When 20-year-old college student Haruto Amakawa dies in a traffic accident, he does not expect to wake up in an unfamiliar world in the body of a young boy named Rio. As their memories and personas fuse, Rio realizes that he now also possesses magical powers. He is relieved to find that his burning passion for revenge against his mother's murderers has not subsided, despite his newly changed identity.
Not soon after, Rio comes across the kidnapped princess of the Bertram Kingdom and saves her without hesitation. To express his gratitude, the king grants him the opportunity to enroll in the Bertram Royal Academy. Believing this to be a new chapter in his life, he is excited to study at this prestigious academy, but life here proves to be difficult for him, a slum-dweller surrounded by the majestic children of nobles.
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Hako_Mi
This anime is good. 10/10 in fact. I too am surprised when i first watched this anime. I mean, who wouldn't? In terms of overused materials, this anime got them all. Cliché plots, generic kirito-type character (they even got the same seiyuu wtf), cringe and emo MC, i mean damn, you name it all. But the real reason why i rated this anime a 10/10 is because of the plot itself. It's clean, it's bland, and it doesn't even have any new contribution to the isekai genre. I might have rated this anime a little bit too high but please listen to what i haveto say.
This might be a little bit too scientific. If you're one of the people who said "SAO is bad because tons of people say it's bad." then you're free to not read this essay.
What i want to explain, is about how clean the plot is. You might think it's lazy to make such a simple plot, but being simple in the world of infinite possibilities is actually the hardest thing to do. The author brilliantly starts and ends an arc without a single space for the sense of "uncomfortableness" to fit in. Yes, it might be cliché, but the cleanest of it is also something we need to give credit to the author. (I mean, making a long story without once making the readers feeling weirded out is extremely hard.)
Diving from one arc to another. It's really clean that you could even see the plot structure and it's especially good if you're learning how to write an engaging story. Basically like Nemo and other Disney movies that are also clean and solid in terms of plot structural management, but in anime version.
I'm not the type of person who would say "try making a story and see how hard it is". I understand that Seirei Gensouki is lacking in some parts like the art and the sound quality. I also understand that people are trying to find newer and more engaging stories to watch and were certainly disappointed after watching this. But if someone were to ask you how is Seirei Gensouki, you can say "Yeah it's pretty bad but it also got some good points in it" so you can sound a bit more intelligent. Or don't follow my advice im not your mom
robert788
Seirei Gensouki (2021) One day a show won't skip the fight or make the MC move faster than fast, they will show it to you and that shall be a statement. I do find it funny when he asked if he could run faster then it zoomed out like he was jogging lightly. The show itself is a typical Isekai style show but has more connection to the previous world especially as evident in the final episode. I must say the show is very typical throughout and rushes a few bits like the school arc but it isn't that bad necessarily. The art is pretty goodoverall, it is very consistent and nicely animated in fight scenes.
The OP and ED are both fun, the general sound is good with voices but the combat is a bit hollow.
Characters are wide and that means not so developed. One minute they are important and then suddenly don't matter at all for a few episodes but then the story does move quite quickly.
The show is fun from start to finish. I do wish the MC had a bit more of a struggle to gain power or showed you gaining it more than straight to the elders for a party. I would say the show is good, it sort of hints at a second season or something but then it could be a really great set-up for the manga since it switched to that before saying thank you.
7/10.
KANLen09
*Spoilers be warned, this review will have some context that's relevant to the overall story* What comes to your mind when you hear of the word "Isekai"? As a genre made famous from the tropes it originated from, the popularity that literally started its rise and downfall with SAO, and the momentum of shows like it has never stopped. Giving us the great likeness of Re:Zero to the horrendous worsts like Isekai Smartphone, there exists an Isekai for everyone, but not all of them are masterpieces of their own right. Seirei Gensouki on the other hand, touts to be just that and more: a carbon copyof SAO, but there is a major key difference that sets it apart.
Let's get the similarities out of the way for most of the anime-onlies being simpletons for comparison: Haruto Amakawa a.k.a Rio (in the fantasy world) is pretty much a less-refined version of Kirito, from the behaviour (which looks more lax than said character) to even the costume which looks eerily similar the the Black Swordsman coat. Rio no doubt has a harem of girls kissing up his ass, but just hold that thought for later on. Most of the baddie villains are similarly one-toned evil with boisterously filled egos that are meant for the MC to trump justice with good against evil, but most of the time he does nothing against it. Which begs the Gary Stu of a character of questioning why wouldn't he be rescuing those in danger, but like the others before it, there's a very specific reason behind all of this ordeal.
If you can get past all the blatant similarities of how Seirei Gensouki is just another work of literate copy-and-paste Isekai tropes, then this is where the proof of the redemption story of novelist Yuri Kitayama's writing capabilities lies at: it's not just your typical, generic Isekai story plot, but something that will have you going back and forth of reading between the lines of what was presented and piecing those plots together in the span of different timelines. I would like to give a shoutout to Typecero, because this guy is a devout fan of Seirei Gensouki, and most of the analyses done was in no small part his work, and this review is made possible because of his episodic breakdowns which made the big picture clearer between the anime adaptation and its changes when compared to the source material.
So, in the beginning, characters do get brutally Isekai-ed in a wayward bus onto an incoming train, but the thing is that the characters in the bus are not one-trick ponies who are just Isekai-ed into the fantasy world. See, for the main character Rio, he isn't just some generic Isekai character, but one that's of reincarnation and fused with the original person's (Haruto Amakawa) memories. An orphan living in the slums of the new world, and wanting to find revenge on the person whom killed his mother at a young age. To make things more complicated, the kidnapping of princesses gets him unequivocally involved (which he saved), which lands him in the walls of royalty for a commoner such as Rio to attend school, only to get ridiculed by the usual hierarchy social status of commoner and arrogant nobles, children or adult, they're all the same. Being falsely accused of anything and everything of noble status, Rio is labelled as a fugutive to the point of literally being forced to escape from the Bertram kingdom, which continues smearing his name left and right.
It's not just Rio who suffers this kind of usual historic barbarism of instigating the superiority of nobles. Take the young fox girl Latifa for example. Like Rio, she was subjected to slavery, and being a tool for the royal family as their controlled assassin to hunt Rio down to kill him when he was forced to flee from the kingdom. Thankfully Rio was able to get her out of her predicament, to which then she followed him on his lone journey, becoming his adoptive sister. If anything (and this might come off as a spoiler) that you should pay attention about, Latifa is one of the passengers on the bus with Rio (the real world Haruto), and she is known as Endo Suzune, another charcter reincarnation into the new world. See, I told you that characters in Seirei Gensouki aren't just walking tropes.
The thing that's so interesting (but sadly generic for a "prologue" of sorts) about Seirei Gensouki is the world-building that's between characters, the factions within kingdoms and not to mention, Rio's "harem" of girls that admire him for what he does like Maou Gakuin's Anos Voldigoad. Most of the content would already be going into spoilers since the anime's plot had one major development skipped that made or broke the overall tone of the series, but I can share a few details while keeping vague. Let's take Rio's teacher, silver loli Celia Claire for example: she was the one whom took care of Rio when he was being taught at Betram Royal Academy, overseeing his progress to the point of gradually being in love with him. Yes, you saw that right, a teacher-student relationship that built up to a point where the anime resurfaced back again with the passing of timelines to make it relevant. Another significant character is the pink-haired Aishia, whom is Rio's spirit of a contractual awakening of a "special power", and for better or worse, this is where novel fans went all gaga about her. Because from the time she appeared in the original source material, everything appears to have a drastic change of course within the timeline of its spectrums, and for good reason to shift the tonal direction of the novel. Even villains (or rather antagonists) like noble Charles Arbor accumulated all karma from oppressing Rio at the initial stages of the anime, get their break from being served that under their noses. You see, the various intertwinings of the factions and the characters belonging to the faction they come from, carries the weight of the name they bore, So for Rio to sense any injustice and fight back, he literally cannot do so as it would be treason on the part of the family and people held responsible, not Rio. The dreaded "harem" is something that I'd left must be concerned, because it's through the actions that Rio does to infatuate the girls' hearts, not by sheer looks alone. Rio is admired because he is a hero to them, and ladies fawn to heroes because of this.
On that note, I'd highly recommend you to read the manga or light novel if you're interested, because while I cannot cover that much hidden context of what the anime presented, the world of Seirei Gensouki is much larger than life when compared to the anime adaptation. Because while it isn't bad, the tropes that we've seen time and time again are the result of compressing such a big story as this from the hands of the production team. Led by veteran director Osamu Yamasaki in both direction, script and series composition, they tried their best to stack as much content, while making some questionable narrative decisions that relegated Seirei Gensouki to the average Isekai lookalike of a show that even novel fans have to concede that it's labelled as such. What a disappointment.
Other than that, I'd feel that this is a show where without the knowledge impartation from novel fans, anime-onlies will not feel lost, but just feeling that average, mediocrity of subpar-ness of tropes seen one too many times before, compiled in one complete package that is this show. If you're like me, seek out the forum discussion topic that I created explaining all about the adaptation comparison so that everyone can be on the same page. Bear in mind that it's full-on spoilers, so watch the anime before reading the hefty few-thousand word episodic essays. At first, I was gonna shrug this show off as just the typical "not bad, but not good either" Isekai show, but thanks to people like Typecero, I get to understand this show better a lot and have some appreciation for Yuri Kitayama for a generic story that can go as deep as it could to prove the naysayers wrong. The novel truly has its hardcore fans for reasons such as this.
Animation-wise, Seirei Gensouki just exists. Given that this is TMS Entertainment with WAO World for co-production, it just looks fine and nice while smelling that limited budget work. Not spectacular, but as I've mentioned time and time again, it's serviceable on all fronts. While I feel jaded that the OST didn't really come off as something unique, there is at least some creativity in the OP/ED visuals which are foreshadowing the story. For one, there are 2 versions of the OP: one that you normally see on Crunchyroll, and there's the Bilibili version which has the same narrative tone, albeit with a few differences that novel fans (and eagle-eyed anime-onlies) will recognize very subliminally. Are you surprised to hear of this? I bet you were if you're paying attention. The songs and the artistes helming them also sound very generic, but Aguri Oonishi's "Elder flower" for the ED is one hell of a good song. But just like the rest of the show, you've guessed it: it's average across the board.
Back to the main point, Seirei Gensouki a.k.a Spirit Chroncles won't ever break the bank out of the hellhole that is the Isekai genre. And since it originated from the Isekai lands of Syosetu (which is where you'll see works like Mushoku Tensei, TenSura etc.), be prepared for some of the most average Isekai tried-and-true formulas just repeatedly conspiring together for a story well short of initial expectations. I also highly doubt that anime-onlies like myself will ever want to read the original source material since the adaptation has some minor missteps that gave it a major disservice. All in all, it's the same average and repetitive "You can pass this show up for better shows" cliche rhetoric or metaphor, and my hope has already diminished since Day One when this anime started to tingle my bored antennas, that slowly but surely spearheaded into pure disconnect.
Luubie
*This review contains any spoilers* This text will be an analogy. Actually, a generalization. What is your favorite food? This can be a difficult question. In fact, it is a varied subject and depends on many external and internal factors, personal tastes, experiences and expectations. Anyway, imagine that you have the opportunity to eat the same thing every day. Well, this is somewhat of a dream. Who wouldn't want to spend a moment of their life overindulging in what they like most? I myself feel that it is something unique and that this utopia would be nice eventually. However, think how nauseating it can be to livewith the same thing over and over again. It is uncomfortable, isn't it? Now think that this analogy resembles Seirei Gensouki, a show that started out delivering interesting ideas and was managing to be a good (almost utopian) experience, but that lost its rhythm, got out of hand, and is now another one of the animes that today is just... cloying.
To begin with, Seirei Gensouki starts out like many other shows of the genre and of light novel adaptations of isekai: a boy who, with a noble and honorable occurrence, changes his life and becomes a special person in a Kingdom of his Universe. Saving the princess was something unexpected for the character who still had memories of his past life, but this first stage follows with a chance at the Royal Academy, becoming a respectable person, even with the interpersonal problems and scorns by other classmates.
Oh, I forgot to mention that in his other life, Rio ("Haruto" in the real world) died as a result of a bus accident, with two other girls. One of these girls was apparently the same person with whom Rio was friends in the past. Well, fate prevented this reunion from happening amicably. Generic, no? However, even with these simple and expected archetypes, the show was not exposed in a negative way at first. In fact, it really felt like a utopia this introduction. The anime inserted a teacher named Celia as Rio's tutor while he learned for 5 years, from reading and writing, to the art of fighting and social etiquette. The universe of the show is a medieval fantasy, but it possessed its beauty, even if this very beauty was more evident than the story of the show itself. All expectations were projected to build 12 episodes that would guarantee a good experience, right? Wrong!!!
What if Rio has some trouble along the way and ends up escaping from Bertram's Kingdom? Well, that's what happens. The monotony and coexistence nurtured for five years within the story collapses at an unexpected moment. Flora, the same princess saved by Rio in the past, is saved in a near disaster during a test, by Rio. The problem is... Rio starts to be accused by evil people of being the very culprit of this incident. Rio then decides to flee the kingdom and begins his adventure, far from his classmates and especially far from his teacher Celia, his best friend during all his life. This kind of thing was quite unexpected frankly. For those who remember, Rio had already been through moments like this and it would not be very difficult to reverse the situation and graduate from the school. Even so, he did not wait and continued to follow his own path.
The protagonist really was unfortunate to make this illogical choice, yet Rio was never a meddlesome character or one who conveyed scenes where he turned into a "two-face." His courtesy and formality is a unique trait and one that captivated me throughout the show. Celia also had her charisma and striking presence that enveloped the story, even though she was far removed from the events surrounding the anime.
Time passes and Rio is attacked by Latifa, a slave girl ordered to kill him, but who is saved by himself from this cruel fate. Latifa is a demi-human, yet another common element in isekais today. Over time, their trust and trustworthiness becomes a relationship between two brothers and they spend time together, until they find a region where other demi-humans live in harmony. This is an interesting moment, as it is in this place where Rio is able to discover more about his amazing powers.
Rio then goes on to live a life where living still was impossible, after all, the character had one objective: to visit the place where his mother was born and who had promised to take him, if she were alive. There, in this village, more friendships and relationships made Rio known as a humble young man who always liked to help people.
His strength and affinity with various types of fighting is a unique ability that had a fair highlight at the time it was introduced, and the existence of a Spirit that made a pact with Rio is the cause of this being a story recounted in the future. And this is where I begin to question the show.
So far, Rio thought little of remembering what he experienced in the real world, much less wanted to know what occurred so that it was his main goal. As much as he wanted to, his honesty was enough to convince him that it was something beyond his own control. Then the unexpected occurs. During his return to the Kingdom of Bertram, Rio is contextualized about an unexpected political marriage. And this involves his teacher and dear friend, Celia, and one of the knights who mistreated Rio for a long time in the past, when he was still a suspect in the kidnapping of Flora, the princess. As much as the anime tried to make the story more intriguing, it was rushed, forced, and purposefully moved to end open-ended without much explanation.
I don't know what really went on in the heads of the staff at TMS studio (the same as Dr. Stone, Furuba, Takagi-san, and other always interesting titles), but the story's inability to possess a longer pacing time hampered the realization of this outcome. Even though the ending was a moment of glory for Rio managing to help Celia and not getting married and fleeing the Kingdom, yet another new context is invested in order to progress the story, but it was a deplorable execution.
Remember the bus accident and the two girls who were with Rio on this fateful day? Well, Latifa was one of them and the other was still far away from Rio. However, a great amount of power appears without much explanation and Rio, advised by his Spirit (who is now called Aishia), helps a group of humans who have also been summoned into this fantasy world. The problem is that one of the girls is possibly Rio's best friend and... the show ends.
Yes, the show ends. Nothing happens to explain the last 5 minutes, there is nothing to explain the blue-haired man's goals about the Kingdom, there is no conclusion. The show ended in a pathetic, immature way and was pretty much left aside, as if we, the viewers, had to continue the story for ourselves.
Look, I know that the Light Novel has more plot and that the anime has its reasons, but this kind of thing really is a disappointment. It's not bad to put the anime at a point where it can move on without losing momentum, but when Seirei Gensouki is planned to end this way without a precise sequel announcement, we have problems. It is clear that the project wants to continue, but this moment has drastically shaken the future of the show, as the reception towards this has not been good. In fact, for an anime that started out average and was doing well, continuing to improve would be a must, which in fact did not happen.
I don't really blame the studio entirely for this, much less the author of the original material, but it is a really uncomfortable feeling to wonder what could have been done instead. Some filler episodes, some side story, but that would help and not give the feeling of wasted time, but in the end it will be a utopia again.
Seirei Gensouki was a decent production and one that I recognize the value it had during its time here this season, but unfortunately it is another one of the animes that you can compare to a favorite food. You love it, you love it, you always want to be enjoying it even though you know it can be bad for your health and cause nausea, but you still have hope that it will be profitable, just like isekais, just like Seirei Gensouki. Whether we will ever have a show that can again have such a chance I don't know, but until then you have to accept the deep sadness that is a show being wasted by the end of time.
Olterr
It is good, reminiscent of Mushoku tensei buuuuut worse in pretty much every single way. But still it is good University student gets trucked into the body of a 6 year old orphan. He soon after gets superpowers and goes to the local academy. I don't personally quite understand why every isekai character has to attend school, it is the middle ages my dude nobody was attending school. The kids behavior is also totally weird 8 year olds acting like high schoolers it just doesn't make much sense. "You are sullying the name of this fine institution with your baseless slander" 8 year old kid saysthat??? You know what a 8 year old kid would actually say? "PEE PEE POO POO! FORTNITE!" Weird behaviors from characters in this show. Latifa is mentally 18 years old by this point so why does she act like an 8 year old? Hell, physically she is a teenager so again, why does she act like a 8 year old? It doesnt make sense.
MC also acts in this pampering "yes sir" simp way constantly. It is normal MC stuff but in mushoku tensei they actually bring it up but here it is just accepted as fact. Gets a bit annoying.
MC becomes laughably OP as well, dude becomes Goku or something halfway through the season like what?? Rudeus is pretty OP too but never to the point of it becoming silly. In this show MC flies around just casually and beats up a wyvern no biggy. He can also cast all elements, shoot fireballs build a bath in 10 seconds, completely busted balancing.
Events that take place are also a bit weirdly paced, MC goes to a place stays there for a while and then says "btw im leaving soon" Which causes a girl who loves MC to get really sad. THIS HAPPENS EVERY SINGLE TIME MC GOES SOMEWHERE. Yet MC shows no interest in the girls because..... I honestly dont know. It is not explained, you dont get inner monologue or explanation so the only reasonable thing I can assume is that he isnt interested because he is in love with someone else. And this someone else is someone from the other world that he used to know. Im not a big fan of this, it has been 20 years AND YOU DIED, get over it man.
MC motivations for doing what he does are also kind of silly. He is motivated by his desire to take revenge on the guy who killed his mom (reasonable)and his desire to marry a 7 year old girl(not reasonable). Of course by now she is older than 7 years old but he made the promise to marry this 7 year old girl when he was 7 whatever, WHAT IS WEIRD ABOUT IT IS THE FACT YOU STILL REMEMBER THE PROMISE 20 YEARS LATER. In general what he does is just kind of weird, he wants to go to a place because his mom wanted to go there with him. Your mom is dead, why do you still want to go there? "Because he promised his mom" No he didnt, she just wanted to go with him, there was no promise. In mushoku tensei, Rudeuses decisions make sense. The things the characters in general made sense, here I am left wondering why the F is MC trying to cuck blonde guy? Because MC likes his professor? I don't think that is enough of a motivation frankly to plunge a kingdom on the brink of civil war to further chaos, especially as MC has shown no interest in the professor in any other way than compliments and platonic friendship. If you dont want blonde guy to marry your professor then marry her first is all, polygamy is accepted in this world so go right ahead bro.
It is alright but motivations are weird, pacing is off and taking into account by season 2 MC has become the most powerful guy in the universe or something I don't know where it is headed. ALSO FOR A HAREM SHOW THERE IS DISTURBINGLY LITTLE HAREM SETUP. Rudeus got laid by end of season 1 this guy has some catching up to do
kkKAmi
If you're looking for a high-quality, thought-provoking anime that will leave you feeling intellectually fulfilled, then Serei Gensouki is definitely not for you. This show is the trashiest of trash, and I mean that in the best possible way. From the awful animation to the nonsensical plot, Serei Gensouki is a hot mess of epic proportions. The characters are all one-dimensional caricatures, and the dialogue is cringeworthy at best. But somehow, despite all of its flaws, I couldn't NOT look away every 5 minutes. I was so mesmerized by the trainwreck unfolding before me that I just had to keep watching. In conclusion, Serei Gensouki is amust-watch for anyone who loves terrible anime. It's the perfect blend of trashy goodness and pure entertainment. 10/10 would recommend to all trash aficionados.
blazinggreen
It's crazy how people think this is actually good, they clearly never watched actual good anime, you can see right away that this came out of a low quality manga. I'll make this quick: low budget and limited OST, low tier animation (i don't mind tbh), low effort making the story hence screaming with cliché, 0 to nothing character development (i wouldn't expect much from a isekai doe), all girls have the same annoying loli voice, they forgot to add logic and emotions to the characters, mc saves everyone (girls) without coming up with any plan, basically superman without kryptonite, 0 thrill, 0 story, 0 comedy,0 sense? The only good part is when it ends.
In the end i've wasted my time and possibly wasting my time typing this but hopefully someone will read this and think twice before watching, don't waste your time, go watch some good anime.
MrSlamboni
Average, inoffensive, unassuming, unimpressive. If I could summarize everything, my reaction to this entire show is the neutral face emoji. This isn't a show that just tapes together 60 isekai tropes and calls it a day, but it also never rises above that level of quality. When I finished watching Spirit Chronicles, I wasn't annoyed like when I watch something bad. I also wasn't in a good mood either. I left just like I came, forgetting everything an hour later. In fact, I had to rewatch it just to remember what happened. The plot was a little boring, but not insulting or painful to watch. Itjust had nothing impressive about it whatsoever. It is the usual formula of: Rio (MC) is secretly cool --> Hogwarts for nobility --> discrimination against Rio for being a peasant featuring the nobles who are comically evil assholes. The deviation here is that the story doesn't follow a line where the MC "proves them wrong by doing some sicko mode moves". It happens, but generally doesn't change much. Then it's the usual isekai from there onwards.
I bring this up to illustrate a larger point that occurs over the entire story. Spirit Chronicles DOES deviate from the norm here and there, but it's not in any way that results in a meaningful improvement for the story. It is different in technicalities, but overall it is just the same. However, you take what you can get. It's better to watch something with differences rather than stock characters repeating stock phrases for 12 episodes in a stock story.
Speaking of the discrimination due to nobles, in this specific example, the lack of any meaningful retribution against the discrimination Rio faces leaves a sour taste in the viewer's mouth. He just gets picked on and nothing happens in return. Rio does nothing about it and doesn't seem to want to do anything about it. There is no hint of ill-will whatsoever. This is unbelievable to the viewer because the main plot is a revenge plot, yet Rio does not seem interested in revenge the first few episodes.
Rio does not have any personality except being the protagonist cardboard cutout. His dialogue is the most boring, standard thing ever. It is not entirely made of the usual isekai one-liners, but it's just either formalities or neutral statements like "What is that? Who are you?" etc. There is no character behind anything he says or does. He also looks like a Final Fantasy character so that's a minus.
As for the characters, the main villain who does things in the background is okay. Some of the important side characters like Celia, the princesses and Latifa were fine. Everyone in the spirit village was boring and unimaginative. That village only exists just to remind you that it is a fantasy show and also to throw anthropomorphic waifus at you. The area which was basically a self-insert of Japan was okay. It makes you think how since isekais are so ass at using the medieval Europe setting, maybe it would have been more interesting to portray Japan. Just food for thought.
algoPotaku
Cliché anime where the protagonist revives in a world of magic and fantasy. The typical isekai, I expected something more from the series but no, it was a disappointment. The most normal and predictable thing I could see. The only thing that stands out is its ending which sucks. The animation is normal, the soundtrack too but nothing to recommend seeing this shit. If you're thinking of seeing this do yourself a favor and don't watch it, it's a waste of time. En español: Anime cliché donde el protagonista revive en un mundo de magia y fantasía. El típico isekai, me esperaba algo mas de la seriepero no, fue una decepción. La cosa mas normal y predecible que podía ver. Lo único que destaca es su final que es una mierda. La animación es normal, la banda sonora también pero nada como para recomendar ver esta mierda. Si estas pensando en ver esto hacerte un favor y no lo veas es una perdida de tiempo.
blackdragon88
I'm not really sure why I'm giving this a 2. Probably because it's not so bad it's horrible, but it's not particularly good either. I saw someone call Rio/Haruto a discount-Kirito from SAO, and they actually aren't wrong. I actually can't think of anything redeeming about this show. The art is stereotypical I guess. The music is so-so for a mediocre anime. Fair warning, each episode is a speed run. Whether they're speed running the years, or a mediocre fight to get to a mediocre point you just don't care about. In fact this whole anime is just a speed run to things you just don't care about.You can't even get whiplash from the pacing because there is no other pacing other than fast, and even if they slow it long enough for you to care, you don't get whiplash. You'd have to actually care about any of the characters to get whiplash.....and you don't really get time for that either.
It's all a speed run of 'Rio bad hurr durr' then 'oh no we were wrongz!!1!1 uwu' then 'teehee our badz super OP and forgiving Rio!'
There really were no unique, or interesting characters. The MC Rio, was boring. He acts like a third party viewer to everything, and the times when he should get mad, he acts like it happened to someone else. Rather than 'mature', he just didn't. care. It didn't happen/isn't happening to him after all. He's just controlling a body as far as he's concerned. Also, everything was so dang predictable, nothing was a surprise. Like, why even bother, you know what's going to happen before it's revealed.
So yeah, if you like episode speed runs and discount-kiritos with no real personality, this might be your thing.
Hammer2000
The biggest problem with Seirei Gensouki is that it seems that despite his 'hardships' everything seems to come up Rio. Rather than feeling like you're following along for the ride, feeling the hardships along the MC, it's like you're listening to someone tell the story about their D&D character that never really had to struggle for much. Rio just takes everything in stride, and never actually loses. The one thing that made him interesting, his backstory in the alternate world, could've been reflected somewhere in the story at some point, but they never utilize it. There's some interesting worldbuilding and characters to play around with,but the story focuses so much on Rio we never really get a chance to see where any of it could go, which is really unfortunate. There seemed to be so many interesting and whimsical characters, but other than some stereo-typical anime humor and fan service, there's no meaningful connection there. There's one point where he actually has some decent interactions with other characters, but we don't see much of them afterwards.
Never do we see any interesting use of any of the important plot elements, the things that you learn through the series could have had some interesting implications, and the entire show just makes extensive use of the 'overpowered protagonist' trope.
This could have been a good show, if not for the poor treatment of the various 'tools' the author had at their disposal. The show uses one 'tool' as far as narrative goes and it is no better for it. Lot of subtle things could've made this into a top tier show, but apparently they were left on the tool bench as the author continued to slam square pegs into every shaped hole.
Final thoughts: I started watching because of an interesting premise, I continued to watch even though I saw some red-isekai-flags, and I finished watching because I thought I could learn something as an author myself: how not to tell a story. So I can't fault this show too much, because it's use of tired and true tropes with decent character design is pretty stereotypical of an anime that's just trying to tell a story. I wish I read the light novel for this, so at least I could have a comparison of tone between the anime and the source. If the anime is anything like the source, then the author needs more practice making the story stand out from the rest of the isekai trash we muddle through.
Overall Score: Mediocre (5)
Matthew99901
All I can say about the anime is it is very cliche, you definitely seen some of the most common plot and troupes in anime and yes, they are all *almost* here. Some of the examples are being reincarnated by "train-kun", being the lowest status and getting bullied by royalties, cute girls, op mc and many more. If you don't like that then you definitely shouldn't watch the show but (very bias opinion coming), my take on this one is I personally enjoyed it. It's pretty fun and it's called fantasy for a reason, maybe it has overused troupes but it definitely has a good storyand characters. Will recommend to watch it if you have some time to kill.
Dexterously
I honestly don’t ever leave reviews but seeing so many people are saying how much they hated it really shocked me, this is definitely one of my top 5 shows now and I was hesitant to even try it because of the reviews. I usually stick with slice of life stuff because I’m not a fan of crazy thriller action stuff but this checked all the boxes for me, I will admit the last few episodes seemed to dull down a bit but I know for a fact season two will make up for it and be great as well. Overall if your looking tokill some time with a heart warming hero story then I’d recommend this.
Simme-22
this review contains both spoilers and swearing! Story: 2 Step 1: introduce characters in a re zero like manner thus inciting discriminatory treatment. Step 2: make the character go through childhood trauma/ awakening of sorts. Step 3: ENROLL INTO MAGIC SCHOOL.Step 4: GET KICKED OUT CUS OF BLAITENT SETUP (but dont forget you need to establish connection that can be used as plot convenience for the finale)
Step 5: Make harem to fill episodes to the finale.
Step 6: Make trashy wedding crashing finale
THE ONLY REASON THIS FORMAT WORKS AND ANYONE WOULD WATCH THIS IS: cus that girl thats being saved looks like barbara from genshin impact (would you believe me if i told u am not a genshin simp...)
Art: 7
pretty good art actually, especially with the girl that looks like barbara... (once again am not a genshin simp....)
Sound: 5
Nothing memorable about sound, voice acting is also mediocre
Characters: 1
oh boy, time to rant again. I dont even remember any of the characters names except for Rio (the mc) and am only doing this review for a school assignment in all honesty, il put the grade i got on my assignment here when i recieve it ;).
Rio is copy paste mc being discriminated against (i dont think i need to explain much more)
Woman that looks like barbara is maiden in distress that needs to be saved but makes it more difficult by trying to bear the burden herself to make the series feel more real and more of a challange for the mc to morally justify but in reality just makes the plot forced and makes it painfull to even watch casually
All the other characters are just there, they dont matter
Enjoyment: 2
I enjoyed roasting it and kinda liked the first episode so i cant give it a 1
Overall: 3
Maybe enjoyable if ur 10 years old and your taste is more trash than the pile of garbage in your room your mom ask you to clean up every day
In conclusion: I heavely doubt this will ever get a second season
wraithlol
This is a little different from your typical isekai. The main character, Haruto, who dies in a bus accident is reincarnated in the body of Rio, a child who has his own life in the new world. He cannot deny the fact that he is Haruto, but continues to believe he is Rio. The main character goes through a lot of challenges as he grows, some due to his class, others due to his reincarnation. I know it may not sound so interesting at first, but trust me, it gets you hooked. We get to experience the main character age from a child, to ateen, to a young adult. Though the conflicts stay at a minimum, it is clear the first season is only setting the foundation for future storylines. I don't want to spoil way too much, but overall, this isekai is great, and I wish it did not end at 12 episodes. Definitely looking forward to the possible season 2!
iliekvanilla
It's pretty bad, I would say maybe watch if you enjoy watching bad shows just to see the multitude of ways they manage to be bad. You can see the cracks in the first episode, and every episode after that the show almost seems like it's about to take off and it constantly whiffs. This show had some cool character designs and at times it was endearing enough that if it actually went somewhere it could have been a mediocre but okay show. But the plot development is extremely poor and the show wastes a lot of your time doing nothing of interest for awhile. Then in the last couple episodes there is not enough time for the show to properly end. Nothing much gets resolved and nothing really feels worth resolving. The end is not satisfying and leaves as much open as possible for a second season which I don't think will happen and even if it did I'm sure it will just pick up with some random time wasting that makes the season 1 cliffhanger completely pointless. As soon as something interesting starts going on you can totally rely on this show to not follow through and turn it into a waste of time.
In a sense the show starts off as an adventure, but the motivation behind the first goal is not enough to get the viewer interested. Then when the journey ends somewhere halfway into the show, the protagonist goes on a revenge plot, which comes out of nowhere because the protagonist has never shown any emotion or reason to desire revenge until the second he learns there is someone to get revenge on. Then that plot just disappears entirely, if you didn't watch that episode you wouldn't even know because that plot point is never referenced after that episode. It feels very haphazard. More like a loose collection of events than a story.
The characters are all fairly one dimensional and none of them develop. The MC acts in a way that you never know what he's thinking except for the two times in the show that he says it out loud. They killed every potential that he had in order to make him a self insert. By the way, I would have never thought to call this a harem if I didn't see the tag. I would watch other shows for that, nothing really happens to call this a harem. And also the MC has still not gotten over the crush he had on a girl that rejected him IN A PAST LIFE. Even after meeting multiple new romantic interests in his new life over the many years during the show he is still thinking about her. It almost feels like the writer of the show felt like he was rejected only a couple hours ago because that's when the flashback happened, but in the setting of the show it has been way too long to still care.
There's also the power fantasy aspect of the self insert, as the MC is pretty much just a one man army, but the system of powers/techniques is not well explained and doesn't make much sense. Also you never see him training despite him saying he has always kept it up. They also say like 30 times in the first couple episodes that the MC can't use magic, but it's never explained why. But he can use seirei jutsu, which is not magic, but other people can't use it, but it functions essentially like magic. I think the fighting is not that satisfying, as you never see the MC overcome a physical challenge. He mostly wins fights easily against overwhelmingly weaker opponents, and there is never really any threats, so it's not a great show if you're into the fighting and power scaling stuff.
There's tons of other small things that really don't make sense and it just kind of makes me incredulous. If you reincarnated, and you were one of the two people that remembers your past life, and you met the other one, and you recognized them because you died in the same accident, you would not spend years around this person before it randomly comes up in conversation. What a ridiculous plot point, which by the way is pointless and nothing ever comes of it, I guess it's just a bad excuse for one of the characters to call him oni-san. I'm not sure what they were thinking when writing this show. It's just kind of a mess that chooses not to redeem itself. Truly bad in a way that feels intentional at many times. And it's not even a fan service or funny. 0/10, waste of fairly decent animation and artwork for this script.
Oni-Sann
Don't listen to the other reviews from other people for this anime. They say the exact same shit for every other new isekai that airs and can't help but complain about how similar the main mc is to Kirito from SAO. Then they proceed to hate on the show for every element of the show they don't like and call it "trash". (This literally happens a LOT on crunchyroll comments for ANY new isekai that comes out. Literally 90% of the comment section for each new episode that airs for the isekai is just a hate thread). If you want my advice, Seirei is worth watchingand you will enjoy it if you keep your negative attitude out of the equation. I hope one day these hate watchers will take new Isekai's that air for granted.
9/10, cant wait for Season 2.
manusirbu05
Okay, First of all, My review is one Positive review, so haters gonna hate but.. When you start this anime you dont know what to expect, the low score says that its mediocre and a lot of the reviews are negative, but this anime actually kicked ass going trough all of the episodes. Rio at first glance you would say he is a Kirito wannabe, but the truth is that his voice actor is the same so yeah thats that. He is quite the overpowered MC and this could be a good or bad thing depending on the Person watching this series, but he wont dissapoint. Celia reminds meof Sistine from Akashic Records of Bastard Magic Instructor, She has a well rounded character and her smile is just the making of a good waifu.
Latifa is really addorable and has a way of making you smile with everything she does or says, also her tail seems so fluffy omg.
About Aishia... Still dont understand who she is even though it is already been said in the anime, is she his Childhood friend? i still dont get it... but she is really pretty o.o
Lets talk about the animation for a moment becouse it left me on the edge many times.
at the start the animation and fighting was okey, you cant say its bad, but as it progressed it seems like the animating staff was just tired and cut corners all around every fight.
That being said the anime definetly deserves a try and it is scraping the surface of good animes. until you reach season 2 ;).
Zeno_Artaxerxes
I'll just get straight to the point, this is what someone can consider a thrash isekai plot, BUT, it has its moments, not enough tho to warrant it to be special... as it still likes to go strong on the generic isekai thrash plot moments. So is it at least a good thrash isekai? Yes, I would say so. It has a bit of a different approach to the isekai genre, so without spoiling anything, I can say you're gonna be intrigued about the decisions the characters do/take, especially the MC. But unfortunately, you won't be that surprised, as even if at certain points in thestory you might see interesting things that can develop very nicely, you'll instantly be reminded that it just likes to go onto the generic plot.
The plot seems to have some depth to it, but alas, it is an anime, and I am not sure if the anime just liked to adapt the light novel like this or not (which I think it did, as the light novel is going strong at 26 lns as of writing this review and from what I read online, it won't be stopping soon, as the story just started from ln 20, or so people say...), but man, generic characters that act in generic ways that get into generic situations that get fixed in a generic ways by a generic acting MC. Hard to prop up that tbh. You can instantly see how something will go on and be solved by a mile ahead... at least you won't really guess all the arcs tho and what will come after, that I can say it surprised me at least.
The MC looked like he had depth... until he didn't and became a generic sounding isekai MC. Sad, I really had my hopes up. Some scenes do put some personality in him, but then he's getting right back into default NPC mode. At least he's doing what is right, right? Yes... The other characters are pretty okayish, there are quite a few of them. The villains are too one sided, not depth at all, which is just boring to me at this point... There are quite a few girls that fall for him. Fair enough though. Cool looking very strong dude that is kind and knows how to act, ofc girls would be all over him ig. At least he isn't building himself a harem of girls that follow him everywhere, at least that (which is one aspect that surprised me).
Story: 7 -- The story feels like it has potential, as from my experience with light novels, I feel like this anime skipped a ton of very interesting informations that would have given this anime a way better look. I might be wrong though. Quite a few moments where I didn't really know where the story would go next after the current action will finish, but when I saw what will happen next, I kinda knew what will happen (not 100% always).
Art: 8 -- The art is nice to look at, and no CGI from what I remember, or too little to care about.
Music: 8 -- The songs were nice
Characters: 8 -- There are quite a few characters. MC is mostly generic, even tho at the start I really had my hopes up. The villains are too... basic for my taste. The girls are pretty nice overall.
Enjoyment: 8 -- Overall, I enjoyed it. Even tho it is thrash isekai, it is a nice one.
Overall: 8
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I recommend this anime to people that want to see a good feel anime (there are a few moments, but brief moments, where the weak of heart might not like, but overall is feels good), that want to see something that has more of a unique arrangement of conflicts and you won't know where it will go next, nice animation and doesn't mind that it feels like wasted potential sometimes.
