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ANIME AdventureIsekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.
NOVEL AdventureIsekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.
MANGA AdventureIsekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.

REVIEWS

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  ZNote

  50/100
  An experiment to create a story with zero tension.

  

  (New season, new wives, but some things never change)

  Tension is, supposedly anyway, the result of creating conflict in a story, and no story is complete without at least some of it. There are of course numerous ways to execute these ideas, and there is no singular “tried-and-true” method that applies to all stories. But In Another World with My Smartphone season two opts to try a daring experiment – create a show in which any sense of tension is thrown out the window almost entirely, where plots that have the capacity to shape the face of a nation are resolved within twenty-three minutes at a time, and the guy always gets the girl. Perhaps this could be thought of as the power fantasy’s final form, having ascended to a new plane of transcendent understanding after six years of dormancy that our “critically-minded brains” could never dream to comprehend.

  Or, maybe it’s just woefully inept storytelling. Either or, really.

  Truth be told, I’m not going to waste my time (nor yours, for that matter) trying to convince you to try watching this franchise if you haven’t already done so. If its sense of stupidity built into the premise is not for you, nothing the show offers will change that. Visually, the show does not dazzle, either in regards to its standard animation presentation or its effects. While it might have a good character design or two interjected somewhere, there’s not much to grab the eye, which is to say nothing of its lackluster music that doesn’t escape beyond the blasé.

  

  (I cannot imagine the quality control for this show was high, nor that the show’s animation producer Fujishiro Atsushi assigned J.C. Staff’s best workers for second key animations or corrections. Every once in a great while, we get a face like this)

  As such, this show—and this season especially—are a thing that one actively seeks out when you know precisely what it is you’re getting into, and do not care in the slightest about the faults within it that you acknowledge are right there in front of your eyes. In some realm of your anime-viewing mind, Touya inventing ice cream in this new fantasy world and breaking familiars by causing them to constantly trip and fall amused you. Yumina’s enthusiasm at Touya having his own harem of wives, the unusually-horny gynoid Francesca, and boob jokes ruled the roost and had you chuckling more than you’d ever care to publicly admit. The second season does not disappoint in this respect. Everything that made the first season tick or fall completely flat, depending on who you ask, is alive and well here. The series therefore offers no tension, and as a result, no illusions about offering surprises beyond dime store gags. When it seems like something will come along to provide a shock to the system or status quo by turning it upside-down, the anime snaps itself right-side up again lickety-split, all without breaking a sweat.

  There’s something to be said for In Another World with My Smartphone delivering precisely what its audience wants, even if it results in a product that could be called “by-the-numbers” at-best and “creatively bankrupt” at-worst. There is indeed a function for anime’s indulgences in junk food, and much like the endless sea of snacks in a supermarket aisle, everyone has the flavor that they flock to in order to get their fix. So, when Touya spontaneously creates a public bathhouse in the span of about ten seconds, finds out that there’s a substantial request for yaoi fiction in-universe, or doesn’t need to worry about jealousy because his future wives are so excited to add another to their group, it’s a feature of the show rather than a bug. It is not aspiring to be anything more than an excuse to indulge in silliness for a half-hour every week. It will never enshrine itself in the annals of anime fantasy, but if a third season is on the horizon, I’ll do exactly what I did with my friends – happily answer any question about the show’s paper-thin lore like an eager fool, enjoying my own gluttonousness while I get bewildered looks.

  Just remember one thing – In Another World with My Smartphone got a second TV season, while others like No Game No Life and Deadman Wonderland never got theirs. The industry has perhaps never pulled a funnier cosmic joke.

  
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• 

  emmerlad

  5/100
  A step by step instruction on making a show that has nothing worth your time.

  Except it is marketed as “In Another World with my Smartphone”
  I want to start off the review with a message to whomever wrote the source material for this. Whenever you read critiques talking about “good main characters” they are talking about actually interesting characters with their own personalities and their own personal conflicts that they may even grow out of.

  What they do not mean is a “good” protagonist who is always altruistic, morally correct and amazing, perfect and whatnot. Touya is an altruistic WonderWhite loaf and also a “good main character” if defined by a person severely lacking reading comprehension.

  The entire show alongside its protagonist is bland and uninteresting at best and at worst some of the most cringeworthy content that has been made. The show is extremely formulaic with episodes following a very strict script going like:

  Problem arises, it can be the most trivial bullshit, although it doesn’t matter as long as Touya is shown off as amazing and incredible.

  1. Touya fixes the issue with his swiss-army knife smartphone that can probably beat Goku due to it being enhanced with magic™.
  2. His harem (and everyone else) calls him great and amazing.
  3. (Optional) Fan-service scene with characters of highly questionable (illegal) age.
     Repeat.

  The sidecast is nothing to brag about, they fall into 4 archetypes (Characters can have multiple traits):

  Always talk about how great Touya is.

  • Be comically evil to make Touya look incredible in comparison.
  • Fan-service.
  • Plot Device.

  Now what was an exceptionally common trend among the show’s characters and general storytelling? Touya gets sucked off constantly. His testicular health is on the brink of collapse considering even the negative things said about him are the most backhanded bullshit but in the most positive light ever “oh he is so good and nice and he will help everyone so i fear he helps someone evil”.

  In fact the entire plot of the show is made in order to inject more fan-service into the show (and make Touya look like fucking Jesus). The main plot of the show revolves around discovering some ancient ruins so called “Facilities of Babylon” that were created by some absurdly horny scientist before the world got destroyed by some golems that honestly appeared like 3 times in the whole season. Sounds fine until the facilities are guarded by motherfucking porn robots who straight up molest Touya.

  Not to mention this plotline progresses SOOOOOOO slowly it gets introduced in the last episode of the first season. Currently it only serves to give Touya more tools to make him even more absurdly overpowered considering they contain straight up duplication machines and GUNDAM MECHS. (?????)

  Now there is no reason to watch this show at all right? Wrong. Despite all the bullshit, this is an absolute must watch. No other show is as good of a baseline for absolute garbage. If there ever was a “You do not want to be worse than THIS show” it would be this. A lazy cash-grab has turned into the benchmark for the low scores at least for me, and that’s why I would recommend this for all the wrong reasons.

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• 

  befalt

  1/100
  Mass-produced, AI-generated and unwatchable through and through.

  This review is spoiler-free.

  **〈 Once worthless... 〉**

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  The anime medium is really amazing. It is a place where imaginative animation effortlessly mingles with the skill, talent and passion of its creators. Each work, a story waiting to be told, holds the inherent right to exist and show its worth to the world. However, among the endless possibilities, there are occasions when a work completely devoid of heart, empty and without purpose appears before us, and you cannot help but question the validity of its existence. In the same vein as its predecessor, the second season of Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni is such a creation, and I hate its guts.

  ⁤In the past, I might have been lenient and forgiving towards the production values and called them the least offensive element of the show; I thought they were horrible but somewhat passable. ⁤Nevertheless, as time has passed, my tolerance and patience for lazy products completely disappeared. Now, I am of the belief that not a single element of this mass-produced, passionless piece of shit that pretends to be art can or should be excused under any circumstances.

  To describe the visuals and the soundtrack as merely uninspired, plastic-like, and personality-less would be a gigantic understatement, and I am more than certain that you have already seen them countless times before in other shows. They are as nutritious and tasty as sewage water:

  ‣ The backgrounds are plain, dull and watered down, much like cheap stock images shot on a shoestring budget. ‣ The colour pallet is tacky and unpleasant to such a degree that it is sincerely sickening to look at these vomit-resembling hues. ‣ The character designs are beyond generic and humdrum; it is almost like some utterly lifeless and corporate algorithm generated them during one of the lunch breaks. ‣ The animation is as rigid, motionless and lively as a dismembered zombie. ‣ The opening, the ending and the various insert songs scattered throughout the episodes are as enjoyable and lovely as radio static.

  To make matters worse, this laughable state of affairs haunts the series like an eerie ghost from start to finish, and not even an ounce of originality or quality can be found within any of its derivative ideas and tedious conventions at any point. ⁤⁤In a way, the visuals and the soundtrack make the already abysmal framework of the anime somehow even worse, and they are nothing more than a giant, pain-inducing eyesore that will make sure you have as little fun as possible.⁤

  

  【 When you stop taking your meds and run towards the voices. 】

  As it is the series' second season, mentioning the premise is redundant at this point. However, it must be said out loud that the show's inclusion of a smartphone within an isekai setting is the only element that puts it on the map. Remove this insipid gimmick, and the ever-present hollowness becomes even more pronounced. What is more, each episode follows a repetitive pattern that can be quickly summarised like this:

  1. The protagonist encounters someone in need or faces some sort of obstacle. 2. He miraculously resolves the situation in a fraction of a second thanks to his bullshit powers and abilities. 3. Everyone around him instantly falls head over heels in love with him and starts praising him for the rest of the episode. 4. Rinse and repeat.

  Is that it? Does the plot ever evolve beyond this pattern? Do any meaningful developments take place? The answer is a clear and loud __no__. The only change that happens is the ever-increasing number of women who suck [Touya](https://anilist.co/character/122730/Touya-Mochizuki) off every second.

  What about worldbuilding? Haha, new locations are injected into the story just to introduce female companions from different yet indistinguishable countries and make them join the harem.

  What about the fight scenes? As you would expect, they contain nothing in terms of substance, both visually and narratively, and exist solely to showcase the main character's supposed coolness, brilliance, and faultlessness.

  What about comedy then? The foundation of the Isekai Smartphone's sense of "humour" is conversations and situations that centre around the girls talking about coupling, marriage, kissing, hugging and intimacy, with the protagonist awkwardly responding to these requests. It is the most foolish, childish and awkward thing in the universe, and I wanted to kiss a shotgun's barrel whenever I witnessed them in action.

  The concepts of working hard to achieve greatness, seeing the fruits of one's labour, and earning recognition and admiration through hard-earned achievements and charisma—such ideals are obviously rejected, as Isekai Smartphone deems them to be too demanding. "Who would want to see such things?" it thinks to itself. Instead, its only desire is to glorify its shallow protagonist and showcase his effortless accumulation of a colossal harem full of goobers that will wet themselves at the mere thought of being in his vicinity. It is truly remarkable, almost poetic, to witness how utterly hilarious and unapologetic the narrative is in its awfulness.

  Even if you decide to overlook the disgraceful plot altogether and instead focus all of your attention on the characters, you will be greeted by some of the most cartoonishly stereotypical, painfully one-dimensional and hilariously obtuse cardboard cutouts you have ever seen in your life. Just like a bunch of bootleg toys that are meant to mimic some of the most recognisable and beloved IPs to ever exist at every cost, they are appalling, terrifying creatures that are a disgraceful sight to behold through and through. Naturally, this description does not only fit Touya's harem but also the countless NPC-like background characters that populate the series. They have no personalities, goals, ambitions, motivations, or unique traits of their own, and exist solely to carry out every whim of the viewer-insert protagonist as his trusty and reliable human-shaped tools. Even though they have different names, outfits, hairstyles, and hair colours, these "people" are nothing more than a pile of indistinguishable objects that do the main character's bidding without batting an eye and treasures awarded to him for simply existing.

  With all of this in mind, you would think that the protagonist is someone actually cool and interesting. In reality, he is nothing more than a blatant personification of the word "overpowered." He is so ridiculously powerful and perfect that even the likes of [Kirito](https://anilist.co/character/36765/Kazuto-Kirigaya), who serves as his crystal clear inspiration (simply look at their attire), pale in comparison. Every character worships and adores him unconditionally, any opposition he faces is humiliatingly obliterated, and all of his desires are always conveniently within his grasp. Much like his dog-like lovers and followers, Touya is a disgusting, flat, depthless creature that is bereft of any redeeming qualities, authenticity, humanity, complexity or likeability to speak of. Just like the show itself, the cast resembles an endless abyss—empty beyond human comprehension.

  I find it difficult to find any new words to convey how horrific _Isekai was Smartphone to Tomi ni_ is that have not already been uttered a million times before. It is a repulsive shitstain of a product that is appalling, soulless, creatively bankrupt, substanceless and meritless, and it perfectly illustrates how low the anime industry can plummet when profit-driven motives and mindless pandering overshadow ingenuity.

  Enough is enough.

  I refuse to subject myself to any more of this torture.

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  **〈 ...always worthless. 〉**

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