Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta
Duração: 24 min per ep
Gênero: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Estudio: Millepensee
Sinopse:
All his life, Yuuya Tenjou has been the subject of resentment and contempt from everyone around him, even from his parents. To make matters worse, his grandfather—the only person who ever showed him affection—suddenly dies, leaving Yuuya truly alone.
Despite facing many adversities, Yuuya does what he can to offer kindness to those who need it—but even the most good-natured people can only tolerate so much abuse. Just when he reaches his breaking point, a flicker of hope appears in the form of a hidden door in his bathroom.
This door provides two-way access to an abandoned house in another world, where he instantly gains game-like stats and skills. Moreover, the house once belonged to a sage, which gives Yuuya access to remarkable weapons, equipment, and crops with extraordinary effects. With these newfound blessings, the once-undesirable Yuuya may just reach his true potential and become unstoppable.
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verbinflection
'Isekai Cheat Skill' is pure fantasy fun: the lightest of light comedies, an exuberant adventure full of warmth and charm on an animation budget of two nickels and a banana peel. Like 'Keijo!' or 'Domestic Girlfriend', it's completely serious about being utterly ridiculous, devoting roughly every minute to fun characters and fan service. It's normal to sprinkle in moments of pure fun, like a beach episode or a Chika dance. It's a form of fan service; it's icing on the cake. 'Isekai Cheat Skill' is a cake made entirely of icing, a fan service apotheosis, and it works improbably well. Light comedies look downright mean-spirited bycomparison. There may be no series more eager to please the viewer. If a scene isn't pleasantly surprising, it's at least predictably enjoyable.
To illustrate, I've just written a new episode: the hero goes to the zoo; obviously, an escaped lion attacks; using his isekai cheat skill, he chucks it into a lake, saving a cute girl with enormous eyes — let's say the prime minister's daughter; she takes him on a date, and the rest of the episode can just be a close-up shot of her eating a crepe.
The theme was well chosen as a fan service comedy delivery system: the nicest guy in the world gets everything he ever wanted, and he has to learn to let himself be happy; which is to say, the conflict is internal. Aside from that, the stakes are hilariously low: threats ranging from intramural sports to escaped lions are introduced, defeated, and dismissed in five minutes flat, leaving plenty of time to watch a cute girl eat a crepe.
In light of its tone, it's difficult to fault the pacing. Yes, we spent an entire episode at a shopping mall. On the other hand, that episode was delightful. I will absolutely take a trip to the mall with fun characters and fan service over the finest hand-crafted generic fantasy fight scenes, which in any case the show could not afford. Plenty of heroes have faced off against greater perils, but did any of them go out for crepes?
Actually, yes: there are crepes in 'Trapped in a Dating Sim' (episode five) and 'Chivalry of a Failed Knight' (episode three). So, granted, the stakes could have been higher — the adventure and the comedy more balanced — but it's okay that they weren't, because those series already exist, and I don't expect a balance of flavours when I order an all-icing cake. 'Isekai Cheat Skill' went overboard, but at least it fell off on the warm and charming side. I have tried to rewatch episodes without smiling, and I fail every time.
(For the record, I fail as soon as Kaede, the redhead, enters the frame in the opening credits. Watch episode five; gaze into those enormous vermilion eyes: you can really tell when both of Kaede's brain cells are operating at maximum capacity.)
With a good-natured hero and a pleasing eagerness to let good things happen to him, 'Isekai Cheat Skill' consistently achieves a kind of easygoing joyfulness that shows with bigger budgets and more reputable pedigrees have struggled to deliver even once. In an age of irony, it's 'Candide' minus the irony: every episode is a beach episode, every girl is the best girl, and all is for the best in the best of all possible fantasy worlds.
KANLen09
The author of Shinka no Mi has another work that got translated into an anime? HOW THE EFF DID THIS WORK GET A GREEN LIGHT? WHY?! What the freak... If you don't know what's going on, let me bring you up to speed on the situation. In Fall 2021, there once existed a show called Shinka no Mi: Shiranai Uchi ni Kachigumi Jinsei a.k.a The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made, produced by a new studio (at the time)...and it sucked ass. Just over a year later, the sequel came out last season, and it too sucked ass — DOUBLEthe whammy because it was a worse sequel than its predecessor (which makes it a noteworthy Isekai trash champion at best). In that review, I already foreshadowed the month ahead before its eventual release: "If next season's Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta a.k.a I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivalled in The Real World, Too, written by the same author, comes out and is just as bad as this show, you'll know why. Because birds of a feather flock together, and honestly, I can see bad vibes coming." And true to my worst fears indeed, Iseleve (thank God for this short form name) is just Shinka no Mi replicated all over again, but amped up to the EXTREME. It looks like the trollish joker nature is back to harm us once again...amirite or am I right!?
If you think that novelist Miku would have a good idea of how he/she wants to frame a work that's different from the lines of Shinka no Mi, you'd be hard, deadbeat wrong, because the MC Yuuya Tenjou has the exact same stature as Hiiragi Seiichi: once the ugly, revolting, dirty, smelly fatass that's bullied by his classmates, it's the Isekai nature that turns each MC into an able-bodied young man, that affects everyone to gaze upon the splendours of this hot, handsome and sexy man; the people on the other side all want to be friends with him, and for the ladies, it's the same goddamn overused harem magnet trope once again, but to a hilariously bad pill of fighting over him and wanting to be his partner...which above it all, his straightforward innocence will be love-shot to everyone thumping to their heartbeats and praising the hell out of him. I just don't understand why THIS is made the priority as opposed to the world-building and everything else, which has an interesting premise, to be VERY honest.
Specifically, the ladies of:
- Kaori Houjou, the daughter of the chairman of the prestigious Ousei Academy, is also a student council member. She plays the damsel-in-distress character being attacked by thugs with Yuuya's princely save, only for her to accept him into the "nobility" school and garner her interest in him.
- Kaede Kazama, a member of Ousei Academy's track-and-field team, with her distractingly bigger-than-usual, busty, and generous-sized boobs, makes her a buxom girl.
- Miu Mido, a popular model that Yuuya got roped into her photoshoot somehow. And with his handsome Ikemen stature, she aims to recruit him hard in the hopes that he'll stand alongside her as her exclusive co-model...which will also bring him closer to her.
- Lexia von Arselia, the half-elf, is the first princess of her Kingdom of Arselia. Like Kaori in the real world, Lexia is literally yet another damsel-in-distress character that got saved by Yuuya, only to fall in love and try her best to win his affection.
- Luna, the aptly named "Headhunter" in a guild of professional assassins, apart from her vicious nature as a result of being born into poverty to fight for her survival, was hired to take down Lexia. Once Yuuya enters the picture, Luna is swiftly taken care of by the both of them, only to be forgiven if she repents of her ways of evil and turns into good, which leads to her being Lexia's exclusive bodyguard.
But if there is one thing that I can praise about Iseleve, it's that the idea of interchanging between worlds is a pretty novel concept, though I know that some shows and films have done this before to varying degrees of success and failure. Iseleve is no different in this regard, as it allows Yuuya to interchange between the real and fantasy worlds with this small, abandoned house that was once owned by his grandfather, that serves as his portal or gateway. Yuuya also acquires familiars in the form of the black Fenrir puppy Night and the young Moju boar Akatsuki, which can be cute and adorable at times, and assist Yuuya well when trouble comes seeking face-to-face in the onslaught. But on the bigger side of things, being able to inflict magic in the real world is also a concept that is not new, but what Iseleve does in its execution is decent at best to put Yuuya at the forefront to the amusement of the people around him. However, if there is a line that I must draw, it's that good-looking people need not be this fancy, and what Miku did to Yuuya, he's admired to the point of being a literate Jesus of sorts, like how it's painted in the Bible through 1 Corinthians 13: "Love is patient and kind, no envy or pride, be the first to come last for another. Never forced; slow to anger; trust without keeping score. Long to suffer with truth, (and) Love will never die." It's harsh, but funny and comical at the same time.
Even with studio Millepensee and its studio-exclusive director of Shin Itagaki, what's up with the art and animation, almost like they're being amped up to 11? Yuuya's character, for one, feels over-designed just for the females to point out his defining features, from the spiky hair to the overzealous 6-pack body that is a literate chick magnet. And this isn't just exclusive to Yuuya alone, as EACH AND EVERY character is given the same treatment from character designer-cum-chief animation director Hiromi Kimura, whose last work was on Summer 2019's Cop Craft under the same studio. Honestly, the visuals and animation are not bad, but there is just so much crass detail that I had to squint and look elsewhere.
Yikes, the music is generally bad. This is Japanese rock band Tsukuyomi's debut song for Iseleve's OP, but to me, it's just pure noise and screeching to my ears, and I can even consider it to be one of the worst OPs I've ever heard. And Shikao Suga's ED, I understand that his song is meant to be heard from a creative standpoint, but like the OP, it's just noise to my ears for a really bad time.
So, the status report for novelist Miku's 2nd (and hopefully last) rondo: negatives all around, with the only positive being Millepensee's animation (which went ham-and-fizzle at times). I really want to admire Iseleve, there is an intent in it being just as bad as Shinka no Mi, but this is easily the best that Shin Itagaki's staff team can muster out of an author that is generally regarded as a lunatic in his or her own right for some of the worst and laziest Isekai works ever made.
Heck, I'd sum up this show for you: If Shinka no Mi was torture, Iseleve is excruciation, like watching Jesus be nailed to the Cross in the basking hot sun, roasted to death. Just plain garbage.
mrfried
This series is all kinds of bad, it is dumpster fire levels of bad, and yet it is so bad, that it is good. This is pure guilty pleasure, it is trash anime at its best, it is incredibly entertaining and I spent a lot of time laughing at how bad this thing was. The animation is bad, the writing is bad, the world building is non-existent, and the characters aren't given any growth or any real depth to their characters. Someone I know described this series perfectly it's "high school Rudy from Jobless Reincarnation in a video game isekai and give him the power to return backto his own world like Gold Coin Isekai, then animate it using Microsoft PowerPoint"
That sums up the essence of the series, but it doesn't sum up the absurdity of this series
The series is a pure self-insert power fantasy as the writer probably based this on their ultimate wish-fulfilment wet dream.
The MC is not just overpowered, but also becomes ridiculously good looking, just like Derek Zoolander, causing all the girls to swoon over him, and everyone to comment about how good looking he is, even though he looks just like any other generic MC protag character.
And he is so OP that it even translates into the normal world, where he can do anything, and can protect anyone from anything and anyone with his new found abilities, yet even though it it seemingly playing those scenes 'straight' and taking them seriously, they are so over the top and so absurd, that you the viewer can't taken those scenes seriously.
This is why you end up laughing at this series, and laughing at how bad it is.
This series does have some intentional comedy moments, but it has way more moments that are unintentionally funny.
There was a scene with a bike gang, where I couldn't help but think of Clannad and Tomoyo vs the bikers, which is so dramatic and over the top, and then when we see how everyone else saw it, wasn't.
So when I thought of that, there was no way I could take the scene in Cheat Skill seriously
Also Cheat Skill seems to have a serious problem with crime, as Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, yet you wouldn't know that from watching this, as there are high incidents of crime, violent crime, gang crime, biker gangs, and people running around with knives and baseball bats, meanwhile cops are either nowhere to be seen, or when they do turn up after being called, stand around uselessly watching.
I could talk about the other ways this series is absolutely stupid, but then I would be getting in to actual spoiler territory, so, I hope I've already made my point.
I did have a lot of fun watching this, I found it extremely entertaining, yet it is without a doubt a bad anime, and there is simply no getting around that.
As such, only watch this if you enjoy watching trash isekai.
KingMuz
Oh, I got to tell you, it was perfect. Perfect. Everything, down to the last minute details. The stiffness of the animation, the one dimensional characters, goofy ahh dialogues this anime had it all. Jokes aside this anime managed to make me burst out a laugh. Which is exteremely rare feat for an anime to achieve. Just because of that I am giving this anime 10 out of 10 and recommended tag. Don't get me wrong this anime is complete carbage but I still had fun watching it. It is at least far more enjoyable than last 2 mha seasons.
ssandermann
This show is like One Punch man. If One Punch Man was not funny. And Saitama never had to train to get his powers. And he was a girl magnet. And none of the characters had any character. And the story wasn't very interesting. And it tried to be an isekai but also a high-school drama. Most events in the show go like this: There is a problem. The MC, who is very attractive and powerful, shows up. He solves the problem by being attractive and powerful. Then all the ladies gush and blush over him because he is SO ATTRACTIVE and powerful. Then theMC acts all surprised at this because he has low self esteem (how humble!) because in the past, he used to be fat. Did you know he used to be fat? You can see it in episode 1 where he is fat and then he becomes not fat by walking through a door. (If you are fat yourself, let me know if this works!)
Oh yeah, also in episode 1, even though he was fat, he was still nice because he stopped some guys from harassing a girl by letting them beat him up instead. The girl then invites him to a special elite school, which is special because the school judges people not on their looks but on the quality of their character. You can tell this is true because the school is full of fat and ugly people with kind hearts. Oh no, wait, my bad, there's actually only conventionally attractive guys and hot girls that fondle each other's breasts (this doesn't count as harassment though, because when girls do it, it is sexy and that makes it okay). Everyone in the school is really nice to him because by this time he has acquired the body of a Greek god, which is good because it makes it seem as if that thing about quality of character was actually true even though we all know that if he was still fat they would not be so nice.
The writer could not figure out whether to stage the story in a high-school setting or in a fantasy world, so instead we get both and the MC just teleports between them. The difference between these worlds is that in the real world he saves girls from bad guys by being attractive and powerful in the real world, and in the fantasy world he saves girls from bad guys by being attractive and powerful in the fantasy world.
All in all I rate this show 200 out of 100 because that is the minimum percentage the speed of your video player should be at when watching this show.
Drakestalker
There are wish fulfillment power fantasies and then there are wish fulfillment power masturbatory sessions. This is the latter. There's not even the faintest effort made to disguise it as a wanna-be meaningful story. I've never seen a series so blatantly and unashamedly turn its main character into God overnight – literally. I’m convinced that this is someone's Sword Art Online fanfiction that somehow accidentally got made into an anime. You cannot change my mind. In the span of 5 minutes of screen time, the protagonist goes from the zeroest zero to have ever zeroed in the history of zeroes, to the Kiritoest Kirito to haveever Kiritoed in the history of Kiritos. I'm not joking. The contrast is just that jarring.
People's main thematic takeaway from the show seems to be the fact that society discriminates based on appearance. Because of an accident of birth, if you're ugly, everyone treats you like dirt, whereas if you're beautiful, you get everything served to you on a silver platter. Thing is, if you're expecting me to make some kind of point about how audiences are somehow daft or unsophisticated for believing that to be the main theme of the show, I must disappoint you. They're not wrong. On second thought, you could say that they are, because it's not the main theme. It's the only theme.
I'm not even going to bother trying to refute said premise, because like many others have said, that's not some kind of poignant social commentary. It announces itself as self-evident that it’s the case. A first grader could've told you that much. The only aspect I will disagree with is the implied notion that this state of affairs is somehow condemnable. I will extend an olive branch and say that it is unfortunate, unfair even. It is regrettable that so much of how one gets treated by other people depends on appearance. However, unfair as though it may be, that unfairness makes 100% sense. Humans are visual creatures first and foremost. We seek and strive for beauty in everything. There’s a reason phrases like “pleasing to the eyes” and “easy on the eyes” exist. Humans like to look at things they find attractive, and thus want to spend time with said attractive things and invest in them. Concordantly, humans do not like to look at things they find repulsive, and thus do not want to spend time with said repulsive things and invest in them.
It comes down to nothing more than that. It's as deep as a puddle. And if you're still mad that I said that discrimination based on physical appearance is reasonable, then consider the following. Unless you are born with some kind of severe deformity, which I will assume you’re not, because that's a <0.1% exception, then your physical appearance is not exactly the eternal cosmically ordained death sentence you may think it is. You don't need isekai superpowers to escape it. Start grooming yourself better. Start giving a shit about your hairstyle. Start giving a shit about the way your dress. Start showering regularly. Start eating more healthily. Start hitting the gym – lose some weight or gain some depending.
You'll be surprised what a massive difference even a touch of deliberate looksmaxxing will make to your appearance and to how people treat you. At the end of the day, what you have to understand is that your appearance – your body, as it were – is not some distinct entity separate from you. It is part of you. It is you. As such, the way you treat your body speaks volumes about who you are as a person. Going even beyond the basic disgust response to a visually repulsive aesthetic, you also have to take into account the fact that if people see you’re incapable of being consistent about taking care of your own person, it's reasonable for them to assume you wouldn't be able to be consistent about a job you would like them to give you or a relationship you would like them to enter into with you.
Make no mistake, if you simply cba to make that effort, then don’t. You don’t have to. I'm not suggesting you have to do anything. We're all free to make our own choices and I understand that choice perfectly. However, you must also understand that in that case, your ugliness is in fact a choice, so you don't have much of a leg to stand on in terms of complaining about societal unfairness.
What about people who are born naturally beautiful, though? I’m going to tell you right now, that is almost never the case. In virtually every circumstance, the idea of beauty without effort is either a myth, or a marginal exception on par with physical deformity. Regardless, for the sake of argument, sure, let’s say naturally beautiful people exist. We can, at the very least, agree that there definitely are some people who need to make significantly less of an effort than others in order to be attractive. Isn’t that still unfair, then? Sure, but the fact that life is unfair is one of the first things you learn as a child – get over it and get on with it. The real question is, do naturally beautiful people represent the majority or even a meaningful minority? No shot. If you took the time to learn about them, you would be surprised to find out just how much effort the ‘naturally’ beautiful people around you put into their appearance. You know that girl you think is just naturally beautiful with no effort and can eat anything she wants without getting fat? Chances are fair she fucking lives inside the gym.
That doesn't have to be you. You don't need to become a mirror-obsessed metrosexual. Just make a minimal conscious effort. Shower, mind your calories, shave, and pick up a barbell every now and again.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
It occurs to me that this tangent has gone for way longer than I originally anticipated or intended, but whatever. Learning that lesson will be more useful to you than anything I have to say about the show, or to be perfectly fair, way more useful than the show itself.
See, the problem with centering your story around a solitary leitmotif is that you’re often put in the precarious position of having to endlessly stretch and exaggerate said motif in order to make it permeate the entire narrative to the point where it feels adequately emotionally compelling.
Point in case, the first 75% of episode 1 might as well be torture, bully, depression, and suicidal ideation porn. From the way he talks, to the way he moves, the way he’s drawn, all the way down to the way he fucking breathes, every aspect of the protagonist is designed to evoke the feeling of the most disgusting fat piece of shit you've ever laid eyes on in your life. I could almost smell how badly he stinks through the screen. Add to that the fact that everyone treats him as literally subhuman. Mind, I don't mind that in the sense of neglect. I mean active, adult, preoccupying, premeditated malice. His parents kick him out and try to steal the inheritance his grandfather left him, bullies strip him naked in public at school, his brother and sister graffiti his house and throw garbage at it, perfect strangers beat him half to death, all of that for no other reason than just the fact that he is fat. Literally – there’s no other reason. They are all so cartoonishly evil to him simply because he's fat.
Yeah… it's a bit much.
Then again, overselling the premise might’ve been necessary, because before the sun sets on the first episode, he conveniently stumbles upon a gate to an isekai conveniently located in his basement, which conveniently leads him to a magical house that is conveniently defended by an impenetrable magical barrier from any and all isekai threats (basically an MMORPG safe zone or hub, just in case that wasn't transparent enough). Once there, he matter-of-factly finds all manner of legendary and mythical weapons in the closet, all with the most ridiculous names and effects you can possibly imagine. I'm not going to spoil any of them, but imagine, for instance, that he finds a rubber band, and when he taps on it to learn its name and abilities, he finds that it’s called The Magical Eternal Rubber Band of Meteoric Apocalypse, the Embodiment of Destiny, the Cycle of Death and Rebirth, and the Ender of Worlds. And what's it do? It has infinite range, it has infinite armor penetration, it has infinite accuracy, and it deals infinite damage.
You might think I'm being funny, but I'm not. That's basically the vibe of all the gear he finds in this random house randomly connected to his basement. Then he starts to explore the garden, as well, and it comes as no surprise that all of the plants he finds in it are also all kinds of legendary and hilariously absurd, like, say, the Turnip of Prophecy, which gives you infinite healing, or the Zucchini of Inescapable Fate, which grants you infinite strength and speed. Again, understand that I'm not spoiling any of the actual names and items from the show, but that's essentially the vibe we're going with. The idea is that any of these plants are mythical to the point that the discovery of any given one would be an event of historical record, and they're only found once in several millennia, but bro’s garden’s got whole ass crops farming them like bell peppers.
He then kills a random NPC that gives him hundreds of levels and thousands of stat points instantly. The next morning, in the real world, he wakes up in a body he does not recognize. Long story short, he wakes up looking like a Final Fantasy protagonist. I wasn’t kidding when I said it literally happens overnight. That's where the story proper starts – if you can say this anime has such a thing.
I know I seem quite negative on the whole power fantasy shpiel, but the truth is that I don't mind the idea of a power fantasy itself. Write whatever story you want about whatever you want. I'm not even suggesting you have to be ironic about it, à la Eminence in the Shadow. I'm simply questioning the nature of the overwhelming ease with which the MC obtains ultimate power and how unceremoniously it all happens. While I firmly believe in any author’s right to pen his or her story just the way he or she likes it – and my position holds true here, too – I am, how do I put this gently, skeptical as to whether or not there is any value in other people consuming this content.
There are some vaguely interesting elements here, to be fair. For example, the gate connecting his basement to the other world remains open and under his complete control, so he can go back and forth as he pleases. That stands in stark contrast to most isekai stories where, 9 times out of 10, the origin world doesn't even exist as part of the narrative. So, to the author’s credit, the concept of a protagonist who can alternate between the two was interesting to me at face value. Unfortunately, to the author’s discredit – I will lay this out as crystal clearly as I can – he or she is plainly not good enough of a writer to make either the origin world or the other world compelling, so other than the surface-level notion of an interesting concept that veers away from the conventions of the genre, there's not much of anything else going on here.
This particular conceit also raises a fairly interesting question. Can he can bring all of that broken gear of destiny and doom into the real world and use it? Because if he can, I’m gonna keep it real here... world domination is 100% on the table. And judging by the fact that his physical stats remain amplified in the real world, the answer for the aforementioned question would ostensibly be... yes. Sadly, this issue never gets explored or even acknowledged in any way, shape, or form. Come to think of it, we learn that he can use his magical skills in the real world, too. Namely, he can teleport, but all he uses this unbelievably powerful ability for is being able to make it to school in time for classes while keeping up with his isekai XP grind. Riveting.
And that serves as a manner of through line that holds true for most of the show’s elements. I give to you Exhibit A: The protagonist’s armor. It looks cool as hell, but also fairly generic. It's just about the edgiest black and red demonic barbarian armor you might find in any number of Asian RPGs, and therein lies the problem. Yes, it's cool, but it has no identity that is relevant to the narrative or the character. It tells you nothing about who this dude is other than the fact that he probably failed his way upwards into finding some random OP armor, which is… pretty much exactly what happens.
Same goes for the waifus. Do they all look nice? I suppose, but they have no personalities whatsoever. They are literally just window dressing, and the real bitch of it is that they all look identical. Other than the fact that they have different hair colors, I had a hard time distinguishing them.
Based on trailers and PVs, you could be forgiven for thinking that this show features some kind of next gen animation. Truth be told, the visual presentation of the first episode is very strong. It was the main element that pulled me in, too. It's honestly much better animation than this trash deserved. Alas, it unsurprisingly doesn't maintain that standard throughout the series. While the 2D animation never looks anything less than perfectly adequate, so I don't have much to complain about there, the anime abruptly pulls you out of the story repeatedly by way of bad 3D CG rearing its ugly head. You wanna know what the worst part about the terrible 3D CG is? It's the fact that it's precisely the protagonist who is animated that way most of the time. I can't remember if anything else of note is CG animated – not that there’s much of note here in the first place.
This is simply a consequence of the overdesigned armor set Yuuya is wearing. Yeah, sure, it's very slick, but if your studio can't be bothered to draw it in 2D, that kind of defeats the whole point, brodie. It ends up looking like absolute ass.
In the final analysis, there is no meaningful narrative here to speak of. The plot never goes anywhere. As such, there's no real reason for you to spend time on this. The only marginal cases in which I could see you having a good time with this anime are if A, you are fat and ugly and are clamoring for this kind of wish fulfillment, which is understandable, or if B, you are simply an isekai fiend who goes into withdrawal if you don't get a constant hit of isekai slop, in which case… fair enough, I guess.
baxa
"I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too" Genre: Action, Adventure, Isekai, School, Fantasy Living a life where people are constantly judging and harassing you for the way you are is the truth of the world that we live in. Not only are those people the ones you could call friends or classmates, but they are also the ones you consider family. From being misled and treated poorly for how you are on the outside, this society constantly makes it their goal to give you the worst treatment ever. So much so that you would wish that you werebetter off dead.
But for those that push through these troubled times and live on to experience all that the future holds, like our protagonist Yuuya Tenjou, then you might experience that last bit of luck that life has in store for you. Being bullied for his obese appearance throughout his life, Yuuya one day encounters a door to another world that levels him up and changes his life forever. From gaining skills and experience as an adventurer and a monster slayer in another world, Yuuya's life changes overnight into something he might consider a fantasy or something 'too good to be true.' With a simple but unique approach to Isekai, this anime has it all if you want to see an overpowered MC and perfect revenge for those who mistreated him.
And along with its out-of-the-way plot, this anime also gives you a real thrill with its animation, as it takes a more detailed approach in every scene and refines the art to make it even more pleasant and worthwhile. All in all, this is one of those anime that you must watch to understand the gist of it and beg the producers for another season.
This anime is absolutely a "MUST WATCH."
Apple2k
Yet another terribly written self-insert isekai anime. It teaches the viewer nothing except hope that you have a grandpa who leaves you an estate and magical shit after their passing. Magical shit that can suddenly make you the most attractive dude alive with all the chicks starting to swoon over you. It's nothing new in this genre but I found it hilarious how it literally happens overnight. The character arcs can barely be called arcs, hell, you can barely even call these things characters in the first place. The character's motives are so one-dimensional and cliche that it feels like they were written by anAI. The MC kinda just gains more and more stuff and of course, builds a harem of the most disgustingly boring chicks imaginable. But once again, nothing new for this type of show.
I fell asleep a few episodes in and woke up towards the end of the show only to feel like I missed nothing. Just more new "characters" that mean nothing and hold no value. The directing is extremely generic but at times it's even worse than that. And the production is even worse. The terrible use of CG on top of the poor directing makes the action scenes very hard to follow. Not that I'd care in the first place cus nothing in the narrative makes me remotely excited for any of the fights. All in all, a great cure for insomnia!
(I watched this after Vinland Saga S2 so imagine the kind of whiplash I had when I watched the best anime I'd seen in half a decade followed by something so terrible.)
BlackBusterMAL
English. I don't know if you are familiar with the concept of Gary Stu, this series represents it in the best possible way, it is a story that tells us how an overweight boy who is hurt a lot in different ways by fate overnight becomes one of the most beautiful people in the world and with it stronger too, the story is that simple, the life of this boy after this event and how he took a 180 degree turn due to a coincidence of life, look if the series had demonstrated how he made an effort to change or began to change his circleof friends for the better, it would have been better than they did in the series, you cannot empathize with the protagonist because there is really nothing to compare him with the viewer, they are just unreal situations that will never happen in real life.
In truth, the series is not worth it, there are many more series that deal with the same thing or are similar and give us more than it is, such as a bit of comedy or drama, something that does not exist here.
Español.
No se si conozcan el concepto de Gary Stu esta serie lo representa de la mejor manera posible, es una historia que nos relata como un chico con sobrepeso que le hacen mucho daño de diferentes formas por obra del destino de la noche a la mañana se vuelve una de las personas mas guapas del mundo y con ello mas fuertes también, la historia es así de simple, la vida de este chico tras este suceso y como dio un giro de 180 grados por una coincidencia de la vida, miren si la serie hubiera demostrado como se esforzó por el cambio o empezó a cambiar su circulo de amigos a mejor hubiera estado mejor de como lo hicieron en la serie, no puedes llegar a empatizar con el protagonista porque en verdad no hay nada que lo compare con el espectador, son solo situaciones irreales que nunca sucederán en la vida real.
En verdad no vale la pena la serie hay muchas mas series que tratan de lo mismo o son parecidas y nos dan mas que está como lo puede ser un poco de comedia o de drama algo que no existe aquí.
VultureXM
For starters, to everyone hating on this anime, I honestly don't understand where you're coming from. You criticize the world-building, the character becoming overpowered too quickly, simple plots, and other reasons that honestly feel repetitive. Isn't that what the majority of anime are like? I could name hundreds of anime that follow similar patterns, and many of them are hugely popular. So if these are the reasons you're choosing to dislike this anime, maybe you need to rethink your stance on anime in general because, truth be told, a large portion of anime—especially in genres like isekai or shonen—follows these same tropes: overpowered main characters andstraightforward plots. If that bothers you so much, then maybe anime isn’t for you.
The next time you decide to critique an anime, don’t act like you're some sort of expert by pointing out things that exist in countless other shows. It’s frustrating to read these repetitive complaints, especially when they don’t add anything constructive to the conversation. In fact, they make the anime community look bad
red-artist
A shameless self-insert wish-fulfillment fantasy. pLoT ugly fat lonely loser turns into a rich handsome and strong guy by finding an isekai door. transfers to new school, makes new friends, becomes popular, attracts girls wherever he goes, stands up to his old bullies and flattens them, saves girls from danger like a chad etc.. Let me repeat myself. This is a completely shameless wish-fulfillment story. MC is given strength, looks, magic, money, magic items, weapons.. well, everything, for free by isekai. It doesn't feel "deserved" at all. And all girls are damsels in distress to be saved by MC. In fact, if a girl character has aname, you can be sure that she will be saved by MC and join his harem.
The art is gorgeous and shiny. Makes you think of "Manhwa". But, in terms of animation, it is a slideshow.
It is bad. really bad. But, it is so honest about what it is, that it feels refreshing to watch. If you ever wanted a show that screams "teenager incel's wet fantasy", this is it. I only watched it for the hot girls art and to trash talk in the episode discussion threads. Without the discussion threads, I would be cringing too hard if i had to watch this show alone.
kerasu31
Title: " Isekai Betrayal: Ruthless Critique of 'Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta' " Despite its promising title, this anime betrays any isekai expectations within the first few minutes. The very essence of the genre, the exploration of a fantastic parallel world, is sacrificed for a clichéd romance involving a popular high school student. Isekai elements are confined to a negligible fraction of the story, leaving fans of the genre bitterly disappointed. The misguided use of CGI during action sequences is a glaring disgrace. Despite commendable character designs, the series optsfor convenience, squandering moments that could have been thrilling. An inexplicable and disheartening decision that tarnishes the overall aesthetic of the anime.
In conclusion, "Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru: Level Up wa Jinsei wo Kaeta" cruelly disappoints isekai enthusiasts. Steer clear of this series if you seek a genuine adventure in a parallel world, as it tragically loses itself in the depths of a tasteless romance. A regrettable waste of isekai potential and a disastrous use of CGI leave a bitter aftertaste that lingers long after the series concludes.
oasev
The premise of the anime is alright. It gets pretty repetitive but that's just like 99% of isekai so no surprise there. BUT - The MAIN reason why I have mixed feelings about it is because there is not a single character in this show that i like. They are either all dumb or super corny. Honestly, some parts of the anime REALLY pissed me off all because of the characters (that rarely happens) Sometimes characters will be CGI but it isn't often. The artstyle is nice though! If you have nothing else to watch, I guess you can give this a try!
Overcast93
Plot: Yuuya, a chubby and shy neckbeard who gets treated like garbage in the most shallow society I’ve ever seen in an anime finds a mysterious door in a secret room in his house, which gives him access to another world. The neckbeard then proceeds to easily acquire the most broken skills, abilities and items by attacking high-level monsters with the help of extremely powerful weapons. Leveling up in the fantasy world also turns him into a powerful ikemen GigaChad in the real world for some reason. After that everyone, men and women, humans and animals/beasts alike, freak out and shit their pants whenever theygaze upon his dazzling, mind-blowing beauty and nothing bad happens to the MC ever again. As far as the “plot” goes, yep, that about covers it.
Characters: All of them are either generic, annoying or just plain dogshit. Yuuya in particular is so fucking boring that he easily ranks amongst the worst MC’s that I’ve ever seen in an isekai anime (and I’ve seen A LOT of garbage seasonal isekai anime so that’s saying something). He also happens to be dense to the extreme. Even after several marriage proposals, after having all types of schoolgirls and grown ass women fight for his attention, the MC still doesn’t realize what’s going on. This dude could be in front of a girl who’s laying on a bed and begging him to clap her cheeks and he would still be like “Uhhh what does this girl mean by that tho…does she think I’m weird?...”. Bro is legit braindead.
World-building: This is the only aspect about this anime that actually had some potential, however they failed terribly in its execution. The whole concept of a character travelling between one world and another although not original it is an interesting one, and they could have taken advantage of this, and properly explored and developed the fantasy world, while balancing it out with the occasional trivialities of daily life and different events in the real world. Not only do we not get to see anything in the fantasy world besides the same old woods we see in episode 1 until episode 11, but nothing interesting happens in the real world either (Yuuya does some heroic or kakkoii BS then everyone sucks his dick, rinse and repeat, that’s it).
Animation: Not bad, not amazing. There’s some ugly CGI in some of the fight scenes but as far as this anime goes, this is the least of its problems.
Overall this is basically an extremely boring MC dickriding simulator. Most shitty isekai anime have at least one thing going for them, whether it’s cool action scenes, good world building and lore, a fun and over-the-top edgelord MC, cute and likeable waifu/husbando characters, but this anime however is just so boring and unremarkable in all areas that I don’t think there’s a single reason to watch it. I don’t even know who this is supposed to appeal to. If you want to watch an anime where a weakling becomes OP in their quest to help people or become a hero then there’s like a gazillion shounens out there that you could be watching instead.
pbbuiter
This anime is missing a "comedy" tag. There's a scene in this show where the protagonist german supplexes a 250kg bear in front of his classmates and nobody has any questions. If that doesn't sell you on the premise of the show, then I don't know what will. If you want something that is half competently written, don't watch this. If you want a show where the cast has any personality at all, don't watch this. If you want to laugh a show because it is so bad on every possible level that it's almost amazing, you should give this one a chance. Every scene inthis anime is what a 13 year old middle schooler daydreams about. It's so unapologetically conceited that it even makes the entire cast clap when our protagonist does anything at all. This is the self-insert fantasy of a 13 year old who has just entered puberty.
I am continuously amazed by how bad this show manages to get. When you think it's bad, it gets worse. When you think it has reached rock bottom, it will actively pound against the bedrock to descend to even lower levels into the void. So on that note, I don't know whether I should give this anime a 1, or a 10. Being so bad at writing is a skill in itself.
With all of that being said, my appreciation for how awful this show is might only exist because I don't generally watch isekai. There may very well be shows out there just as bad as this one, and by that point the novelty wears off. However, on its own merits as a comedic trainwreck I fully recommend this show to anyone who wants to have a good laugh.
DemonPriest
I believe this type of story should be a comedy/satire type, like One Punch Man. He went through the levels at a blazing fast speed and just sort of became a god both irl and in fantasy in the blink of an eye. Then the author constantly tries to import a percieved threat, in both worlds, but, why? You gave him god mode, why are you turning back on yourself? How can you possibly try to push a serious tone in this story? And it happens in every episode, right from the start. Embrace the silliness. Embrace the goofy tone. The mish-mash of tones doesn't work,imo.
Overall, I mostly enjoyed it because I like the fantasy setting.
gundiesalvo
It's very simple. If you try to intelectualize it, you'll hate it. If you sit back and relax and take it in, you'll really enjoy it. Stop taking life so seriously and have a good time. Basically, anyone who shows me an anime in a fantasy setting and gets annoyed "because it's not realistic" needs to sit down, take a deep breath, and think about their words again. Is the story predictable? I guess it depends, I've watched a lot of anime, and so I'm very familiarized with anime tropes, and there are many of those here. You could actually say that in some regards, it's very unpredictable,by being predictible, everybody and their grandmas keep trying to make such convoluted stories full of plot twists and conflict that often end up with a VERY forced narrative to make things fit, regardless of whether it makes sense or not, and Iselevel does NOT do this. Sure, character development in Iseleve isn't extremely deep, but it isn't all shallow either, and ALL characters are consistent with themselves throughout the story.
I'm not saying it'll change your life, sometimes entertainment is just supposed to be entertainment, and fun is just supposed to be fun. Obviously, if you don't like Isekai or "power up/leveling"-type stories, this is not for you, but that would've been obvious from the title. And I guess if you think that anything that doesn't take itself too seriously is worthless, then yeah, this probably isn't for you either.
If nothing else, the opening theme is a banger!
ZeroMajor12
Everyone should already know that this is a hot garbage isekai by now or 3 episodes into it. Instead of reinforcing the fact that it is hot garbage, let's try to take into the pros of this so-called isekai? Made by the same author whose previous adaptation made me contemplate ending it all, is this even better? OR WORSE? Point 1: Wait, this is animated by Millipensee? - If we're talking based on the low standards we have seen Millipensee has adapted, they have done a really good job animating this one. Even the CGI can be counted as plausible, if you're able to stomach the terriblewriting and tropey characters, the visuals will not let you down other than the questionable camera angles, and static bodies being captured by the camera. The characters somehow stand out if you only take into consideration of our main harem protagonist, and certain PLOT devices. Try to think that this is a child who has done something for once, and made you proud, after years of unfaltering disappointment.
Point 2: They have renowned VAs in this show?
- I like to think that the studio knew they were stuck with adapting crappy light novels at the moment, so they have the voice of every harem protagonist ever, to do our next harem protagonist of the season, to make the show somewhat edible for our community to be able to watch this. Along with several recognized voices, this is your shot to remember their previous voices and think, "Wait, I recognize that voice! Kirito is that you?!" Nonetheless, I just know they did what they could to make the best out of this messy writing to manage.
Point 3: The author is... somehow trying in this story???
- At this point, we all know that it's a cheap gimmick to attract anyone to watch this hot mess. A man living between different worlds, wow what an incredible idea! At the surface level, it's like watching the main character trying to balance two lives in one sitting, almost like a superhero. The story puts effort into showing the different things a superhero would normally encounter, strong foes, magical beings, and people you would normally never meet in your ordinary life. If you don't really care how generically bad they can execute this premise over and over without getting away with it, this one can be considered.
Other than that, get ready for the path that will be unraveled to you as always, the protagonist has a life-long conflict that made him doubt himself and everyone hates him, then everything changed when the FIRE- I mean he opened the door to another world. After showing the protagonist taking down a single strong foe, he will, for some reason, starts to excrete a giga-chad aura around him that makes every female character start to wet themselves, and watch him come to terms with his past trauma, by forgiving them and beating up anyone he has no connections with other than being one-note assholes. Unless you're his family, friends, or potential love interest, any adversity will only exist to get brute-forced by Tenjou Yuuya himself, posing no threat or intensity to the plot whatsoever. Hooray, another boring action anime that fails to create unpredictability within the plot, which is also supposed to be an adventure too? Nope, everyone will start accepting him for who he is, just because he's handsome, powerful, self-deprecating, and likable, all made possible by this fictional portal. Oh, did I forget to mention that there is also an overarching antagonist in this anime too? Because the protagonist is already perfect as he is, we need to find a way to drag screen time if meaningless side characters don't do the job anymore.
Long story short, I really didn't like this show. Despite these pros I tried to come up with to back up this anime, there are still a lot of bad things that can make your brain cells rot. Because why would anyone subject themselves to this kind of treatment other than us? To prove people still watch isekais no matter the quality of it? In other words, this is yet another run-of-the-mill fantasy anime that fails to be anything meaningful and rather shows its own direction of a self-inserted story.
-brien-
This anime gets a lot of criticism because it didn't live up to peoples expectations but it's really not that bad of an anime. It's basically 'Lookism', but with more action and basic isekai moments. If you view this anime as an action/adventure/Isekai then it would be a bad anime, but if you view it as a shojo/drama/comedy anime it's pretty good. No doubt this anime has a lot of potential so I understand peoples frustration with this anime's slow progression, but I think the story is more entertaining than it gets credit for. This may just be my personal preference speaking but I enjoyedmany of the episodes even if I felt a little let down by them.
Conclusion --This season could have definitely been better but its still very entertaining and I think most people would enjoy the story. I am praying the second season will live up to the expectations of the fanbase, but I still very much enjoyed the first season.
