Sasaki, a 39-year-old corporate employee, has resigned himself to live a modest life without dreams and dangers. To his great surprise, his fate takes a brutal turn after he decides to adopt a Java sparrow that he names Pii-chan. The talking bird not only happens to be a reincarnation of a famous magician from another world, but it decides to grant some of its powers to Sasaki—along with the ability to traverse between worlds. Sasaki begins a lucrative business of selling technological items from his world to the less advanced civilization of the other.
However, Sasaki's life becomes more chaotic when he stops an attempt on a woman's life with his new powers. Unfortunately, the woman Sasaki saved also happens to be a government agent named Hoshizaki, who is tasked with tracking down gifted individuals like him. Forced to join Hoshizaki's secret agency, Sasaki partakes in dangerous missions to find other gifted criminals. He does not even have the luxury of hiding in the other world, where a war is about to break out. If he wants to protect peace in both worlds, Sasaki will have to become the hero that no one expects him to be.
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SanaeK10
Sasaki to Pii-chan started out interesting enough: You have a first episode that looked like typical isekai slop only for it to shift gears completely into urban fantasy with espers in the second half. Count me sold I thought at the time. But no, alas, it's yet another case of "interesting premise, bad execution". Actually no, it's worse than that. Bad execution can sometimes lead to amusing trainwrecks, this is just overly bland. I had just finished watching the last episode a few hours ago and already I'm forgetting plot details. One of the main issues with this is how it lacks any sort offocus. Even within the Isekai stuff which takes up like half of the season, it jumps between slow life, business management, (boring) political intrigue, and there are some battles in there too. I could not give less of a shit for most of these, and Marc-san's Mild Ride taking up the bulk of the Isekai segments made me wonder why Sasaki is involved with any of this at all.
It's not like the other segments fare any better either. The Real World segments are even more messy. You have the show juggling between many plot threads with his supernatural spy agency and evil espers, then suddenly they throw in Mahou Shoujos who use a different magic system altogether. I wouldn't have minded any of this if the show have given proper buildup, development, and payoff to these sudden shifts in the narrative, but the original author seemingly just dumped them whenever he got bored of a particular plot thread.
But the biggest crime in all of this is how boring everything just ended up being. Even Sugita and Yuuki Aoi sound like they're phoning it in most of the time. But even if the voice acting was good it still wouldn't save the show from siphoning away your life energy the more you look at it. There is just way too much boring expository dialogue that don't contribute much to the mess of a plot and just serves to bore you even more.
In short, if this was like your very first show after watching nothing but Netflix, then yeah, maybe you'd find some kind of enjoyment from how different it is, but just don't bother with the show.
I guess the one saving grace is that the OP is unintentionally funny. Though that is immediately negated by its creepy ass ED.
MarlsMarsBars
Sasaki and Peeps is definitely something. This anime tries to be so many things all at once: a supernatural, a fantasy, a slice of life, a gourmet, etc. To be brutually honest, I don't think this show knows what it wants to be. The main selling point behind Saski and Peeps is the fact that the MC, Sasaki, travels between his world and the fantasy one, thanks to his Peeps, his magical pet. This anime is at its best when the two worlds actually have some benefit to one another, whether that be Sasaki taking his business expertise from the real world into the fantasyone, or when he uses the magic he learns in the fantasy one to fight other magicians in the real one. Outside of that, Sasaki and Peeps struggles to balance the plotlines that happen in the two worlds. There's very little cohesion in this show, which leads to awful pacing since the writing has to just pull stuff out of its ass in order to move things along. Sasaki and Peeps really feels like if someone took two completely different anime and clogged them together without putting in the effort to justify the contrasting themes. It's not bad, but it could've been better.
Marinate1016
Sasapi came out the gate with one of the most original pilot episodes I’ve seen, implementing aspects of 4-5 different genres, a cool magical system, a talking bird, hot girls, I was wowed. Sadly, it never really matched those highs again. Still, I enjoyed it for what it was and would recommend it. There’s definitely more than enough to separate it from your run of the mill fantasy seasonal. It does have a fun cast of characters and an interesting world, it just felt underutilised at times and chaotic. Sasapi doesn’t really do anything new. Just recently, we’ve had shows like Roukin8 that featured working ageMCs going back and forth between worlds to make money selling goods. But, Sasapi is the first show to have that element mixed with magical girls, a secret government organisation and science fiction. While it sounds crazy, all of this stuff just really works in the confines of the story. The problem is the show introduces so many concepts that it has trouble balancing them all. Some cool characters like Hoshizaki or the neighbour girl get introduced and then kind of fade away as the show goes on, which is a shame because they were the best parts for me. That’s done in favour of a political negotiation arc in the isekai world, which I personally could not care less for. I’m not sure if this was just how it was in the books or an issue with the adaptation, but it felt like it needed 3-5 more episodes to really do justice to everything, either that or reduce the time spent in that arc. The story is at its best when it focuses more on Sasaki and Pii taking on magic users on earth with the government agency and selling stuff to the other world on the side.
Sasaki himself is a cool character. He’s not a generic degenerate otaku, but just a regular salaryman who’s standing still in life. Not able to advance up the ranks in his company or get a raise, he’s stuck in a cycle of overwork and exhaustion until he finds magical talking bird , Pii in a pet store. Their relationship is the cornerstone of the series and I liked seeing them come to understand one another and support the other’s weaknesses. Despite coming from different worlds they’re able to form an unbreakable bond over mutual pain and good old chateaubriand steak. The slice of life moments with them are authentic and tender. It reminded me a lot of a buddy cop dynamic which I’m a big fan of.
The production values also took a step back after the premiere episode. It was an hour long premiere and you could tell a ton of time went into it. But the action scenes after that felt half baked and even character models didn’t look as good. It’s not horrible, but definitely a noticeable downgrade. Luckily, this isn’t an action heavy series so it’s not always apparent and you can still enjoy the show.
I enjoyed Sasapi despite its flaws. The characters were fun and Sasaki and Pi’s banter was a great way to end my week on Fridays. I went out and bought the Light Novel as well so I’ll be reading that too. I’d recommend this anime for fans of urban fantasy, Japanese toxic work culture, or just working adults who want someone you can relate with as a protagonist for once.
Sasapi gets 7, out of 10.
AriaHime
Eehhh? Why is the rating so low? I feel compelled to make a review.. I appreciate anime like this where the MC is calm, collected, and mature. There is a certain charm to it. I don’t need to be stressed about stupid actions, decisions, and words~ which escalates simple plot.. MC’s actions are witty, cunning but professional, and mature but at the same time not too overly complicated since the events/plot itself is not too convoluted. The MC’s typical sales person character is quite appealing to me as well since 1. It’s realistic 2. its a breath of fresh air from the usual bullish type MCs. One ofthe comedy aspects of the anime dwells around mahou shoujos… well… weird but it’s not overly dwelled on so it doesn’t bother me that much.
Anime’s title is Sasaki and Pii-chan, so it’s mainly about these two… so dw about the mahou shoujos lol
First season is really more on their life in Pii-chan’s world.. love the pacing here.. it’s not overly stretched
I’m thinking with how season 1 ended, we might see more of the Sasaki’s-world in season 2
I enjoyed the not so complicated sub plots and the business-like handling of events by MC..
Give it a try and judge for yourselves:)
KANLen09
Sasaki and Peeps - Is this show an Isekai, Reverse-Isekai, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, all wrapped into one? This feels like an over-convoluted and a fictional existential mistake... Let's all be true to ourselves: Isekai, in the traditional sense, can be easy to write. It's the creativity portion that is the hardest to keep the entire story consistent and interesting and can even send authors scrambling for the next plot device that no matter how orthodox the story can go; it must remain entertaining. And this is what happens when you encounter a work like novelist Buncololi's Sasaki to Pii-chan a.k.a Sasaki and Peeps, the LN serieswhere the mundaneness of one leads him to find new entertainment, and that entertainment spans worlds and characters of many proportions alike, with the work winning the first place in the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! a.k.a This LN is Amazing! 2022 rankings in the tankobon (i.e. independent/standalone) and novel categories.
Sasaki to Pii-chan is the result of plot devices like treasure boxes opened after one another to reveal surprises of gifts that never stops giving. And this journey starts with the middle-aged blue collar worker Sasaki, who finds his corporate work rather mundane (and who doesn't feel drained after work?). To fill the empty void in his life, he visits a pet shop on a whim to find a pet companion who could keep him company. What he does not realize that the pet that he eventually bought, a small gray Java Sparrow who has an affinity for Kobe chateaubriand beef from learning of humans in the pet shop, is actually a renowned sage from another world who is using the bird's body as a vessel for its exploits. With Sasaki more or less coming into terms with the bird he names Pii-chan a.k.a Peeps, the Star Sage grants him access to its world, revealing the other world where Sasaki can commit to interesting things, like making a trade business and most importantly, a restaurant as a source of income for Peeps's obsession for chateaubriand beef.
But one of those benefits of the otherworldly things, is that Sasaki is granted magic powers as a sort of medium if danger comes towards at his corner, which back in his world, is picked up by a secretive government-independent Bureau who handles all matters pertaining to psychics residing on Earth. Sasaki being forced and tested to join the Bureau to apprehend any rogue psychics going loose, from criminals...to even Mahou Shoujos or other entities who are seeking refuge to the Bureau? Hell, Sasaki earning his powers for the purpose of peace and comfort, but with all of the colourful characters popping one after another, the salaryman's life is becoming more taxed than his mundane life would allow him to live and breathe life anew.
So first out of the docket, the character relations bracket:
- Peeps's world: the Otherworld faction, where Sasaki and Peeps mainly do business with at the start. His business trade of bringing over modern items to the otherworld to be sold for exact in profit, it involves Marc, who reports to Viscount Mueller as the overseer of the city's trades. On the other end, there is French, a chef kicked out of a resturant, whom Sasaki chances upon as the best person to open a restaurant business to help finance for Peeps's chateaubriand liking. When it comes to the crunch, the royal family will be involved, with Prince Adonis only interferring when there's serious consequences.
- Sasaki's world: the Modern Psychics Faction, where Sasaki does dealings with the Bureau, his division led by the secretive Chief Akutsu who always has him and his subordinate of high school student Hoshizaki under close survelliance, the latter of which who always dresses like an adult for her professional business etiquette. Sasaki's role in the Bureau is quite the extension: from random Mahou Shoujos like Magical Pink, to even the high school girl Otonari living next door to Sasaki, but someone who seems to also keep said salaryman on close toes, even to the point of overhearing Peeps being able to speak human terms. Otonari is an enigma, though her real intentions and role hasn't been seen much in the anime, but just as someone who develops an interest in Sasaki.
Characters when created and used right (within the extension of the anime's content) can create impact. But the way that novelist Buncololi does it, gives a feel that with each subsequent episode, the story gets bigger and more bizarre, which seems to be the case that the LN translated into the anime, just isn't integrated all that well, outside of the traditional fantasy plot elements.
And speaking of the adaptation, Silver Link does have a lot of resources mixed between the 3 projects they have this season: the continuation of Ragna Crimson, this show, and Dosanko Gyaru wa Namara Menkoi a.k.a. Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!, the latter 2 series this season of which senior in-house director Mirai Minato is overseeing both projects, with the latter series (Dosanko Gal) thankfully being part of the studio's push to collaborations with studio Blade under rookie director Misuzu Hoshino, who co-directed and debuted with Summer 2022's Saikin Yatotta Maid ga Ayashii. But back to Sasaki and Peeps, the push for Mirai Minato to train up new directors while spanning his own project, he may have been in the major directorial role since Winter 2017's Masamune-kun no Revenge, so he has the expertise to still sufficiently allocate resources within their sizable staff in order to keep the final product consistent, and it's decently produced as a whole.
Sound-wise, it's as decent as the whole show can make its psuedo-Disney-like fantasy to play out with many gears clicking together like clockwork. Madkid has seen better days, though their OP song "Fly" isn't one of their best songs. And as for Aguri Oonishi's ED song, it's fine, though the totally 3DCG visuals are trippy at best. At least this is the extension of creativity in a bizarre sense that doesn't look bad at all, you've got to admit that.
When it all comes down to the important decisions, Sasaki to Pii-chan a.k.a Sasaki and Peeps, stand in a position where it's pretty hard to recommend, and that's where if you only desire Isekai in a different sense and taking into account of the back-and-forth between real life and fantasy worlds. It's definitely an interesting LN to pick up and read if you have the time, though the anime's in a very tough spot of pacing issues and coherence to keep its interest running.
If you're keen on trying the anime, even if it's just for the sake of know-how, go ahead, it'll show you a world of infinite proportions.
sharfpang
Wait for season 2. The themes opened so far would suffice for at least 4 completely different animes. Spice&Wolf meets Mushoku Tensei meets Saving 80,000 Gold meets Jujutsu Kaisen meets Sailor Moon. There's not nearly enough time and space to let any of them take shape and spread wings, it's not so much a cliffhanger, as a 12-episode teaser for an upcoming series. It's an awesome anime but it doesn't have an end. It feels like it was aborted mid-season, mid story arc, with so many threads open and hardly any even moderately developed. A chekov gun hanged in ep 1 and reminded of every other episode,is shown to be hanging there right at the end of ep12. Wait for S2, and if it's not 24+ episodes, also wait for season 3.
(also, flashy action is toned down in favor of strategy, economy, subterfuge. So, if you don't like anime where people rather talk their conflicts out instead of solving them with fists/guns/swords, this may not be your cup of tea.)
Shinkuo
Entertaining and interesting, but lacking and shallow. Sasaki and Peeps is the perfect show for when you're mid-flight on Southwest airline going from coast to coast in the US on a Boeing 747 that may or may not have had its emergency exit door blown off a month ago due to "mechanical failure" and "poor maintenance". While in the middle seat between an egregiously overweight couple who are spilling over into your personal space, covering you in their tricep sweat, you can snuggle up comfortably in your warm moist cocoon as you place your phone on your laptable next to your peanuts and coke to immerseyourself in the wacky and wonderful world of Sasaki and Peeps.
Why is it the perfect show for such an oddly specific and mildly nauseating situation? This is because neither you nor the couple sandwhich you find yourself between will be able decide whether funny bird cartoon is more interesting and attention-grabbing than the latest news article about another critical mechanical failure on a Boeing airplane.
With the trauma dump over, let's cover the show.
To start, the first episode is a double length feature which covers all of the basic world and character building you need to begin understanding what is happening in Sasaki and Peeps' lives. While this might be a turn off for some, the length is necessary and actually very well-paced as it perfectly lowers you into what is a chaotic mess of a universe. Imagine having to explain a fever dream to a friend where you have a magical talking bird from another world take you under their wing to live a dual life in said other world while teaching you magic, only to come back to the your own world to be recruited by a secret psychic organization that polices other psychics, all while being hunted by magical girls with a vendetta against psychics. That's not an easy task and the production team somehow managed to do all of that while sneaking in nuanced bits of future story and character developments to keep you coming back for more.
However, from Episode 1 on the pacing never really changes and the emotional Rollercoaster of trying to figure out where the hell all of this is going mellows out into a comfy isekai-but-also-not-isekai show. It is mildly disappointing since now there's a fairly large disconnect between the two main worlds of the series, Isekai and Not Isekai, since it's not realistically possible to tell a cohesive story or plotline in either without devoting several episodes, making it all feel like an appeal point than a crucial plot device. That's not to say it isn't well-written and interesting, it's just that there's so much density to the information and story that I think even the Light Novel, having not read it yet, probably struggles to contain and organize it all.
But given all of this it is a breath of fresh air that the characters are written fairly competently and make rational decisions in such an unrational setting. Everyone has a goal and role that they play with different tools to achieve them, and a lot of their scheming and machinations when revealed show no major illogical leaps purely for the sake of progressing the plot. My only complaints are that the limited screen time make a lot of them feel one-note in personality and desire, and everyone is written like how a middle-aged man sees them and hopes they act.
There are no major deviations from expectations which while grounding the story does take away slightly from the excitement.
Now as for recommending the show, I do. It's entertaining and intriguing enough to want to see what happens next, while just strange and normal enough that the strangers on each of your shoulders don't get what's going on but think "The pink bird with a star is cute". It's a little more on the closeted weeb side of the anime spectrum, but sits comfortably in the "I wouldn't mind if my parents walked in on me watching this" section.
6/10
TL;DR - Show about funny pink birb with a bad Italian accent is entertaining and chaotic, but lacks in certain areas leaving a lot to be desired like the middle-aged business man's receding hairline
olokinprime
An anime that has a middle-aged main character that actually acts his age will always get my attention. That said, the first episode was interesting, but it felt like the author was throwing a lot of stuff to the wall to see what sticks. It certainly could be confusing, as the show seemed to change genres with each episode. However, it managed to strike a balance with all the elements it was juggling with as the season progressed. At its heart, it's a fantasy that fulfills every wish a middle-aged salary man wants of having a nice job, while able to travel to another world andhave a second fulfilling career. There's no harem, but the author does seem to populate his stories with teenaged girls and lolis. That fact is not enough to make it problematic because the main character likes to keep things professional.
I did enjoy the show because the main character manages to solve his problems with creative solutions. Like the one where butted heads with a noble in the other world who he outmaneuvered politically, or in the last episode where he dealt with a magical girl problem.
You can watch this with your brain off, but I don't recommend it because it was a lot of fun thinking of how he would resolve his problems alongside the show.
kchakrak
This is an anime with truely so much going on. There are so, so many storylines and they all interweve. I didn't find it intimidating, in fact I dropped the show for about 2 months and didn't have a problem jumping back in when life allowed. If you like shows that stay in their lane move on, this is weird and interesting and trying to spin many plates. A couple drop, sure, but mostly it's incredible to watch. The show revolves and Sasaki balancing his life in two world and his pet bird whose secretly a powerful magic user. He's an older protag and interesting guy.He's got a reasonable skillset and it's fun to watch him rationalise and work his way into and out of things using the skills he's picked up, for me I found it refreshing to have someone whose way more realistic than some overpowered edgelord child or a cop with a past. The supporting case are all great, but it's early days yet and there's so much more we are yet to see.
There's so much more I could say, but I think this is a show you need to watch if you want something that's a little less stuck to the tropes. I found it refreshing to see a show that isn't so obsessed with the same tired tropes. Sometimes it uses them, sometimes it ignores them, sometimes it inverts them. There are many storylines and I can't wait to see how they develop. Looking forward to S2!
yama8
Sasaki to Pii-chan is uniquely a mish-mash of isekai-reverse isekai, which involves magical power system + Men in Black plot + Medieval type politics + corporate negotiation elements all in one anime. It's frankly a double edge sword - it either intrigues you or confuses the hell out of the viewers. In my case, I actually kind of enjoyed this anime and this unique premise. The supporting characters are kind of generic but developed just enough to keep the plot going without appearing too jarring - and the MC is an ex-corporate salaryman with a decent moral compass but without appearing dumb, naive or annoying -and has the intelligence to draw upon his experience or stop to think before making crucial decisions.
Animation-wise, it is not terrible but neither is it anything to be impressed. The animation movement can be a little bare and I have to say the ED outro with the 3D terrible is outright the worst outro anime this entire season. Nonetheless, the OP is surprisingly top notch.
If you are looking for something fresh and intriguing without too much expectations on animation quality or story depth, then Sasaki to Pii-chan will definitely be highly enjoyable. It was for me.
My rating - 7.5/10
Hhirata
Sasaki no Pii-chan is a story about Sasaki, a 30ish old man that lives in an apparently normal world, after he meets Pii-chan a mystical and magical creature of another world, he and his friend start an adventurous life in both Sasaki and Pii-chan world.Also the main reason sasaki travels to another world is simple to gain some money and makes his life better. Cause you know … living like a salaryman nowadays is not that special or confortable . This anime looks like inuyasha, kagome and inuyasha are almost the same as sasaki and pii-chan, but unlike inuyasha, pii-chan can travel to sasaki worldand really enjoy living there. The way that both of them interact with the two worlds are in a more political and non heroic way. But Sasaki and Pii-chan both play important roles in both worlds.
Well, first of all, the story seems the same old isekai with newer clothes and using a different point of view. It has a great start, and after some time it gets really crazy and it loses a little because of that. The insertion of too many things in the middle of the anime makes a ton of chaos and it throws everything in the air without a good explanation. This one really needs a continuation.
Animation 7 : It´s nice, you can really see the budget stretch on this one, but they did a good job with it.
Music 6: Not bad … but nothing epic or above the average.
Story 8 : It's something really new, yes we got some chiches, but the overall is nice.
Sasaki no Pii-chan has a great idea, somehow it gets really chaotic in the final half of the anime. I really want to know more about some characters and stuff !
therealab
The main story is about an office worker and a pet bird he bought. Imagine if you took all fantasy tropes, put them in a blender and let it blend. What you will get is Sasaki to Pii-Chan. It involves multiple elements of fantasy anime. Somehow they managed to keep it coherent and interesting and enjoyable. If they did not take it seriously, this would have been the ultimate parody anime. But since they do, it is a good fantasy anime. The MC nature and back story are developed. But there are many side characters to keep track of who will be underdeveloped.Writing - 8/10
Character development - 7/10
Direction - 7/10
Editing - 6/10
Overall an enjoyable unique fantasy anime. Do watch it in spare time.
aharen137cm
When I watched the first episode I was very interested in how an employee got into isekai because of his pet bird, and he started learning magic, doing business, and participating in noble politics there. But I started to feel 'less like' when there was the concept of superpowers in the 'first world' especially with the government superpower organization, I think it just messed up my interest. I started to get interested again during Marc's rescue mission, where it was shown how Sasaki could solve big problems on his own without Pi-chan's help. However, again and again even at the end of this anime I was disappointedwith the story in the first world which was boring to watch.
Yes maybe this is just my selfishness, I'm just telling my impression of watching this series without knowing where the real story of this anime is going.
Smol_Rufi
Sasaki to Pii-chan has a good begining like a decent isekai anime where the MC is the one who obtain a superpower, but the poor execution of the story were disappointing. This anime failed to entertain me even though it started with something interesting. Here is the only thing I like about this show is the main character Sasaki and his pet Pii-chan, other than that is not in my interest. I'm losing interest at the first 3 episode, the world building is weird, the pacing is messed up like they didn't really care about the progress and skip it to the aftermath, too many plothole and questionable things. If you wanted to watch some light and enjoyable slice of life anime, this one is not recommended because the plot contain a weird political stuff and a lot of weird characters which has no background that I think 12 episode is not enough to make an explanation about all that and the ending was terribly questionable. I can't say it's cliffhanging but a weird way to end a story.
ali_k7
Sasaki to Pii-chan had me hooked at first! An everyday guy getting sucked into another world with a talking bird? Sign me up! But man, after a while, it felt like the story just got lost. It introduced a bunch of cool ideas – psychics, magic, even magical girls! – but then it never really did anything with them. All these characters were floating around without a clear purpose, and Sasaki himself just kinda wandered from one thing to the next. It was like watching someone play a video game where they keep getting sidetracked by random quests and forget about the main story. Don't getme wrong, the concept had a lot of potential. But for me, Sasaki to Pii-chan ended up being a 5 out of 10. It started with a bang but fizzled out without any direction.
criss_wendigo
its not bad at all, but not so good at anything either, the story is good but sometimes feels it lack depth, and sometimes things happend because the plot said so BUT its one of the few i have seen that made good mix of everything, it have some darker than usual moments (in contrast of regular magical animes) and a good mix of real world, isekai and magic, so if you want something to watch while youre eatitng or in a random day, yeah i would say so, but its not like you need to make free time just to watch it, still prettyenjoyable, considering all the mistakes wich can be overlooked due to all the things this anime mixes
ST63LTH
Sasaki & Peeps is a mixed isekai series where a powerful mage, known as the Star Sage of Hertz Kingdom, reincarnates as a Java Sparrow and is taken home by Sasaki, an average salaryman suffering from the stress and financial troubles of his office job. Given the chance to build his wealth through interdimensional trading and learning the art of magic, Sasaki's life takes a dramatic turn from one of confining stress to one of unexpected adventures. How will Sasaki and Peeps fare against the ordeals of traveling between worlds? Story & Character: 6/10 The story follows a typical isekai reincarnation premise, with a modern-day protagonist receivingassistance from an otherworldly being. The narrative starts off lighthearted but evolves into a tycoon-style series with a government organization subplot. I particularly enjoyed the tycoon elements that brought surface-level economics into the series. The political events felt organic, and the otherworldly exploration kept me invested. However, I found the dramatic events in the modern world to be forced and avoidable, which dragged down the story progression by focusing on an enemy with no lingering hostile intentions.
What sets Sasaki & Peeps apart is its witty humor and cunning protagonist. Throughout the story, Sasaki develops in various aspects of his life, including his workplace, business ventures, and home life. It was interesting to see his character remain true to his desires, which was evident whenever his facial expressions changed from the usual. The supporting characters, often childlike or actual children, felt jarring considering Sasaki is a 40-year-old. Despite this, they had a negligible effect on the overall story beyond their societal roles and relationships with Sasaki. The series does feel somewhat cheap due to the lack of significant loss or long-term conflict for Sasaki, making it more of a slow-lifestyle series.
Art & Sound: 6/10
The art is not extraordinary by modern standards, but the humorous faces Sasaki makes contribute well to his sly character. The character designs are detailed, but the animation becomes choppy in scenes with a lot of movement. I enjoyed the magic animation because it remained in 2D as much as possible.
The sound design wasn't particularly noteworthy, with some repetitive use of soundtracks in specific moments to create an emotional connection between comedy and suspense. A funky track plays whenever Sasaki plans something odd, enhancing the comedy. Similarly, suspenseful music occasionally breaks the comedic moments effectively. The voice acting was above average and suited the characters well.
Overall & Enjoyment: 6/10
I would have enjoyed the series more without the unnecessary conflict involving magical girls. This conflict felt forced, and the characters' involvement seemed underdeveloped, detracting from the overall experience. The focus on such needless conflict that could have been easily averted wasted screen time and diminished my enjoyment of the series. Overall, the series was an above average watch and it was definitely worth for the entertainment alone.
Aeroblade
I love the holistic belief that magic, psychic powers, and magical girl powers, are all existing simultaneously. Some have speculated that they're more or less the same energy, and simply called upon different ways. Psychic powers are encoded into your DNA. Some anime portray this as genetic inherited abilities like in Naruto. Other anime will explore learning new abilities by training chakra or qi. Some abilities are unlocked by performing a ritual or witchcraft, which may require a vessel, possession, sacrifice, scroll, grimoire, arcane circle, rune, or some other way to embed the "code" of magic into a physical form. Chanting a spell is likeexecuting a program. There are tons of ways video games and anime have demonstrated magic and psychic abilities, so it's about damn time we see them all clash against each other in one universe.
All that being said, all the characters are brimming with amusing personalities, and nobody feels lazily written. Sasaki especially goes from cunning and plotting, to soft-hearted male moe. This isn't your typical "generic design overpowered idiot MC with a generic harem, that has no idea what he is doing" isekai. This isn't your usual "cute heroic magical girls" anime for a young audience. This has many plot points and it does them differently. An opportunity for a fight is an opportunity for Talk no Jutsu. Sure, Pii-chan could probably one shot any foe, but Sasaki would rather get along with his enemies, and make them allies. I have no real complaints about this anime at all. The bad reviews are just people with lousy taste, and likely haven't even finished the show.
(Hype for Season 2!)
KuroiKizu
To put it simply, you could call that Anime an adult version of Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta, since it tries to mix different stories together. The main difference is that Sasaki is not only more matured but also smarter - which is realistic for an old guy with some more experience. However, that doesn't mean it's better. basically we have like 3 different story plots which are mixed while also feeling more like just a slice of life show: - Sasakis travel to another world thanks to his new"pet" Pii-chan
- Sasakis work for an organization which keeps an eye on (and also fight against) users of special powers to protect the people
- something about Magical Girls who hunt down those users of special powers
- ther is also an other story but I don't want to spoil you - even though it's introduced literally in the last seconds...
So, is this Anime good? ... Well, yes and no.
The stories aren't bad per se but the mix is kinda as bad as in Isekai Cheat Skill - but at least Sasaki acts careful to hide his true abilities as good as possible. Also, there are cute Gilrs who don't just fall in Love with him instantly, even though I'm not 100% sure if the neighbor girl sees him as a potential lover or as a father figure. But unfortunately she never gets really fleshed out.
However, the biggest weakness in my eyes is, that there is little to no tension at all. You almost never get the feeling that Sasaki is in danger. The only danger is his secret to come out but that's everything. That counts for both main story lines. Therefore, I think it would have been better to either seperate them in form of different Anime or put more effort in the mixing. And if not that, than maybe do it the other way around, give a f*ck about logic and a good mix, to create a guilty pleasure to enjoy. Maybe you think that Isekai, special ability Users, Magicians, Magical Girls and so on are too much to fit in together, but Re:Creators already showed in a masterful manner how to achieve that goal.
Last but not least, the music/sound. Well, it's nothing special but it's also not bad. The OP sounds Shounen like but doesn't fit so good for Sasaki. The ED however... OMG! It doens't sound bad... BUT the visuals are just POTTENHÄSSLICH! (I had to pu it in german since englisch words can't describe my eyecancer from this). To put it simply, if I wouldn't know the Anime and someone would show me the ending, I wouldn't build any interest in it. Yeah, maybe I'm too nitpicky about it, but the rest of the show looks good, so why not the Ending?
All in all, this Anime has some weaknesses but is not bad. Also, Shizuka is best Girl of this Anime (I didn't describe her, cause I don't want to spoil you). Well, since there will be a second season, maybe the Anime gets better.
