異世界チート魔術師

ISEKAI CHEAT MAGICIAN

ANIME

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
September 25, 2019
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

Nishimura Taichi is a typical, average high schooler, and Azuma Rin is a beautiful woman with the build of a model and excellent reflexes. The two live a normal high school life until one day they're suddenly enveloped in a mysterious magic circle and transported to an unknown land.

That world is full of terrifying monsters, beastmen, dwarves, elves, and many other races right out of fantasy. In order to survive in this new world Taichi and Rin decide to become adventurers, but when they take the aptitude test they discover they both possess cheat level magic...

(Source: Crunchyroll)

CAST

Rin Azuma
Rie Takahashi
Remia
Sayaka Oohara
Airy
Yurika Kubo
Myura
Minami Tanaka
Taichi Nishimura
Kouhei Amasaki
Anastasia
Yuna Kamakura
Grami
Youko Hikasa
Kasim
Hiro Shimono
Milo
Hina Kino
Melo
Hina Kino

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

Eragon
60/100
The perfect example of the textbook isekai, but missing any unique twist to make it interesting. Watch as a last resort.
Intro
Isekai cheat magician. If you've gotten far enough to read this review after seeing that title, I'm going to assume you probably are willing to put up with isekai cliches to at least some degree. As a person of that type myself, having read and watched absolutely metric tons of isekai content, I have extremely high tolerances. Thus, I was able to make it through this anime. However, if you get fed up with tropes and cliches, or get easily annoyed by isekais not being original just close this review now and never watch this anime.

The Concept
This anime is a perfect recreation of the default setting and plot structure for an isekai anime. The key difference between this anime and other isekai anime out there is that they is no difference. With the saturation of the isekai genre being what it is, pretty much all other popular isekai anime in recent years have all had some unique twist to the normal formula to make themselves unique. This anime doesn't do that. Shield hero give the protagonist, well, just a shield and makes it a revenge story with the royalty being evil, slime has the main character be, well, a slime, and goes in more interesting directions with a focus on the developing city and such. Even the extremely awful "high school prodigies..." anime had the twist of each character being overpowered in a variety of different and theoretically interesting ways. This anime feels like a writer made a template story for them to experiment with changing things of to try to make an interesting isekai, but then they just published the default version instead.

The Plot
To say that the plot of this anime is anything other than generic would be a lie, as would describing basically anything about this show as anything other than generic would be. The two main characters get summoned to another world of fantasy and magic, they join the adventurers' guild, they are found to be exceedingly strong, and they train their strength to fight monsters. They uncover some nefarious people trying to do evil things and they battle them, saving the day in the end, but never actually killing the enemies because that clearly would be wrong. Seriously, I lost track of how many times they just let the villains walk away after they beat them, and it's not like those villains don't come back to cause more trouble later or anything. The royalty totally feel bad about yanking them out of their world into this dangerous world, but they also tell them that after they've finished doing all of the things that the royalty summoned them to get them to do (fight in a civil war of differing policies of Isolation or diplomacy) then they'll start trying to find a way to send them home. Of course, they don't act like the main characters have any options to not participate, and the main characters just kinda go along with it.

The Characters
I feel like a broken record here, but the characters are all exceedingly textbook examples of the roles. The main protagonist wants to protect people and help them, the female lead is similar but less headstrong, the royalty is unremarkable, the villains feel like they are always either ineffectual morons who the main characters can swat away for them to return another day, or brooding masterminds who are still somehow so dumb that they don't realize that the overpowered main characters will just stop all of their plans.

Summary
This show isn't particularly offensive in any way, there aren't any gaping flaws that aren't present in basically any other fairly formulaic isekai out there, but it also has nothing to make you actually particularly enjoy it. It's not even good as a power fantasy, because the main characters are extremely lame at using their powers, and because the battle animation is sorely lacking budget. The fights feel like they're from yugioh, half the time being less blows visibly striking enemies and people moving around, and more "it is heavily implied that I am punching you!" "it is heavily implied that I just got punched!" For presumably a power fantasy they do a really bad job at making basically any attack feel powerful or have any impact behind it, and it's clear that they didn't really have anyone who knew how to choreograph fight scenes. Watch this if you've watched all of the other isekai out there and want something to pass the time, but there should almost always be better options.
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DoubleZen
5/100
Isekai Cheat Magician is so bad its not even good.
"Isekai Cheat Magician" is another entry in the overcrowded summoning of Isekai anime, but it does little to add to the sea of Isekai anime. From its generic cliché story-line to its awful execution, this anime feels more like a lazy cash grab than a meaningful anime worth your time.

The story and characters are as generic as they come, with the most unlikable characters to ever exist. This is the epitome of horrible Isekai anime and should be avoided if you value your free time and your self-worth. Probably the worst pacing of any of these show and I have seen a lot of Isekai.

I don't know how they managed to fail so hard at making this show, but they did, and the pacing is god-awful. The two main characters have less personality than a wet piece of cardboard. They are your stereotypical overpowered characters summoned to another world, but done so poorly that it isn't even worth caring about these characters. I am being dead serious.

Not only is this show terrible, but the animation quality is equivalent to that of watching a Microsoft PowerPoint, so it becomes incredibly painful to sift through the episodes. The dialogue is the corniest thing ever—my god.

The worst part is that whenever any "action" happens on screen, all they do is say what they're doing when they attack. It becomes incredibly annoying and condescending, as if we didn’t see them do it two seconds ago. They basically explain and talk almost throughout an entire action sequence, and it’s just them saying what they’re doing, but done very badly. If you watch it, you will get what I mean here.

I cannot stress enough how much I freaking hate this show.
The narrative is about as original as reheating leftovers for the tenth time. Taichi Nishimura and Rin Azuma—the main headaches are your run of the mill high school students transported to a generic fantasy world where, surprise, they’re overpowered beyond reason. That’s it. That’s the entire sub-plot of this anime.

I think I remember they had to collect something at some point, but I’m gonna be honest I completely lost interest and absolutely forgot the "plot," if there ever was one in the first place. It is a soulless piece of media that insults the watchers’ intelligence. Even Isekai parodies of the Isekai trope are somehow better than this show.

If you enjoy listening to characters ramble on about the most basic concepts for minutes on end, then Isekai Cheat Magician might be for you. The dialogue barely exists, with every character serving as a mouthpiece for tedious exposition. Instead, the show decides to tell us that we’re idiots and that we can’t understand world-building or any type of exposition. The show wants to tell us everything in the most boring, cliché way possible.
If you ever watched The Fruit of Evolution: Before I Knew It, My Life Had It Made season 2, it’s that bad but somehow even worse and even more annoying.
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