Isekai Shoukan Wa Nidome Desu

As the isekai genre is permeating the industry in every season, they need to find ways to differentiate it from others. Because dying and reincarnating or get summoned has been done to death. And now the recent trend of being able to go back and forth between both worlds seem to be getting old too. How now? Anymore ideas? Why, you get summoned again for the second time! Oh yeah. That should do it. And as obvious as the title is, Isekai Shoukan Wa Nidome Desu has our main character been summoned back to this other world for the second time after saving it in his first. Time to do everything again for the second time.

Episode 1
Yuki is wondering how it’s going in the other world. Did he just jinx it because he gets summoned there! However this time his classmates too get summoned. As they are shocked in this foreign land, Yuki is not so because he has been here before. They are attacked by demonic knights. Yuhi Hanabashira protects him but that won’t be necessarily as he easily flicks it away with his finger! The royal knights are soon here to counterattack while the students run for cover. Yuki is stumped because he was here 5 years ago when the war ended. But he notes that the knights have curses. The students are before the king of Distinia as he explains another war has befallen on the land and hence their summoning. He assures them they did this before 5 years ago with another hero and won. The knights start training them but since Yuki slacks off, Elka is going to punish him. WTF he spanks her! But she recognizes that spank. It’s Setsu Suzaki! He is back! She turns into a submissive masochist and then takes him to see the rest of his pals, Glein and Thea who are glad he is back. First Setsu explains after his final battle with Touma, he disappeared. More precisely, reincarnated in another world with his memories intact. That is why he looks different. There is a possibility Touma is behind this war since he too has not been found ever since. The king decides to screw the peace accord with demons that the hero made 5 years ago. He regrets doing that and is calling for an all-out war with them. Because of that, Setsu wants to stop this war by himself. This time he will go alone. But first he needs to get his sword, Kuromaru. His pals help him sneak into the storeroom to get it. Before he leaves (to go see an old acquaintance), Yuhi is worried and wants to come with him, promising she will be useful. No can do. He reveals this is his second time summoned to this world and to keep her safe, stay here with the rest. She promises to protect this place while he is gone since her magic abilities are improving.

Episode 2
Ruri’s grandpa once told her about the craftsman pride. Of course the exception is when it comes to money! Of course grandpa died and poor Ruri is left to carry out his last wishes. As she is transporting this brooch late at night, she is attacked by a monster. Thank goodness for Setsu passing by to rid of it. She wants to hire him as a bodyguard till the next port. At first he declines since he has other stuffs to do but I guess he doesn’t want to make a loli cry. At Marsenne, Ruri is trying to find a ship to the demon continent but nobody is willing to go there since there is a war going on. That’ll be like suicide. When knights inspect Ruri and she refuses to show her brooch, they are about to get rough and bully her but of course her bodyguard comes to her rescue. He even dares to fight them. Fearing the crowd might spread bad rumours about them, the knights go away. The duo spend the night at the inn together. It saves costs. Nothing unholy happening as you would think. Ruri telling the story of her late grandpa and how he entrusted this brooch delivery because the last client sent it in for repairs. Grandpa also talks about the real pride other than money as Ruri accepted the task. Setsu recognizes this brooch as he casted protection magic on it before. That night, the knights barge in to arrest them for being suspects as demon spies. Setsu takes Ruri and run through the streets, making a fool out of those chasing goons. When they reach a dead end at the port, Setsu then summons the god of the seas, Leviathan as they hitch a ride across the ocean! Yeah, those knights can’t believe it and thinks they must be dreaming! Ruri too is in shock and wonders if her bodyguard is more than meets the eye. They finally arrive at the demon continent.

Episode 3
Leviathan or Levia for short can transform into a human chick form too. She helps destroy this giant squid as Setsu makes fried squid rings. Delicious! Ruri gets the shock of her life that the parcel she is supposed to deliver is to Dezastol Serreno who is the current Demon Lord. Levia doesn’t want to accompany them any further as she has done her job. Actually she is sulking that Setsu disappeared for 5 years and when he returned, he treated her like a boat! So he makes it up by giving her more squid rings? In fact, the entire village is grateful because that squid has been a hindrance to their business. They have a big party celebration. Eat up, there’s more squid rings to spare. Everybody is sure happy eating that delicious squid. Ruri further learns from Levia that Setsu is THAT Setsu, the hero who brought peace 5 years ago. Because of Levia’s promise to him, the oceans are now much safer. Vlad who is Dezastol’s top guards, thinks the party is an attack from humans. He barges in but sees everyone in revelry. Care to have some squid? Learning Setsu is back, he hopes he can help save Dezastol. She is betrothed to a man named Terran Sneeter. Apparently the world’s richest man and as a merchant he controls a lot of stuff. The marriage is a sham and it is only to subdue Dezastol with some spell. Setsu is shocked to learn that humans attacked this place many times although Vlad and his guards manage to repel them. Because Dezastol wants peace, she sent emissaries but none has returned. Then this Terran dude showed up and claimed he can give her that in exchange for her hand in marriage. Setsu is mad that Dezastol allowed herself to be a slave for peace but is sharply reminded that she is only keeping her promise to Setsu. So it’s his fault, right? Knowing they can’t let this happen, Setsu and Levia race up the mountains and kill all the monsters that attack them along the way. Setsu believes that both sides think they attack each other first. Perhaps a mastermind behind it all to step in and negotiate for peace but with ulterior motives.

Episode 4
Flashback shows after Setsu and Dezastol fought, they promised peace and he gave her a brooch to commemorate that. 5 years on, her kingdom is prospering but it could be a sign of bad omen when her brooch cracked so she sent it for repairs as suggested by Vlad. When war started to arrive on their shores, Dezastol didn’t want to jump to conclusions and sent some of her emissaries to find out more but they never return. That is when Terran came to see her and in exchange for her hand in marriage, can end this war right now. Oh you mean become his slave? Call it whatever you will as long as her beauty is his. While her generals are against this, Dezastol has to think hard before accepting it because of her promise to Setsu. We see Terran and a hooded guy happy this plan is going well. Terran will get the demon chick while hoodie gets the demonic kingdom. However the latter claims this is the will of his master. On the day of the wedding, Terran shows off this bracelet that will make Dezastol submit to him. For peace, right? A tearful Dezastol accepts her fate when like always, the hero crashes in to save the day. Look at the relief in her face when she sees it is Setsu. Terran cowers for his life while hooded guy has his henchmen fight him. Levia takes them all down until hooded guy traps him in her shadow. Nothing that Setsu can’t break, right? Setsu is obviously superior but hooded guy isn’t giving his 100% because he needs to report to his master and escapes. Terran is arrested and they investigate the bracelet which is cursed. Setsu suspects it is the work of Touma. Dezastol is willing to help him but Setsu needs to depart for the land of Regulus to get the aid of the beastmen king. This means Levia needs to be his boat again… Ruri enters just in time to complete her brooch delivery. Setsu puts it on her for the second time as she once again thanks him for teaching her how to live. Wow, this looks like a wedding scene. Setsu departs and Dezastol hopes he’ll come straight back here once everything is over. It’s a promise.

Episode 5
Flashback shows Yuhi and Yuki as childhood friends. She wanted them to go to the same high school and thus taking this cram class but he found it troublesome and didn’t care. This made her upset so she went to cram school herself. However she is of the failing grade. Depressed, she met some bad company who wanted her to give up and hang out and have fun with them. Had not Yuki come to her rescue, she might have actually turned into a bad girl. I guess he should’ve made it clearer that he wanted to go to the same school with her and will work hard by helping her study. It was then Yuhi wanted to forever be with Yuki whom she loves. And now we see her training her magic and skills hard. She seeks Elka to further train her. Crunch test time when she brings her to the sewers to fight, uhm, a sewer crocodile? Although Yuhi stood her ground, the only downside is that she cannot kill it. She gets wounded and needed Elka to finish the job. Advice of the day, you must kill to protect. Next day, Yuhi still has her mind on this so she talks to Thea and Glein who give their opinions about the matter. Eventually, it is for her to decide and determine what she wants to do. Revenge match as Yuhi fights the sewer crocodile again. This time she wins but knocks it out without killing it. This is the determination she has decided to stick with. To fight without killing. To never take a life. So is she willing to let roaches live too?! Anyway, Elka accepts her determination because guess what? That’s what Setsu also said. Next day, Glein gathers the students as they will leave for dawn for the demon nation of Eviltheon. Oh wow. Couldn’t they named it better?

Episode 6
On their way to Regulus, Setsu and Levia stumble into Alizee. She is Setsu’s self-proclaimed student. With Alizee is her sister, Amelle. Not blood related. Setsu invites them to join him to head to Regulus but Alizee can’t as she has taken up an important quest so slay a dragon. You see, when Amelle came to this village, she lived with her brother. But he went missing when a dragon attacked. Alizee felt pity for her and decided to become her sister to stem her loneliness. Then when Alizee took on the quest to slay the dragon, the odd thing is that the people go missing without a trace when it happens. There was one incident where Alizee fought the dragon and chased it. However she lost it and when she returned to the village, everyone else disappeared. Amelle was the only one left. Hence that is why she is now taking her to the city to have someone look after her till she finishes this mission. Of course Setsu is going to help her so they discuss the various mysterious phenomena behind the dragon’s true identity. Zombies? Siren? Oh, space aliens?! Are you guys taking this seriously?! Then Setsu wonders why the dragon kept attacking the village and if the people disappear, they need to go somewhere. Hence there must be a very strong magic user to use this teleport magic. The best way is to ask the person herself. Uhm, Setsu suspecting Amelle as the culprit? What gave her away was because she could smell Levia’s scent as different race. However Levia is god level and doesn’t let that magic power leak out in human form. So how does she know Levia’s true form? Gig is up so Amelle transforms into a dragon to start attacking. But damn, a quick fight because Setsu soon takes her down. She bursts into many little balls of light. Setsu and Levia continue their journey while Alizee remain behind to handle what’s left. However she is soon confronted by Amelle. She isn’t dead. That attack can’t kill her. She reveals all the villagers have high magic properties and hence she has turned them into her dolls since magic soldiers are needed for the war. Amelle’s true name is Melluar and she controls all sorts of monsters. This name was given by Touma.

Episode 7
Shironeko is much loved by many as she helps fight monsters to protect the people. However she is doing all these jobs to help buy medicine for her sick sister, Mineko. She mostly gets her jobs from the innkeeper, Kuroinu and she claims that her next job she will pay her so handsomely, she won’t have to work again and she can even buy enough medicine to cure Mineko. That job is obviously to kill Setsu. Shironeko readies for this assassination job that night but Setsu is well prepared and avoids her kill. Since she is desperate to kill him and Setsu doesn’t like how she is getting reckless, he slaps her out! KO! He notices he has a curse put on her. When Shironeko wakes up, she learns that Setsu brought her back to her home. He understands her situation and can also tell that Mineko is not suffering from an illness but a very powerful curse. Yes, he can help destroy this curse but she needs to put up with a bit of pain as he transforms his sword into some sort of curse eater. But at this point, Kuroinu attacks. Shironeko shields Setsu from it. Since he needs to concentrate, Levia goes to deal with her. Obviously no match for a sea god. When Shironeko is saddened about Kuroinu’s true colours, Kuroinu starts to blame her as useless for being unable to execute a simple order. She reveals that she is a pawn of Touma whose goal is to become God and destroy every species in this world. Uhm, so that’s like destroying the world? Kuroinu escapes. Mineko is freed. Next day, Setsu and Levia continue their journey but Shironeko and Mineko want to join them and could prove useful in battle. They need some guide if they’re heading to the beastmen continent. Any reason to oppose? Welcome aboard.

Episode 8
5 years ago when Setsu trained Roa, the daughter of Regulus, king of the beastmen, she refused to call him her master unless he beat her. Well, he beat her. And now she is happy to welcome her master back after a long absence. Even Regulus happily welcomes his friend back. Sure, he might look different but he has the same scent. Wait. Do souls carry the same scent? Anyway, the beastmen are deliberating on the war between humans and demons. Both are their enemies. Regulus wants to come with Setsu to go defeat Touma but as suggested, he is to stay here and have Roa go instead. This is all opposed by Rouga, the commander of Regulus’ army and Roa’s supposed fiancé. Rouga and Roa argue about Setsu being trustworthy or not. Since both have valid points, Regulus will have this settled like any other beastmen way: A duel. And the winner will also earn the right to marry Roa! He just complicated things… That night, Roa warns Rouga about Setsu being a whole different level. He can’t defeat him. Rouga also knows that. But he is confident of this small chance. You see, some mage gave him this magic mark. Oh dear… Next day, the arena is filled as everyone is revved up for this fight. Obviously Rouga goes all out but that is not even enough to ruffle any of Setsu’s feathers. Not even when he is in beast mode. With Setsu the obvious winner and he won’t attack Rouga no more, Rouga takes this as an insult that he isn’t even worth that. His anger and jealous propels the mark to activate and make him go berserk. Yup, too late to recognize it as Touma’s curse. This farce ends as Touma makes his appearance by killing off Rouga. He is happy to see Setsu again but the feeling isn’t mutual. Touma is not happy, Setsu has always promised others and it is always about someone else. That is why he is going to kill the entire world so they both can live in this world together alone as gods! OMFG. Are you gay, Touma?! Well, Setsu doesn’t subscribe to this yandere’s plan so Touma dares him to come to the demon continent. As things have already begun, can he make it in time? Touma is confident he can win him over this time. See you there. Regulus immediately prepares a ship for Setsu’s party. Old sentiments can wait after this is over.

Episode 9
We go back 10 years ago when Setsu and Touma were summoned to Distinia for the first time. The people who summoned them were happy to have summoned a couple of heroes to help them fight in the war but Setsu wasn’t happy to be used as their pawn and told them off. However he has to be realistic and had to help them since they were already here. Setsu has been strong since the start unlike Touma who was low on self-confidence and weak. But thanks to Setsu’s encouraging words, this boosted Touma’s morale as they both made promises as friends. Setsu has become strong enough to go off on his own to fight the war. Their latest promise was to meet again. Touma stayed behind and continued to work hard until he was made the general of the king’s army. He led his men to several battlefronts and conquered the enemies. Then one mission at a temple, some voice spoke to him and claimed she could make true all his desires. Touma accepted that deal seeing he wanted to see Setsu again. One day, a messenger came to tell Touma that the war was over and a peace treaty was to be signed. The thing was, Touma saw Setsu riding in a carriage happily with Regulus and Dezastol. This made Touma sad. Hey, important people going to sign an important treaty, why are they riding in such an inferior carriage with no escort?! Anyway, when peace came, Touma finally managed to see Setsu. Touma claimed he has found a way home and they can go back together. However Setsu doesn’t want to go back. He wants to see more of this world. This was when Touma snapped as the evil power of the pendant overtook him. In his rage, Touma attacked Setsu and thought everyone else was in the way. If he killed everybody, perhaps Setsu will return back to who he was. As we all know, during the intense fight, Setsu vanished. Touma returned to the temple, lamenting none of his wish came true. Then the pendant showed him various people being tortured and experimented on mercilessly. Realizing there were others like him too, Touma went to destroy that facility and freed them. Now they join him and his cause to destroy the world who rejected them.

Episode 10
It’s time for the big battle. Elka and her side fighting the demon side. Wondering how those students will fare. Don’t worry, we only get to see the local soldiers get killed. As the battle rages on, golems are summoned. If that is not enough, Elka’s side is disheartened to find they have to fight Alizee. She is of course now a puppet of Melluar. Melluar then uses her blood to summon some (mediocre) monsters but they all get defeated. Then Alizee gets knocked out and Elka piercing through her magic organ. However Melluar still lives. Due to those previous experiments, she has extra organs in her body. Technically a monster. She would have been in worse conditions had not Touma saved her and that is why she fights for him. Then she summons her ultimate monster, a chimera and fuses with it using her life force and hatred. Everyone has a hard time fighting it but as luck would have it, Alizee sneaks up from behind to stab Melluar. With no more magic organs left, Melluar is petrified. Alizee has weakened considerably but with some healing spells, she will be okay. Battle is not over yet as another of Touma’s generals pop up. Elka’s side is too exhausted, injured and in no shape to fight him. They are forced to rely on Yuhi who will show the fruits of her training. Gee, why do I not have the confidence in her? But of course we won’t get to see this girl in battle because Setsu drops in.

Episode 11
Kagerou is that hooded guy with Terran. He relishes a chance to fight Setsu as he claims this world needs to be destroyed because it is weak as opposed to Setsu who will protect them. But now we take a detour as we see Shironeko and Mineko fight Kuroinu. Long story short, Shironeko and Mineko combine and fuse to give Kuroinu a taste of defeat. Meanwhile Virdos, one of Touma’s generals is easily picking off the demon army. This is where Roa comes in to fight this tranny whose body is made of steel and strong hard substance due to the experiments. Despite Roa taking in all the damage, she still doesn’t give up and continues to fight back until her punch goes through him. Obviously Roa has taken a lot of lethal damage but after seeing her relentless pride, Virdos heals her and admits defeat. As for why he worked under Touma, he claims nobody would accept a freak like him. Now we return to Setsu’s fight with Kagerou. Setsu wants to skip this and go straight to the big boss but Kagerou will wager his life and dons this shadow armour that absorbs all energy. If you don’t know the script already, Setsu’s sword can just cut through anything and with Kagerou armourless and on the verge of death, he still wants to carry on fighting. Setsu is forced to put him out of his misery. It’s time for the final boss fight.

Episode 12
Alright people, the big final boss fight of Setsu vs Touma is here. Sword fight, fist fight and even magic fight. When Touma can’t beat him, he transforms his sword into a gun! Be careful not to get hit, it puts a hole in the mountain! If Setsu is too fast to dodge his shots, Touma turns it into a gatling gun! With Setsu’s friends here to cheer him, this only makes Touma mad. Why do you always have to leave me alone?! So he is sacrificing his life for this ultimate god-like weapon? Oh yeah, unlimited ammo. Touma gets sneaky and targets his friends. There is only so much Setsu’s sword can take and the rest might hit them. Luckily they can protect themselves with their barrier. Setsu then deals a fatal blow on Touma. But this only awakens him further as his gun transforms again. You mean that wasn’t its final form?! Hope this is it. This one is able to knock down Setsu. Touma thinks he has won and finally beat him. Yeah, he was counting his chickens because Setsu gets up and admits Touma has gotten stronger but unless he regains the things precious to him, he will never beat him. Touma is shocked he can still use some dimensional magic. Of course. What Touma can do, Setsu can obviously do too. Setsu lets this magic engulf Touma who is now scared and doesn’t want to die. He gets eaten up. Soon he wakes up. Still alive. Setsu says his goal was to make him come to his senses and destroyed the curse that was on him. Touma realizes he can never beat him. In the aftermath, Touma is sentenced to use all his magic to transfer Setsu’s classmates back to their world. He is to also join them to start anew. Yes, that’s his punishment. Only thanks to Setsu pleading that, the rest agreed to this. After all, Touma will be harmless without his magic. And so Touma opens up a portal to return those students. Yeah, they can’t wait to go home. I suppose Setsu not joining them and those classmates feel like they don’t even give a damn. Touma decides to go on a journey to see what he can do in this world. Soon, Setsu also goes on his own journey but he won’t be alone because now he has Yuhi as company. So they visit various places and we see everyone living their peaceful lives. Like Ruri operating a very successful squid rings stall while Shironeko and Mineko have joined Roa’s ranks (she is now the commander) to train and best Setsu. Keep dreaming.

Not Watching This Crap For A Second Time!
YAWN!!! Oh man. Thank goodness it is over. I hope when they stated “END” in the final scene, it will be the last I’ll ever hear of this series and no sequel whatsoever! Let’s hope this boring peace reigns over this world so that we won’t get another second season because that would just suck. It would render all the boring adventures and fights we have seen here as useless. And let’s hope Touma doesn’t pick up some other curse on his journey that will warrant that unnecessary sequel! Imagine having to go through all that sh*t again for the third time! NOOOOO!!!! Please don’t repeat the whole thing again! I guess it’s still better than that Endless Eight atrocity… Yeah, you young ones know which anime I’m talking about?

I have to admit it, the whole story is just f*cking boring! It doesn’t seem so only because this is our first time witnessing the events at least in the context of this anime. Oh heck, I think the first time too was equally if not even more boring! Just a very mundane plot of Setsu being summoned to this other world (for the first time) to become a hero and stop a war. And then he gets summoned again and because now he knows the tropes of everything, it’s just mainly about him going on a road trip to gather his allies to fight against Touma. That is basically it. You can’t get even more boring than that! So yeah, while it might seemed a bit curious that Setsu gets summoned for the second time (because in many isekai genres, in fact all of them, you technically get summoned once and stay there for the rest of your life), technically if I want to argue, this isn’t actually his second time. Yes, he could be just taking a long break in between that 5 years he was missing, got lost somewhere in another world, by a stroke of luck he gets summoned back. Because if I were to interpret this second time summoning, I would had interpreted as him being summoned back in time to this world and doing things all over exactly the same again but this time retaining the knowledge he had of what happened the first time. This would sound more interesting in this context but alas, this ‘second time’ is actually a continuation of Setsu’s life and adventures in this world. BORING!

The characters are as boring as f*ck and all of them are not even memorable. Take Setsu for instance. He is already overpowered from the start. Returning back to this world for a second time, he retains all his knowledge and power and that makes him even more boring. The thing that is more curious about him is about his other life in another world when before he got summoned back here a second time. I am assuming he was reborn again as a baby and grew up to be a high school teen before all this happened again. Sure, time flows differently in different worlds. But I just wanted to point out that his high school life as Yuki could be just boring and peaceful as f*ck since nothing much really happens. No wonder he feels so lively and excited to be back here again. Makes me wonder if he had his overpowered skills in that world. Or is all that only when he came back to Distinia? Either way, I’m not impressed.

The other characters are even worse. So we see Setsu going on a road trip and meet a few other characters who know him along the way. They feel so shallow and forgettable that it’s all just boring. I’m not even going to bother to even ‘analyse’ them. From Levia (aqua mobile) to Elka (masochist) to Dezastol (demon bride) to Roa (beast bride), YAWN!!! Worse, those unfortunate students who got summoned along with him were useless as f*ck and it would be as good as they didn’t get summoned here at all in the first place. But I guess this is to cover up if Yuhi was the only other person who got summoned with Yuki. Not that I care but might as well bring along a bunch of classmates just in case. So yeah, Yuhi is there for the potential romance but I don’t see it happening so yeah, this wasted potential is also good in the sense that it won’t cheapen the show and characters that are already so boring! Good to know that Setsu not only has allies in this world but at least one from his previous world. With many characters are females, they make it look like it was going to be harem potential (as opposed to the manga covers and other pics I saw online). But it was just me thinking so and thank goodness it didn’t come to that because as I’ve said, it would cheapen the whole damn thing that is already, wait for it, BORING AS HELL!!! I bet Setsu and Yuhi not going back to that other world, I’m assuming nobody including their friends or family would give a f*ck over their absence nor cry over them. Yeah. Have fun exploring this great big world.

The curious one is Touma himself. For most of the part, he has been casted as the biggest baddie and the enigmatic antagonist of the series. He sounded like some badass villain and possible on par like Marvel’s Thanos (I know it’s not but LOL!). Then that flashback episode just turned everything upside down. In other words, Touma is just being some fan boy obsessed with Setsu and it couldn’t get any more cringe with this bromance thingy! OMG. So that is how the animosity between the guys started?! And I thought Touma was like some sort of evil god from ancient times (now taking a form of a kid) that haunts the land but it turns out he was Touma’s fellow summoned partner?! What a shocking twist! What a disappointment! So this whole war thing started again just because Touma can’t get yaoi with Setsu and hence wants to destroy it and remake it into a gay paradise just for themselves. WTF???!!! At this point I don’t know whether to laugh my ass off or be disappointed and cringe with this revelation. Okay, it’s both. HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! Oh, Touma… Setsu will never be your lover boy! Good grief. Imagine all the cute chicks here of all races and if he chooses Touma, OMG I can sense a new kind of war happening…

But alas, I’m not sure if this ending of freeing Touma from the curse, should I be satisfied? They can’t kill him off because he was Setsu’s friend and they have to make Setsu have his 100% clean sheet of promises being kept. Back to being friends again is the best happy ending for this guy who have did so many atrocities in which everybody would just close an eye on. His pals are dead, everybody else to busy living to give a f*ck about the past. Oh Touma, you never had it so good. So yeah, was there some malevolent force behind Touma’s curse or was this kid just bad luck? Have fun exploring this great big world. Better than a bromance outcome!

Action wise, pretty boring too. It is all standard affair and nothing really exciting. After all, Setsu is already overpowered and there is nothing that can defeat him. Even if he is seen pushed back, that is just temporary and for the drama because if you follow the script, Setsu will always win in the end. So as not to make it obviously boring, hence Setsu gathering his allies for the final fight with Touma’s generals. Pretty sure it is to help them not be irrelevant because we get to see them match up with Touma’s goons. Ultimately it is all also pretty boring stuffs and just to tick the group battle checklist before moving onto the final boss fight. YAWN!

Art and animation too are pretty standard and generic. Characters designs look like your usual and typical 2D anime characters like Setsu your typical bland looking heroic main character while the rest of the girls looking typically 2D cute. Oh right, some scenes especially during the action parts feel like they have downgraded but at this point I don’t really care. This anime is done by Studio Elle who did Gibiate. Oh dear, why do they have to bring back those pesky memories of the Corona virus! Sorry, it’s unrelated and it’s just personal!

Voice acting is also pretty normal. Though, I am surprised to hear a few recognizable seiyuus lending their talents here like Shinichiro Miki as Regulus, Aoi Yuuki as Thea, Yui Ogura as Shironeko, Hiro Shimono as Rouga and the biggest surprise of them all that almost slipped my radar: Yukari Tamura as Kuroinu. My, my. The other casts as Shunichi Toki as Setsu (Fukuma in Kyuuketsuki Sugu Shinu), Ai Fairouz as Levia (Power in Chainsaw Man), Satomi Akesaka as Roa (Chrome in Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn), Satomi Amano as Yuhi (Misa in Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear), Kaori Maeda as Elka (Shizuku in Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idoul Doukoukai), Miku Itou as Alize (Miku in Go-toubun No Hanayome), Rina Honnizumi as Mineko (Hina in Plunderer), Saori Oonishi as Dezastol (Kaori in Arifureta), Yuri Kozakai as Ruri (Pekola in Jashin-chan Dropkick) and Takuma Nagatsuka as Touma (Kouda in Boku No Hero Academia). The opening theme, Continue Distortion by S.S.Nirvergea is a generic rock piece and yes, boring as f*ck despite an upbeat song. The same can be said for the ending theme, Be Ambitious by Maybe Me. Lively pop idol song not for me.

Overall, this series is boring and disappointing. It should come to no surprise to me as an avid offender in watching the same genre every season. The story feels so generic and the characters are just forgettable. Nothing is really special. When you visit something for a second time, it means it had some sort of value. But not this series. If permitted, the value of this series can go way beyond negative! I know it is not the worst anime of the season or the year but it adds to the growing list of really bad isekai series and another reason to hate this oversaturated genre. I really hope they won’t make another season because definitely third time is not the charm!!! PLEASE, NO!!! But unfortunately for my case, I’ll be watching more of such isekai nonsense garbage trash in seasons to come for the umpteenth time!