The Unaware Atelier Meister

I really enjoyed this one. It’s a cute, fun, adventure. Now days I watch anime to escape reality, so light hearted adventures that aren’t too serious or heavy , are always welcome for me. Relaxes the soul. Definitely has some similarities to things like “Kid from the last dungeon boonies” and “I parry everything” in the sense that the main gimmick is the MC not knowing how strong he actually is. I thought this anime in particular did a good job of covering little plot holes that usually comes with those kinds of anime. If you’re looking for an easy going , light hearted adventure,to escape reality, definitely worth checking out imo Personal enjoyment 9 Characters 8 Story 7 Animation 7 Music 7 Voice acting 8 Humor 8 Able to escape reality and relax the soul 11 Overall score 8

Just completed it and it's 100% "meh." I needed something to fill in the gaps to do my "watch two different anime...." every day. That's 14 a week. So this was not in my top 5 or bottom 5. Right in the middle, and that's where it deserved to be. No "I wish there will be a season 2" as one season was enough. Animation was average at best, voice acting was good, but the plot was 100% cookie cutter and a clone of a dozen other "unaware that they are OP" protagonist series. You know the ones - everything the hero of thestory does is nearly god-like, amazing and awe-insuring, but the hero has no idea and thinks it's normal. But everyone around him is so honest and caring that nobody takes advantage of him. We've seen this how many times now? Yet he can't see through an illusion he basically created? Is this amazing but seems to have an IQ of 80? Each episode piles on more and more absurdities - past the point of "that's cool" past the point of "come on already" and solidly into "enough is enough already..." It's brain-numbing time killer that fills in the spaces between great anime and "why did I even watch this?" series - although it comes darn close to that. If you want action - skip it. Amazing fight scenes? Skip it. Slice of live with every adult woman having the hots for a 14 year old kid? It has that. Want to turn off your grey matter for 20 minutes or so? This will do it.

Why in Lord Jesus' holy name would I ever rate this a 10? This show follows Kurt, a young lad who is immensely talented at everything, but tragically, clinically brain-dead 😢. He comes from a village of powerful god-like geniuses that have been protecting the realm for millennia, but maybe his parents didn't hug Kurt enough or something because his self-esteem is non-existent. For reasons that I don't really remember and that aren't that important, Kurt no longer has his village and must travel the land in search of labor opportunity. But in his quest to be gainfully employed, the world around him is awashin sinister mischief... Whatever will he do. In essence the whole show is one big gag, and the gag goes like this - there is a problem, Kurt trips over his own dick, and then the problem is solved. It is delightfully shitty. The women swoon over him, he doesn't know where babies come from, he hatches a child from an egg that he treats like a daughter, he prostrates himself to anyone he thinks is high-ranking or important, and never, and I mean not even once, recognizing his own talents or power. It is so incredibly stupid, I love it. Usually I would hate a show like this but there's just something about how aggressively stupid Kurt is that makes it work. And plus, the characters are decently cute. So long as you don't take anything seriously, this show is a blast. And the other added benefit is reading all the hater comments about how nuclear-grade stupid Kurt is. It's like the show lab designed Kurt to specifically piss those people off, and I love that energy. So that's also why I feel compelled to give this show a 10. Thanks for reading.

“The Unaware Atelier Meister” is what happens when You turn the absurd up to 11 and not in a clever or entertaining way. Another day, another “The hero is unaware of his true power” anime. Am I the only one who is tired of this shtick? Don’t get me wrong, the idea itself isn’t total garbage, but I have yet to see it executed on a level higher than below mediocre. This anime… changes nothing. No story, only plot. Simple plot and overusing bad jokes. Before we start I would like to explain something. I will be talking about “plot” and “story”. Many people use those termsinterchangeably. I’m not one of those people, so to make sure everyone is on the same page… I use the definitions for “plot” and “story” as Lisa Cron describes them: “What happens in the story is the PLOT, the surface events.” “STORY is about how the things that happen affect someone in pursuit of a difficult goal, and how that person changes internally as a result”. When I found out that this anime has a OP MC with some sort of drawback I was intrigued. Could it be that the writer is competent and understands the need for balance? That I will see a protagonist that actually has depth and actual struggles? Spoiler alert! No. The writer has no idea of, or sense, of balance and everything around him is flat and meaningless. The worst part of this show is the MC himself. He is useless in combat but is practically a god with everything else. Because of that the writer creates situations where he is the great saviour without using combat. Even when it’s utterly moronic, like with the demon attacking the city. I wouldn't even mind it if it was done organically and with any kind of logic. On paper it’s a good idea. To make someone a hero without using violence. I’m all for that. THe problem? The writer is not skilled enough to create such situations. Instead we just get bad jokes that pretend to be the internal logic of the show. The result? Instead of having satisfying resolutions You just get cheap slapstick humor. The idea of him being an overpowered creator is a good one. The idea of him being unaware of his power is a solid one. The idea that others use his ignorance to achieve their goals and keep him ignorant is also good. But the execution is pretty lazy. Kurt (the MC) isn’t ever put into a situation when the supporting cast must work hard to keep him in check. Everything is resolved with a half assed dialog. And believe me, the dialogs in this show are one of the worst I have ever seen. To be fair the first 3 episodes were rather enjoyable thanks to the main idea for the plot and the sheer ridiculousness of the MC running amok in the world that is not ready for someone like him. Unfortunately that novelty runs out quickly. By episode 4 I had just enough of it and wanted something new to be added to the pot. What did they add? Short answer: Nothing. Long answer: some new characters that are pointless, do nothing, contribute nothing to the plot and change nothing in any way shape or form. Except, maybe two situations, the supporting cast is utterly useless and most things would end up happening in the same way even if they were not present. And that’s another serious problem with the plot. The characters around Kurt are skilled combatants. They should have a lot to do looking at the situations they all get into. But why have some competent, well written supporting cast when the writer can just create an idiotic situation, over-interpret what combat actually is and have the MC save the day, even if that means using a dagger to basically kill a goddamn dragon. I mean… we can’t have that. Someone would think that this show is actually good and we can’t have that. If this show would be positioned as just a dumb comedy I would be ok with most of the things I bitch about. But it’s not. It’s positioned as a fantasy adventure. Despite that it has no stakes and no sense of progression. On top of that the MC is passive. He barely acts, only reacts to the situations that he ends up in. He doesn’t do things because he has a drive for them. He does them because someone told him to do it. The only moment when he is proactive is at the very ending of the season. Why? Give him any kind of goal. Even a simple one. I don’t know, he likes to make things to make his dream to become the actual atelier officially and not a damn atelier in the shadows. Or have him search for a place he could call his own, on his own terms. Anything that could drive him and not be the result of someone telling him what to do. This show is honestly exhausting. After the first 4 episodes I was really contemplating to drop it, but autism and OCD did their thing and I watched the whole shitshow. There is barely anything new in the plot, the story doesn’t show up at all in all 12 episodes and there are probably only 3 jokes that get repeated over, and over, and over, and OVER! This is boredom and brain rot in anime form.