As we all know I watch a lot of isekais and I mean a lot of them. So I’m very familiar with how they work and I’m very rarely surprised by them. Then randomly I come across a show where it’s basically what if we have an isekai but with robots? Now I like isekais and I like robots so to me it seemed like mixing peanut butter and chocolate to make Reese’s. In our story we have a protagonist who in his old life was a genius programmer and an otaku with a love for robots. After dying he was reborn as Ernesti in another world filled with magic and giant mechs called Silhouette Knights.

Starting with the story it takes as much of a single minded focus on robots. The entire story revolves around Ernesti’s fascination for mechs and his focus on not only being able to pilot one but to also build his own. It’s actually a really fun process to watch as Ernesti’s passion is on clear display and his ingenuity in the face of challenges in the creative process is very entertaining. Now there is sort of a story alongside this but it never feels important. At some point our characters do have enemies to fight for various reasons but it feels like it’s a means to show us the viewers what the mechs made by Ernesti can do. This part of the story is not involved enough to hold any attention on its own and I think that works because it’s not a story about the world, it’s a story about Ernesti and his passion so I love this approach a lot. He’s constantly finding areas of improvement and using very creative solutions with each new innovation. The conflict is merely a means to find some of those areas so that the process of improving his mech continues. So while I loved the story I feel like I enjoyed it because I love watching shows where the characters create things.

As for the characters they are all pretty one note. Ernesti’s one and only trait is his love for mechs and all of the other characters can easily be described just as quickly. Normally this is something I don’t care for but there’s a couple of reasons why this works. Where the story is focused on Ernesti’s passion for robots the development isn’t on his character but on his creative process. So having the characters being one note allows the story to focus more on that. Plus the characters bounce off of each other well so even if they are not complex their banter and the real focus of the story allows them to still be entertaining.

The season also has fight scenes but like everything else the combat is less about excellent fight sequences and spectacular moves and more focused on flashy mech attacks. So most of the time combat is stiffly animated and short. Though it’s done well enough we can marvel and see how the mechs made by Ernesti evolve over time which is the one and only purpose of these fight scenes.

So the thing to keep in mind about this show is that everything about it starts and ends with showing Ernesti’s ingenuity and creativity towards robots. I found it to be very interesting because I have a history of loving shows where I get to watch people create things and the creative process here is amazing. Though I will say because this show is entirely dependent on this aspect it is very much a show you will either love or hate. If you enjoy this you’ll love it but otherwise there’s nothing else about this show that can captivate you. Outside of this aspect of the story everything else is one note to allow as much focus on mech design as possible. The season ends with more story to tell and I’m rather curious to where Ernesti takes his mechs to going forward so I would like to see a season two.