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May 18, 2021 8:27 AM
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I watched this one a few days ago and I wonder why this one has an evaluation that bad.
I mean it wasn’t something special but the Animation were OK, the story were like many other Isekai Animes and still it has a ranking with 6.55?!?!


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May 18, 2021 8:58 AM
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It is the definition of 7/10 lol. Maybe a little above average(op Mc+actual wedding)but still average w Plot characters world conflict. It’s still a fun time tho
May 18, 2021 9:06 AM
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It’s just bad. I mean it was fun to watch at times, but the entire series is simply nothing special. It’s just a typical isekai with average animation, nothing about it stands out.
May 18, 2021 9:16 AM
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Idk why it is personally I loved it, it was amazing but things were left at a wierd place so to speak that might be it
May 18, 2021 9:25 AM
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I dont know abt others i personally liked it maybe its routine isekai but it is fun to watch if u haven't give it a try
May 18, 2021 9:42 AM
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It's pretty generic I guess the time which it came out everyone was familiar with the idea of isekai so I guess it performed bad I got really bored while watching this show it was hard for me to complete it
May 18, 2021 9:51 AM
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Generic isekai with the same plot as every other isekai that released around the same time but less appealing characters lol. I enjoyed the manga a lot more before the anime was actually announced.
May 18, 2021 10:42 AM
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Cause the plot and character are totally generic ,it's not totally bad tho 4/10
May 18, 2021 11:11 AM
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[quote=Leohere message=63185826]Cause the plot and character are totally generic ,it's
totally bad tho 4/10
Hmm I dropped after 4-5 episode
OtIMmNov 14, 2022 1:31 PM
May 18, 2021 3:10 PM
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Because it is kinda generic. Though, it is one of those animes that are so bad that it becomes good IMO (King's Game is hilarious).
May 18, 2021 7:11 PM
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I mean it's generic but it's still entertaining as fuck Hahahaha. I always rewatch this show everytime I want to watch something that doesn't require any heavy thinking process. I like how the main character visualizes magic though because even though its generic they still try to put something "unique".

Personally, I rated it as a 6 but it could also be a 7.
May 18, 2021 8:02 PM
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This anime is really fricking borning
May 18, 2021 9:37 PM
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Well for me I preferred the manga than the anime
May 19, 2021 1:22 AM
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I will tell you why, because, my dear, the hero in the anime is very strong and does not face strong enemies. I also feel bored when watching it. I don’t know why
May 19, 2021 2:15 AM

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The main character makes me cringe, ngl.
May 19, 2021 5:49 AM
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i think because it has so much room to make the story better, side characters were poping everytime everywhere but they didnt get major scenes, i think it deserve this rating, bcz this plot is ordinary
May 19, 2021 5:57 AM
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Because it's an ordinary fantasy stuff, nothing new.
May 19, 2021 7:29 AM
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I would rate this show 7/10 because i think they made the mc a little bit to overpowered or they should have made the villain stronger. Like shin dominates the whole verse easily.
Jun 17, 2021 6:36 PM
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The anime itself is really good, I enjoyed alot, but there are soo many cringe moments...
Jul 14, 2021 3:07 AM

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First of all, I do not know what people have against "6"s in ratings. Whether it´s the the 6 in percentile ratings (60-69%) or the one in a regular 1-10 rating system, for some weird reason people seem to think these ratings aren´t worth a damn and mean the rated medium is bad.

It is not.

Now I know some people have slightly differing views on what each score means to them personally. Furthermore, is there really any difference in a 6 in contrast to a 7 rating? With percentage ratings this problem becomes even more clear.

I have even seen quite a view people on MAL invent their own weird rating system, like 1-6 means pure trash or any anime, no matter how bad it is, is always automatically a 6 or 7 and can only get better. It´s time to throw that in the trash and see the 6 rating as what it oftentimes is perceived as: (above) average or for "fans of the genre". That´s at least what it means to me and the majority of people I have encountered when talking about this subject. And 5 and 6 are also a good "fence-sitting" ratings for when you are not sure if you want to be more positive or negative towards a particular medium.


Secondly, this rating is still too generous imo (6.56 at the time of me writing this). As a fan of fantasy and isekai stories (before isekai became it´s own defacto genre in and of itself) I am appalled at how bad this show is. Without going into any details: A boring story/setup, some of the worst cookie-cutter characters I have seen so far and a stupdily OP anime nice guy MC don´t make for a good combo.

I know this is the state for the majority of modern isekai right now. And that is the saddest thing in all of this. There is a reason why a good chunck of people get almost allergic reactions when they hear the word "isekai" uttered. It is because we have been flooded from the mid 2010s onwards with one mediocore isekai trash anime after the other.

Sorry for the rant, but I needed to get this out of my system right now.

PS: Lots of other similar isekai anime have a very similar score compared to this one as well.
NekoMikoBismarckJul 15, 2021 2:30 PM
Jul 19, 2021 9:38 PM

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6.5 is not too bad. It's very generic and pretty lackluster in terms of the story and character development. There wasn't really much to elevate it to a higher score. Either way, I enjoyed the show, but that's probably why.
Aug 11, 2021 5:30 PM
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Most Isekais like this one are also 6/10.
Once you see more Isekais like this one, you’ll start to see that the average score is around 6/10.
Most people just find it overused, bland, and boring so it’s understandable.
Aug 19, 2021 8:29 AM
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For me last few episodes killed it. First 2/3 are generic, simple, but quite enjoyable isekai. But then it just came off rails and broke. I can't take caricature villain seriously just because they gave him an ep of sob story, but neither are last episodes light fun as the rest of the show. I mean, once you start butchering people by cities, there's no coming back to silly comedy/power fantasy. The typical non-ending doesn't help either.
Aug 19, 2021 3:32 PM

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UltimateKai said:
It is the definition of 7/10 lol. Maybe a little above average(op Mc+actual wedding)but still average w Plot characters world conflict. It’s still a fun time tho


6.5 < 7, so yea I’d say it is rated a bit lower than it should. Especially because this anime actually has some proper romance unlike many other isekai.

On a side note, I don’t get why shows like Dragon-Maid get overrated to oblivion. People just seem to love relatively boring shows with nothing but cute girl characters. The fact that something like that is rated higher than 86 is mind boggling to me.
AnimillionAug 19, 2021 3:35 PM
Aug 28, 2021 5:39 AM

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Animillion said:
UltimateKai said:
It is the definition of 7/10 lol. Maybe a little above average(op Mc+actual wedding)but still average w Plot characters world conflict. It’s still a fun time tho


6.5 < 7, so yea I’d say it is rated a bit lower than it should. Especially because this anime actually has some proper romance unlike many other isekai.

On a side note, I don’t get why shows like Dragon-Maid get overrated to oblivion. People just seem to love relatively boring shows with nothing but cute girl characters. The fact that something like that is rated higher than 86 is mind boggling to me.



I feel that both of you fail to recognize that above average would be somewhere between a 5 (average) to 6 (fine). So this show is actually doing better than above average.

On your side note in particular, I find it funny you would say other "relatively boring shows" get overrated when I see this happening for all of these bland isekai flicks, including Kenja no Mago. Just give those cute girls an OP harem protagonist to lead them and all´s good for the majority of people it seems.
Dec 2, 2021 4:07 AM
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It's much more a generic romcom than it is a generic isekai. It has the hot springs episode and the beach episode. The beach volleyball was great.
The last 3 episodes took it to 11.
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Dec 18, 2021 1:07 PM
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nitneuq333 said:
I watched this one a few days ago and I wonder why this one has an evaluation that bad.
I mean it wasn’t something special but the Animation were OK, the story were like many other Isekai Animes and still it has a ranking with 6.55?!?!
because it's not good, yeah it's not the worst thing in the world but it has such generic with every possible isekai stereotype and no actual development among the cast that it's just bland and boring, not to mention the animation gets worse the more episodes in and I can't stand the fact that Shin is from another world just for the sake of this being titled an isekai. It's so average that it comes off as bad and it's not the only isekai like that
Dec 18, 2021 1:09 PM

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above average = "SOOO BAD U GUYS"
Jan 6, 2022 11:45 AM

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Japan loves isekai animes but the west doesn't - thats why its so bad rated.
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Jan 6, 2022 1:44 PM
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Yeah this is probably the best "generic isekai" I've seen. Mc is actually a smart dude and actually gets with the girl, I hope it continues
Jan 6, 2022 7:06 PM
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Can't you tell that it sucks?
Jan 16, 2022 5:16 AM
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Neh, I gave it a 2/10 because it is appalling, the MC has no charm (overreacting, easy blushed guy, and pretty dense).The side characters are all crap, it's like they're just a cheerleader group who cheers the overpowered generic MC.

Edit: I don't like the Romance of this anime, it doesn't blend, it made more worse...
Modifiction_89Jan 16, 2022 5:19 AM
Jan 17, 2022 9:04 PM
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Easy to watch!!!
Really funny and was actually really good!!!
Jan 20, 2022 7:08 PM

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art good, animation good, combat good and story meh generic and character is meh
MC op whatever u do, even u are demon lord, u still lose
MC characteristic is basically weak, easy blush, very cringe, awkward etc

I found misfit have way better in every single aspect than this sh#t
IgnatiusTheFirstJan 20, 2022 7:28 PM
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It’s just bad. I mean it was fun to watch at times, but the entire series is simply nothing special. It’s just a typical isekai with average animation, nothing about it stands out.


Personally, I don't see any problem with it being one of the crowd, I think it's perfect to entertain yourself and simply watch something to spend your free time.
Feb 17, 2022 7:55 AM
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Listen, i am not an negative people. But this is like, one of the cringiest Isekai i have ever seen. I just.. can't. People changes, maybe you'll see the reason why it is bad soon, time will tell my friend.
Mar 20, 2022 7:53 PM

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Mal Hates fun. This anime is just fun, but nothing really specials. Don't trust the ranking in Mal. Anything above a 6 can really good. 5's are maybes, 4s well just taking your chances.
Mar 28, 2022 11:05 PM
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I don't pay attention to stuff like that. I watch what I like. It's predictable but sometimes predictable is good. I love Isekai despite the hate it gets.
Apr 17, 2022 11:03 AM

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well I can think of 2 things.
1. People just have different taste.

2. loads of people think they could write something better them self boasting how unoriginal it is how copy paste it is like they even know what they talk about but the only thing they could even write is a Sonic X Shadow fanfic.

Im no expert what so ever but I consumed over 2000 movies not far of from 1000 anime shows and loads of big fantasy titles so I seen and read my share so got some ideas which could be entirely wrong.

It´s simple if you don´t like it don´t watch it but don´t pretend you know better.

But I think this anime was fun and had it´s own original ideas and well some copy ideas. But when you look at mostly anything new today they copy ideas left and right. You can see that in both music movies and books most of them has some original idea and shit loads of borrowed ideas.


So here is something if you want 100% original ideas make it your self before pissing on some one else creation about not being original. In the end you just sound like an ignorant moron.
May 10, 2022 2:28 PM

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The manga is a decent 7/10 and imo the anime adapt is clearly inferior in a few ways to the manga, causing the rating to be decently lower. Deservedly too.

-Art's worse
-Story Pacing is off which
-Ruins a lot of the needed world building,
-Throws off character development,
-And causes battle/training scenes to be worse off.
-Too much exposition in the wrong places, too little in the right places (the manga did better to balance this out).

This anime suffers from very similar problems as "Arifureta" and "Weakest Sage/Strongest Crest"
Nai wa~
Jan 27, 2023 5:29 PM
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After just watching, the lower score almost turned me away but I gave ep 1 a chance. After that, practically binged it. I don't get the hate on this one. Story moved forward with every scene unlike many shows that go on these unnecessary side stories or scenes just for fan service. And this complaint of it's too isekai for a isekai... well thats why its an isekai. I don't get it.
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Feb 1, 2023 10:13 AM
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Saya menunggu season 2 karena anime genrenya sesuai selera saya!
Feb 1, 2023 10:19 AM

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i originally dropped this, but made myself finish just to realize its still shit. Plain and boring characters, boring story, and nothing special ever happens

Apr 6, 2023 2:05 PM
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Problem with MAL (and any similar websites) is that due to how humans work, they are usually going to move in areas that they are already more likely to like, thus overwhelming majority of shows get +1 and sometimes even +2 to their average score.

This is how a rating of ~6.5 is considered "shit".
Because even an absolute turd with exactly zero redeeming qualities like Aldnoah.Zero (maybe that's where the "zero" in title comes from) gets a score of 7.40 and 6.92 respectively for each season.

Kenja no Mago may not have the most outstanding animation, a developed cast of side characters (which is as valid of an argument for practically every 12-episode long show) or the most profound of plots, but at the very least it does some things right.
Like, "magic" usually requires a loooot of suspension of belief to be fun, when you think about it, because when you have knowledge of how world functions on a fundamental level, you'd probably be able to absolutely break the system. After all necessity is the mother of invention. If healing magic is readily available, then you have no need for medicine or surgery. If you have fireballs, you don't have need for gunpowder, etc.
But if you know exactly how, for example, combustion works, then you may be able to just will a fireball with a finger snap, whereas everybody without that knowledge will have to go through strict training to rune writing or some ancient language chants.
Avatar the Last Airbender does that to a degree with metalbending, but when you think about it, there's nothing that should be stopping an earth bender from being able to bend metal directly and if you can do that, then why can't you use the same knowledge to fire bend? Oh, but firebending is basically airbending.

So that's one thing that this show does right, but which makes people go like "Ugh, another OP MC, dropped!", because they are accustomed to anime MCs being absolute idiots who are completely unable to use grade school knowledge to make their isekai life easier.

And another thing is... the MC actually gets a girl! Like, imagine! How often does THAT happen?

Seriously though, there are much worse shows that somehow get much higher scores. Why?
Apr 29, 2023 7:04 PM
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UltimateKai said:
It is the definition of 7/10 lol. Maybe a little above average(op Mc+actual wedding)but still average w Plot characters world conflict. It’s still a fun time tho


You lied to me.. there was no wedding..I watched it all for that and there was no payoff..
May 23, 2023 11:09 PM
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I was wondering this as well just finished the series and it was very fun. Good animation. Good romance plot. OP mc building good relationships. Not sure why people calling it straight up trash. I think that year for isekai was just particularly bad. I remember this dropped and i had ZERO interest in watching and the name sounded bad. So i think the score just reflects the times of the year. But it hit a lot of spots for me that i needed fulfilled lately so I’m giving it a positive score. A season 2 for this series would be fire
May 28, 2023 4:40 AM

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It's not too bad for a binge watch.

This is where I think these trashy, painted over Isekai/fantasy anime shine best, when you don't have to wait a week for a new episode, and can just binge through them in a day or two. It's just a bit of 6/10 mindless fun.
Jul 1, 2023 3:12 AM

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I originally only rated Animes between a 5-10; Anything below a 5 would have to be something insanely terrible...

but then I realized that this mindset was wrong.

The rating goes between 1 to 10 and even MAL calls '5' as Average.

This anime is not 'average', its very obviously bad for numerous reasons. At best the only thing it has going for it is decent animation. 
Honestly, a 6 point whatever is too high of a rating for this anime.
Jun 12, 2024 10:52 PM
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9/10 -3 points for the inordinate amount of blushes, stammering, and large amount of screen time given to breast-size…humor? Got a point back when the stammerblushes nearly ceased entirely after a certain episode and were much less exaggerated when they did occur. Got another point because the last few episodes were lit. Hoping for another season, especially if they continue with the tone of the last few episodes.

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