In the kingdom of Earlshide, Merlin Wolford was once regarded as a national hero, hailed for both his power and achievements. Preferring a quiet life however, he secludes himself deep in the rural woods, dedicating his time to raising an orphan that he saved. This orphan is Shin, a normal salaryman in modern-day Japan who was reincarnated into Merlin's world while still retaining his past memories. As the years pass, Shin displays unparalleled talent in both magic casting and martial arts, much to Merlin's constant amazement.
On his 15th birthday, however, it becomes apparent that Shin only developed his combat skills and nothing else, leaving him with blatant social awkwardness, a lack of common sense, and a middling sense of responsibility. As a result, Shin enrolls in the kingdom's Magic Academy to hone his skills and mature among other teenagers. However, living a normal life is impossible, as he is established as a local celebrity almost as soon as he arrives.
As Shin Wolford adjusts to his high school life in the capital, he makes new friends, learns about the world, and fights off the various forces of evil surrounding him and his city.
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Mythologically
After being killed for no reason whatsoever, an average salary-man is reincarnated into a fantasy world. Upon his reincarnation, he meets one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Entering a familial relationship with this being, the protagonist becomes extremely overpowered. Following this, every character who knows about the MC's awesomeness does little but talk about how awesome he is. All the while, we have an insanely bland cast of side characters and really generic art, with barely any overarching plot. Some dude from an insanely influential family enrolls in a magic high school. Turns out, this dude is the most overpowered creature in theuniverse. Not only is he so overpowered that he can create whole new types of magic and magic gear (did i mention that he is completely invincible), but he is also absurdly good at hand-to-hand combat. Every side character, unable to even hope of competing with the MC's awesomeness, just kinda sits there in awe of his overpoweredness. The whole show is pretty much about how cool and OP the MC is.
I'm talking about TenSura and Mahouka, right? Well, you're wrong. I'm actually talking about the anime industry's newest indistinguishable stream of visual diarrhea, pumped out for the sole purpose of turning a profit by pandering to insecure men who seek escapism in the form of anime with insanely overpowered blank slate self-inserts MCs.
Special shoutout to my favorite joke of the show: some irrelevant side character tells the MC to hold back on his magic powers. The MC completely annihilates the room they are in and then says "haha sorry I was holding back". Wow. Now this is truly the pinnacle of comedy, refined and perfected after centuries of studying such pioneering comedians as Aristophanes and Dante. How could the anime industry possibly hope to compete against such creative genius? Shows like Yojouhan and Kaguya-sama simply can't rival the intellectual titan known as Tsuyoshi Yoshioka.
Oh, and, I couldn't possibly end this review without crediting the greatest peak of creativity brought to us by the anime industry this Spring: that one episode where they told us about the main antagonist's backstory. Now, this was truly tragic. Indeed, as I sat in front of my monitor on that Wednesday, eager to watch the latest episode of Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni, I was not expecting to be hit with such tear-inducing drama. As I sat there and learned that the main bad guy used to be good, but then some bad things happened to him, causing him to turn bad, I wept.
KairuSilvermaine
Oh no! Another isekai harem show that does not bring anything new to the table and is just lost in the sea of all the other isekai harem shows that the industry is already pumping out! That was definitely what I was thinking when I saw the genre, poster, and synopsis. But this anime proved itself otherwise. Do not come into this anime expecting for a complex plot with heavily fleshed out characters. This show was designed to fool you into thinking that it follows the usual anime tropes but suddenly it pulls out something totally unconventional. It's not exactlya parody of the isekai genre, to me it's better than that. This is a show that initially pokes fun at the very overpowered MC showing it's prowess at comedy but suddenly dives into romance, drama, and action at such an incredible pace that it actually does not destroy the comedy built at the start.
Definitely try this anime if you're looking to just relax and watch a show that is not only very funny, but having an MC that's dense and not that dense at the same time; coupled with a cast that may be a bit shallow but definitely enriches the anime.
TakaCode
The Isekai genre has a problem. It's a problem that has been going on ever since 2016 with the release of Konosuba and Re:Zero. It is also a problem that more often or not ruins the industry image from outsiders as many people from other mediums would say that the anime medium is vapid shit that has no substance base on the self insert/waifu pandering that were shown by various Isekai anime. Wise Man's Grandchild is the embodiment of this as it's not only a horrendously made anime that is void of passion and creativity it also shamelessly represents everything that is wrong with this genre. The plotcentres around a self insert Gary Sue named Shin Walford who is reincarnated as a baby in a fantasy world after getting ran over and killed by truck kun in his previous life. He is soon adopted by an old wander named Merlin Walford and soaked up Merlin's teachings, earning him some shocking powers and abilities; however when he turned 15 Merlin realised that he forgot to teach him quote "Common sense and social skills'. Unquote. I wish I joking.
Anyway with the help of Merlin's friend Shin enrols into Shin into a prestigious magic academy where he can not only socialise with people but to also hone his skills and abilities. Thus he's adventures begin.
If I had to describe the story in one world is lazy. You know when you have that one 12 year old in class that constantly shares their bad anime fanfics to you.
That's what this show is. It's a collection of generic anime cliches and fantasy isekai story elements that don't mesh well together thanks to the shows vomit including writing which I will get to in a bit.
There are no stakes whatsoever as the protagonist would overpowered the villains at any time. The setting is a generic boring setting before. There's no world-building to speak as the show rather spends it's time on sick self insert pandering.
It wouldn't be so bad if the writing was so trash. You cannot watch a single episode of Wise Man's Grandchild without face slamming your head on a iron table.
This is only enhanced by the 12-year-old tier fan fiction dialogue which was downright painful to watch on screen.
The worst thing about Wise Man Grandchild is how lazy it is. I know I just described the story as lazy but this is only the thick of it as it not only rips off plots from other isekai/fantasy anime it also reuses locations with little to no changes.
My favourite being Kazuma's Mansion as despite being slighting brighter as well-having adding and removing a couple of outdoor mansion decoration the mansion is the bloody same. I understand that drawing hundreds of backgrounds for an anime is hard, especially on a tight deadline and budget but nobody has been stupid enough to recuse background scenery from other isekai animes as plan B. It's like I'm watching a anime equivalent of a asset flip of steam.
The asset flip and poorly written story is made worse with the soulless characters are a void of personality.
Shin is a boring Gary Sue who is overpowered and has no flaws.
He has a personality of a brick and he has no motivations other to project his friends and city because plot reasons.
The supporting characters are just a collection of bland anime stereotypes that you have all seen before.
You have the shy blue hair girl with big boobs, the tsundere red hard girl, the yellow hair kindhearted best friend boy and couple of old farts. How lazy and uninspired can you get.
Finally we have villains and to be honest the less I speak about them the better because you can tell what type of villains they are going to be based on the amateur hour poster that was done in Photoshop.
The presentation is a mixed bag. While the animation is subpar and fight choreography at times is laughable the character designs, background scenery and lightning were pretty solid minus the stock images.
The soundtrack had as much passion as the plot and characters. It uses various generic fantasy tracks that don't keep the viewer interested due to how bland they are.
This is only made worse by poor direction as various times it doesn't know how to properly place it's own tracks to create tension to the fights and narrative.
Both the opening and ending themes are generic pop songs with meaningless lyrics.
The voice acting for both languages is alright but nothing too special.
Wise Man's Grandchild.exe has stopped working.
Wise Man's Grandchild is what happens when you have no creativity and passion. It is an infuriating garbage fire that relays on cliches and tropes just to please the lowest common denominator of anime fans with it's cringely dialogue and fan fiction writing.
Wise Man's Grandchild may decent production values and voice acting but it ultimately don't matter if your plot and characters were at the bottom of the barrel.
The only thing that you should do as Wise Man's Grandchild is concerned is to stay as far away from it as possible as this is just another Isekai anime that has no soul and passion.
Avoid the series like the plague and watch That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime or Konosuba instead.
Glkiri
This anime is a masterclass anime and it is worlds beyond any anime that will come in the next thousands of years and it better than the top anime currently such as FMAB, Gintama, Frieren etc... I think that this anime is the pinnacle of anime and will be for hundreds and thousands of years. This anime is a masterclass anime and it is worlds beyond any anime that will come in the next thousands of years and it better than the top anime currently such as FMAB, Gintama, Frieren etc... I think that this anime is the pinnacle of anime and will be forhundreds and thousands of years. This anime is a masterclass anime and it is worlds beyond any anime that will come in the next thousands of years and it better than the top anime currently such as FMAB, Gintama, Frieren etc... I think that this anime is the pinnacle of anime and will be for hundreds and thousands of years. This anime is a masterclass anime and it is worlds beyond any anime that will come in the next thousands of years and it better than the top anime currently such as FMAB, Gintama, Frieren etc... I think that this anime is the pinnacle of anime and will be for hundreds and thousands of years.
Stark700
If a 5 year old asked me to explain what “Kenja no Mago” is, I can easily sum it as “isekai trash”. They may not understand the term ‘isekai’ at first, but they know what trash is. It’s a shame for me to say this because Kenja no Mago could have been an actual hit, something special even. What it ended up instead is garbage that I doubt even a 5 year old can enjoy. Without jumping too far ahead, the isekai genre often consists of several ways to set up for is main story. The protagonist usually gets transported to an alternate world. In somecases, they meet their tragic deaths at the hands of Truck-kun. They gain some sort of RPG-like power by some mysterious entity. From there on, the protagonist lives in their new lifestyle while making new friends, enemies, lovers, etc. Oh and before I forget, isekai usually loves to go with harem involving female characters who wants to get into the main guy’s pants. It’s the sort of dead horse ideas that makes many isekai shows as blend as they are today. Kenja no Mago has a protagonist named Shin Walford who used to be a hardworking man in the real world. He gets killed by Truck-kun, reincarnated in a fantasy world, and grew up to be a strong person. This sound sort of familiar now? Oh wait, I forgot to mention that Shin is ungodly powerful for someone of his age. Make no mistake, Shin is an overpowered protagonist who shows little vulnerability. He’s like the Hulk Hogan of the early 1980s and isn’t going to put over anyone.
Watching the story start off this way already set offs some red flags. Honestly, Shin isn’t much of an appealing protagonist to begin with. The show makes it clear that he lacks social skills and this is thanks to being raised in the wilderness. My first impression of Shin is that he is a young man trapped in a toddler’s body. Except here, Shin is stupidly powerful. His first encounter with the timid Sicily girl is laughably awkward. It’s one of those ‘love at first sight’ moments as both characters fall for each other. To put it bluntly, it seems the creator didn’t want to build on their relationship together. It’s just handing it over. It doesn’t help that she is extremely shy who often puts on her embarrassing face whenever getting close to her knight in shining armor. This isn’t a ‘will they or won’t they’ scenario type of story. This is just Shin and Sicily destined to be lovers like it’s some sort of fake Cinderella tale. I wish it was much more than that.
Thankfully, the show contains more than these two lovebirds. From the main cast, there’s August von Earshide, Maria von Messina, May von Earsheid, Alice Corner, Lyn Hughes, Yuri Carlton, Oliver Schtrom, and among others. If you guessed it, then yes, some of these characters came from noble families. Because in fantasy worlds, there are what people call ‘status’. Shin is enrolled in a prestigious school to develop his social skills. What does that really mean? Well, it means this show is saturated with goofy moments and absurd amount of comedy. Honestly, I wonder what this anime tries to even be sometimes. A parody? I don’t think so since it doesn’t truly satirize the isekai genre. Konosuba did that with fantastic results. Then, it got me wondering if the anime is trying to bring something fresh to the audience. That can’t be yet either since the amount of ideas listed can be fit with any isekai shows nowadays. So what the hell is this show trying to be?
Then, I realized something. The real problem with Kenja no Mago is it’s just plainly stupid. That’s the simplest way to describe it. It tries so hard to be funny that it loses its focus. Even with the serious storytelling on occasions, the comedy immediately puts the anime back to square one. Character such as Oliver Schtrom had my interest at first but after seeing him fall in despair and his true intentions, he became nothing more than archetype villain; not the creative type either. In fact, a 5 year old could make up a villain about as interesting as Oliver. The rest of the cast are hardly interesting with August’s casualness or Maria’s outspoken personality and fangirling over others. Characters such as Alice or May display childishness that gets in the way of others. And of course, there is Silciy and Yuri. The show seeks to make both of them look as attractive as possible. For Silcily’s case, it’s to make her look like a lovely doll with the elegance of a stereotypical young lady. In Yuri’s case, the show gives her cleavage as Ms. Fanservice. Almost every shot I see her in the show makes it seem like the camera is flirting with her. When you get a main cast like this, there’s little room for creativity. The adults are even less interesting with their formal ways of speaking. Trust me, it’s like listening your least favorite music on repeat.
With Silver Link in charge, I had to lower my expectations a bit before the anime started. The promos and visual content reveals a generic style for its character designs. Even the battle segments in the show gets tedious fast because you can almost guess who will win. The character expressions are too cartoonish to be taken for laughs. It’s like the Disney type of humor aimed for children if that’s the target audience. In the meantime, I can’t even give much praise to the voice acting. With characters like Shin with a lack of social skills, the lines also sound laughably absurd. Creatively speaking, there’s some room for world building as it sticks to its core fantasy elements. At the same time, I do want to give some praise to its magical content as well. There’s a diverse range of magic in the show that makes an isekai be what it is.
Oh Kenja no Mago. This is not a show I would recommend people unless you’re under 12 years old. It’s the type of anime that anyone could’ve written with no creative thought. To be honest, you can watch this anime at 2x times the speed and feel like you won’t miss much in the end. If Nobunaga-sensei no Osanazuma is the worst show of the year so far, it looks like it has some competition.
Syureria
Get rekted by an oncoming vehicle? Green swimwear? Or hair style? What does that have to do with all this? Using pearls of wisdom like that is effective for deceiving readers? Giving one value isn't that a little excessive? Shin was killed by a vehicle and a victim, at that time he experienced an unexpected event. Just before his death he woke up from his sleep and repeated a life from the beginning. Need to add more synopsis? Of course not. Come on, this is just a silly worksheet and what do you expect from this blank worksheet?Every season even every year they are not bored making the same theme. Is the anime industry on the rise to the point of making the same masterpiece repeatedly? Of course I'm not not. Forget about that, if from my point of view to be honest this is still far from a good word why is that? Basically the "isekai" genre has a weak storyline and only contains happiness. Why don't they try to make the same theme but have a strong storyline? Are they afraid to compete in the market? Of course, their strategy in market competition does not take risks, where the opportunity for profit and loss is inversely proportional.
Are they not disgusted with their female main character? Spoiled, useless, pretentious, and big breasted are you your type? Sicily is a noble girl who falls in love at first sight after being saved by the main character, gosh how cheap she is. Forgive me for insulting your lover, instead I will give one to your beloved "I admit your lover is beautiful but is it useful when at home?" The main character is very strong as if he can defeat the enemy with just one look. the main character is no less funny why no one of them can understand a simple word, are they deaf? Magic is a science that is useful if swordsmanship can kill one person, then sorcery can kill ten people. learning at school is a waste and is useless. They seem to be demonstrating magic, if they are magicians don't they use extraordinary moves? I think it's just circus trick
Silver links are studios that often work on shows like this. Image quality is arguably enough there is nothing good and nothing bad means standard. To make anime production, it requires a cheap cost to be as bad as anything they make, I still appreciate it and can be called a work. Character design is good especially Sicily, thank you for creating a waifuable character. But what should be regretted is whether they chose the main female character wrong? I think Maria is better to be the main female character. She is beautiful, reliable, and smart. It is inversely proportional to Sicily that can't do anything, but I also wonder why do you like characters like that? Is it big breasted? Come on, there are still many big-breasted women out there.
What was your first thought when you heard an anime title? what is the main character? Or the opening theme? I think these two things are very important because these two things are at the core of an anime. As the title suggests, the opening theme is also titled magic but what is noteworthy is the script of the song itself is it good? I think they are good enough in that field but why when juxtaposed with "Iris" becomes a mere departure? however, to think of opening theme animations and determining song scripts is difficult and their hard work is commendable. The voice filler is already good even there is nothing to discuss here.
Either way, "Isekai" is a genre that most people like, myself, I don't blame them, however, this is their right and there is no prohibition on that. No matter who they like and who they hate, we as human beings are thinking creatures, provided that in the end you win isn't that enough?
MeanEYE
This show had so much potential. Sadly for us, the viewers, authors of this anime were high on summer shoe fumes when they wrote the script. Premise is not bad at all and main character being stupidly overpowered doesn't necessarily mean a bad show, just look at One Punch Man. However they messed up every single character to insurmountable degree. Everyone is constantly buys ooo-ing and wow-ing our protagonist that they are lack time to use their brains for a moment. Grandson is no better either. One moment he'll get lectured not to show off as that could cause international scandal, very next moment he goesand does it.
In short, it needed so little to be good and it ended up being so bad because of fan service basically. Should you watch it? Yeah if you like dumb fun and have nothing else to watch.
kuraikei
Just to start this off, I, no matter how many I watch, truly enjoy isekai anime. Additionally, I watched the first 4 episodes of Kenja no Mago and then put it on hold. I thought it was kinda boring and cliche, but yesterday I told myself I was gonna finish it and I am glad I did. Kenja no Mago is not the best isekai, but still enjoyable for someone interested in the genre or just looking for something kinda fun with bits of seriousness sprinkled in every few episodes. The story is similar, if not almost identical, to many isekai anime. Guy dies andis reincarnated in another world where he is super super powerful and has to save the world. However, the characters and their quirky personalities make the anime stand out a little bit. The art style and animation are very nice and easy to follow. The characters are likable and distinct.
Overall, this anime is relatively enjoyable and has its good moments. If you are just looking for something to watch casually with no super deep plot or anything like that, give Kenja no Mago a try.
Deadrocks
(Mostly Spoiler-Free Review) Yeah, I'm giving this a decent rating. I’m really not sure why people don’t like it much. I mean, perhaps there are better, more interesting isekais out there, but if you let this one sit by itself, it’s a pretty darn enjoyable series. Why is it enjoyable? It doesn’t take itself to seriously, it flows like a slice-of-life, and the character chemistry is enjoyable and it’s easy to watch. Are there issues? Sure. Him being from Earth originally isn’t really mentioned later on in the story. They kind of glaze over this part, but in the beginning of the first episode we seethat he's a scientist or just some other very intelligent dude. Because of his intellect and the fact that he lived on Earth is what has given him a greater understanding of magic, and therefore how to utilize it. Once you understand this, it’s less of that “generic MC is OP for no reason” trope.
I really enjoyed the character chemistry even though it doesn’t have tremendous depth. Frankly, this show, so far, doesn’t have much depth either. To be honest, the first season really just felt like an origin story for the group of magicians the MC makes and it really felt like the plot was starting to get moving by the end.
In dark times when your watch list is full of intense serious anime, or plain trope-filled comedic anime, this one kind of stands alone. It’s especially easy to watch after a busy day at work.
Another thing I personally enjoyed was the progression of the MC romance. In itself, the romance is very shounen, but it actually moves along and evolves as the series progresses, which you rarely see in a lot of these anime.
But seriously, don’t compare it the other isekai stories out there, and just enjoy it for what it is. It’s fun.
anodasin
I'm gonna write a review as human as possible. I won't make any arguments just opinion. Story 7/10: Is my score too high? I can understand that there are so many cliche and predictable event. The story is simple yet enjoyable. One person died then being reincarnated in another world as a baby who grow up to be such a talented and strong Majo. It was pretty basic and straight story yet enjoyable, nothing complicated. If I am being reincarnated to another world, this is my basic ideal story. Art & Sound 7/10: I have no problem. Character 7/10: Maybe I'll explain why I kinda like of thisanime character;
1. MC doesn't give any shit. You are strong then you can fight the stronger enemy, you love a woman then confess (no need for too much drama, go straight is not bad).
2. All the side character was well balanced, I know there's not much story about them, but more importantly, I can easily recognize all of them and their skill in my memory.
3. The main enemy was so smart. You are not strong enough then you'll be come with another plan (I bet he still got something behind), I like that kind of enemy. Plus, he has the reason to become an evil.
Enjoyment 8/10: Is my score too high? Anyway, enjoyment is number one for me.
It's worth to watch, just don't think too much about such a long and complicated opinion around it. Many people do some unnecessary debates then shaming each other due to any unacceptable score of their anime. Please, stop it already.
What is the reason to hate an anime as long as it enjoyable?!
Wasting time? Who is actually wasting their time more than someone who still keep up with an anime despite they don't like it just to speak up their dissatisfaction after the last episode? Just drop it sooner, so you'll not waste your pricey time.
rastauncrn
Overall 8/10 There’s a lot of undeserved shitting on this anime gets; we’ll go over this as the review continues. Story 7/10 Nothing special here, generic isekai beginning, not anything super crazy. There are moments of seriousness, but they are rare, and it could not be noted for its extreme creativity. Art 7/10 Nothing crazy here either, there are moments when the animation definitely lacks, but there are some cool details in other areas that even it out a little. Sound 8/10 The OP was not good whatsoever, copy and paste Japanese idol culture, meaningless song meant for mindless enjoyment. The second song was actually pretty good to me, the lyrics werelacking, and the 3D performance of the virtual idol in the sixth episode was terrible, but I don’t think either of these things were really on the makers of the show, it was mostly marketing for this new Japanese virtual idol they were basically plugging in their show. However, it redeems itself with some really great guitar riffs, and noticeably good drums as well. Overall the soundtrack of the show during emotional moments was nothing special, they added a little tingle of emotion here and there, but the ED put it up an extra notch.
Characters 8/10
Actually pretty decent characters. The trope of “lack of social skills” is not overdone, and used to pretty good comedic value without being corny. The cast of surrounding characters was also pretty good, some stereotypes were used but none overly so, the romantic interest is cute but also independent to an extent, instead of the ridiculous over dependence usually seen. The main characters friends are all pretty enjoyable, and the female cast aren’t all attracted to him as they usually would be. There is a little fan service, but mostly for comedic value, or alternatively to show the good character traits of the MC, who isn’t just ok with it like is shown often in the isekai genre.
Enjoyment 10/10
This more than anything is the redeeming quality of the show. It fits the stereotypes that are usually used, but not overly so as to be annoying, and the MC is actually a decent human being. The main enjoyment factor is how funny the show is. I was genuinely laughing for a good portion of this show. The humor isn’t too terribly shallow, but it’s pretty mindless. A guilty pleasure maybe, but this show was very enjoyable for me.
Overall this show pokes a little fun at itself and is pretty lighthearted, even in the darker story driven moments, which are few and far between. Don’t come in expecting to be blown away by twists and turns in character development and plot, but if you want something to watch simply for the sake of a laugh, I think it’s worth your time.
pfguo87
LIKE: I like the concept of having ability to die in one world and be reborn in another with memory in tack, thus giving an advantage DISLIKE: I like how the MC has knowledge of science he learned here on earth and use it to enhance his magic in the new world, but I DISLIKE how MC seems to forget how to handle certain social situations. (MC was a grown up, young adult, lets say 25 years old on earth, plus 15 years in new world) MC has 40 years of living experience yet he still acts like a kid that is only 15 years old...
xanozen
Utter garbage. Watching this was fucking painful. Terrible in almost every single way, I have to wonder why I didn’t have the heart to drop it. I should have known it wouldn’t get any better and yet I kept putting myself through this torture. Characters - Oh, the tropes! They’re everywhere. It’s completely mind boggling how little substance each character has. The villain had more personality than any of them combined. Plot - Not memorable (I literally had to refresh my memory every time a new episode came around because there was such little lasting impact in every episode) Art and Animation - They put more effort intoanimating Sicily’s boobs than literally anything else in the show
The action is forgettable, and there are no parameters for anyone’s power potential or anything, the characters just shoot out random energy balls made out of one of the following : fire, ice, water, wind, electricity, or blue light. The minor villains, aka Demonoids, are so weak and underwhelming that they cannot properly set up for the impending final fight. Maybe this was the point, though. To show how Shin outclasses everyone around him and tries to save the kingdom by making “strong” magic accessible(?)
Honestly I don’t even know what the point of the show is. Basically, MC shows up in kingdom after being secluded for his entire life (nobody knows why) at the same time that evil Demonoids (evil zombie minions) appear. A magic corps of high school students is created and then they fight the Demonoids. Does that not sound like the most underdeveloped plot to you? It’s unfathomable how this level of absolute mediocrity is acceptable anymore. What even is this show, if it’s not a cash-grab capitalizing on the trashy Isekai-loving degenerates out there? (I act like I’m not one of them)
And don’t get me started on the goddamn ROMANCE. This “damsel in distress being saved by the OP Gary Stu” technique has been overdone and I don’t know why people actually watch this shit. The sexual tension? Painful. The confession? Painful. The egging on by grandma and grandpa and the gang™? Painful.
Voice acting wasn’t bad, probably the best you could do for a series this caliber, so I don’t blame the VAs.
Not a 1 because the yellow haired girl and the glasses girl were badass. Also, the series had at least a little self-awareness with the repeated references to cringey magic chanting and cliches.
Just don’t watch it. It’s a waste of time. If you couldn’t tell, my review is disjointed because I feel mentally and spiritually maimed after having watched this.
Raggadish
Wow. That was BAD. No, correction, that was beyond BAD. The words unworldly uninspired, cliché and generic are not enough to describe this sad attempt of show called Kenja no Mago (aka. Wise Man´s Grandchild). My eyes hurt after all the eyerolling I been doing, and I believe I dumbed down several notches due to loss of braincells just sitting through this crap. I would have dropped it if I had not added it on my “Anime Watching Challenge 2019” - list. I´m seldom this harsh on any show, but I will walk you through why I dump so much frustrations on it. I hadabsolutely zero expectations going into this show, since fanservicey isekai directed to teenage boys usually isn´t what I go for. But even with the non-existing expectations I was amazed how completely empty and uninspired an anime 2019 can get.
Isekai has been a theme for a long time in storytelling, and actually have endless possibilities. C. S. Lewis used it in his famous Narina chronicles, and it has been present in anime since the 90´s and early 2000´s with well-known shows like Escaflowne, and The Twelve Kingdoms. But in later years the genre seems to be completely absorbed by stories about geeky men (young and old) with boring and empty lives who get transported to another world where they get super epic powers, and all the other men want to be them and all the girls want to bang them. There seems to be at least one of this type of isekai anime coming out each season the last couple of years, and there only seems be an increase of these self-insert wish fulfilment stories in the LN universe. So, of course with that, some very typical and generic tropes have formed for this particular part of the genre and are used in different ways and combinations in the existing works. Which with the degree of imagination from the author could be more or less appreciated by the readers/audience.
Well, it seems like the author of KnM just took the most basic and simplest generic tropes, characters and story direction from the manual and put it together in the most uninspired way possible. More like, he cut them out from mentioned manual, than pasted them together, and then happily nodded to himself for good days work and went for a beer. He probably had a mental check list going something like this:
Geeky man with boring life gets hit by a car and dies – check
Is reborn as the most powerful and talented magician EVER in another world – check
Make the MC so naturally talented so his super powerful and famous grandparents have a hard time to keep up with him and fawn over how he can invent sooooo many new things that no one else in this magical world had ever thought of before such as transport portals – check
Why not have a magical school? Where the MC basically could be the highest professor since he so good at magic – check
Why not add a school study group which the teacher begs the MC to lead so the rest of the class can be super impressed 5 times an episode over how AMAZING the MC is – check
Have the MC save a big breasted chick with blushing issues and a meek voice and personality in episode one (and then again and again in later episodes) – check
Have all the high school girls dressed as sluts (the young men just love that)– check
I probably can squeeze in a hot spring episode where some of the girls can group each other (because that´s was girls do at hot springs) – check
And why not a beach episode, I bet I can squeeze in one of those as well, who doesn’t love busty anime girls in bikini - check
No need to give the characters actual personalities, just give them some quirks, different hair colours, titles and give some of the girl’s big tits that can be zoomed in here and there, that should be enough – check
Make every other character so extremely less powerful, intelligent and significant compared to the MC so there is absolutely no doubt who´s boss – check
The kids like romance now days, right? Let´s have a super constipated and forced romance between two teenagers that barely can hold hands without stammering and blushing to death – check
Mmm, and of course the story needs a villain, all the other isekai has one. Let’s get one with the most generic reasons so the story don´t get to complicated for the youngsters - check
Oh, and yeah, let it be clear early in the story that the evil guy has shitload of respect for the MC´s powers, it would be awkward if anyone doubted that the MC had the slightest threat - check
Am I forgetting anything… Hmmm.. Oh yeah! A magical training camp where the MC can be the cool trainer, and everyone can live together so some grouping moments can come to pass – check
Or something like that.
KnM actually doesn´t even need to be an isekai, so little is referenced to the main characters past in the other world which was like the two first minutes of the show. He even got reborn and would logically have no memories of his past life, but since he is a special baby, he remembers his past life. The first episode actually gave me some hope that this could be a fun parody of the genre, but unfortunately it really tries to be a fun, easy going but legit isekai, which it in my eyes fails in every aspect. The comedy is dumb at best and is only amusing if you think a grandma yelling at someone, or friend tease you for your crush is funny. The magic system barely exists and are so poorly explored that it basically only exists so the MC can do cool stuff. The main conflict (if you even can call it main since the kids is off somewhere and goofing around for the most time), bare no tension or stronger emotions at all, its just there so the MC can be the hero and have people fawning over him. The dialogue is so stereotypical and generic that it almost gets comedic, especially the conversations between the good and evil guys, which could go along the lines;
Good guy: “Why are you doing these evil things?”
Bad guy: “Because I was treated badly, and now I got power so I want to destroy the whole world, mohahaha”
Good guy: “Then I have to stop you with my much stronger magic, which the MC teached me!”
I actually laughed in those situations, but for all the wrong reasons. I will tell you though, at this point I was totally on the bad guys side and wanted them to crush the MC and his little fan club. Because that is what all the side characters are – the MC´s fan club. There are other listed as mains but in reality, they are just the groupie and fan club leader.
The art and animation are barely decent, with some very generic character designs and lazy drawn backgrounds. The animation and “fight” scenes are lacklustre at best and bad at worst. Shows like Fairy Tail can get away with that, since it´s already established and is a long running show but short shows like KnM has no excuses. If the budget is that bad, don´t even bother in the first place thanks.
I don´t even remember the music, must have been so bland or overshadowed by the death of my braincells that it completely escaped my mind. The OP I remember on the other hand, and it’s quite fitting. It is ridiculous and super-duper silly, so it actually fits the show pretty well.
This turned out to be a 1000+ word rant about how bad I thought the show was, but hopefully you got the gist of it and if this is something in your taste or not. I do have one positive thing to say about KnM though, at least it wasn´t a harem.
1nvader
I see everyone is trashing this one real hard, but tbh its only fault is that it came late to the isekai party. Yes, it's rather run of the mill and "safe", but that doesn't make it bad. It's still very much enjoyable. Objectively speaking, the only area where it's truly lacking is the animation. At times it's very easy to tell that this one didn't get a big budget. Without spoiling much, a former chemistry/physics professor becomes an archmage in a world where magic mostly abides the rule of physics - this right here is the key part which makes it somewhat captivating. It's justa shame it doesn't dive deep enough into science for all the spells.
JiangHaoyi1979
As one reviewer says that this was tiring, well, he was very much right, cu'z this was just too much of the usual as any isekai themed anime except of Tate no Yuusha, like the usual, we have a guy with a previous life from his world and upon death he gets reborn to another world and becomes this very all to mighty magician who grew up to a family of well known magic users and was train under their supervision and not only that the main character Shin Walford was also trained by various other nobles that the main character's step parents knewand from there the guys goes to school and starts to show off that attracted too many attention from there he begins to have some sort of following where he forms the Ultimate Magician....... But ya know what makes this anime a let down was that after them so called Ultimate Magicians duke out with them demoniod hordes and then facing off with a powerful demoniod chick m they suddenly fell hopeless against her , that's until Shin Walford arrives to deal with her, but instead of killing her, she basically bails out and that's the let down as much as I hate to say it but studio Silver Link should have allowed that powerful demoniod chick to die in the hands of Shin Walford. Then again for Shin Walford to have a love interest with von Claude, Sicily was the only silver lining that original creator .Yoshioka, Tsuyoshi did, also for the main character to have his own army of friends was another silver lining for this anime to be able to see Schrom's backstory was another silver lining . So how do I rate this?????
Story- Good 7: It maybe the usual isekai, but ut does have a couple of silver linings to its plot one of which was the antagonist's Schrom's backstory as how a kind person suddenly become this evil entity,
Art-Good 7: That's for the swimsuit service that this anime has.
Sound- Fair 6: That's for the opening theme.
Character- Fair 6: I may hate the main character Shin Walford for being this all to powerful guy m but the silver lining of him having a love interest with von Claude, Sicily dampens my dislike for the main character.
Enjoyment- fair 6: Not exactly an anime you'll hate , but not exactly an anime you'll like either.
Overall- Poor 3: Cu'z it was just another anime taken from Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken with a combination with Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni in it, So no more season 2 pls.
Sonzi
was reading the reviews about smartphone saying its a copy of wise man even tho wise man came out this year and smartphone came out like 6 yrs ago oh and on top of that they are 2 different unfinished anime that are criticized by people who dont know what a author does......... writes what they want there story to be? easy now stop writing crappy reviews when you all have it in you favorites like annoying to read complaints because it didn't satisfy the ending you wanted ugh disgusting both wise man and smartphone best isekai ive probably watched to date. Read some moreand people still talk shit about isekai because its not there genre like im checking accounts and like hero academy, clannad and fate like non of those are closely even related to isekai why would you watch something thats not recommended by your favs a bunch of dumb people who dont know what a recommendation is.
Blutopfer_
This isekai is so awesome at all thing. You will know is wasting your time to watch this perfect isekai 1. Story: Isekai main character strong af just dont care ( or remember anything ) about earth and protect the other earth with his friend ? 10/10 2. Art: Boobs with no physic. 20 years ago art style 10/10 3. Sound: they have? but idc. 10/10 4. Characters: The more power he have, the more retard his friends are. Boring conversation.All characters are stupid . But MC is strong so 10/10 5. Enjoyment: I can watch this and sleep at the same time still know what is going in thatepisode 10/10
Overall: 10+10+10+10 + 10 = 1
Toll__
After finishing this show, I genuinely don't know if it's self-satire or not. I simply refuse to believe that a show like this exists at face value. Because surely, someone, anyone in the production line of this series must have realised that they were creating the definition of generic (hated) isekai. Honestly what is the goal of this series, it's not going to sell merch, it's going to become a joke at best. It is the 100% literal definition of "OOH FLASHY MAGIC MAKE GOOD ANIME " Really nice animation on some of those spells though, good fluidity here and there and great colour use,shame it's such a waste.
