My Isekai Life: I Gained a Second Character Class and Became the Strongest Sage in the World

Odd. I see a lot of bad reviews on this series but I couldn't disagree with them more. At surface level it does seem like just another sub-par Isekai with a OP MC and sadly these bad reviews only see it from the surface.. But under the surface there is something special and if you can't see it or understand it then you either A: watched a couple episodes then made your review or B: have really bad taste in anime and probably think persona 5 is the best jrpg ever made Lol! But I digress, this show is definitely special and has a heavy heartedcharm to balance the light heartedness of the slimes. You may feel like the MC has no character and lacking a solid back story, but to someone like me, someone who grew watched a lot of inuyasha and played a lot of ps1 jrpgs, the MC is more relatable to me than a lot of other characters in other anime. So, don't judge the series based on what you think it's about at face value because under the surface there is a charm that is rare, jrpg elements that are even more rare and a unsettling feeling that it's only going to get better and better as the story plays out over a few seasons. Read the manga if you are in doubt. -Zen

Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life is the epitome of mediocrity and repetitiveness that plagues almost all of isekai genre shows. This show is so bad that it is actually enjoyable, in the sense that you'd just laugh at the ridiculousness on display. It is as if you already know what will happen, but you can't help but go with the flow mindlessly. My advice is to go into watching the show expecting the worst. As you can already tell, the MC is a generic overpowered protagonist who basically dominates all opposing forces, and screams I'm basically a GOD. He has no emotions or reactions and isbasically lifeless. Every character in the series is so bland and exists solely to advance the plot that they have no distinguishing characteristics and are one-dimensional characters, and is a prime example of how not to write a character. One thing that also bothered me throughout the series is that even when the MC's MP is negative, he can still cast spells, which seems ridiculous and defeats the purpose of MP. Apart from fighting an evil entity known as Blue Moon of Salvation lurking in the shadows, there isn't much of a story to speak of, and it practically screams boring and fails to entice its viewers. Even the last few episodes where the story is reaching its climax and near the final boss stage, it wasn't really able to capture and entice the viewers that much. Everything about the show screams bad, from the art to the story to the characters, but that's also what makes it entertaining. The moral the story is trying to promote is that teamwork makes the dream work, which is not particularly convincing given Yuuji's status as a one-man wrecking crew. If you have high standards, I would strongly advise you to skip this show. And if you enjoy isekai trash, can tolerate the show's hilarity, and/or have low expectations in general, you're in for a treat. To be fair, the slimes are adorable, and they are one of the factors that help carry the show.

Tensei Kenja is another overpowered isekai protagonist show, but this time it has slime sidekicks! He effortlessly takes down any normal opponent which would normally require a party, and barely struggles fighting extraordinary boss-level monsters that are a threat to everything in their path. The only danger he is put in is by himself overcasting spells at the cost of HP when he's out of MP. He doesn't seem to have any character growth or much character in general. Most of the "character" is in the slimes he tamed, but even they're fairly two-dimensional. If you are addicted to isekai and need a fix goright ahead, but other than that you won't lose anything by skipping out on this show with an extra long light novel title.

I’m gonna keep it a buck fifty with you, chief. This is dogshit. There’s no other way to put it. First of all, there was no need for this to be an isekai whatsoever. Throughout the show, you’ll get vague flashback images indicating that the protagonist was an office worker in his past life, and he felt some type of way about it. One could call that ‘subtle storytelling’, but we have a word for that kind of subtle storytelling in English. It’s called uninspired and generic. Second, the dude’s name is Yuji. Shut the fuck up. Third, bro gets reincarnated into the fantasy world as a Tamer,the weakest class, only to then acquire the secondary class of Sage, making him the world’s strongest. In principle, that could be the set-up for a fairly interesting hero’s journey, much like Arifureta, which functions on literally the exact same premise, except that whereas Hajime had an actual journey becoming top dog that lasted just about an entire season, Yuji literally wakes up in the otherworld with no explanation whatsoever and within literally 2 minutes and 30 seconds flat he becomes God. I’m serious. I timed it. Riveting. Fourth, the show looks like ass. The character designs are some of the most colorless and odorless I’ve ever seen – would give Goblin Slayer’s cast a run for its money – and the animation is just trash. There is literally one single sakuga scene in the entire show. Whenever Yuji is about to do serious battle, he swipes the air in front of him with his hand, bringing up a bunch of holographic video game menus and screens to be displayed, which he then uses to cast various abilities or combos. It seemed reminiscent of Yu-Gi-Oh! and Duel Masters. Yes, it looks cool, and I believe I decided to watch this show because I saw a GIF of that, but this anime recycles that same animation countless times throughout its run. I could not believe it. I didn’t think animation studios still did that. I thought the practice died in the 2000s, but apparently not. It’s not even only that one piece of sakuga they reuse over and over. There’s a forced perspective shot of Yuji’s face where the camera is set way down low, kind of like from under his chin, which makes his face look extremely ugly – a significant downgrade from its usual merely boring. For whatever reason that is beyond my powers of comprehension, the show runners thought not only that that shot was acceptable enough to greenlight for public consumption, but they somehow liked it so much that they reused it literally dozens of times during all manner of dialogue or monologue scenes. Literally why? Fifth, this dude has no personality whatsoever. He is another in a long line of blank self-insert assholes. He spends 98% of the series donning a completely expressionless face. Then, in episode 5 or so, the show attempts to inject some sliver of a personality into him by turning him into a foodie out of absolutely nowhere. Oh, wow, look! He is motivated by food, get it? Just like literally every shounen protagonist ever, remember? Doesn’t that make you relate to him? Lastly, because he moves around and talks like a lifeless robot, it was difficult to buy he had formed any kind of emotional investment in this world, so the final fight, though technically kind of nice, fell completely flat for me. There is literally no reason you should spend your time on this.