost runs all his character trying to maintain it afloat. There was an anime in which the protagonist was overly cautious, which I liked, and another one in which the main gimmick is that the protagonist can parry everything which I'm not liking (from this same season), and other in which the protagonist is a middle-aged adventurer (also from this season) that I think is okay... So what's the difference? Obviously, and for starters, it's the direction and how serious the series want to be versus how serious it actually is. If your protagonist have an overpowered or just silly skill, make it that his personality and plot points doesn't wrap around it. If your protagonist have a silly exaggerated quality, make it that the series itself can have humor and even teases itself. But, for the sake of everything that is holy, don’t make your protagonist rely solely on their skill, and even more so, don’t treat it too seriously. At least give us a chance to laugh at the end of the day. What Failure Frame did was the latter. Obviously, this reflects my preferences regarding how a character's personality should align with their skill. I think that what’s most annoying about Touka lies there. It’s not just that; his character almost literally works as an oxymoron for the plot itself. Now let me try to extend on this little silly idea. You see, the plot enriches itself with the idea of how the protagonist was ranked as a bad hero and how he wasn't even capable of doing anything spectacular, so they decided to send him to a dungeon in where the sunlight don't even peek out contrasted with all the monsters that do peek out to kill and eat, that's known to us thanks to the goddess Vicious, the main antagonist, but there's some question that arise after watching some episodes... First, why send heroes there in the first place? I know it is focused the point that Touka is really bottom of the barrel and talentless... But still, why? This question arise also from the lack of deep and exposition of how the magic and power systems works. Even if it's true that Touka tried to paralyze Vicious to just fall miserably, there's no explanation in how does the effect of paralyze and poison work, neither of how the curve of that power itself work, isn't Vicious just wasting potential like a fool? We just need to take in our minds that it seems that paralyze and poison works on some people and not on others, but doesn't that make Touka almost extremely broken? Add to it the fact the poison and paralyze almost never or straight never goes off the creatures once the skill is leveled up, so it was a little more of training and the protagonist have the power to quite literally kill everyone slowly as he imprisons them. Again, Vicious, aren't kinda of a big fool for wasting this potential? That's one first problem, and why don't use that dungeon as a place for the heroes to train? Doesn't that seems more worth than just doing those stupid errands and expeditions that we see throughout the episodes whose serve no purpose to be honest. The fact that something so simple like paralyze and poison have such a big impact makes it hard to believe the rules bound towards strong hierarchy and the antagonist mentality, as I said, is all forced to make the story edgy and makes our protagonist suffer, because that's the point, to try to be serious yet not being serious, just like as I stated on my first point. That also followed my second point too: How absurdly linear and predictable the plot progress just based on the approach it takes at the start. When I meant that I wasn't focusing on this series being generic, is that I mean that the tittle says it all about the anime both in progression and content; I usually think there's a misconception when you talk about something being repetitive by following the same structure yet having different content in each structure, than having the same content with different structure in the narrative, both of them don't mean anything bad by itself, but that's a whole another talk and I digress. My point about Failure Frame falls into that, how it does…

One of the best story lines in isekai genre with MC getting revenge, unlike traditional story lines where there is a righteous man doing everything according to rule book and saving everyone from clutches, these follows a different route, where MC is ruthless, hardcore and goal oriented. I loved all the supporting characters in MC group, there are no irritating characters who trouble MC. If only they had a better budget for animation and stuff, this would have been great, i have to applaud the writer's imagination for creating such monsters, those are just absurd to look at. Finally, i enjoyed this a lot, I hope we get to see season 2 with better animation. Total worthy anime, goes to my top isekai anime list easily.

Failure Frame is an interesting one for me. A Fantasy Isekai show, it's incredibly derivative in it's ideas and execution, has some absolutely horrendous 3D scene transitional animation that breaks any immersion whatsoever, laughable caricature villain antagonists (You don't have to like all your classmates, but come on!), but despite all that, I dunno, the show was still kinda fun this time *shrugs*... Friday mid-morning, come home after milking my cows and then proceed to chuck on an episode of Failure Frame. Goddamn, Friday was a great day for seasonal anime this time around. Failure Frame in the morning, palette cleanser Giji Harem in the evening right after some odd farm jobs, and then finish it off with the "sophisticated" Gimai Seikatsu, almost feel like I have to dress up nicely for that one, a glass of white wine to accompany. But enough of that, so what exactly did I enjoy about this show? Well, the character design was top notch, both the main cast and the endless masses of monsters. Touko Mimori, our main MC, does have that usual stock Light Novel look about him, but I'll tell you, making the character look slightly more mature/masculine and without the squeaky voice of a boy yet to hit puberty, works fucking wonders. It's complimented by the way he generally acts as well, a very careful, meticulous character who doesn't scream or overreact at every damn thing, he's not really angry edgy either, just incredibly focused at the job/goal at hand, yet still cares and shows some compassion for his companions. Seras Ashrain, the main Female MC, might just be the hottest elf I've ever seen in anime. Well done to the artist who struck gold with this one, you did good. She kind of falls under the usual "falls in love with the main guy" trope after certain circumstances, but it still takes time to develop, it's not fucking immediate like so many other shows. A gorgeous badass elf, not much to hate here. Now, I am a huge sucker for cosmic horror types of creatures and atmospheres, and some of these monstrosities definitely left me thinking "what the actual fuck" or "that's a lot of eyeballs" when they appeared on screen. Part of it was also thanks to the ghastly 3DCGI work lol, but it made them stick out even more, some really cool and creepy looking designs, the last time I remember being so awed by monsters was while watching Gantz:O. It'll never get old for me, no matter how many similar disturbing designs I come across. This show was a lot more grittier and darker in tone than what I anticipated it to be. Make no mistake, the MC is extremely OP and proceeds to use his skills with little resistance throughout the show and it's a revenge driven narrative. It's not something like My Instant Death Ability Is Overpowered where Bro utters "shine " (die) after an unfunny, confident tirade from the antagonist, the girl chirping in afterwards to make a straight man joke, rinse and repeat till it's over, in Failure Frame the MC is cunning and ruthless and there's not much forced comedy element to his unstoppable killing spree (the way he sometimes fakes out people can be amusing), it's all introspective and analytical as he walks his path towards his goals. I can scarcely believe it, but I even kind of want to check out the Light Novel after finishing this, which is something I never fucking wanna do after finishing a similar themed anime. There's also that longing, ever present tease of when is he gonna finally reveal himself to others from his own world/the goddess, etc, that sort of satisfactory viewing you can only get through certain situations. It's all very manipulative in it's boyish qualities, but I guess these elements just play greatly to that kid in myself. Overall, it was the main characters and the dark, brooding ambience of the show that kept this show afloat for me, not sure I'd recommend it overall unless you enjoy these sorts of tropes specifically, maybe have a go at the source material, which is what I am planning on doing in the near future.

I'm sorry, but why the fuck does this anime have such low rating on this site while trash like Arifureta Season 3 is over 7/10? I started watching this show not expecting much, having never heard of it, but by the time it ended, I actually wanted to see more. I haven't bothered writing many reviews for a while, but seeing the low rating for this just confused me. Let's see.. - MC & PARTY - MC isn't annoying, has a clear goal in mind and is working towards it. He has past trauma that has shaped him and he's working through emotional damage as well. He doesn't even act like a sex pest, unlike the majority of the Isekai/Anime shows, nor does he have a harem of women falling on his dick the moment he enters the room. The party members are actually not bad. The first girl that joins his party is actually a good support cast that is used for more than just combat (like luring enemies) while the other party member is an experienced fighter that just kicks ass brutally. - ROMANCE - What is strange, is that the relationship between MC and the Elf party members actually feels more realistic than any other anime I've seen in a long time. They steal glances and slowly seem to be getting to know each other more and more. It helps that the MC isn't overreacting to a girl just being close to him like every other anime MC. He acts more grown up than most grown male characters in anime towards a woman. I was surprised by this kind of romance in this random isekai anime. - 3DCG & COMBAT - Combat is fine, though held back because of 3DCG used in scenes here and there. Honestly, 3D use is just weird in this anime. In most scenes, the 2D version looks just fine, but sometimes they give a 3D view of the characters with that typical shitty low FPS all Anime directors are fond of, and it looks bad. The good news is, in the majority of the scenes, there are no shitty 3D laggy visuals like Berserk 3D. Other than that, combat is fine, though the MC's magic usage is.. confusing. Why he doesn't just spam "paralyze" and "poison" on everyone instead of throwing other spells like "dark" (blindness) and "berserk", is a mystery to me. But whatever, I guess you can chalk it up to him trying to level up the skills. - THE WORLD - I'm surprised that they are actually spending time developing the world. It isn't a generic shite world like Arifureta. They have different locations, interesting creatures and unique NPC's with dungeons. It actually feels like an adventure, a feeling most of these fantasy shows lack. I won't say it's the "BEST WORLD EVAR" or something, but they put more work into it than most Isekai or fantasy shows. - RATING - Why is this rated so low? Some people complain about "horny" world or rape attempts on women, which shows the bubble most reviewers live in. Real world wars have shown, women are the first casualty for a reason. Assaulting women of enemies is the first thing armies do in war, just like local criminals. This world is actually far more realistic in this depiction than other anime where local goons or armies act all gentlemen-like and never assault women, choosing to kill them and move on. I mean, FFS, there are actual wars and events in the middle-east where we've seen this play out in the last few years. How oblivious do you have to be about world events and how sheltered life do you have to live to complain about this? Whatever, rating it 10/10 just to do my part to counter the negative rating a bit.

Failure Frame The Name says everything! Animation The animation quality is appalling to say the least. The close up during conversation is not bad, but as soon as there is the slightest pan-out occurs the quality goes down the drain and it looks like a low quality Final Fantasy animation style. Along with bulky unrefined movement from all characters and living beings the art style is also completely different. Story The anime lacks content. This was set-up to have the possibility to be a top ranked revenge anime, but fell short. The premise that the anime has set on is lacking depth. It is a straight line from beginning to the middle and stops. There is a second season needed to be able to complete the anime, but the first season lacked character building and needs to adjust the power scaling system. Why is an OP skill given as an E-Class skill is nonsensical. The side characters show little growth with each having 1 small realization and then that's the end of the character building Overall The anime was given a 4/10 due to the above reasons along with another few underlying reasons not mentions. With the anime market being flooded with a load of Isekai that has no unique story you need to do it right or different and Failure Frame did none. Unless the second season takes a 180 turn or the first season is remade, I would not suggest this anime

I don't understand why people don't like this anime. In my opinion, this anime has an interesting story, unlike “Arifureta.” It's important to note that every anime has its own uniqueness and its own fans. I think if you’re just an anime enthusiast, it’s better to enjoy the anime for its storyline or animation quality. If you feel it doesn’t align with your preferences, I suggest watching another anime. We should appreciate the people who created the storyline and the people who made this anime, because in my opinion, this anime with its “isekai & superpower” theme is very interesting. It's no wonder that many anime don't get a second season just because they get low scores and bad reviews from you guys. What makes it appealing is its animation and color composition, even using CGI technology. There are also life lessons when the main character defeats the dungeon boss, as well as the goddess who underestimates the main character's abnormal skills. In real life, I saw with my own eyes how my coworker was underestimated by our boss, and when my coworker resigned and worked at another company, he became successful and made it onto the Forbes list. I've watched it several times. If asked about its flaws, there are certainly some, and people who watch this anime might get bored because it airs alongside other great anime. However, if asked, “Why do I recommend this anime?” my answer is simple: “This anime is worth watching for fans of the ‘isekai’ genre that holds deeper meaning in life.”

I love this anime. I love isekais where the MC is smart and makes sensible decisions with a clear ambitious goal in mind, and you know he's going to reach it because of his undying resolve. If you are not going to like this, it' going to be because of animation or maybe you just hate isekais that are serious, then I suggest you go watch "that time I reincarnated into a vending machine". Seriously, how do you not like this? How can you call this trash isekai? Personally, I would call trash all the mainstream high rated bullshit. Honestly, just sort animes from lowest evaluation first, because people on this site vote after watching 1 episode and deciding "this is not cool, I didn't see a naked underage girl in the first 10 minutes of the show, 3/10”.

Failure Frame is a rather apt title for this series because it is a failure on nearly every level. This is an affront to everything holy about this medium. Poor and edgy writing for the sake of being edgy, the worst production values of the year and an inferior version of Arifureta’s premise. I mean seriously, it’s one thing to have a generic revenge story set up, it’s another to have horrible production quality with it. Like pick a struggle. This was bad and really the only redeeming quality it had was Seras, who funny enough was my only reason for being interested in the Light Novels as well when I’d see them in the store. Unless you just want to see some really awful animation or for some God forsaken reason enjoy rapey characters, this is one you can safely pass on. There’s no nice way to say it, this was rough. Failure Frame started out halfway decent with the whole class being summoned gimmick and character designs that looked pretty good, but about halfway through episode 1 I knew this was going to be a disaster. When the staff can’t even be bothered to not make the OP CGI, you know it’s ass. Admittedly, I do kind of like the story. Like if this didn’t have all the rapey villains, the poor animation, and awful action scenes I would have probably enjoyed it. Yea, it’s a basic ass cookie cutter revenge fantasy, but I am always partial to stories where the class is summoned. Arifureta, Kumo desu, etc. The difference is, those stories(in the books anyway) took their time showing you the character’s growth and them overcoming obstacles, had really good world building and more. Failure Frame lacked in all those respects. Like yea, Tooka gets screwed over and wants revenge on the goddess cool, but I still don’t understand how he goes from being a loser at the start to this gigachad master tactician edgelord by the end of the season. It felt like a cliff notes version of the story, which is sadly the case for a lot of LN adaptations so nothing new there. But if you’re gonna have a weak development arc you can’t have weak production too. That brings me to the other big issue here, the author’s over reliance on sexual assault to characterise bad guys as bad. It’s such a cheap and overdone trope. Does rape happen? Obviously. Was the Middle Ages sadly a much more dangerous spot for women? Yes. But we really don’t need every villain to want to rape the main female lead or make observations about her body being “slutty”. Like even Vinland saga which takes place during the medieval ages did not have many instances of sexual assault. We get it after one time man you don’t need to keep going back to that well. It just made it hard to take many of the villains seriously because they’re so obviously cartoonishly evil. I like my villains with a little bit of actual writing other than just doing disgusting stuff that appalls me. When I say this was common I mean it was REALLY common. Like every antagonist save 1 in this cour mentions it or is hinted to be involved in that type of thing, it just made me not care about the conflicts to be honest. I do think the goddess is an interesting antagonist and there’s a mystery about why she does what she does, who’s pulling her strings etc., that hangs over her for the entire season. Production wise like I said this show looks bad. Seven arcs ruined chained soldier and they did the same here. Using CG to animate standing and still character models is certainly one of the creative choices of all time. There was just way too much unnecessary CGI. I can see it being used in action scenes with monsters, but come on, if you can’t be bothered to draw characters standing around in a supposed 2D anime show, that’s bad. This is really a 2.5D show just because of the sheer number of times we see 3D. So what’s the verdict? I’d say this is a rather easy skip. It’s a story we’ve seen done better elsewhere with horrible production qualities. Seras is great, but if you’re interested in her I think the books are the way to go. I do have the first few volumes because I love the art style and have been seeing them for so long in the bookstore that I couldn’t resist. I hope the actual story is a lot better done there than the anime, because this was not it at all. Hard pass. Failure Frame gets 6 out of 10.

I wasn't sure what to expect from Hazurewaku, especially since I was growing tired of the typical isekai formula. However, this anime surprised me with its compelling character development. The protagonist, Touka Mimori, has a relatable and tragic backstory that makes her journey all the more engaging. The antagonist, the goddess Vicius, is incredibly frustrating, but she also serves as a great motivator for Touka's arc. While the anime's action sequences and CGI are admittedly weak, the plot and character development make up for these shortcomings. If you're looking for an isekai with a focus on revenge and personal growth, Hazurewaku is worth checking out.

Honestly solid show, kinda gives me Shield Hero or maybe Arifureta? but good vibes. The Plot is a solid 9, very compelling but also simple enough. It doesn't really pretend to be something its not, and is ultimately pretty damn engaging for me at least. The characters are also surprisingly good, like an 8. There are like 10 different classmate all with interesting personalities, and his main companions are also relatively interesting. I think its super refreshing to have an obvious romantic interest without any harem BS, and doesn't give me will they wont they vibes. Oh and by the way, the protagonist is quite good, with a honestly realistic outlook on life. now lets talk about a big issue... I am NOT an animation snob, but this show has some really bad CG, not to mention the actual animation is pretty mid even by my standards. But I wouldn't let this bother you, its overall still a good show. give it a shot if you want some good isekai, the isekai market doesn't have a lot of good fodder rn.

Basically, the plot is similar to Arifureta, but worse. The first few episodes didn't seem too bad to me, but as the story progresses, it just keeps getting worse. The story is about an isekai where the main protagonist is exiled from the hero's party and thrown into a dangerous dungeon to die, but he discovers he has an overpowered ability that allows him to defeat strong enemies. Everything in this story is highly predictable, as you would expect from a typical isekai anime. In an isekai, you usually expect a generic plot but hope for good side characters, interesting designs, exciting fights, or at least some funny moments. Unfortunately, this anime has none of that. I would only recommend this if you're really addicted to overpowered protagonists.

This anime won my best action anime of 2024 and surprised me. Failure Frame is funny. If this show had been done by A-1 Pictures, the studio behind Solo Leveling, or Madhouse, it would have easily been one of the biggest anime of the year. It wouldn't have even been close. It would've been a landslide. But because of the ridiculous amount of CGI and the fact that they clearly went cheap with the animation, Failure Frame ended up flying under the radar and getting attacked by a lot of people. But the truth is now coming out and people are realizing how good of a show this really is. I'm going to cover three major points quickly, because these are really the key reasons why you should watch this show and why it's slowly become somewhat of a cult classic. Over the last year or so, I've started seeing more and more people go back and give this show positive reviews. 1. NUMBER ONE: The main character is NOT a simp. He does not exist simply to try to build a harem of women. That's the standard trope you see in pretty much every anime nowadays, especially isekai, but even in non-isekai anime. They turn the main character into this weak simp whose entire personality revolves around women. This character not only doesn't do that, but he actively resists it. That tells me the author actually took the time to understand the tropes of the genre and deliberately wrote around them. He was aware of what these shows normally do and decided to go in the opposite direction. That alone should be enough of a reason to watch this show, because it's incredibly rare to get a main character who isn't a complete clown when it comes to women. There is no harem here. You don't have to worry about that. 2. NUMBER TWO: The main character is intelligent and actually has some backbone He's not one of these weak-willed protagonists where you constantly have to worry about whether he's going to take care of business. He doesn't have some weird moral stance against killing, he's not a pushover, and he's not constantly getting pushed around by everybody around him. He's actually a badass. He handles his business, he isn't obsessed with women, and he has a strong, driven goal that he's pursuing. Again, this is rare stuff in modern anime. If you've been watching anime long enough, you already know how rare the combination of an intelligent, competent, driven protagonist who isn't obsessed with women actually is. 3. NUMBER THREE and this is a big one: the world-building and power system are extremely good. Right from the first episode, they establish the people you're supposed to hate and the crookedness of this world he's teleported into. They establish the basics of the power system, and then you gradually learn more about it throughout the story. Because of the limitations placed on the main character, he has to fight using relatively weak spells that he's developed to a high level of ability. But he also has to use strategy. That makes the fights extremely interesting. The fights are technical. You don't always know how they're going to go, and you don't necessarily know what he's going to do to try to win. He has to adapt to different situations and come up with different ways to use what he has. And that's what makes the fights fun. Now, I'm not a fan of CGI in anime any more than anybody else is. In fact, I absolutely detest it. The CGI in Failure Frame is definitely jarring at the beginning. I think a lot of people quit around episode two or three because of the animation, but it smooths out considerably after that. You really don't have to worry about the CGI nearly as much as you might think. And I'm telling you this as somebody who absolutely hates CGI anime. It's not Berserk 2016. There's no ridiculous stop-motion stuttering effect that makes you want to turn the show off. There's a lot of CGI, absolutely, but the first two or three episodes are by far the roughest. After that, it becomes a lot more smooth and completely watchable. Failure Frame is 100% worth your time. It's become somewhat of a mini cult classic among isekai fans, and now I'm starting to see a ton of people finally talking about it. I was already talking about this show two years ago, and now people are starting to realize what I've been saying: This is a significantly better-written story than the vast majority of the slop that's being put out today. It deserves a much higher rating. Honestly, the biggest reason the rating is lower is the animation. And that's disappointing, because the story itself is literally five times better than most of these shows, and the main character alone makes it stand out. He isn't a complete pushover. He isn't a horny dude desperately trying to collect a harem. He's intelligent, he's driven, he's willing to do what needs to be done, and the story actually gives him limitations that force him to use his brain instead of "power of friendship go LOL win" stuff like you see anime do today. That alone makes Failure Frame a better show than most of what you're going to find in the genre today.

If I had to summarize my thoughts in one sentence, it would be: This anime fucking sucks, I got mild enjoyment out of it. Ohh boyy this will be a short one, thank god. The Good: It's a cheap revenge porn ahh isekai. The MC is logical, calculating, merciless, and extremely goal oriented. The side characters are a nice touch, nice chemistry between them, none of them are annoying retards that and make me want to castrate myself. The plot is barebones, but it works; the pacing in on point. The Bad: The anime is so hideous, it actually made me want to skip the 'fight' scenes. The monster designs might look great on a manga panel, but it looks absolutely dogshit in CGI form. The MC is absolutely OP in the worst way possible, fights are ended in a couple words, regardless of the opponent, 0 stakes. Edgy, cringey, generic dialogue, that make me question life. This is the type of shit you watch if u have absolutely nothing else to watch and need to scratch the isekai craving itch (me). Failure Frame is bad in nearly every way, but something about it just works. Watch the first couple eps and decide for yourself.

This show is objectively bad. It's excessively horny, the animation is mediocre, the plot is generic, and it's got some truly awful CGI. The very premise of the show seems to be in the interest of saving money on fight scenes. So why did I finish it and consider it a pleasant experience? As a connoisseur of isekai trash, I have to say there's something oddly charming about this show. It feels like someone genuinely tried their best, but didn't have the resources to do what they wanted. If you're looking for a way to kill a few hours, there are worse ways to do it than watching this.

This anime had so much potential, but wow, it really dropped the ball. The story itself is somewhat unique, but it can be predictable at times. While I usually enjoy this genre and setup, the execution here really dragged it down. As for the art style, it doesn’t fit the story at all. The CGI is just plain awful, and the random switches to 3D animation are super confusing, which totally kills the vibe! The characters are another weak point. While they have some interesting traits, they often come off as flat, lacking the depth needed to feel well-rounded. They have strengths and weaknesses, but they also veer into being unusually strong or stupid at times, which feels unrealistic. Speaking of realism, the characters’ reactions to events often feel off. Instead of being relatable, their responses can come across as forced or exaggerated, which doesn’t help immerse you in the story. As for whether others might enjoy this series, I think some people might still find it appealing due to the genre and the basic premise. However, for viewers looking for depth and solid execution, they might feel disappointed like I did. If you don’t want a headache, just read the manga instead—it’s way better!

I am honestly a bit surprised how much hype I have been hearing about this as it entered into its final weeks of airing. From the start with this anime, I absolutely loathed this one. The first episode showed some promise. It has every Isekai trope in the book, but it made for an entertaining setup. After that is when it really lost its main redeeming element. It’s animation. Budgetary reason or not, the 3D animated models looked dismal, there’s no other way to slice it. To make matters worse it switched so rapidly between the 2D and 3D animation that it made the poor visuals look even worse. That is what the problem was. The story was too much like “From Commonplace to World’s Strongest” to where why wouldnt’ you just watch that, or it’s many similar shows. The writers had no ideas. No example more clear than every villain was the exact same. Just some absolute scumbag always verbally assaulting whatever women are around. It’s insane. Overall, I just can’t recommend this one. I understand people like me love Isekai, but I have to draw a line somewhere. There are just way too many similar shows to this that execute so much better than this.

Man, I have no idea how to rate this. The show is your typical trash isekai with cartoonishly evil characters, a revenge plot, edgy protagonist, fanservice, etc. On top of that, it has heavy use of CGI which makes some scenes look like a video game sometimes. By all intents and purposes I should have dropped it after an episode or 2. But I kept watching, and didn't want to stop. I'm not sure if I was just starved for some power fantasy story, but it hit all the right notes. I mean, I really didn't like any part with the classmates. They had no personalities, and were very boring to watch. That was a small part though. The main character was a lot of fun to watch. Yeah, they are some edgy protagonist that constantly tells us he's not a good guy, but I couldn't always predict how things would go. The world and monsters are also not just generic fantasy, and have a nice spin to them. I don't know, I look back on my list of shows, and I usually only give a '7' to something that keeps my attention the whole way through, and I can really recommend. This did keep my attention, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it. So let's just say it's at the top of my '6' rated shows. I do kinda hope it gets a season 2, lol.

A whole class isekai type where everyone gets transported by a goddess in a world to fight the demon king or whom. Everyone has a rank and are considered heros there, with typical isekai game mechanics. SHORT SUMMARY REVIEW: Story: 4 -- Bottom tier thrash isekai story that is not presented well (fast paced like crazy, feels like you're teleported to scenes, even when they should have been consecutive ones from the same action) and seems to be cut so much out of it that it just doesn't make any sense. And then it tries to take itself seriously... maybe that was the joke all along? Art: 3 -- Mixing 2D with 3D art so much and switching between it, even basic scenes, and then even when you think that they at least save money for some cool fight later, they don't, is a dissapointing experience that just keep letting you down lower and lower. Music: 8 -- Some of the songs were pretty cool, I'll give them that Characters: 5 -- They had some ideas with the characters, but they barely work being created in such a presentation of a story. Villains are copy pasted extreme weirdos/creeps without any depth. Classmates seem so weird when you think they grew and existed as humans in a society in our world for how they behave and act... MC is all about vengeance. FMC is the pure maiden type that gets saved by him. The other characters are not even worth talking about, as they just seem purely made to advance the story in a certain direction... Too many characters defined by one thing only. Enjoyment: 4 -- As you could guess, I did not enjoy my time watching this, but it was an experience in things I did not like at all. Overall: 5 Right now it has 6.48 from 88.172 votes Ranked #7191 Popularity #1401 Members 180,561 as of 19/02/2025. I cannot recommend this anime for anything besides wanting to watch something dissapointing. There's really no good reason I can recommend it. Maybe the songs are okay ig? Or watch it for the few ideas that they had and tried to do? I'm just really curious right now about the light novels, and how much they butchered them in this adaptation... From what I read online, they adapted 4 LNs in these 12 episodes... and we all know what that means... Rushed like crazy, barely explain anything, skip a lot of stuff, adapt the action scenes only, if even that, and just rush asap towards the conclusion of each arc so the flow of the story is still somewhat kept. LONGER VERSION REVIEW (I know I rambled a lot... think it's because I am very tired... hopefully what I wrote is making some sense): Typical starting plot, but now comes the part where I tell you I cannot in good faith recommend this to anyone. This is not even good thrash. This is an outright dissapointing of an anime that just feels like a waste of time/resources. Am I going insane or are there too many trolls that wrote reviews that recommended this anime? I even started feeling bad that someone actually worked on this anime. First of all, the main point which made me not be able to get into the story is the pace of the anime. It feels like there is someone saying "Chop chop! Done the scene? Perfect, next one". They're saying that to me when trying to understand a scene or moment, and they seem to have told the astists as well for how God awful the animation is, but more on that a bit later. The plot moves fast, very fast, with what feels like no connection to consecutive scenes, even if they are scenes that are part of the same moment/action. It feels too much like there were people doing different scenes of an action without caring about how they will connect them all. The whole anime feels like that. You feel like you just get teleported to different scenes. Or that they just straight up forgot to adapt scenes of a moment and they just kept on going, like ye, this fight that we showed you took like 5s on your screen, but the characters already talk like they fought for hours. You never get worldbuilding, so you barely understand the setting or context. The story arcs are bottom tier ones like 95% of them all with plots that feel like they were written by a bottom tier AI. It seems like people enjoyed it because it is not your typical go lucky isekai anime, but idc about the ideas if they are executed so poorly that you just cannot appreciate anything besides that. What am I doing here? Seeing a proof of concept for a future anime? Because that is how it feels. I don't have a problem with basic plots and ideas that I've already seen a million times, but I have when you cannot make them a bit enjoyable, and this anime just did that to all of what it tried to do. The characters are barely presented, you barely can get attached to them, even the MC and FMC. I barely heard anything about their past in these 12 episodes besides like a few things about the MC that they made sure to repeat them, because why not, and about FMC? Ye, you learn about their situation and that's it, but it is nothing that makes you get attached to them on like a more deeper level. They feel like they don't have any depth. The classmates? You will see this in the first 10 minutes of the anime, but man, they just cranked their sociopathy/psychopathy to the max on each of them instantly. Is this a special class and I was not told? And don't get me started on the copy pasted villains where they want to do the thing with the FMC... and that's about what you get about most of them. Some do have other, let's call them, "aspirations", but they're so bottom tier ones and presented like so that it just feels like you're watching a children's story. Also the fights are terrible. Spamming the same ability against monsters that seem to have none is just meh after the first like 2 times... There is no depth to anything when it comes to fights or abilities. Everything moves so fast that even when you try to shut your brain off, you still start asking questions because it just doesn't make any kind of sense how everything jumps from one thing to another. I try to explain some stuff that happens in this anime, as I've read lns and watched the animes and know a few things they do to cut screen time and save budget, or concentrate on because deeper stuff just takes too much time (even tho this whole anime feels like they tried to save budget, but surely not for something for this anime, just for the sake of saving it for another project or something), but a lot of decisions and flow of story are just ??? to me. Maybe they are explained in the lns, but in this anime, I just cannot see how a lot of moments end up where they do without literally assuming like more than half of the story at this point. I'm not here to try to deschiper 50%+ of your plot and make it up myself to try to explain stuff, I'm here to be presented a story, I'm okay if you make some things subtle, give hints or just skip alltogether as long as it doesn't influence the story presented later a lot, but they don't do anything, at least not what I can pick up... The animation is one of the lowest kind you can find out there. They mix 2D scenes with 3D scenes. A lot. Feels like the only parts where there is 2D is when they do some close up shot or the movements are very limited or stationary. If it gets a bit too much movement, they just do 3D. The 3D looks very awful and really takes away from the experience, if there is something to take to begin with... And even if they spam 3D like crazy, you would think that at least they would save some money for like a good fight scene in the anime? Or at least make some fights more interesting. Nah, don't expect that. They're not saving money for it to be used somewhere in the anime. Even if they use 3D in fights, some of them still look like a power point presentation... Another main point that made me dislike this anime, is the fact that besides all its negative points, which are a LOT, that repeat themselfes, it tries to take itself seriously... like... man.... you just cannot do it like this... that's …

There is one word that can describe the show: Forced. I’m gonna stop you now, if you want to enjoy the show and just want something to fill your time, go ahead, it can do that. But if you’re looking for a real good show to talk about, this ain’t it. And you can continue to see why. The plot? To put it simply, it’s like playing DnD with a lazy DM once every few months with no notes being taken. It’s a Shield Hero/Arifureta despair to victory style wannabe without the proper build up or effort to want to do so. They show his backstory, a forced scene to show his and the class’ behavior, him being abandoned, his despair at that, secret power reveal, and his recovery, all within the first episode. Not revealing the actual details of the plot, it has the typical popularizing cliches, not the harem surprisingly, and convenient plot drops, things being perfectly in line to make things simpler. But this pushes it to another degree, setting sudden limitations, that would’ve affected earlier plot, to make the current situation more dire, then forgetting they exist in later similar situations and coming up with another restriction instead. Any minor obstacle is surpassed within the next few minutes without any build up, as if they were just setting it up as a safety net to stifle question. Characters, that seem world changing, are introduced and swiftly rid of, never to be mentioned again, solely to cover up plot holes or to show off the MC’s strength. There’s also sudden romance scenes that come out of nowhere, with the heroine falling obsessively in love with the MC quickly. And man, the author must’ve been horny while writing the first half of this show because people would not stop talking about how much they wanted to have a go and what they would do with the heroine. The MC himself is as consistent as the plot, falling into whatever suits the current situation from a “I fake I’m weak to surprise the enemy”, to “Bring it on b**** I’m stronger than you”, or from a compassionate, caring, good hearted guy, to a “revenge is my only drive” character. They set some of these things up as if he’ll keep up the act, but then seem to forget they did this until later on, where they’ll touch up on it since it’s convenient, then forget about it again. The class is given screen-time, but it’s more of a, this is where they are and what they’re doing, now back to the MC kind of thing, unless it advances the plot for the MC. For the music and art portion, I’m not a good judge, so all I can say is it’s not bad. There’s a lot of cgi for anything more complex than moving just the upper body. And a lot of repeating frames, with some looking awkward being looped. Some scenes don’t make sense, possibly due to plot changes. Music jumps around a bit, but isn’t over excessive and used appropriately. Otherwise it’s your average dark themed anime style. Overall, I’d say it’s a mediocre show. Good enough to fill time, not good enough to recommend. Thought they almost recovered at the end until a forced edge-lord romance scene was placed in. I would watch a second season, but I’d rather the studio spent the effort on another more worthwhile show.

What if the weakest guy was actually the strongest? What if the least cool loser became the strongest due to his special ability? What if they made Arifureta again? Weakest Hero with Low-Tier Shitty Skills answers those questions. And also answers: What if Arifureta had even worse CGI? What if Arifureta had an even uglier color palette? What if Arifureta was just, like, overall less fun? This is one of the most self-indulgent isekai LN adaptations ever produced. An absolutely unironic entry in a genre that’s impossible to take seriously. And (for a minute) almost beat for beat an Arifureta clone. The MC’s whole class is isekaied (like in Arifureta), and his goal is to kill a god (like in Arifureta), who was… mean to him and also tried to kill him by sending him to the depths of a dungeon (like in Arifureta), but then he finds out how to use his powers and levels up a whole bunch (like in Arifureta), then he finds a hot blond woman who wants to fuck him (like in Arifureta), etc. etc. Unlike Arifureta, the MC’s entire class is evil murderers, not just a couple of jerks. Except for three hot girls (who will presumably join bro’s harem at some point). It does diverge from the Arifureta once we leave the dungeon, but after that the whole plot is just edgy isekai boilerplate. There’s no levity, it has this boring, dark tone throughout. The show is awash in bizarre technical errors. Even leaving the atrocious visuals aside, the audio sucks. There’s one point in episode five (at about 8:13) where the audio levels randomly spike. I have no idea how that stayed in, that’s a mistake I’d be surprised to see an eleven-year-old with a YouTube channel make, let alone a whole ass anime studio. The protagonist is annoying as hell. He has an obnoxious habit of monologuing his plans to villains before killing them, he’s always a million steps ahead of everyone. His ability is essentially an instakill button, the only activation condition being that his enemy needs to be within range. When that’s how fights work, not even playing the opening can make them hype. The direction in some fights makes absolutely no sense. Since the MC’s ability depends on people being in range, the top directorial priority should be making the distance between him and his enemy clear. But no, in one pivotal scene his enemy seems to move away from him, then MC goes “they’re in range” and instakills them with the instakill button. When it comes to insane moments… there are a few. At one point there’s this big important meeting, and all the participants have big important names (that show up on title cards for half a second). One of those names is: Falkendotzine Miradiasordzit. The way this show does exposition is hilarious. In this one scene the protagonists overhear rumors about a cult in a bar, then they discuss the rumors, then a group of evil-looking hooded men enter and say “we are the evil magic cult”. Like bro we got it from the hoods you don’t need to announce yourselves. I could list off more of these moments, but that discussion could easily veer into spoiler territory, and doing so may give the false impression this show is more interesting than it actually is. So… don’t watch it. Unless you have the same exact type of isekai brain poisoning I do… but if that’s the case, you've already watched it. Uh… if you want to watch joyless Arifureta… this is the show for you!